Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments xv
4. Transcriptions and Phonetics xvii
5. Maps and Charts xxi
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1. HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND THE IMAGE OF ANCIENT GREEK 28
8. Chapter 2. THE “NOSTRATIC” AND “EUROASIATIC” HYPERAND SUPER-FAMILIES 39
9. Chapter 3. AFROASIATIC, EGYPTIAN AND SEMITIC 58
10. Chapter 4. THE ORIGINS OF INDO-HITTITE AND INDOEUROPEAN AND THEIR CONTACTS WITH OTHER LANGUAGES 90
11. Chapter 5. THE GREEK LANGUAGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXT: PART 1, PHONOLOGY 116
12. Chapter 6. THE GREEK LANGUAGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXT: PART 2, MORPHOLOGICAL AND SYNTACTICAL DEVELOPMENTS 155
13. Chapter 7. THE GREEK LANGUAGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXT: PART 3, LEXICON 165
14. Chapter 8. PHONETIC DEVELOPMENTS IN EGYPTIAN, WEST SEMITIC AND GREEK OVER THE LAST THREE MILLENNIA BCE, AS REFLECTED IN LEXICAL BORROWINGS 187
15. Chapter 9. GREEK BORROWINGS FROM EGYPTIAN PREFIXES, INCLUDING THE DEFINITE ARTICLES 209
16. Chapter 10. MAJOR EGYPTIAN TERMS IN GREEK: PART 1 245
17. Chapter 11. MAJOR EGYPTIAN TERMS IN GREEK: PART 2 276
18. Chapter 12. SIXTEEN MINOR ROOTS 300
19. Chapter 13. SEMITIC SIBILANTS 312
20. Chapter 14. MORE SEMITIC LOANS INTO GREEK 325
21. Chapter 15. SOME EGYPTIAN AND SEMITIC SEMANTIC CLUSTERS IN GREEK 340
22. Chapter 16. SEMANTIC CLUSTERS: WARFARE, HUNTING AND SHIPPING 380
23. Chapter 17. SEMANTIC CLUSTERS: SOCIETY, POLITICS, LAW AND ABSTRACTION 405
24. Chapter 18. RELIGIOUS TERMINOLOGY 425
25. Chapter 19. DIVINE NAMES: GODS, MYTHICAL CREATURES, HEROES 453
26. Chapter 20. GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES AND PLACE-NAMES 485
27. Chapter 21. SPARTA 512
28. Chapter 22. ATHENA AND ATHENS 540
29. CONCLUSION 583
30. Notes 587
31. Glossary 695
32. Greek Words and Names with Proposed Afroasiatic Etymologies 713
33. Letter Correspondences 731
34. Bibliography 741
35. Index 797
36. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 808
37. About the Author 808