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Reexamination of the Bare Preterite Base in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Zakho

In: Aramaic Studies
Author:
Ariel Gutman École Normale Supérieure, Paris

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01 Jan 2008
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Abstract

In Neo-Aramaic dialects the historic passive participle is used as the base form for the preterite tense. Nonetheless, the scholarly tradition saw it as a passive form, especially when it appears alone as a 'bare form'. A wide corpus study of Jewish Zakho Neo-Aramaic shows, however, that in some cases it is justified to see this form as bearing an active function. This is established through the examination of the information-structure associated with the form. A comparison to an older stratum of Neo-Aramaic, namely the Nerwa texts from the 17th century, provides a possible diachronic explanation of this change.

Title:
Reexamination of the Bare Preterite Base in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Zakho
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/147783508X371286
Language:
English
Pages:
59–84
Keywords:
DIACHRONY; INFORMATION-STRUCTURE; NEO-ARAMAIC; NERWA; ZAKHO; NENA; PRETERITE; ACTIVE; PASSIVE
In:
Aramaic Studies
In:
Volume 6: Issue 1
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1745-5227
Print ISSN:
1477-8351
Subjects:
Hebrew Bible, Biblical Studies

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