Hamito-Semitica

Proceedings of a colloquium held by the Historical Section of the Linguistics Association (Great Britain) at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Univ. of London, on the 18th, 19th and 20th of March 1970

James Bynon, Linguistics Association of Great Britain / Historical Section, James Bynon, Linguistics Association of Great Britain / Historical Section

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9783111000015
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111356167
• Topic: Filología
• Subtopic: Lingüística

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Table of contents

• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• I. Opening Session
• Quelques mots sur comparaison et restitution
• Opening Address
• II. Semitic Section
• On the common Semitic lexicon and its ecological and cultural background
• The evidence of the proto-lexicon for the cultural background of the Semitic peoples
• Beiträge zur hamito-semitischen Wortvergleichung
• A historical description of the Hebrew root YŠ‘
• Lexicostatistics and the internal divisions of Semitic
• Genetic classification and Ethiopian Semitic
• What is a Semitic Ethiopian language?
• On root structure in proto-Semitic
• Contrasting articulations in the Modern South Arabian languages
• Le dynamisme du système phonologique protosémitique et les pro- blèmes de la phonologie chamito-sémitique
• III. Ancient Egyptian Section
• Egyptian and survival
• La position intermédiate de l’anden égyptien entre l’hébreu et l’arabe
• Egyptian and the other Hamito-Semitic languages
• IV. Libyco-Berber Section
• The reconstruction of proto-Berber short vowels
• Hamito-Semitic and the pre-Celtic substratum in Ireland and Britain
• An ancient people of the Libyan Sahara
• Inscriptions in the Libyan alphabet from Tripolitania, and some notes on the tribes of the region
• Semantic correlates of Berber syntactic patterns
• The Berber element in Maltese
• Begadkefat im Berberischen
• V. Cushitic Section
• Materials for a comparative dictionary of Cushitic languages: Somali- Galla comparisons
• Gender in Cushitic
• Verbs with vocalic mutation in Somali and their significance for Hamito-Semitic comparative studies
• Toward a lexicostatistic classification of Ethiopian languages
• VI. Chadic Section
• The Hausa genitive morpheme as an exponent of gender: a query
• Types of conjugational forms in Chadic
• The structural status of Hausa r sounds
• Hausa and Chadic
• Bachama and Chadic
• VII. General Papers
• What’s in a name?
• Some aspects of the present state of Hamito-Semitic studies
• General Discussion
• VIII. Prehistoric Background
• The archaeological context of the Hamitic languages in Northern Africa
• Final Discussion
• PARTICIPANTS AT THE COLLOQUIUM