Contents

GLOSSING ABBREVIATIONS

ix

CONTRIBUTORS

xi

PREFACE

xvii

ABSTRACTS

xxi

Eugene Barsky and Sergey Loesov

A History of the Intransitive Preterite of Ṭuroyo: from a Property Adjective to a Finite Tense

1

Paul M. Noorlander

Towards a Typology of Possessors and Experiencers in Neo-Aramaic: Non-Canonical Subjects as Relics of a Former Dative Case

29

Dorota Molin

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Dohok: Two Folktales and Selected Features of Verbal Semantics

95

Geoffrey Khan

Verbal Forms Expressing Discourse Dependency in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic

143

Eran Cohen

Conditional Patterns in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Zakho

195

Michael Waltisberg

Language Contact and Ṭuroyo: The Case of the Circumstantial Clause

221

Ivri Bunis

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

235

Steven E. Fassberg

On the Afel Stem in Western Neo-Aramaic

287

Ariel Gutman

The Re-Emergence of the Genitive in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic

301

Lidia Napiorkowska

Modelling Variation in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Azran with Articulatory Phonology

319

Aziz Tezel

On the Origin of Some Plant Names in Ṣūrayt/Ṭūrōyo in Ṭūr ʿAbdīn

335

Eugene Barsky and Yulia Furman

Remarks on Selected Exponents of the 208-Swadesh List in Ṭuroyo

353

Hezy Mutzafi

Neo-Aramaic Animal Names

389

Alexey Lyavdansky

A Corpus-Based Swadesh Word List for Literary Christian Urmi (New Alphabet Texts)

415

Aziz Emmanuel Eliya Al-Zebari (in collaboration with Anjuman M. Sabir)

Lexical Items Relating to Material Culture in the NENA Dialects of the Aqra Region

443

Salam Neamah Hirmiz Hakeem

Arabic Loanwords in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Ankawa

469

Sina Tezel

Language Loss in the Ṣūrayt/Ṭūrōyo-speaking Communities of the Diaspora in Sweden

487

INDEX

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