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Grammar of Neo-Aramaic
Being direct descendants of the Aramaic spoken by the Jews in antiquity, the still spoken Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects of Kurdistan deserve special and vivid interest. Geoffrey …
The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia
The languages of Western Asia belong to a variety of language families, including Indo-European, Kartvelian, Semitic, and Turkic, but share numerous features on account of being in …
Semitic Studies in Honour of Edward Ullendorff
This is a Festschrift volume for the British Semitist Edward Ullendorff. It contains papers written by leading scholars in the fields of Semitic philology and Near Eastern history …
Language Contact in Sanandaj
This book is a detailed study of contact-induced change in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Jews of Sanandaj, a town in western Iran. Since its foundation in early 17th century, the …
The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 2
The form of Biblical Hebrew that is presented in printed editions, with vocalization and accent signs, has its origin in medieval manuscripts of the Bible. The vocalization and …
New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew
Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held …
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Urmi
This volume presents a description of the Neo-Aramaic dialect that was spoken by the Jews of Urmi in north-western Iran but which is now virtually extinct. The material for the …
Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq
Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia
The languages of Western Asia belong to a variety of language families, including Indo-European, Kartvelian, Semitic, and Turkic, but share numerous features on account of being in …
Early Karaite Tradition of Hebrew Grammatical Thought
One of the earliest Karaite grammatical texts that have come down to us from the Middle Ages, is the Diqduq, by 'Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Nuh, of Jerusalem. It is a grammatical …
Studies in the Masoretic Tradition of the Hebrew Bible
This volume brings together papers on topics relating to the transmission of the Hebrew Bible from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period. We refer to this broadly in the title …
Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Qaraqosh
Containing a detailed grammatical description of the spoken Aramaic dialect of the Christian community in the town of Qaraqosh, which lies on the Mosul plain in Northern Iraq, this …