Title: The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Jews of Dohok
Subtitle: A Comparative-Typological Grammar
Series Title: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Brill
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Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/63213

Author: Dorota Molin
Hardback: ISBN: 978-90-04-52198-8 Pages: 274 Price: U.S. $ 125
Hardback: ISBN: 978-90-04-52198-8 Pages: 274 Price: Europe EURO 109
eBook: ISBN: 978-90-04-69057-8 Pages: 274 Price: U.S. $ 125
eBook: ISBN: 978-90-04-69057-8 Pages: 274 Price: Europe EURO 109
Abstract:

This book combines in-depth grammatical analysis with dialectology and typology. It presents important features of Jewish Neo-Aramaic from Dohok (Iraqi Kurdistan), a previously undocumented dialect that is now on the verge of extinction. The first Neo-Aramaic grammar to offer data glossing, this book is accessible for and highly relevant to Semitists, language typologists and historical linguists. It focuses especially on phonology, verbal morphosyntax and syntax. The monograph also highlights features that characterise the wider lišana deni dialect group, which is the most widespread Jewish Neo-Aramaic today. The book leverages the staggering microvariation persisting within North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic to reconstruct the grammaticalisation of some key Neo-Aramaic constructions. It also includes a text sample of prime historiographic value (Jews of Iraq during the Second World War).

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Language Documentation
Typology

Language Family(ies): Aramaic
Semitic

Written In: English (eng)