Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction
4. Afroasiatic 1
5. Part I. Afroasiatic
6. Did Proto-Afroasiatic have marked nominative or nominative-accusative alignment? 11
7. The limits and potentials of cladistics in Semitic 23
8. Lexicostatistical evidence for Ethiosemitic, its subgroups, and borrowing 41
9. Part II. Forms and functions
10. Reconsidering the ‘perfect’–‘imperfect’ opposition in the Classical Arabic verbal system 61
11. The imperfective in Berber 85
12. Condition, interrogation and exception 105
13. The semantics of modals in Kordofanian Baggara Arabic 131
14. Part III. Predication and beyond
15. Insubordination in Modern South Arabian 153
16. Possessive and genitive constructions in Dahālik (Ethiosemitic) 167
17. The characterization of conditional patterns in Old Babylonian Akkadian 185
18. Locative predication in Chadic 203
19. Unipartite clauses 235
20. The Interaction of state, prosody and linear order in Kabyle (Berber) 261
21. Index 287