The Morphophonological Development of the Classical Aramaic Verb / Joseph L. Malone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malone, Joseph L., author.

Series:

Linguistic studies in ancient West Semitic ; Volume 13.

Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic Series ; Volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aramaic language--Verb.

Aramaic language--Phonology.

Aramaic language--Morphology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (688 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book offers a diachronic and synchronic account of the verb morphology and phonology of Aramaic from its initial appearance early in the first millennium B.C.E. until the second millennium C.E. Aramaic, a subfamily of Semitic, is closely related to Hebrew and the other Canaanite languages; together, the two subfamilies of Aramaic and Canaanite constitute the northwest branch of the Semitic phylum. In this study, Joseph L. Malone focuses on thirteen dialects of Aramaic, chosen from a candidate list of approximately twice that number. The specific varieties of Aramaic examined here are chosen to provide an optimal chronological and geographical range. In a similar vein, the finite verb serves as the subject of this study, based on the assumption that a thorough treatment of the verb will asymptomatically involve most of the patterns and processes that hold for the grammar as a whole. The tools of this study are drawn from standard generative linguistics, though care is taken to explicate these in more traditional terms where it is deemed necessary. This book is essential reading for linguists who study the Semitic language families, and in particular those interested in Northwest Semitic languages.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic

Contents

0. Introduction

Part One Patterns and Processes

1. System of Verb Stems

2. System of Verb Affixes

3. Geminate Formation (gmf)

4. Stress and Processes of Syllabic Mutation

5. Spirantization (spr) and Reocclusion (reo)

6. Hollow-Geminate Rapprochement (hgr) and Hollow-Geminate Neutralization (hgn)

7. Suffixal n(n)

8. Condensation (cnd) of Vowel-Glide-Vowel Sequences (V Γ V)

9. Gutturals

10. Reflexive Mediopassive (rmp) T

11. Coalescent Processes

12. Attenuation

13. Vowel Copy

14. Promotion (prm) and y-Monophthongization (ymn)

15. Transparentation

16. Syncretism (syn)

17. Other Processes

Part Two Genealogy and Dialectology

18. Family Tree Theory, Wave Theory, and Reconstruction

19. Aramaic Dialect Relations

Part Three Appendixes and Supplemental Matters

20. Phonetic Systems

21. Orthography

22. Traditions of Pronunciation

23. The Generative-Phonological Perspective

Part Four Indexes

24. Aramaic Verb Forms

25. Technical Terms

26. Abbreviations and Symbols

27. Bibliographical References

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781646020157

1646020154

9781646020171

1646020170

OCLC:

1309025496