• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction. Genealogical classification of Semitic and the role of lexical isoglosses
• Chapter 1. The basic vocabulary of Proto-Semitic: form and meaning
• Chapter 2. Historical unity and internal division of West Semitic as reflected in the basic vocabulary
• Chapter 3. Lexical isoglosses and the Central Semitic hypothesis
• Chapter 4. North-West Semitic as a genealogical unity: grammar and lexicon
• Chapter 5. Lexical isoglosses and the genealogical position of Ugaritic
• Chapter 6. From Old to Modern Aramaic: the historical unity of Aramaic as reflected in the basic vocabulary
• Chapter 7. Lexical isoglosses and the historical unity of Ethiopian Semitic
• Chapter 8. Modern South Arabian as a genealogical subgroup: the lexical dimension
• Conclusions
• References
• Abbreviations of lexicographic and grammatical tools
• Abbreviations of language names
• Lexical Index.

This volume is the first of its kind to offer a detailed, monographic treatment of Semitic genealogical classification. The introduction describes the author's methodological framework and surveys the history of the subgrouping discussion in Semitic linguistics, and the first chapter provides a detailed description of the proto-Semitic basic vocabulary. Each of its seven main chapters deals with one of the key issues of the Semitic subgrouping debate: the East/West dichotomy, the Central Semitic hypothesis, the North West Semitic subgroup, the Canaanite affiliation of Ugaritic, the historical unity of Aramaic, and the diagnostic features of Ethiopian Semitic and of Modern South Arabian. The book aims at a balanced account of all evidence pertinent to the subgrouping discussion, but its main focus is on the diagnostic lexical features, heavily neglected in the majority of earlier studies dealing with this subject. The author tries to assess the subgrouping potential of the vocabulary using various methods of its diachronic stratification. The hundreds of etymological comparisons given throughout the book can be conveniently accessed through detailed lexical indices.
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• Preface; Abbreviations and References; Introduction; The Annotated Edition;
• Appendix 1 Summary of the Contents of the Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary;
• Appendix 2 Arabic Graphemes and the Values Ascribed to Them in the Edition; Lexical Index; Facsimiles

• Opening lectures. "He put in order the accounts" : remarks on the early dynastic background of the administrative reorganizations in the Ur III state / Gebhard Selz
• Être chef d'un état Amorrite : city administration in the ancient Near East / Jean-Marie Durand. City administration in the Ancient Near East. Administration in texts from the first Sealand dynasty / Stephanie Dalley
• City administration in poetry : the case of the herald / Dina Katz
• Between city institutions and markets : Mesopotamian traders of the 2nd millennium BC / Rafa Koliński
• L'administration de Chagar Bazar (Ašnakkum) à l'époque de Samsī-Addu / Denis Lacambre
• How to control nomads? : a case study associated with Jebel Bishri in central Syria : West Semitic nomads in relation to the urban world / Minna Lönnqvist
• The Sargonic "archive" of Me-sasag7, cup-bearer of Adab / Massimo Maiocchi
• Le ḫazannu à Mari et sur le moyen-Euphrate / Lionel Marti
• From oral promise to written receipt : a cognitive study of the use of mnemonics within ancient administration / Bonnie Nilhamn
• Verschenkte Stadte/königliche Landschenkungen an Götter und Menschen / Susanne Paulus
• Ḫazannum : the forgotten mayor / Jon Taylor
• Stadtische Selbstverwaltung und sozial-politischer Gemeindesektor in Phönikien und Syrien / Yuli B. Tsirkin
• The role of the ḫazannu in the Neo-Assyrian empire / Greta Van Buylaere
• The city-administration of Ugarit / Wilfred H. van Soldt
• New light from an unpublished archive of Meskigalla, Ensi of Adab, housed in the Cornell University collections : professions and labor in the Ur III period / Giuseppe Visicato
• A Babylonian gang of potters : reconstructing the social organization of crafts production in the late third millennium BC southern Mesopotamia / Jacob Dahl
• What work did the Damgars do? : towards a definition of Ur III labor / Steven Garfinkle
• Administration of the irrigation fee in Umma during the Ur III period (ca. 2112-2004 BCE) / Xiaoli Ouyang.