TY - JOUR
T1 - Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic
AU - Mutzafi, Hezy
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The present article seeks to describe a major group of Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects located across the Great Zab river in the eastern and south-eastern parts of the dialectological map of NENA, hence the term "Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic" ("Trans-Zab", for short) chosen for this dialect group. A large set of phonological, morphophonological, morphological and lexical innovations, shared by all members of this group, is presented. Each of the Trans-Zab features is compared with contrastive parallel features in other, selected NENA varieties. Finally, an internal classification of Trans-Zab into three subdivisions is proposed, based on a comparison of three respective paradigms of the positive present copula.
AB - The present article seeks to describe a major group of Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects located across the Great Zab river in the eastern and south-eastern parts of the dialectological map of NENA, hence the term "Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic" ("Trans-Zab", for short) chosen for this dialect group. A large set of phonological, morphophonological, morphological and lexical innovations, shared by all members of this group, is presented. Each of the Trans-Zab features is compared with contrastive parallel features in other, selected NENA varieties. Finally, an internal classification of Trans-Zab into three subdivisions is proposed, based on a comparison of three respective paradigms of the positive present copula.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0041977X08000815
DO - 10.1017/S0041977X08000815
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AN - SCOPUS:61149157031
SN - 0041-977X
VL - 71
SP - 409
EP - 431
JO - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
JF - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
IS - 3
ER -