Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic

<p>The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3000 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.</p><p>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.</p>