Intransitive clause word order in Neo-Aramaic: information structure, pragmatics and word order shifts

D Molin - Folia Linguistica, 2024 - degruyter.com
This paper studies quantitatively intransitive constructions in Northeastern Neo-Aramaic,
and their implications for Neo-Aramaic word order typology (historically,'subject-verb …

Gorani substrate within Kurdish: Evidence from southern dialects of Central Kurdish

M Mohammadirad - Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
The traditional view within Kurdish linguistics is that the split between Central Kurdish (CK)
and Northern Kurdish (NK) is mainly the result of a Gorani substrate within the former group …

Lenition of voiced stops in Kurdish

M Mohammadirad, E Öpengin - Folia Linguistica, 2024 - degruyter.com
Contemporary Kurdish variety groups exhibit considerable variation with respect to the
lenition of voiced stops. This paper presents a first systematic overview of lenition across …

Preliminary Description of the Jewish Arabic Dialect of Ghardaïa (Central Algeria) with Elements of Phonology, Socio-Phonetics, and Morphology

W Gębski - Journal of Semitic Studies, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Ghardaïa, situated in the centre of Saharan Algeria, is renowned for its well-preserved
medieval architecture tracing back to its establishment by the puritanical Ibāḍiyyah sect in …

Contact-Induced Change in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialects

G Khan - Journal of Jewish Languages, 2024 - brill.com
In this article, I present an introductory overview of the Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects,
followed by a study of various aspects of contact-induced change that are exhibited by these …

[PDF][PDF] 5 Gorani influence on NENA

G Khan, M Mohammadirad - Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic …, 2024 - library.oapen.org
North-eastern dialects of Neo-Aramaic (NENA) have a long history in northern
Mesopotamia. Vernaculars of NENA have been in contact with Iranian, Semitic, Armenian …

[PDF][PDF] Locating code-switching in the grammar: Role of M-words and hierarchy

F Akkuş - 2024 - campuspress.yale.edu
Locating code-switching in the grammar: Role of M-words and hierarchy Page 1 Locating
code-switching in the grammar: Role of M-words and hierarchy* Faruk Akkuş · fakkus@umass.edu …