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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Malone, Joseph L.,
• MitwirkendeR: Miller-Naudé, Cynthia L.,; Naudé, Jacobus A.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (688 p.)

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.

Table of 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