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

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, Near and Middle East, Volume 32
• VerfasserIn: Muraoka, T.,; Porten, Bezalel,
• TeilnehmendeR: Porten, Bezalel,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2003.; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: Second revised edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Volume 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (468 pages).
• Notes: Includes indexes.

Table of Contents

Part I: Phonology -- Preliminary remarks -- Consonants -- Consonantal changes -- Vowels -- Word-final vowels -- Word-medial vowels -- Vowel length -- Contraction of diphthongs -- Elision of short unstressed vowels -- Sandhi -- Part II: Morphology -- Section A: The noun, adjective and particles -- Disjunctive personal pronouns -- Conjunctive personal pronouns -- Disjunctive possessive pronouns -- Demonstrative pronouns -- Relative pronoun -- Interrogative words -- Indefinite pronouns -- The noun -- Formal patterns of nouns and adjectives -- Prepositions -- Numerals -- Other word-classes

Part II: Morphology -- Section B: Verb -- The inventory of conjugational morphemes -- Examples and discussion -- Binyanim -- Binyan G -- Binyan D -- Binyan H or A -- -t Binyan -- The passive voice -- Pe-Yod verbs -- Pe-Alef verbs -- Pe-Nun verbs -- Lamed-Alef verbs -- Ayin-Waw/Yod verbs -- Ayin-Ayin verbs -- Lamed-Yod verbs -- The verb with suffixal pronouns

Part III: Morphosyntax -- A. The pronoun -- Personal pronouns -- Disjunctive possessive pronouns -- Demonstrative pronouns -- Relative pronoun -- Interrogative pronouns -- Indefinite pronouns -- B. The noun and the adjective -- Gender -- State -- Number -- Adjective -- C. The verb -- Binyanim -- Tenses -- Perfect or suffix conjugation -- Imperfect or prefix conjugation -- Jussive and energic -- Passive voice -- Participle -- Infinitive -- Imperative

Part IV: Syntax -- A. Noun phrase expanded -- By conjunctive pronouns -- By disjunctive possessive pronouns -- By the preposition Lamed of ownership of affiliation -- By nouns in the status constructus -- By [' + noun phrase] -- Proleptic noun phrases -- By relative clauses -- by demonstrative pronouns -- By adjectives -- By numerals -- By prepositional phrases -- By__ -- By nouns in apposition -- By attributive participles -- B. Verb phrase expanded -- Verb expansion -- Asyndesis -- Expansion by noun phrases or pronouns -- Expansion by adverbials -- C. Other syntactic issues -- Agreement and disagreement -- Word order: nominal clause -- Word order: verbal clause -- Extraposition -- Impersonal constructions -- Coordination -- Circumstantial clauses -- Negation -- Conditional statements -- Direct speech -- Vocative and interjection -- Prepositions -- ' clauses -- Conjunctions other than ' and ' compounds -- Some particles.

Appendices -- Index of passages -- Index of subjects -- Tables of loan-words -- Concordance of principal editions -- Individual scribes and dates -- List of technical terms.