Handbook of Afroasiatic Linguistics

This innovative and comprehensive handbook highlights a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Afroasiatic languages can be examined. Unpacking the formal and structural properties as well as the socio-historical dimensions which set Afroasiatic languages apart as a language family, the book considers theoretical and empirical pertinence at all levels of linguistic analysis, including the synchronic, historical, and comparative. Linguistic phenomena and many of their innumerable sub-categories have been solicited for discussion in this volume. It serves as an insightful resource not only for analyzing and augmenting existing knowledge of linguistics under the rubric of Afroasiatic the languages under its umbrella and their interdisciplinary linguistic ramifications but also for proposing and foregrounding new ideas in a field of study that deserves further elaborations. It is an indispensable compendium for linguists and educators in Afroasiatic languages.