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urn:uuid:cd8be6da-bcc3-48fa-8e32-16d508617513 03 15 9781783749508 00 EB E101 10 10 02 26326914 01 02 Semitic Languages and Cultures 01 01 Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic 1 A01 Geoffrey Khan Geoffrey Khan (PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1984) is Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. His research publications focus on three main fields: Biblical Hebrew language (especially medieval traditions), Neo-Aramaic dialectology, and medieval Arabic documents. He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (Brill, 2013) and is the senior editor of Journal of Semitic Studies. His recent publications include The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Cambridge: University of Cambridge & Open Book Publishers, 2020, Performance of Sacred Semitic Texts (editor, with co-editor Hindy Najman), Dead Sea Discoveries 29, Brill. 2022, and Language Contact in Sanandaj (co-authored with Masoud Mohammadirad), Berlin, de Gruyter, 2024. 2 B01 Paul M. Noorlander Dr. Paul Noorlander obtained his doctorate in linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, and is the author of Ergativity and Other Alignment Types in Neo-Aramaic: Investigating Morphosyntactic Microvariation (2021, Brill: Leiden). He has published widely in the field of Semitic languages and linguistics and contact between Semitic and Iranian, in particular the areal-diachronic typology of the East Anatolian and Mesopotamian regions of West Asia. His main research areas are the endangered Neo-Aramaic languages and their documentation, typology and history. Dr Noorlander teaches at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, and Divinity at the University of Cambridge. 01 eng 00 540 03 23 Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 12 CFF 23 Neo-Aramaic dialects 04 PJ5282 10 REL006020 23 Aramaic 12 CFP 10 LAN009010 23 Linguistics 23 Middle East 23 migration 23 language typology 23 historical linguistics 01 06 03 00 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. 04 00 Contents 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 Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20210115 02 WORLD 06 15 9781783749478 06 15 9781783749485 06 15 9781783749492 06 15 9781800646179 06 15 9781783749522 06 15 9781783749508 06 15 9781783749515 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 02 5.99 GBP WORLD