A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29032-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 81, 600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1058 g

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Napiorkowska, Lidia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Lidia Napiorkowska holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge where she currently works as an Affiliated Researcher. Her work focuses on the undocumented spoken varieties of Neo-Aramaic.