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Testimonial: workshop on the Afroasiatic middle t-morpheme

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The workshop on the Afroasiatic Middle t-Morpheme was held over two days on the 8-9 of May 2024 at the University of Edinburgh. Goal of the meeting was a first attempt at compiling the patterns of Afroasiatic Middles expressed with the t-morpheme, and workshopping a tentative diachronic reconstruction for its development. We brought together scholars working in a wide range of methodological frameworks, among them generative grammar, diachronic typology, syntax-phonology interface frameworks, philology, and the historical-comparative method. We had talks on Semitic, Berber, Cushitic, and Egyptian, featuring over twenty different languages within these four families with linguistic data reaching from corpora attestations as early as 2500 BCE to data from fieldworks collected recently (some within the last year).