Diakonoff I.M. Afrasian Languages

Translated from the Russian by A.A. Korolev, V.Ya. Porkhomovsky. — Moscow: Nauka, Central Department of Oriental Literature, 1988. — 144 p. — (Languages of Asia and Africa).This edition is a revised version of Semito-Hamitic Languages published in 1965 both in Russian and in English. The monograph sums up the newer studies by foreign scholars and by this author and his school. The book deals, from the historical and comparative viewpoint, with phonology, morphology and, partially, with the syntax of the major Afrasian languages, and analyses samples of texts. The translation is copyedited by I.M. Diakonoff.Editors' Note.
lntroduction.
Phonology.
Root and Word Structure.
The Nominal Categories in Соmmon Afrasian.
Gender and nominal classes.
Case.
Status.
Number.
'Broken' plural.
Mimation (nunation) and the article.
Numerals.
Prepositions and postpositions.
Pronouns.
Personal pronouns.
Personal markers in the verb.
The nota genitivi.
Deictic and other pronouns.
The Verb.
Some Data on the Syntax.
Word order.
Varieties of attributive phrases.
Subordination.
Appendices.
Bibliography.