Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Segmental Features: Phonetic Inventory -- Syllable Structure -- Pronouns -- Nouns -- Adjectives -- Numerals -- The Copula -- Verbs -- Weak Verbs -- Adverbs, Prepositions and Other Particles -- The Syntax of Pronouns -- The Syntax of Nouns -- The Syntax of Adjectives -- The Syntax of Numerals -- The Syntax of Verbs -- Introductory Remarks on the Corpus -- Texts: Speaker A -- Speaker B -- Speaker C -- Speaker D -- Speaker E -- Speaker F -- Proverbs, Sayings, Social Interaction -- CDZ-English Glossary -- Bibliography -- Indexes.

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The detailed study of a rare Neo-Aramaic variety from north-eastern Iraq offered by Lidia Napiorkowska in A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw is a contribution to the documentation of the endangered world of spoken Aramaic. The comparative and contact-sensitive approach of the monograph situates the dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw in a wider context of Semitic languages on the one hand, and of the local varieties of Iraqi Kurdistan on the other. Next to a systematic account of phonology and morphology, the book covers a range of syntactic features and is accompanied by a corpus of translated texts and a glossary, arranged according to the Aramaic, as well as English entries.