The Afroasiatic Languages

Sommario

1. Introduction Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay; 2. Berber Maarten Kossmann; 3. Ancient Egyptian and Coptic Antonio Loprieno and Matthias Mueller; 4. Semitic Gene B. Gragg and Robert D. Hoberman; 5. Chadic Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay; 6. Cushitic Maarten Mous; 7. Omotic Azeb Amha; 8. Typological outline of the Afroasiatic phylum Zygmunt Frajzyngier.

Riassunto

Afroasiatic languages are spoken by some 300 million people in Northern, Central and Eastern Africa and the Middle East. This book is the first typological study of these languages and will be welcomed by linguists interested in linguistic theory, typology, historical linguistics and endangered languages.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Zygmunt Frajzyngier (Editore), Frajzyngier Zygmunt (Editore), Erin Shay (Editore), Shay Erin (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108977852
• ISBN: 978-1-108-97785-2
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 230 mm x 40 mm
• Peso: 1020 g
• Illustrazioni: 6 b/w illus. 6 maps 99 tables, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Karten, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss, Worked examples or Exercises
• Serie: Cambridge Language Surveys
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Afro-Asiatic languages, Historical and comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc