Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic

Geoffrey Khan, Paul M. Noorlander

Description

The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As a result, the dialects are now highly endangered. The dialects exhibit a remarkable diversity of structures. Moreover, the considerable depth of attestation of Aramaic from earlier periods provides evidence for pathways of change. For these reasons the research of Neo-Aramaic is of importance for more general fields of linguistics, in particular language typology and historical linguistics.





The papers in this volume represent the full range of research that is currently being carried out on Neo-Aramaic dialects. They advance the field in numerous ways. In order to allow linguists who are not specialists in Neo-Aramaic to benefit from the papers, the examples are fully glossed.

Sujets

• Migration
• Aramaic language
• Middle East
• Linguistic typology
• Historical linguistics
• Neo-Aramaic languages

Informations

• Publié par: Open Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 15 janvier 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781783749508
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic

Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic
Edited by Geoffrey Khan and Paul M. Noorlander







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Semitic Languages and Cultures 5.
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Cover image: Women in the village of Harbole, south-eastern Turkey (photograph taken by Brunot Poizat in 1978 before the village’s destruction).
Cover design: Anna Gatti

Contents
GLOSSING ABBREVIATIONS
ix
CONTRIBUTORS
xi
PREFACE
xvii
ABSTRACTS
xxi
Eugene Barsky and Sergey Loesov
A History of the Intransitive Preterite of Ṭuroyo: from a Property Adjective to a Finite Tense
1
Paul M. Noorlander
Towards a Typology of Possessors and Experiencers in Neo-Aramaic: Non-Canonical Subjects as Relics of a Former Dative Case
29
Dorota Molin
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Dohok: Two Folktales and Selected Features of Verbal Semantics
95
Geoffrey Khan
Verbal Forms Expressing Discourse Dependency in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
143
Eran Cohen
Conditional Patterns in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Zakho
195
Michael Waltisberg
Language Contact and Ṭuroyo: The Case of the Circumstantial Clause
221
Ivri Bunis
The Morphosyntactic Conservatism of Western Neo-Aramaic despite Contact with Syrian Arabic
235
Steven E. Fassberg
On the Afel Stem in Western Neo-Aramaic
287
Ariel Gutman
The Re-Emergence of the Genitive in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
301
Lidia Napiorkowska
Modelling Variation in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Azran with Articulatory Phonology
319
Aziz Tezel
On the Origin of Some Plant Names in Ṣūrayt/Ṭūrōyo in Ṭūr ʿAbdīn
335
Eugene Barsky and Yulia Furman
Remarks on Selected Exponents of the 208-Swadesh List in Ṭuroyo
353
Hezy Mutzafi
Neo-Aramaic Animal Names
389
Alexey Lyavdansky
A Corpus-Based Swadesh Word List for Literary Christian Urmi (New Alphabet Texts)
415
Aziz Emmanuel Eliya Al-Zebari (in collaboration with Anjuman M. Sabir)
Lexical Items Relating to Material Culture in the NENA Dialects of the Aqra Region
443
Salam Neamah Hirmiz Hakeem
Arabic Loanwords in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Ankawa
469
Sina Tezel
Language Loss in the Ṣūrayt/Ṭūrōyo-speaking Communities of the Diaspora in Sweden
487
INDEX
505

Glossing Abbreviations
a
Arabic
acc
accusative
act
active
alv
alveolar
alvpal
alveopalatal
aor
aorist
art
article
artp
Articulatory Phonology
attr
attribute
caus
causative
clf
classifier
clo
closure
comp
complementiser
conj
conjunction
conn
connective
cop
copula
crit
critical
cst
construct state (head of attributive annexation)
dat
dative
def
definite (article)
deix.cop
deictic copula
dem
demonstrative
dep
dependent (marker of dependent clause or noun phrase)
det
determined state
dist
distal demonstrative
dm
discourse marker
dom
differential object marking
erg
ergative
exist
existential
ez
ezafe
f
feminine
foc
focus
fpl
feminine plural
fs
feminine singular
fut
future
gen
genitive
glo
glottis
gn
geographic name
h
Hebrew
hab
habitual
imp
imperative
impf
imperfect
ind
indicative
indef
indefinite
indet
indetermined state
ipfv
imperfective
irr
irrealis
k
Kurdish
lab
labial
lnk
linker
m
masculine
medp
mediopassive
mod
modal
mpl
masculine plural
ms
masculine singular
n
neuter
neg
negative
nmls
nominalisation
nom
nominative
npl
neuter plural
npsfx
nominal suffix
npst
non-past
ns
neuter singular
pal
palatal
pass
passive
pc
prefix conjugation
pers
personal
pfv
perfective
phar
pharyngeal
pl
plural
pn
personal name
pn
proper noun
poss
possessive
pret
preterite
prog
progressive
pron
pronoun
prs
present
pst
past
ptcp
participle
pvb
preverbal modifier
qam
qam pre-verbal prefix
qātl
Arabic qātel paradigm (historical active participle)
qattīl
qaṭṭīl adjective
qōtl
Western Neo-Aramaic qōṭel paradigm (historical active participle)
qtīl
qṭīl adjective and resultative participle
qtl
qatal and qṭal suffix conjugations in Arabic and Western Neo-Aramaic respectively
refl
reflexive
rel
relative
res
resultative
s
singular
sbjv
subjunctive
sc
suffixing conjugation
tb
tongue body
tt
tongue tip
uvu-phar
uvular-pharyngeal
vel
velum
voc
vocative
yqtl
yiqtol prefix conjugation in Arabic and Western Neo-Aramaic

Contributors
Eugene Barsky (PhD, St Tikhon’s Orthodox University of Humanities, Moscow, 2010) researched the Book of Ezra in his PhD thesis. His current work focuses on the grammar of Aramaic and the history of the Bible. His previous publications on Neo-Aramaic relate to the lexicon of Ṭuroyo and Mlaḥso.
Sergey Loesov (PhD, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 1994) is a professor at the National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’ (Moscow). His research publications concern the following main fields: history of Aramaic, Neo-Aramaic dialectology, history of Akkadian and morphosyntax of Akkadian.
Paul M. Noorlander (PhD, Leiden University, 2018) is a Rubicon Fellow at Leiden University seconded to the University of Cambridge. His current work focuses on the documentation of endangered Neo-Aramaic dialects originally spoken in Turkey and coordinating the development of the online NENA database and NENA digital corpus. His PhD thesis was on the typology of alignment in Neo-Aramaic. He has worked on Semitic languages from a comparative-historical perspective and on diachronic developments in Aramaic in particular, including detailed syntactic studies of Late Antique Aramaic varieties. His research interests and published work also involve tense-as