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The Jewish neo-Aramaic dialect of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja / by Geoffrey Khan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khan, Geoffrey.
- Series:
- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 44.
- Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; v. 44
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aramaic language--Dialects--Grammar--Iraq--Sulaymānīyah.
- Aramaic language.
- Syriac language, Modern--Dialects--Grammar--Iraq--Sulaymānīyah.
- Syriac language, Modern.
- Syriac language, Modern--Dialects--Grammar--Iraq--Halabjah.
- Aramaic language--Dialects--Grammar--Iraq--Halabjah.
- Jews--Iraq--Sulaymānīyah--Languages.
- Jews.
- Jews--Iraq--Halabjah--Languages.
- Aramaic language--Dialects--Texts.
- Syriac language, Modern--Dialects--Texts.
- Sulaymānīyah (Iraq)--Social life and customs.
- Sulaymānīyah (Iraq).
- Halabjah (Iraq)--Social life and customs.
- Halabjah (Iraq).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 619 pages) : map.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Summary:
- This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the spoken Aramaic dialect of the Jewish communities in the towns of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja in North Eastern Iraq. It also includes a transcription of oral texts recorded in the dialect. The grammar is based on extensive fieldwork carried out among native speakers. It consists of sections on phonology, morphology and syntax. There is also a study of semantic fields in the lexicon of the dialect and full glossaries of lexical items. This Aramaic dialect, which belongs to the North Eastern Neo-Aramaic group, has never been described before. The Jewish communities left Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja in the 1950s and the dialect is now on the verge of extinction.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- INTRODUCTION
- CONSONANTS
- VOWELS
- CONSONANT GEMINATION
- SYLLABLE STRUCTURE
- WORD STRESS
- STRESS GROUPS
- PRONOUNS
- VERBS
- VERB PARADIGMS
- NOUNS
- ADJECTIVES
- NUMERALS
- PARTICLES
- THE SYNTAX OF NOMINALS
- THE SYNTAX OF VERBS
- THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF PREPOSITIONS
- THE CLAUSE
- CLAUSE SEQUENCES
- SYNTACTIC SUBORDINATION OF CLAUSES
- THE LEXICON
- INFORMANT R (SULEMANIYYA)
- INFORMANT Z (SULEMANIYYA)
- INFORMANT A (SULEMANIYYA)
- INFORMANT M (SULEMANIYYA)
- INFORMANT V (ḤALABJA)
- REFERENCES
- GLOSSARY OF VERBS
- GENERAL GLOSSARY
- STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [578]-579).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789047413585
- 904741358X
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047413585 DOI
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