A grammar of Egyptian Aramaic / / by Takamitsu Muraoka and Bezalel Porten.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. The Near and Middle East, v. 32
• Author: Muraoka, T.
• TeilnehmendeR: Porten, Bezalel.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: Second revised edition.
• Language: English; Aramaic
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (lii, 416 pages).

This is the first up-to-date, and complete grammar of Egyptian Aramaic as presented in texts of Egyptian provenance dating from the middle of the first millennium B.C.E. and as edited by B. Porten and A. Yardeni in their Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt (Jerusalem, 1986-). The grammar covers not only the phonology and morphology, but contains a substantial section on morphosyntax and syntax. It is a descriptive grammar enriched with the expert knowledge and familiarity of one of the co-authors with the contents and background of the texts in question. It is meant to replace P. Leander's Laut- und Formenlehre des Ägyptisch-Aramäischen (1928), but also supplements it substantially, because it had no syntax. Due to the utmost importance and interest of these ancient texts, this grammar is a vade mecum for every Aramaist, Semitist and Historian in the field.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material -- PHONOLOGY -- SECTION A: THE NOUN, ADJECTIVE AND PARTICLES -- SECTION B: VERB -- SECTION A: THE PRONOUN -- SECTION B: THE NOUN AND THE ADJECTIVE -- SECTION C: THE VERB -- SECTION A: NOUN PHRASE EXPANDED -- SECTION B: VERB PHRASE EXPANDED -- SECTION C: OTHER SYNT ACTIC ISSDES -- INDEX OF PASSAGES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- TABLES OF LOAN-WORDS -- CONCORDANCE OF TEXTS -- DATESAND SCRIBES OF TAD DOCUMENTS -- INDEX OF TECHNICAL TERMS -- HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK.