By Prof. Em. Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Walter W. Mueller

The papers during this quantity derive from the 4th foreign Hamito-Semitic Congress, held in Marburg in 1983. The papers care for the (morpho)phonology or syntax of person languages or language (sub)families, and plenty of have a diachronic perspective.

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