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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Orthographic Symbols | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Sabaki languages | |
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| Neighboring Bantu and Non-Bantu Languages | |
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| A Time Framework for NEC, Sabaki, and Swahili | |
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| Models, Methods, and Principles of Linguistic Reconstruction | |
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| Eastern East Africa as a Linguistic Area | |
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| Previous Scholarship | |
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| "Language" versus "Dialect" | |
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| A Comparative Historical Phonology of Sabaki | |
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| The Sabaki languages | |
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| An Overview of the Phonological System | |
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| Proto Sabaki *p, *t, *c, *k; *W, *l, *j, *g | |
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| The Sabaki Fricatives *f, *v, *s, *z | |
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| Strengthening (Comorian and SD) | |
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| The PSA Nasals | |
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| Proto Sabaki Nasal + Consonant Sequences | |
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| Consonant-Glide Sequences | |
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| PSA Seven Vowels, Long Vowels, and Vowel Processes | |
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| The Phonology of the Noun-class Prefixes | |
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| NEC: Its Phonological Definition | |
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| Northeast Coast, Sabaki, and Interrelationships | |
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| Internal Sabaki Interrelationships | |
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| Subgrouping Summary | |
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| Addendum to Chapter 2: Tone (and Stress) in Sabaki | |
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| Lexis | |
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| Quantitative evidence for NEC and Sabaki | |
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| Qualitative evidence for NEC, Sabaki, and Sabaki languages | |
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| Historical Lexical Development of Sabaki Languages | |
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| Morphology: Sabaki Nominal and Verbal Systems | |
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| The Noun | |
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| The Verb | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Proto-Northeast Coast features | |
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| Early Proto-Sabaki Innovations | |
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| Later PSA, or Post-PSA, Innovations | |
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| Elwana | |
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| Macro-Swahili | |
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| Micro-Swahili | |
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| Mwani | |
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| Comorian | |
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| Mijikenda-Lower Pokomo | |
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| Upper Pokomo, and "Pokomo" | |
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| Recent diffusional phenomena in Sabaki | |
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| Contact in Sabaki | |
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| Appendix 1 Phonemic Systems | |
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| Appendix 2 Proto-Sabaki Lexis | |
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| Appendix 3 Doubtful PSA Lexical Reconstructions | |
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| Appendix 4 100-Word Lists for Sabaki Languages | |
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| Appendix 5 Outline of Selected Sabaki Verb Systems | |
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| Appendix 6 Archaeological Correlates for the East African Coast | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |