Morphologies of Asia and Africa

1424 Pages·2007·5.83 MB·English

by  Alan S. Kaye

Morphologies of Asia and Africa

Morphologies
of Asia and Africa
Volume 1
Edited by
Alan S. Kaye
Winona Lake, Indiana
Eisenbrauns
2007
ç Copyright 2007 by Eisenbrauns.
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Morphologies of Asia and Africa / edited by Alan S. Kaye.
v. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57506-110-8 (volume 1; hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-1-57506-111-5 (volume 2; hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-1-57506-109-2 (set, both volumes; hardback : alk. paper)
1. Asia—Languages—Morphology. 2. Africa—Languages—
Morphology. I. Kaye, Alan S.
P381.A75M67 2007
409.5—dc22
2007015036
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the
American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper
for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. †‘
Dedicated to
My teachers
Murray B. Emeneau
(1904–2005)
University of California, Berkeley
Wolf Leslau
(1906–2006)
University of California, Los Angeles

Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Volume 1
Part 1
Afroasiatic Languages
Semitic Languages: Ancient
East Semitic
1 Akkadian Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
I. M. Diakonoff† and L. E. Kogan
Central Semitic
2 Ugaritic Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Dennis Pardee
Northwest Semitic
3 Phoenician and Punic Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Stanislav Segert†
4 Ancient Hebrew Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Gary A. Rendsburg
5 The Morphology of Babylonian Jewish Aramaic . . . . . . . . . . 107
Geoffrey Khan
6 Old Aramaic Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Stanislav Segert†
7 Syriac Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
T. Muraoka
8 Mandaic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Rainer Voigt
South Semitic
9 Epigraphic South Arabian Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
L. E. Kogan and A. V. Korotayev
10 Classical Ethiopic (Geºez) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Rainer Voigt
Semitic Languages: Modern
Central Semitic
11 Arabic Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Alan S. Kaye
12 Moroccan Arabic Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Jeffrey Heath
- vii -
viii Contents
13 Maltese Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Robert D. Hoberman
Northwest Semitic
14 Israeli Hebrew Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Shmuel Bolozky
15 The Morphology of Neo-Aramaic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Geoffrey Khan
16 Amharic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Wolf Leslau†
South Semitic
17 Tigrinya Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
L. E. Kogan
18 Chaha (Gurage) Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Sharon Rose
Berber Languages
19 Berber Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Maarten Kossmann
Cushitic Languages
20 Beja Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
David L. Appleyard
21 Bilin Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
David L. Appleyard
22 Gawwada Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Mauro Tosco
23 Highland East Cushitic Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Grover Hudson
24 Somali Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
John I. Saeed
Chadic Languages
25 Bade Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Russell G. Schuh
26 Glavda Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
Bello Buba and Jonathan Owens
27 Hausa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
Paul Newman
28 Mokilko Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713
Herrmann Jungraithmayr
Omotic Languages
29 Topics in Omotic Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729
M. Lionel Bender
Contents ix
Volume 2
Part 2
Indo-European Languages
Anatolian Languages
30 Hittite Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755
H. Craig Melchert
Indo-Iranian Languages
Indo-Aryan Languages: Ancient
31 Sanskrit Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775
George Cardona
Indo-Aryan Languages: Modern
32 Gujarati Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825
P. J. Mistry
Iranian Languages: Ancient
33 Avestan and Old Persian Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
34 Pahlavi Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941
Dieter Weber
Iranian Languages: Modern
35 Persian Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975
John R. Perry
36 Kurdish Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1021
Ernest M. McCarus
Armenian Subbranch
37 Classical Armenian Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051
Jared Klein
Part 3
Nilo-Saharan Languages
38 Kanuri Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089
Norbert Cyffer
Part 4
Niger-Congo Languages
39 Swahili Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129
Ellen Contini-Morava
Part 5
Altaic Languages
40 Turkish Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161
Bernard Comrie