| A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw Contributor(s): Napiorkowska, Lidia (Author) |
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ISBN: 900429032X ISBN-13: 9789004290327 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $261.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Foreign Language Study | Arabic |
| Dewey: 492.2 |
| LCCN: 2014048636 |
| Series: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 614 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The detailed study of a rare Neo-Aramaic variety from north-eastern Iraq offered by Lidia Napiorkowska in A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw is a contribution to the documentation of the endangered world of spoken Aramaic. The comparative and contact-sensitive approach of the monograph situates the dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw in a wider context of Semitic languages on the one hand, and of the local varieties of Iraqi Kurdistan on the other. Next to a systematic account of phonology and morphology, the book covers a range of syntactic features and is accompanied by a corpus of translated texts and a glossary, arranged according to the Aramaic, as well as English entries. |