This innovative and comprehensive handbook highlights a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Afroasiatic languages can be examined. Unpacking the formal and structural properties as well as the socio-historical dimensions which set Afroasiatic languages apart as a language family, the book considers theoretical and empirical pertinence at all levels of linguistic analysis, including the synchronic, historical, and comparative. Linguistic phenomena and many of their innumerable sub-categories have been solicited for discussion in this volume. It serves as an insightful resource not only for analyzing and augmenting existing knowledge of linguistics under the rubric of Afroasiatic - the languages under its umbrella and their interdisciplinary linguistic ramifications - but also for proposing and foregrounding new ideas in a field of study that deserves further elaborations. It is an indispensable compendium for linguists and educators in Afroasiatic languages.

Alireza Korangy is a scholar of Iranian and Semitic Languages, Linguistics, Poetics and Rhetoric.  He has published in all 4 areas. Previously he taught Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Poetics at the American University of Beirut.

Karim Bensoukas is a senior lecturer (Professeur de l’Enseignement Supérieur) in the Department of the English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. He holds a Doctorat d’Etat in linguistics defended in 2001. He is a three-time Fulbrighter: 1999-2000, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA; 2005, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA; and 2023, Indiana University Bloomington, USA. He is also expert-évaluateur with Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST), Rabat, Morocco. Karim Bensoukas is the winner of the 2014 IRCAM Award for Research and Scientific Thinking and the “President” of the IRCAM Prize in 2022.