Index of subject matter

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Preface xi
5. Letter to the conference regarding recent work in the USSR on the comparative historical vocabulary ofafrasian 1
6. The role of accentual patterns in subject/object differentiation in somali and its parallels in paranilotic languages 11
7. Relative clause construction in somali 17
8. The internal classification of the Agaw languages 33
9. A reconstruction of some root extensions of the eastern cushitic verb 69
10. Case in cushitic, semitic and berber 111
11. Remarks on the genetic classification and the relative chronology of the cushitic languages 127
12. On the proto-chadic syntactic pattern 139
13. Methodological pitfalls in chadic-afroasiatic comparisons 161
14. West chadic vowel correspondences 167
15. New proposals concerning the nature and development of the proto-chadic tense/aspect system 225
16. Berber and Chadic 241
17. Sur quelques bases radicales et champs morphosémantiques en berbère 291
18. Le comportement des schèmes et des racines dans l’évolution de la langue 305
19. The origin of the vowels o and e in Twareg and Ghadamsi 317
20. Similitudes syntaciques en arabe et berbère maghrébins 327
21. Ein Modell für die Beschreibung des Evolutionsstandes semitischer Sprachen 355
22. Geographic linguistics and Canaanite dialects 363
23. New sibilant phonemes in the Modern South Arabian languages of Dhofar 389
24. The genesis of the semitic tense system 391
25. Eine anscheinend übersehene ugaritische-libysche Wortgleichung 399
26. Maltese and Nubi 405
27. Lislakh 413
28. La méthodologie du chamitoséitique comparé 423
29. Multiply-tiered vocalic inventories 463
30. Vestiges de langues chamito-sémitiques dans des sources égyptiennes méconnues 477
31. Hamitic and semitic languages 483
32. Index of languages 489
33. Index of names 495
34. Index of subject matter 503