Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic by Geoffrey Khan

Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic by Geoffrey Khan

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Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic by Geoffrey Khan

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.

Paul M. Noorlander, Ph.D. (2018) is currently a Rubicon Fellow at Leiden University seconded to the University of Cambridge. He is involved in Neo-Aramaic documentation and has published on various topics in Semitic languages and linguistics and contact with Indo-European.
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ISBN 13 9781783749478
ISBN 10 1783749474
Title Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic
Author Geoffrey Khan
Series Semitic Languages And Cultures
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Open Book Publishers
Year published 2020-07-31
Number of pages 542
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