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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Phonology of Maaloula Aramaic
  name:
    name part: Eid, Ghattas
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
    role:
      role term: funder.
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      role term: fnd
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    place:
      place term: DE
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (X, 249 pages)
  abstract: The book describes the sound system of Maaloula Aramaic, an under-researched and endangered Western Neo-Aramaic dialect. It provides solutions to previously unaddressed problems at the descriptive, methodological and theoretical levels. The analyzed language data come from the Maaloula Aramaic Speech Corpus (MASC) and from collaboration with native speakers. The book is intended for linguists who may or may not be familiar with Semitic languages.
  abstract: The presented work gives a detailed account of the phonological and morpho-phonological processes in Maaloula Aramaic, an under-researched and endangered Neo-Aramaic variety. It provides solutions to previously unaddressed problems at the descriptive, methodological, and theoretical levels. At the descriptive level, this work revisits the content and presentation of the generalizations made in previous accounts. At the methodological level, it addresses the absence of quantitative research from the previous literature by launching the Maaloula Aramaic Speech Corpus (MASC), the first electronic speech corpus of this variety, and by conducting corpus-based studies which investigate and validate the previous generalizations. At the theoretical level, this book presents and discusses the quantitative results from the perspective of phonological theory. It formalizes synchronic phonological rules, shows how different phonological rules interact with each other, and makes cross-linguistic comparisons. The analyses and results are presented in a way accessible to linguists who may or may not be familiar with Semitic languages. Some of the discussions are relevant to controversial issues in phonological theory.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and symbols -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of maps -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Analytical framework -- 3 The Maaloula Aramaic Speech Corpus (MASC) -- 4 Phoneme inventory -- 5 The distribution of bilabial stops -- 6 Morpho-phonological alternations in feminine nouns -- 7 Local and long-distance assimilation -- 8 Syllable structure and syllabification -- 9 Gemination -- 10 Stress -- 11 Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Index
  target audience: specialized
  note: Ghattas Eid.
  note: funded by Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Aramäisch
  subject:
    topic: Linguistik
  subject:
    topic: Malūla
  subject:
    topic: Phonologie
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology
  subject:
    topic: Aramaic language.
  subject:
    topic: Maaloula.
  subject:
    topic: lingustics.
  subject:
    topic: phonology.
  identifier: 9783111447124
  identifier: 311144712X
  identifier: 2024937101
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 240826
    record change date: 20241018184651.2
    record identifier: in00005507613
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng