Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic
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Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic

Rethinking the Origins

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Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic

Rethinking the Origins

About this book

By challenging assumptions regarding the proximity between Egyptian and Semitic Languages, Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic provides a fresh approach to the relationships and similarities between Ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Afroasiatic languages.  This in-depth analysis includes a re-examination of the methodologies deployed in historical linguistics and comparative grammar, a morphological study of Ancient Egyptian, and critical comparisons between Ancient Egyptian and Semitic, as well as careful considerations of environmental factors and archaeological evidence.  These contributions offer a reassessment of the Afroasiatic phylum, which is based on the relations between Ancient Egyptian and the other Afroasiatic branches. This volume illustrates the advantages of viewing Ancient Egyptian in its African context.

In addition to the editors, the contributors to this collection include Shiferaw Assefa, Michael Avina, Vit Bubenik, Leo Depuydt, Christopher Ehret, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, J. Lafayette Gaston, Tiffany Gleason, John Huehnergard, Andrew Kitchen, Elsa Oréal, Chelsea Sanker, Lameen Souag, Andréas Stauder, Deven N. Vyas, Aren Wilson-Wright, and Jean Winand.

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Yes, you can access Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic by María Victoria Almansa-Villatoro,Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Ancient Languages. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Comparative Afroasiatic Linguistics and the Place of Ancient Egyptian Within the Phylum
  7. Chapter 2: Data Limitations and Supplementary Methods in Placing Egyptian
  8. Chapter 3: Afroasiatic Lexical Comparison:An Egyptologist’s Point of View
  9. Chapter 4: Egyptian Morphology in Afroasiatic Perspective
  10. Chapter 5: Proto-Semitic and Egyptian
  11. Chapter 6: Some Common Features of Akkadian and Egyptian Revisited
  12. Chapter 7: Rethinking the Relationship Between Egyptian and Semitic: The Lexical, Phonological, and Morphological Evidence
  13. Chapter 8: Reconstructing Proto-Semitic Nominal and Verbal Systems in the Context of Afroasiatic Languages
  14. Chapter 9: Ancient Egyptian’s Place in the Afroasiatic Language Family
  15. Chapter 10: Testing the Hypothesis—Theoretical and Methodological Issues : The Relationship of Egyptian to Afroasiatic
  16. Chapter 11: Restructured or Archaic ? The Hunt for Shared Morphological Innovation Involving Egyptian
  17. Chapter 12: In Pascal’s and Boole’s Footsteps: Measuring the Mathematical Probability of Genetic Kinship Between Language Families (with a Note on Chadic)
  18. Index