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Book SynopsisBy challenging assumptions regarding the proximity between Egyptian and Semitic Languages, Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic provides a fresh approach to the relationships and similarities between Ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Afroasiatic languages. This in-depth analysis includes a re-examination of the methodologies deployed in historical linguistics and comparative grammar, a morphological study of Ancient Egyptian, and critical comparisons between Ancient Egyptian and Semitic, as well as careful considerations of environmental factors and archaeological evidence. These contributions offer a reassessment of the Afroasiatic phylum, which is based on the relations between Ancient Egyptian and the other Afroasiatic branches. This volume illustrates the advantages of viewing Ancient Egyptian in its African context.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this collection include Shiferaw Assefa, Michael Avina, Vit Bubenik, Leo Depuydt, Christopher Ehret, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, J. Lafayette Gaston, Tiffany Gleason, John Huehnergard, Andrew Kitchen, Elsa Oréal, Chelsea Sanker, Lameen Souag, Andréas Stauder, Deven N. Vyas, Aren Wilson-Wright, and Jean Winand.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Part 1. Introduction and Methodology
Chapter 1. Comparative Afroasiatic Linguistics and the Place of Ancient Egyptian Within the Phylum
M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro and Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli
Chapter 2. Data Limitations and Supplementary Methods in Placing Egyptian
Chelsea Sanker
Chapter 3. Afroasiatic Lexical Comparison: An Egyptologist’s Point of View
Jean Winand
Part 2. Ancient Egyptian: A Comparative Morphology
Chapter 4. Egyptian Morphology in Afroasiatic Perspective
Andréas Stauder
Part 3. Ancient Egyptian and Semitic
Chapter 5. Proto-Semitic and Egyptian
John Huehnergard
Chapter 6. Some Common Features of Akkadian and Egyptian Revisited
Elsa Oréal
Chapter 7. Rethinking the Relationship Between Egyptian and Semitic: The Lexical, Phonological, and Morphological Evidence
Aren M. Wilson-Wright
Part 4. Ancient Egyptian Within Afroasiatic
Chapter 8. Reconstructing Proto-Semitic Nominal and Verbal Systems in the Context of Afroasiatic Languages
Vit Bubenik
Chapter 9. Ancient Egyptian’s Place in the Afroasiatic Language Family
Christopher Ehret, Deven N. Vyas, Shiferaw Assefa, J. Lafayette Gaston, Tiffany Gleason, and Andrew Kitchen
Chapter 10. Testing the Hypothesis—Theoretical and Methodological Issues: The Relationship of Egyptian to Afroasiatic
Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Michael Avina
Chapter 11. Restructured or Archaic? The Hunt for Shared Morphological Innovation Involving Egyptian
Lameen Souag
Part 5. Conclusion
Chapter 12. In Pascal’s and Boole’s Footsteps: Measuring the Mathematical Probability of Genetic Kinship Between Language Families (with a Note on Chadic)
Leo Depuydt
List of Contributors
Index
