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Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. List of figures and tables xi
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Preface xv
6. Foreword xvii
7. Theoretical framework 1
8. Chapter 1. Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages 33
9. Chapter 2. Semitic aspectual and diathetic systems 41
10. Chapter 3. Central and South Semitic 59
11. Chapter 4. Reconstructing Proto-Semitic aspectual and diathetic system 81
12. Chapter 5. Berber aspectual and diathetic system 103
13. Chapter 6. Cushitic aspectual and diathetic system 123
14. Chapter 7. Old egyptian aspectual and diathetic system 137
15. Chapter 8. Chadic aspectual and diathetic system 155
16. Chapter 9. Reconstructing the proto-afro-asiatic aspectual and diathetic system 159
17. Chapter 10. Typology and universals of tense and aspect 173
18. Postscript 211
19. References 213
20. Index of authors 225
21. Subject index 227