Studies in Neo-Aramaic
Author | : Wolfhart Heinrichs |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2018-08-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004369538 |
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Author | : Wolfhart Heinrichs |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2018-08-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004369538 |
Author | : Geoffrey Khan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2015-11-02 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9004305041 |
Being direct descendants of the Aramaic spoken by the Jews in antiquity, the still spoken Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects of Kurdistan deserve special and vivid interest. Geoffrey Khan’s A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic is a unique record of one of these dialects, now on the verge of extinction. This volume, the result of extensive fieldwork, contains a description of the dialect spoken by the Jews from the region of Arbel (Iraqi Kurdistan), together with a transcription of recorded texts and a glossary. The grammar consists of sections on phonology, morphology and syntax, preceded by an introductory chapter examining the position of this dialect in relation to the other known Neo-Aramaic dialects. The transcribed texts record folktales and accounts of customs, traditions and experiences of the Jews of Kurdistan.
Author | : Geoffrey Khan |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2021-01-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1783749504 |
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.
Author | : Ariel Gutman |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3961100810 |
This study is the first wide-scope morpho-syntactic comparative study of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects to date. Given the historical depth of Aramaic (almost 3 millennia) and the geographic span of the modern dialects, coming in contact with various Iranian, Turkic and Semitic languages, these dialects provide an almost pristine "laboratory" setting for examining language change from areal, typological and historical perspectives. While the study has a very wide coverage of dialects, including also contact languages (and especially Kurdish dialects), it focuses on a specific grammatical domain, namely attributive constructions, giving a theoretically motivated and empirically grounded account of their variation, distribution and development. The results will be enlightening not only to Semitists seeking to learn about this fascinating modern Semitic language group, but also for typologists and general linguists interested in the dynamics of noun phrase morphosyntax.
Author | : Geoffrey Khan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Aramaic language |
ISBN | : 9781783749522 |
Author | : Geoffrey Khan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 2236 |
Release | : 2008-10-16 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9047443497 |
This work, in three volumes, presents a detailed description the neo-Aramaic dialect of the Assyrian Christian community of the Barwar region in northern Iraq, which is now endangered. Volume one contains a description of the grammar of the dialect. Volume two contains an extensive glossary. Volume three contains transcriptions of recorded texts
Author | : Geoffrey Khan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2021-01-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781783749485 |
The papers in this volume represent the full range of research that is currently being carried out on Neo-Aramaic dialects.
Author | : Oz Aloni |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2022-02-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1800643047 |
In 1951, the secluded Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jewish community of Zakho migrated collectively to Israel. It carried with it its unique language, culture and customs, many of which bore resemblance to those found in classical rabbinic literature. Like others in Kurdistan, for example, the Jews of Zakho retained a vibrant tradition of creating and performing songs based on embellishing biblical stories with Aggadic traditions. Despite the recent growth of scholarly interest into Neo-Aramaic communities, however, studies have to this point almost exclusively focused on the linguistic analysis of their critically endangered dialects and little attention has been paid to the sociological, historical and literary analysis of the cultural output of the diverse and isolated Neo-Aramaic communities of Kurdistan. In this innovative book, Oz Aloni seeks to redress this balance. Aloni focuses on three genres of the Zakho community’s oral heritage: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative and the folktale. Each chapter draws on the author's own fieldwork among members of the Zakho community now living in Jerusalem. He examines the proverb in its performative context, the rewritten biblical narrative of Ruth, Naomi and King David, and a folktale with the unusual theme of magical gender transformation. Insightfully breaking down these examples with analysis drawn from a variety of conceptual fields, Aloni succeeds in his mission to put the speakers of the language and their culture on equal footing with their speech. The Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have kindly supported the publication of this volume
Author | : Lidia Napiorkowska |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2015-02-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004290338 |
The detailed study of a rare Neo-Aramaic variety from north-eastern Iraq offered by Lidia Napiorkowska in A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw is a contribution to the documentation of the endangered world of spoken Aramaic. The comparative and contact-sensitive approach of the monograph situates the dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw in a wider context of Semitic languages on the one hand, and of the local varieties of Iraqi Kurdistan on the other. Next to a systematic account of phonology and morphology, the book covers a range of syntactic features and is accompanied by a corpus of translated texts and a glossary, arranged according to the Aramaic, as well as English entries.
Author | : Geoffrey Khan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1921 |
Release | : 2016-06-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004313931 |
This work is a documentation of the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by Assyrian Christians in the region of Urmi (northwestern-Iran). It consists of four volumes: Volume 1 and 2—grammar, Volume 3—study of the lexicon and full dictionary, Volume 4—transcriptions of oral texts.