Development of tense/aspect in Semitic in the context of Afro-Asiatic languages /

The author applies the comparative method for the reconstruction of earlier aspectual systems in the Afro-Asiatic phylum of languages. Moving ?upstream? from the documented systems of Semitic, Berber and Old Cushitic the state of affairs during the common stage of Proto-Semito-Berbero-Cushitic is re...

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Main Author:	Bubeník, Vít, 1942- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Series:	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v.337.
Subjects:	Semitic languages > Verb. Semitic languages > Tense. Semitic languages > Aspect. Afroasiatic languages > Verb. Afroasiatic languages > Grammar.