Studies In The Grammar And Lexicon Of Neo Aramaic


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Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic


Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic

Author: Geoffrey Khan

language: en

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Release Date: 2021-01-15


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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.

Cultures Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic


Cultures Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic

Author: Geoffrey Khan

language: en

Publisher:

Release Date: 2021


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A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic


A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic

Author: Geoffrey Khan

language: en

Publisher: BRILL

Release Date: 2015-11-02


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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.