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- Ağbaht, Mahmut
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The Arabic Dialect of Šɛ̄xṭɔ̄ba/Shaykh Taba (northern Lebanon) in its Regional context
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study provides the first grammatical description of a sedentary type of Arabic from Akkar (محافظة عكار), the northernmost governorate of Lebanon. It deals with the Arabic dialect spoken in Šɛ̄xṭɔ̄ba/Shaykh Taba (الشيخ طابا) and covers the main features of its phonology (with focus on pausal phenomena) and morphology, as well as selected semantic fields within the lexicon. In addition to general comparative notes in relation to dialects of Levant and beyond, the study provides a comparison in Phonology to four dialects in the governorate of North which borders Akkar to the south. These are Tripoli, Bišmizzīn, Kfar-Ṣghāb and Zgharta. It also includes a comparison in Morphology to Tripoli, Bišmizzīn and Kfar-Ṣghāb.Furthermore, the study examines where ŠṭA stands within Henri Fleisch’s survey of the Lebanese dialects.Šɛ̄xṭɔ̄ba has a rather complex pausal system, which affects not only consonants and vowels, but also diphthongs. There are also pause-conditioned morphophonological alternations. Besides filling a gap in our knowledge of Arabic dialects in Lebanon, this work adds a new case study of pausal forms to Arabic and Semitic. The results of the investigation of pause in Šɛ̄xṭɔ̄ba, as well as a few other case studies, lead us to identify pausal forms involving retentions, as well as new pausal processes, and thus to propose a revision to the current classification of the pausal forms in modern Arabic dialects.
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- Coghill, Eleanor, 1975-
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Advances in Neo-Aramaic linguistics
- 2022
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Ingår i: Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics. - : Brill Academic Publishers. - 1876-6633 .- 1877-6930. ; 14:1, s. 139-145
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)
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- Coghill, Eleanor, 1975-
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Borrowing of verbal derivational morphology between Semitic languages : The case of Arabic verb derivations in Neo-Aramaic
- 2015
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Ingår i: Borrowed Morphology. - Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter. - 9781614513209 ; , s. 83-108
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While bound morphology in general is often acknowledged to be relatively resistantto borrowing, borrowing of derivational nominal morphology is common(Matras 2009: 209–210). The borrowing of verbal derivational morphology, on theother hand, is thought to be more limited (Matras 2009: 211). An area for whichit has been established is the borrowing of aktionsart-derivational preverbs byRomani dialects from Slavic and Baltic languages, German and Greek (Ariste1973; Schrammel 2005; Matras 2009: 211 etc.).1 Nevertheless a fuller picture ofthis cross-linguistically diverse area is not yet available. This paper will presentcases of verbal derivational morphology that have been borrowed from Arabicby three distinct modern Aramaic languages. It will go on to show that each onerepresents a different stage in the process of integrating borrowed derivationsinto the native verbal system.
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- Coghill, Eleanor, 1975-
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Differential object marking in Neo-Aramaic
- 2014
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Ingår i: Linguistics. - Berlin : Walter de Gruyter. - 0024-3949 .- 1613-396X. ; 52:2, s. 335-364
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many languages differentiate between different types of objects, commonly marking definite or highly animate objects. Crosslinguistically, two strategies for differentiating such objects are attested. One is differential object flagging (DOF), whereby an object is flagged by a case-marker or adposition. Another is differential object agreement (DOA), whereby the verb agrees with the object. A third strategy is to combine DOF and DOA, as happens in some North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects. This paper will focus on one such case, the Telkepe dialect, spoken in the town of Telkepe in northern Iraq. Definiteness is the main factor behind both object agreement and flagging in Telkepe: animacy does not seem to play a role. However, not all definite objects are marked as such. Objects that are generic or semantically integrated with the verb, even if activated in the previous discourse, tend not to be marked. Definite objects that are in focus also lack marking: differential object marking correlates with topic-hood, not only with the primary but also the secondary topic. These conditions for DOM are similar to Nikolaeva's (2001) findings for Ostyak. The situation in Telkepe is compared with the situation in other NENA dialects and with DOM in earlier stages of the Aramaic language. The regional parallels are also discussed, as are the possibilities of contact influence between Aramaic and Arabic dialects.
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- Coghill, Eleanor, 1975-
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Fieldwork on Neo-Aramaic
- 2007
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Ingår i: Languages of Iraq. - London : The British School of Archaeology in Iraq. - 9780903472210 ; , s. 115-122
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Coghill, Eleanor, 1975-
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Grammatical relations in Telkepe Neo-Aramaic
- 2019
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Ingår i: Argument Selectors. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 9789027202024 - 9789027263025 ; , s. 349-398
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter describes grammatical relations in the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic. Telkepe Neo-Aramaic has nominative-accusative alignment. The core arguments that can be clearly distinguished are subject, direct object of a transitive verb, dative object of a ditransitive verb and theme of a ditransitive verb. Core grammatical relations are predominantly encoded on the verb and there is no case-marking, while word order is conditioned not by syntactic roles but by information structure. Up to three arguments may be indexed on the verb, but only subjects are always indexed on the verb. In certain constructions, specific semantic roles may be indexed: one suffix may index a goal, affectee or human source, while another indexes location or metaphorically expresses ability. Telkepe exhibits a type of differential object marking, conditioned by definiteness and topicality and manifested in two separate ways: indexing on the verb and (less consistently) flagging of the object with a dative preposition. Telkepe shows an unusual inversion in the syntactic roles of the indexes on verbs. The suffix set which indexes the subject in certain TAM forms indexes the object in other TAM forms, while the suffix set which indexes the object in Present Base forms indexes the subject in Past Base forms.
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- Coghill, Eleanor, 1975-
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Information structure in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Telkepe
- 2018
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Ingår i: Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages. - Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company. ; , s. 297-328
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper describes the expression of information structure in the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect of Telkepe, a town in northern Iraq. Based on the author’s fieldwork data, it looks at the various ways in which information structure is given linguistic expression in the dialect, in particular indexing on the verb, differential object flagging, word order, and the position of the nuclear stress. It is then shown that the findings for Telkepe provide supportive evidence for some of the universals of information structure proposed by Gundel (1988).
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- Coghill, Eleanor, 1975-
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Neo-Aramaic
- 2020
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Ingår i: Arabic and contact-induced change. - Berlin : Language Science Press. - 9783961102525 - 9783961102518 ; , s. 371-402
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the impact of Arabic on the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects, a diverse group of Semitic language varieties native to a region spanning Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. While the greatest contact influence comes from varieties of Kurdish, Arabic has also had considerable influence, both directly and indirectly via other regional languages. Influence is most apparent in lexicon and phonology, but also surfaces in morphology and syntax.
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