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

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• 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; toge...

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