At foot of cover: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. At head of front cover: Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures. Available through Open Book Publishers. Includes examples of Neo-Aramaic.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Glossing -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Preface / Geoffrey Khan and Paul M. Noorlander -- Abstracts -- A History of the Intransitive Preterite of Ṭuroyo: From a Property Adjective to a Finite Tense / Eugene Barsky and Sergey Loesov -- Towards a Typology of Possessors and Experiencers in Neo-Aramaic: Non-Canonical Subjects as Relics of a Former Dative Case / Paul M. Noorlander -- The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Dohok: Two Folktales and Selected Features of Verbal Semantics / Dorota Molin -- Verbal Forms Expressing Discourse Dependency in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic / Geoffrey Khan -- Conditional Patterns in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Zakho / Eran Cohen -- Language Contact and Ṭuroyo: The Case of the Circumstantial Clause / Michael Waltisberg -- The Morphosyntactic Conservatism of Western Neo-Aramaic despite Contact with Syrian Arabic / Ivri Bunis -- On the Afel Stem in Western Neo-Aramaic / Steven E. Fassberg -- The Re-Emergence of the Genitive in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic / Ariel Gutman -- Modelling Variation in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Azran with Articulatory Phonology / Lidia Napiorkowska -- On the Origin of Some Plant Names in Ṣūrayt/Ṭūrōyo in Ṭūr ʿAbdīn / Aziz Tezel -- Remarks on Selected Exponents of the 208-Swadesh List in Ṭuroyo / Eugene Barsky and Yulia Furman Neo-Aramaic Animal Names / Hezy Mutzafi -- A Corpus-Based Swadesh Word List for Literary Christian Urmi (New Alphabet Texts) / Alexey Lyavdansky -- Lexical Items relating to Material Culture in the NENA Dialects of the Aqra Region / Aziz Emmanuel Eliya Al-Zebari -- Arabic Loanwords in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Ankawa / Salam Neamah Hirmiz Hakeem -- Language Loss in the Ṣūrayt/Ṭūrōyo-speaking Communities of the Diaspora in Sweden / Sina Tezel -- About the publishing team -- Index.
"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."--Publisher's website.
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