The Morphosyntactic Conservatism of Western Neo-Aramaic despite Contact with Syrian Arabic

Ivri Bunis (PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2018) is a post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. He wrote his PhD thesis on the morphosyntax of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine period. His research interests include Aramaic historical linguistics, Late Western Aramaic, Rabbinic Hebrew in contact with Aramaic and Western Neo-Aramaic in contact with Syrian Arabic.