Welcome to the Afro-Asiatic language family page! Here you will find useful information regarding many of theAfro-Asiatic Languages.
Berber
General
Long-Distance Voicing Assimilation in Berber- Spreading and:or Agreement? Hansson (2010)
Serial Harmonic Grammar and Berber Syllabification. Pater (2012)
Awjila
A Grammar of Awjila Berber (Libya): Based on Umberto Paradisi’s Material (Putten, 2013)
Some Notes on the Development of Awjila Berber Vowels (Putten, 2013)
Moroccan Berber
Language Situation and Conflict in Morocco (Zouhir, 2013)
Language Identities in Morocco in a Historical Context (Benmamoun, 2001)
Language Attitudes: Amazigh in Morocco (Reino, 2007)
Siwi
The Origin of Mid Vowels in Siwi (Souag and Putten, 2016)
Relativization in Siwi (Schiattarella, 2014)
A Gender-Based Language Disparity in a Conservative Society? The Case of Siwi (Schiattarella, 2015)
Zwara
Zwara (Zuwārah) Berber (Gussenhoven, 2017)
Kabyle
A Previously Unrecognized Typological Category- The State Distinction in Kabyle (Berber) (Mettouchi 2013)
Topic-focus Articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber (Mettouchi and Fleisch, 2010)
Shilha (Tashlhiyt)
Serial Harmonic Grammar and Berber Syllabification (Pater, 2012)
Topic-focus Articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber (Mettouchi and Fleisch, 2010)
An Outline of the Structure of Shilha. American Council of Learned Societies Program in Oriental Languages, Publications Series B-Aids-Number 11 (Applegate, 1958)
Tuareg
Long-Distance Voicing Assimilation in Berber: Spreading and/or Agreement (Hansson, 2010)
The Borrowing of Aspects as Lexical Tone Classes: Y-initial Tuareg Verbs in Tasawaq (Northern Songhay) (Kossmann, 2007)
Chadic
General
The grammatical expression of focus in West Chadic- Variation and uniformity in and across languages Zimmermann (2011)
Grammaticalization as emergence of functional domains- three cases in Chadic. Frajzyngier (2010)
On Discovering Contrastive Tone Melodies. Snider (2011)
Hausa
An Empiricist Looks at Indirect Objects in Hausa (Newman, 2014)
Chadic Extensions and Pre-Dative Verb Forms in Hausa (Newman, 1977)
Tone and Affixation in Hausa (Newman, 1986)
More on in situ wh-and focus constructions in Hausa (Jaggar, 2006)
Gwandara
Tone Splitting and Gwandara Ethnohistory (Newman, 1985)
Bole
Bole Verb Morphology (Gimba, 2000)
Palatalization in West Chadic (Schuh, 2002)
Sources of Gemination and Gemination as a Morpheme in Bole (Schuh, 2001)
Tangale
Focus Strategies in Chadic: The Case of Tangale Revisited (Hartmann and Zimmermann, 2004)
Focus Realization in West Chadic (Zimmermann, 2006)
Subject Focus in West African Languages (Fiedler, 2006)
Ngamo
Internal Reconstruction of the Totality Extension* t in Gudi Ngamo (Schuh, 2005)
Conventional and Free Association with Focus in Ngamo (West Chadic) Grubic and Zimmermann (2011)
Degemination, Compensatory Lengthening, and Gemination in Gudi Ngamo (Schuh, 2005)
Focus, Exhaustivity and Existence in Akan, Ga and Ngamo (Grubic and Renans and Duah, 2016)
Bade
Bade/Ngizim Vowels and Syllable Structure (Schuh, 1978)
The Linguistic Influence of Kanuri on Bade and Ngizim (Schuh, 2003)
Changes in Obstruent Voicing in Bade/Ngizim (Schuh, 1997)
Kamue
A Morphosemantic Analysis of the Kamue Personal Names (Jauro and Ngamsa and Wappa, 2013)
Understanding the Kamuə Proper Nouns from Onomastic Perspective (Clement and Glastone and Wappa, 2017)
Tera
A Word List of Tera (Newman, 1964)
Tera (Tench, 2007)
Wandala
Point of View of the Subject: Possessive Subject Pronouns in Wandala (Frajzyngier, 2010)
Cross-Linguistic Comparison as a Heuristic Device: What are Object Pronouns Good for? (Frajzyngier, 2010)
Mafa
Aspect in Mafa: an Intriguing Case of Featural Affixation (Ettlinger, 2004)
Cushitic
Afar
The Vocalism of Strong Verbs in Afar (Rucart, 2001)
Retroflexion of Voiced Stops: Data from Dhao, Thulung, Afar and German (Hamann and Fuchs, 2010)
A Generative Grammar of Afar (Bliese, 1981)
Beja
Roots and Patterns in Beja (Cushitic): The Issue of Language Contact with Arabic (Vanhove, 2011)
Beja Grammatical Sketch (Vanhove, 2012)
Beja Lexicostatistics (Blažek, 2013)
Agaw
The Velar Ejective in Proto-Agaw (Fallon, 2009)
Coronal Ejectives and EthioSemitic Borrowing in Proto-Agaw (Fallon, 2015)
The Phonology of Awngi (Joswig, 2010)
Oromo
Focus in Oromo (Yimam, 1988)
Critical Analysis of the Diacritic/’/in Afan Oromo (Leykun and Eshete, 2017)
The Determinations of a Phonological Exponent of Agentive v in the Oromo Morphological Causatives (Yabe, 2007)
Somali
Pragmatic Roles in Central Somali Narrative Discourse (Biber, 1984)
A Whole Lotta Focusin’goin’on: Information Packaging in Somali Texts (Tosco, 2002)
The Syntax of Indicator Particles in Somali Part Two: the Construction of Interrogative, Negative, and Negative-Interrogative Clauses (Antinucci, 1980)
Iraqw
Inaccessibility and Demotional Nominal Marking in Iraqw (Dalgish, 1978)
Broken Plurals and Syllable Sequence Restrictions in Iraqw (Mous, 1996)
Towards a Grammar of Space of Iraqw: a Cushitic Language of Tanzania (Peters, 2016)
Gawwada
Towards a Geomoetry of Adpositional Systems: A Preliminary Investigation of Gawwada (Tosco, 2006)
The Grammar of Space of Gawwada (Tosco, 2009)
Survey on the Noun Morphology of ‘Ale (Gebru and Yoshino, 2015)
Rendille
Focus in the Rendille Clause (Oomen, 1978)
Loanwords in Oromo and Rendille as a Mirror of Past Inter-Ethnic Relations (Schlee, 1994)
Konso
A Grammar of Konso (Orkaydo, 2013)
Plural Gender: Behavioral Evidence for Plural as a Value of Cushitic Gender with Reference to Konso (Tsegaye, 2017)
The Semantics of Clause Linking in Konso (Mous and Oda, 2009)
Egyptian
General
Syntax-prosody interface- Wh-movement in Jordanian Arabic and Egyptian Arabic . Yasin (2013)
Transferring Egyptian Colloquial Dialect into Modern Standard Arabic. Shaalan , Bakr, and Ziedan (2007)
The Egyptian Connection- Egyptian and the Semitic Languages. Satzinger (2002)
Ancient Egyptian
Ancient Egyptian and Coptic (Loprieno, 2012)
Color Terms in Ancient Egyptian and Coptic (Schenkel, 2007)
A Comparison Between Classifier Languages and Classifier Script: The Case of Ancient Egyptian (Goldwasser, 2006)
Navigating Polyfunctionality in the Lexicon. Semantic Maps and Ancient Egyptian Lexical Semantics (Grossman and Polis, 2012)
Coptic Egyptian
Contact as Catalyst: the Case for Coptic Influence in the Development of Arabic Negation (Lucas and Lash, 2010)
Color Terms in Ancient Egyptian and Coptic (Schenkel, 2007)
Possessive Constructions in Egyptian and Coptic. Distribution, Definiteness, and the Construct State Phenomenon (Egedi, 2010)
Omotic
Omotic
The Ethiopian Language Area (Ferguson, 1970)
Preliminary Notes on the Hamar Verb (Loredana, 2013)
Aspects of the Morphophonology of Hamar (Yigezu, 2017)
Norm Selection and Standardisation in Gamo (Gelagay, 2016)
Wolaytta
The Person-Name Noun in Wolaytta (Wakasa, 2004)
A Tentative Analysis of the OSV Order in Wolaytta (Wakasa, 2015)
Tone-Accent and Prosodic Domains in Wolaitta (Amha, 1996)
Semitic
Arabic
Arabic Language and Linguistics (Bassiouney and Katz, 2012)
Prosodic Morphology and Templatic Morphology (McCarthy and Prince, 1990)
‘Orality’ and Discourse Structure in Modern Standard Arabic (Johnstone, 1990)
The Arabic Noun Phrase (Hoyt, 2008)
Tigrinya
Language Maintenance and Language Shift among Second Generation Tigrinya-speaking Eritrean Immigrants in Saudi Arabia (Habtoor, 2012)
Against Vowel Length in Tigrinya (Buckley, 1997)
Emergent Vowels in Tigrinya Templates (Buckley, 2003)
Tigre
The Formation of Ethiopian Semitic Internal Reduplication (Rose, 2003)
Triple Take: Tigre and the Case of Internal Reduplication (Rose, 2003)
Get That into your Head: Tigre Vowel Harmonies as Templatic (Faust, 2017)
Harari
Long-Distance Vowel-Consonant Agreement in Harari (Rose, 2004)
A Nonagreement Analysis of Harari Vowel-Consonant Palatalization (Craioveanu and Godfrey, 2014)
Aramaic
The Aramaic Language and its Classification (Yildiz, 2000)
Differential Object Marking in Neo-Aramaic (Coghill, 2014)
Aramaic in its Historical and Linguistic Setting (Gzella and Folmer, 2008)
Amharic
A Dependency Grammar for Amharic (Gasser, 2015)
Is syllable weight distinction relevant for Amharic stress assignment (Haile, 1995)
A Feature Geometric Approach to Amharic Verb Classes (Trommer, 2004)
Hebrew
Emergent iambs: stress in Modern Hebrew (Grafa & Ussishkinb, 2002)
Opacity in Tiberian Hebrew: Morphology, not phonology (Green, 2004)
A Combinatory Phonology of the Hebrew Triconsonantal (CCC) Root System (Tobin, 1990)
