Research in Afroasiatic grammar II
Subtitle: selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000
By: edited by Jacqueline Lecarme
Contributors: Lecarme, Jacqueline
Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory -- v. 241; Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science -- v. 241.
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9789027296344
Subjects: Grammaire; Grammar; Langues chamito-se mitiques; Afro-Aziatische talen; Congresses; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY; Congre  s.; Afroasiatic languages; Arabic
Other titles: Research in Afroasiatic grammar two; Research in Afroasiatic grammar 2
Description: This volume contains 22 of the papers presented at the 5th Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5) held at Universite  Paris VII in June 2000. The authors report their latest research on the syntax, morphology, and phonology of quite a number of languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Tigrinya, Coptic Egyptian, Berber, Hausa, Beja, Somali, Gamo). The articles discuss new solutions to familiar questions such as the free state/construct state alternation of nouns, the Semitic template system, and the morphosyntax of nominal and verbal plurality. Ten of the papers center on morphology, especially.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: RESEARCH IN AFROASIATIC GRAMMAR II; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Alternation of state in Berber; Anti-faithfulness; The internal structure of the determiner in Beja; Reciprocals as plurals in Arabic; Modern Hebrew possessive yeS constructions; The thematic and syntactic status of Ps; Emergent vowels in Tigrinya templates; Transitivity alternations in the Semitic template system; Verbal plurality, transitivity, and causativity; Ex-situ and in-situ focus in Hausa; The metathesis effect in Classical Arabic and the representation of geminates; Omotic