Linguistics in South West Asia and North Africa

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