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Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic

Author : Geoffrey Khan

Publisher : Open Book Publishers

Page : 367 pages

File Size : 29,4 MB

Release : 2021-01-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1783749504

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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.



Studies in Neo-Aramaic

Author : Wolfhart Heinrichs

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 227 pages

File Size : 25,17 MB

Release : 2018-08-14

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9004369538

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A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic

Author : Geoffrey Khan

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 608 pages

File Size : 28,6 MB

Release : 2015-11-02

Category : Reference

ISBN : 9004305041

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Being direct descendants of the Aramaic spoken by the Jews in antiquity, the still spoken Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects of Kurdistan deserve special and vivid interest. Geoffrey Khan’s A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic is a unique record of one of these dialects, now on the verge of extinction. This volume, the result of extensive fieldwork, contains a description of the dialect spoken by the Jews from the region of Arbel (Iraqi Kurdistan), together with a transcription of recorded texts and a glossary. The grammar consists of sections on phonology, morphology and syntax, preceded by an introductory chapter examining the position of this dialect in relation to the other known Neo-Aramaic dialects. The transcribed texts record folktales and accounts of customs, traditions and experiences of the Jews of Kurdistan.



Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic

Author : Geoffrey Khan

Publisher :

Page : 542 pages

File Size : 20,64 MB

Release : 2021-01-15

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9781783749485

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The papers in this volume represent the full range of research that is currently being carried out on Neo-Aramaic dialects.





Attributive constructions in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic

Author : Ariel Gutman

Publisher : Language Science Press

Page : 464 pages

File Size : 20,8 MB

Release : 2018

Category : Language arts

ISBN : 3961100810

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This study is the first wide-scope morpho-syntactic comparative study of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects to date. Given the historical depth of Aramaic (almost 3 millennia) and the geographic span of the modern dialects, coming in contact with various Iranian, Turkic and Semitic languages, these dialects provide an almost pristine "laboratory" setting for examining language change from areal, typological and historical perspectives. While the study has a very wide coverage of dialects, including also contact languages (and especially Kurdish dialects), it focuses on a specific grammatical domain, namely attributive constructions, giving a theoretically motivated and empirically grounded account of their variation, distribution and development. The results will be enlightening not only to Semitists seeking to learn about this fascinating modern Semitic language group, but also for typologists and general linguists interested in the dynamics of noun phrase morphosyntax.



Neo-Aramaic Dialect Studies

Author : Geoffrey Khan

Publisher : Gorgias PressLlc

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 29,48 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Education

ISBN : 9781593334239

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Contains a collection of papers on various aspects of the grammar of Neo-Aramaic, with special attention to the North Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect group. This title features papers that include descriptions of many hitherto undescribed dialects, including those of Tyare, Sat, Calla, Barwar, Karamlesh, Telkepe, Peshabur and those of the Aqra region.



Comparative Lexical Studies in Neo-Mandaic

Author : Hezy Mutzafi

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 243 pages

File Size : 17,30 MB

Release : 2014-02-20

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9004257055

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Neo-Mandaic is the last phase of a pre-modern vernacular closely related to Classical Mandaic, a Mesopotamian Aramaic idiom of Late Antiquity. This unique language is critically endangered, being spoken by a few hundred adherents of Mandaeism, the only gnostic religion to have survived until the present day. All other Mandaeans, numbering several tens of thousands, are Arabic or Persian speakers. The present study concerns the least known aspect of the language, namely its lexicon as reflected in both its dialects, those of the cities of Ahvaz and Khorramshahr in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. Apart from lexicological and etymological studies in Neo-Mandaic itself, the book discusses the contribution of the Neo-Mandaic lexis to our knowledge of literary Mandaic as well as aspects of this lexis within the framework of Neo-Aramaic as a whole.



The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar

Author : Geoffrey Khan

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 2236 pages

File Size : 13,21 MB

Release : 2008-10-16

Category : Reference

ISBN : 9047443497

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The Aramaic language has continued to be spoken in various dialects down to modern times. Many of these dialects, however, are now endangered due to political events in the Middle East over the last hundred years. This work, in three volumes, presents a description of one such endangered neo-Aramaic dialect, that of the Assyrian Christian community of the Barwar region in northern Iraq. It is a unique record of the dialect based on interviews with the surviving older generation of the community. Volume one contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialect, including sections on phonology, morphology and syntax. Volume two contains an extensive glossary of the lexicon of the dialect with illustrations of various aspects of the material culture. Volume three contains transcriptions of numerous recorded texts, including folktales, ethnographic texts, songs, and proverbs.



The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Am?dya

Author : Jared Greenblatt

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 377 pages

File Size : 24,59 MB

Release : 2010-12-07

Category : Reference

ISBN : 9004182578

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This work is a linguistic description of an obsolescent dialect of Neo-Aramaic. The dialect was originally spoken by Jews residing in the village of Am?dya (a.k.a Amadiya) in modern-day northern Iraq. Included are edited transcriptions and translations of a selection of texts recorded in the dialect on a variety of topics and in a variety of genres, including folk-tales and oral history.