Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic
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Contributor(s)
Khan, Geoffrey (editor)
Noorlander, Paul (editor)
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ScholarLed; Dutch Research Council (NWO)Language
EnglishAbstract
"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."
Keywords
Neo-Aramaic dialects; Aramaic; Middle East; migration; language typology; historical linguistics;ISBN
9781783749478, 9781783749485, 9781783749508, 9781783749515, 9781783749522Publisher
Open Book PublishersPublisher website
https://www.openbookpublishers.comPublication date and place
2021Series
Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Series,Classification
Historical and comparative linguistics
Translation and interpretation