Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic

M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including recent articles in Lingua Aegyptia, Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Alterumkunde, and Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli is Postdoctoral Research Associate in Egyptology at Brown University and has published several scholarly articles in journals such as Lingua Aegyptia.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsPart 1. Introduction and MethodologyChapter 1. Comparative Afroasiatic Linguistics and the Place of Ancient Egyptian Within the PhylumM. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro and Silvia Štubňová NigrelliChapter 2. Data Limitations and Supplementary Methods in Placing EgyptianChelsea SankerChapter 3. Afroasiatic Lexical Comparison: An Egyptologist’s Point of ViewJean WinandPart 2. Ancient Egyptian: A Comparative MorphologyChapter 4. Egyptian Morphology in Afroasiatic PerspectiveAndréas StauderPart 3. Ancient Egyptian and SemiticChapter 5. Proto-Semitic and EgyptianJohn HuehnergardChapter 6. Some Common Features of Akkadian and Egyptian RevisitedElsa OréalChapter 7. Rethinking the Relationship Between Egyptian and Semitic: The Lexical, Phonological, and Morphological EvidenceAren M. Wilson-WrightPart 4. Ancient Egyptian Within AfroasiaticChapter 8. Reconstructing Proto-Semitic Nominal and Verbal Systems in the Context of Afroasiatic LanguagesVit BubenikChapter 9. Ancient Egyptian’s Place in the Afroasiatic Language FamilyChristopher Ehret, Deven N. Vyas, Shiferaw Assefa, J. Lafayette Gaston, Tiffany Gleason, and Andrew KitchenChapter 10. Testing the Hypothesis—Theoretical and Methodological Issues: The Relationship of Egyptian to AfroasiaticZygmunt Frajzyngier and Michael AvinaChapter 11. Restructured or Archaic? The Hunt for Shared Morphological Innovation Involving EgyptianLameen SouagPart 5. ConclusionChapter 12. In Pascal’s and Boole’s Footsteps: Measuring the Mathematical Probability of Genetic Kinship Between Language Families (with a Note on Chadic)Leo DepuydtList of ContributorsIndex