Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic : Rethinking the Origins / edited by María Victoria Almansa-Villatoro and Silvia Stubnová Nigrelli.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Almansa-Villatoro, M. Victoria, editor.

Nigrelli, Štubňová, editor.

Conference Name:

Rethinking the Origins: The Departure of Ancient Egyptian as a Branch from the Afroasiatic Family? (Workshop) (2018 : Providence, R.I.), author.

Series:

Languages of the ancient Near East.

Languages of the Ancient near East Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egyptian language--Congresses.

Egyptian language.

Afroasiatic languages--Congresses.

Afroasiatic languages.

Comparative linguistics--Congresses.

Comparative linguistics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Eisenbrauns, [2023]

Summary:

"A collection of essays on ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Afroasiatic linguistics, reexamining the position of ancient Egyptian in the Afroasiatic phylum and the closeness of its connections with languages that were spoken in Africa and the Ancient Near East"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Comparative Afroasiatic linguistics and the place of ancient Egyptian within the phylum / M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro and Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli

Data limitations and supplementary methods in placing Egyptian / Chelsea Sanker

Afroasiatic lexical comparison : an Egyptologist's point of view / Jean Winand

Egyptian morphology in Afroasiatic perspective / Andréas Stauder

Proto-Semitic and Egyptian / John Huehnergard

Some common features of Akkadian and Egyptian revisited / Elsa Oréal

Lexical, phonological, and morphological evidence / Aren Wilson-Wright

Reconstructing Proto-Semitic nominal and verbal systems in the context of Afroasiatic languages / Vit Bubenik

Ancient Egyptian's place in the Afroasiatic language family / Christopher Ehret, Deven N. Vyas, Shiferaw Assefa, J. Lafayette Gaston, Tiffany Gleason, and Andrew Kitchen

Testing the hypothesis

theoretical and methodological issues : the relationship of Egyptian and Afroasiatic / Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Michael Avina

Restructured or archaic? : the hunt for shared morphological innovation involving Egyptian / Lameen Souag

In Pascal's and Boole's footsteps : measuring the mathematical probability of genetic kinship between language families / Leo Depuydt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781646022311

1646022319