Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. List of Illustrations vii
3. List of Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Part 1 Introduction and Methodology
6. Chapter 1. Comparative Afroasiatic Linguistics and the Place of Ancient Egyptian Within the Phylum 1
7. Chapter 2 Data Limitations and Supplementary Methods in Placing Egyptian 19
8. Chapter 3 Afroasiatic Lexical Comparison: An Egyptologist’s Point of View 35
9. Part 2 Ancient Egyptian: A Comparative Morphology
10. Chapter 4. Egyptian Morphology in Afroasiatic Perspective . 51
11. Part 3 Ancient Egyptian and Semitic
12. Chapter 5. Proto-Semitic and Egyptian 137
13. Chapter 6 Some Common Features of Akkadian and Egyptian Revisited 161
14. Chapter 7 Rethinking the Relationship Between Egyptian and Semitic: The Lexical, Phonological, and Morphological Evidence 187
15. Pa rt 4 Ancient Egyptian Within Afroasiatic
16. Chapter 8. Reconstructing Proto-Semitic Nominal and Verbal Systems in the Context of Afroasiatic Languages 221
17. Chapter 9 Ancient Egyptian’s Place in the Afroasiatic Language Family 255
18. Chapter 10 Testing the Hypothesis—Theoretical and Methodological Issues: The Relationship of Egyptian to Afroasiatic 279
19. Chapter 11 Restructured or Archaic? The Hunt for Shared Morphological Innovation Involving Egyptian 303
20. Part 5 Conclusion
21. Chapter 12. In Pascal’s and Boole’s Footsteps: Measuring the Mathematical Probability of Genetic Kinship Between Language Families (with a Note on Chadic) 319
22. Contributors 347
23. Index 351