Intro -- Contents -- Glossing Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abstracts -- Eugene Barsky and Sergey Loesov - A History of the Intransitive Preterite of �Turoyo: from a Property Adjective to a Finite Tense -- Paul M. Noorlander - Towards a Typology of Possessors and Experiencers in Neo-Aramaic: Non-Canonical Subjects as Relics of a Former Dative Case -- Dorota Molin - The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Dohok: Two Folktales and Selected Features of Verbal Semantics -- Geoffrey Khan - Verbal Forms Expressing Discourse Dependency in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic -- Eran Cohen - Conditional Patterns in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Zakho -- Michael Waltisberg - Language Contact and Ṭuroyo: The Case of the Circumstantial Clause -- Ivri Bunis - The Morphosyntactic Conservatism of Western Neo-Aramaic Despite Contact with Syrian Arabic -- Steven E. Fassberg - On the Afel Stem in Western Neo-Aramaic -- Ariel Gutman - The Re-Emergence of the Genitive in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic -- Lidia Napiorkowska - Modelling Variation in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Azran with Articulatory Phonology -- Aziz Tezel - On the Origin of Some Plant Names in Ṣūrayt/Ṭ�ur�oyo in Ṭūr ʿAbdīn -- Eugene Barsky and Yulia Furman - Remarks on Selected Exponents of the 208-Swadesh List in Ṭuroyo -- Hezy Mutzafi - Neo-Aramaic Animal Names -- Alexey Lyavdansky - A Corpus-Based Swadesh Word List for Literary Christian Urmi (New Alphabet Texts) -- Aziz Emmanuel Eliya Al-Zebari - Lexical Items Relating to Material Culture in the NENA Dialects of the Aqra Region -- Salam Neamah Hirmiz Hakeem - Arabic Loanwords in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Ankawa -- Sina Tezel - Language Loss in the Ṣūrayt/Ṭūrōyo-speaking Communities of the Diaspora in Sweden -- About the publishing team -- Index.

The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As a result, the dialects are now highly endangered. The dialects exhibit a remarkable diversity of structures. Moreover, the considerable depth of attestation of Aramaic from earlier periods provides evidence for pathways of change. For these reasons the research of Neo-Aramaic is of importance for more general fields of linguistics, in particular language typology and historical linguistics.The papers in this volume represent the full range of research that is currently being carried out on Neo-Aramaic dialects. They advance the field in numerous ways. In order to allow linguists who are not specialists in Neo-Aramaic to benefit from the papers, the examples are fully glossed.

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