A new publication on the “Interaction of Morphology and Syntax” in Afroasiatic languages will soon appear at Benjamins. It is edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay (University of Colorado at Boulder) and contains papers mostly on Cushitic and Chadic languages. Here is a description found at the website of Benjamins:
The present volume deals with hitherto unexplored issues on the interaction of morphology and syntax. These selected and invited papers mainly concern Cushitic and Chadic languages, the least-described members of the Afroasiatic family. Three papers in the volume explore one or more typological characteristics across an entire language family or branch, while others focus on one or two languages within a family and the implications of their structures for the family, the phylum, or linguistic typology as a whole. The diversity of topics addressed within the present volume reflects the great diversity of language structures and functions within the Afroasiatic phylum.
Table of contents
Introduction
Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay
Case marking, syntactic domains and information structure in Kabyle (Berber)
Amina Mettouchi
The internal and comparative reconstruction of verb extensions in early Chadic and Afroasiatic
Christopher Ehret
One way of becoming a dative subject
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Coding the unexpected: Subject pronouns in East Dangla
Erin Shay
Ergative-active features of the Ethiopian Semitic type
Grover Hudson
Number as an exponent of gender in Cushitic
Maarten Mous
Relativization in Kambaata (Cushitic)
Yvonne Treis
Between coordination and subordination in Gawwada
Mauro Tosco
Author index
Language index
Subject index
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