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Author North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (35th : 2007 : San Antonio, Tex.)

Title Afoasiatic studies in memory of Robert Hetzron : proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Lingusitics (NACAL 35) / edited by Charles G. Häberl
Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 317 pages) : illustrations
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; ON DISAGREEMENT AND WORD ORDER ROBERT HETZRON (1938-1997); THE CONJUNCTIVE IN EGYPTIAN AND COPTIC; VSO AND SVO WORD ORDER IN MIDDLE EGYPTIAN; ISOLATING COMMON GRAMMATICALFORMS IN EGYPTIAN STELAE FROM THE FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR DIALECTS; A NOTE ON CONVERBS IN EGYPTIAN AND COPTIC; SO-CALLED "FIRST CONJUNCT" AGREEMENT IN BIBLICAL HEBREW; THE PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION OF A MANDAIC INCANTATION; DETERMINATION PARAMETERS IN THE SEMITIC DIGLOSSIA; THE TRANSLATION OF PREPOSITIONS IN EGYPTIAN JUDEO-ARABIC ŠURŪḤ
ARABIC BEDOUIN-SEDENTARY DICHOTOMY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM BASED ON LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY STRUCTURESTHE ETYMOLOGY OF THE INDICATIVE AUGMENT B- IN SOME NEO-ARABIC DIALECTS; THE FORMATION OF THE PLURALOF MALTESE NOUNS; ON WH-WORDS OF ETHIOPIAN SEMITIC LANGUAGES; THE PARADIGM OF THE VERB "TO BE (LOC)" IN AMHARIC AS AN EXAMPLE OF INTERACTION BETWEEN SUPPLETION AND GRAMMATICALIZATION; NEW FINDS ON WORD FORMATION PROCESSES IN MEHRI OF QISHN IN YEMEN; THE PROSODIC MORPHEME IN DASENACH; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary Robert Hetzron first organized the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL) at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1973 and passed away only six months after it had completed a quarter century of annual meetings. He would undoubtedly have been pleased to know that NACAL is still going strong, and that ten years after his passing it attracted no fewer than thirty-six scholars from the United States, Canada, and eight other countries, who presented on topics near ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Afroasiatic languages -- Congresses
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
Afroasiatic languages
Linguistik
Hamitosemitische Sprachen.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Hetzron, Robert
Häberl, Charles
LC no. 2009482673
ISBN 9781443811439
1443811432
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9781282413610
9786612413612
6612413611