Includes bibliographical references (p. [708]-712) and index.

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PHONOLOGY -- CONSONANTS -- VOWELS -- CONSONANT GEMINATION -- SYLLABLE STRUCTURE -- WORD STRESS -- STRESS GROUPS -- MORPHOLOGY -- PRONOUNS -- VERBS -- VERB PARADIGMS -- NOUNS -- ADJECTIVES -- NUMERALS -- PARTICLES -- SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS -- THE SYNTAX OF NOMINALS -- THE SYNTAX OF VERBS -- THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF PREPOSITIONS -- THE CLAUSE -- CLAUSE SEQUENCES -- SYNTACTIC SUBORDINATION OF CLAUSES -- THE LEXICON -- TEXTS -- INFORMANT K -- INFORMANT B -- INFORMANT S -- INFORMANT F -- THEATRE PLAY by Ṭalāl Waḍīᒼ -- POETRY by Ṭalāl ᐣAčam -- CHILDREN’S RHYME -- PROVERBS -- SELECTIONS FROM THE GOSPELS -- REFERENCES -- GLOSSARY OF VERBS -- GENERAL GLOSSARY -- STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS.

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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 volume also includes a transcription of oral texts recorded in the dialect. The grammar is based on extensive fieldwork carried out among native speakers. It consists of sections on phonology, morphology and syntax. There is also a study of semantic fields in the lexicon of the dialect and full glossaries of lexical items. This Aramaic dialect has never been described before. It is one of the most archaic dialects in group known as North Eastern Neo-Aramaic that contains many features that have not been found in other dialects. These include several lexical elements that are not found in earlier literary Aramaic but can be traced back to Akkadian and Sumerian. Knowledge of the dialect is now being lost among the younger generations, so this volume is an important linguistic record.