Linguistics in South West Asia and North Africa

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Frontmatter -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- MASTER LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE. INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES OF THE AREA -- Indo-European Languages: An Overview / Paper, Herbert H. -- A. IRANIAN LANGUAGES -- OLD IRANIAN / Benveniste, Emile -- MIDDLE IRANIAN / Dresden, Mark J. -- PERSIAN AND TAJIK / Lazard, Gilbert -- OTHER IRANIAN LANGUAGES / Redard, Georges -- B. ARMENIAN -- DIACHRONIC ARMENIAN / Godel, Robert -- SYNCHRONIC ARMENIAN / Connolly, M. J. -- PART TWO. ALTAIC LANGUAGES -- ALTAIC LANGUAGES. AN OVERVIEW / Krueger, John R. -- TURKISH / Hazai, G. -- IRANO -ALTAISTICA: TURKISH AND MONGOLIAN LANGUAGES OF PERSIA AND AFGHANISTAN / Doerfer, Gerhard -- PART THREE. AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES -- Afroasiatic: An Overview / Hodge, Carleton T. -- A. SEMITIC -- The Semitic Languages: An Overview / Schramm, Gene M. -- COMPARATIVE SEMITICS / Ullendorff, Edward -- AKKADIAN / Reiner, Erica -- HEBREW / Rabin, Chaim -- ARAMAIC / Kutscher, Eduard Yechezkel -- CLASSICAL ARABIC / Killean, Carolyn G. -- SPOKEN ARABIC / Abboud, Peter F. -- ETHIOPIC AND SOUTH ARABIAN / Leslau, Wolf -- B. OTHER LANGUAGES -- EGYPTIAN / Vergote, J. -- COPTIC / Polotsky, H. J. -- CUSHITIC / Palmer, F. R. -- THE BERBER LANGUAGES / Applegate, Joseph R. -- PART FOUR. REGIONAL LANGUAGE ISSUES AND STUDIES -- REGIONAL LANGUAGE ISSUES AND STUDIES: AN OVERVIEW / Ferguson, Charles A. -- IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN / Yar-Shater, Ehsan -- LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN ARAB COUNTRIES AND THE ROLE OF THE ACADEMIES / Altoma, Salih J. -- LANGUAGE STUDY IN ISRAEL / Landau, Jacob M. -- LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE ISSUES IN TURKEY / Hazai, G. -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- INDEX OF LANGUAGE NAMES -- INDEX OF NAMES