This is a sequel to the author's Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies (1995). That volume provided the key examples of morphological correspondences between the Semitic and the Indo-European languages. In this sequel, the author analyzes correspondences of structure, either within a certain group of languages or belonging to a distantly related group, by looking at inflectional morphology, case, grammar, and phonology. Thus are uncovered the prehistoric means of oral communication, linking the forerunners of ...
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This is a sequel to the author's Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies (1995). That volume provided the key examples of morphological correspondences between the Semitic and the Indo-European languages. In this sequel, the author analyzes correspondences of structure, either within a certain group of languages or belonging to a distantly related group, by looking at inflectional morphology, case, grammar, and phonology. Thus are uncovered the prehistoric means of oral communication, linking the forerunners of ancient societies in Asia, Africa, and Europe, as they talked about livestock or revealed some inner sentiment.
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New. New Excellent Book. 2 Volume Set. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 129+226 Semitic and Indo-European: Volume I: The Principal Etymologies. With observations on Afro-Asiatic Levin, Saul 1995. xxii, 514 pp. Semitic and Indo-European: Volume II: Comparative morphology, syntax and phonetics Levin, Saul 2002. xviii, 592 pp.
