The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of KhorramshahrOtto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009 - 378 pagina's Neo-Mandaic is the only surviving dialect of Aramaic to be recognized as a direct descendant of any of the classical dialects of Late Antiquity. The Mandaeans who speak it are adherents of a pre-Islamic Gnostic sect, the only such sect to survive to the present day. As such, Mandaic may be considered as both a living language of the modern Middle East and also the vehicle of one of the great religious traditions of that region, along with Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian. Unfortunately, Neo-Mandaic is severely endangered, and all signs indicate that the current generation of speakers is likely to be the last. As a description of an endangered language, this work addresses one of the chief concerns of linguists in the 21st century, namely the impending loss of the majority of the world's languages and the immense threat to both linguistic and cultural diversity that it represents. This grammar is the fi rst account of a previously undocumented dialect of Neo-Mandaic, and most thorough description of any Neo-Mandaic dialect. In addition to a description of its phonology, inflectional paradigms, and morphosyntax, it includes a collection of ten texts, transcribed and translated, as well as a concise lexicon of the vocabulary found within these texts. |
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1 | 8 |
Table | 9 |
6 | 24 |
Table | 34 |
Table | 49 |
31 | 53 |
Phonemic Transcription Scheme Vowels | 60 |
Independent Pronouns and Stress | 79 |
The Strong Imperative with Object Suffixes | 182 |
Personal Suffixes on IIWeak and Geminate Verbs | 188 |
IIWeak Geminate Perfectives with Object Suffixes | 219 |
Some Examples of Phrasal Verbs | 227 |
The Short Copula | 230 |
The Long Copula and its Negation | 231 |
The Long Copula with Proclitic and its Negation | 232 |
The Copula in the Analytic passive | 233 |
Allomorphs of the Proclitic Morphemes | 93 |
THE NOUN | 109 |
Cardinal Numbers | 113 |
Structure of the Noun | 124 |
6 | 139 |
7 | 146 |
PRONOUNS | 155 |
Independent Personal Pronouns | 156 |
Forms of the Demonstrative Pronouns | 162 |
THE VERB | 174 |
ao Thematic Vowel Class | 176 |
The Modal Verb To Want with the Verb To Say | 235 |
The Modal Verb To Permit with the Verb To Speak | 236 |
The Modal Verb To Be Able with the Verb To Speak | 237 |
The Modal Particle Must with the Verb To Speak | 238 |
The GStem Passive Participles | 253 |
CONCLUSION | 256 |
Speech June 13 1999 | 273 |
The City of Mice who Eat Iron | 288 |
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1st pl 1st sg 2nd pl 3rd m.sg 3rd pl adjectives Ahvaz allomorphs allophones alveolar anaptyctic appear Arabic Aramaic assimilates attested Čečāwā Classical Mandaic consonant cluster contextual form copula D-stem derived deštā diphthong Drower ekkak enclitic examples ezgā ǝbadyon Əmalli f.sg feminine fricative G imperf G perf G subjv ganzibrā gāw geminated Genzā Rabbā geš grammar Handbook I-Weak III-Weak imperfective indef indefinite morpheme indefinite pronouns indicative inflected initial syllable Iran Iraq kardan Khorramshahr language lexical loan words Mandaeans Mandaic language modal morpheme Neo-Aramaic Neo-Mandaic Neumandäische noun object marker Object Suffixes Person origin participle passive pattern Perfective with Object personal suffixes phoneme phrasal verbs plural morpheme preposition pretonic pron pronominal prop qabin Rabbā referential relative clauses relative pronoun rišāmmā root consonants segments sg f Shushtar stem subjunctive suffixes beginning Table tamām text collection third masculine singular verbal roots voiced voiceless voiceless glottal fricative word-final