The Jewish neo-Aramaic dialect of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja / / by Geoffrey Khan.

This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the spoken Aramaic dialect of the Jewish communities in the towns of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja in North Eastern Iraq. It also includes a transcription of oral texts recorded in the dialect. The grammar is based on extensive fieldwork carried o...

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Superior document:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 44
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 44.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 619 pages) :; map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CONSONANTS
  • VOWELS
  • CONSONANT GEMINATION
  • SYLLABLE STRUCTURE
  • WORD STRESS
  • STRESS GROUPS
  • PRONOUNS
  • VERBS
  • VERB PARADIGMS
  • NOUNS
  • ADJECTIVES
  • NUMERALS
  • PARTICLES
  • THE SYNTAX OF NOMINALS
  • THE SYNTAX OF VERBS
  • THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF PREPOSITIONS
  • THE CLAUSE
  • CLAUSE SEQUENCES
  • SYNTACTIC SUBORDINATION OF CLAUSES
  • THE LEXICON
  • INFORMANT R (SULEMANIYYA)
  • INFORMANT Z (SULEMANIYYA)
  • INFORMANT A (SULEMANIYYA)
  • INFORMANT M (SULEMANIYYA)
  • INFORMANT V (ḤALABJA)
  • REFERENCES
  • GLOSSARY OF VERBS
  • GENERAL GLOSSARY
  • STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS.