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The Afroasiatic Languages Hardcover - 2008
by Zygmunt Frajzyngier (Editor); Erin Shay (Editor)
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- Title The Afroasiatic Languages
- Author Zygmunt Frajzyngier (Editor); Erin Shay (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Bilingual
- Pages 708
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date April 1, 2008
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780521865333 / 0521865336
- Weight 2.75 lbs (1.25 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 1.5 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 3.81 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Afroasiatic languages
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012002683
- Dewey Decimal Code 492
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ISBN: 9780521865333Cambridge University Press, 01 January 2012
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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, which are comprised of around 375 living and extinct varieties. They are an important object of study because of their typological diversity in the areas of phonology (some have tone; others do not), morphology (some have extensive inflectional systems; others do not), position of the verb in the clause (some are verb-initial, some are verb-medial, and some are verb-final) and in the semantic functions they encode. This book documents this typological diversity and the typological similarities across the languages and includes information on endangered and little-known languages. Requiring no previous knowledge of the specific language families, it will be welcomed by linguists interested in linguistic theory, typology, historical… Read More
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