Personal indices in the verbal system of the Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Zakho

IF 0.6 Q3 LINGUISTICS

Mental Lexicon Pub Date : 2019-12-31 DOI:10.1075/ml.00004.gut

A. Gutman

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Abstract The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Zakho is a highly endangered dialect of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic which was spoken by the Jews of Zakho (northern-Iraq) up to the 1950s, when virtually all of them left Iraq for Israel. Thanks to documentation efforts which started in the ’40s at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as the interest of native speakers, we possess a rich textual documentation of this dialect today (Cohen, 2012; Y. Sabar, 2002; Avinery, 1988). These resources, together with recently conducted fieldwork, are used in order to analyze the linguistic status of the verbal personal indices in this dialect, following the concepts presented by Bresnan & Mchombo (1987) as well as Corbett (2003). For each person marker, its status as a pronominal affix or as an agreement marker is established. The synchronic situation is compared with the known historic situation in older strata of Aramaic, such as Classical Syriac. The resulting analysis shows that the same apparent person marker may behave differently in different syntactic environments. Another conclusion is that there is no clear-cut dichotomy between pronominal affixes and agreement markers, as transitional cases exist.

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Zakho犹太新阿拉姆语方言言语系统中的人称指标

扎科犹太新阿拉姆语方言是一种高度濒危的东北部新阿拉姆语方言，一直使用到20世纪50年代，当时扎科(伊拉克北部)的犹太人几乎所有人都离开伊拉克前往以色列。由于耶路撒冷希伯来大学在20世纪40年代开始的文献记录工作，以及母语人士的兴趣，我们今天拥有丰富的这种方言的文本记录(Cohen, 2012;Y. Sabar, 2002;Avinery, 1988)。根据Bresnan & Mchombo(1987)和Corbett(2003)提出的概念，这些资源和最近进行的实地调查一起用于分析该方言中言语个人指数的语言学地位。对于每个人称标记，其作为代词词缀或作为协议标记的地位被确立。共时性情况与已知的阿拉姆语较老地层的历史情况进行了比较，如古典叙利亚语。分析结果表明，在不同的句法环境下，同一表观人称标记可能表现出不同的行为。另一个结论是，代词词缀和协议标记之间没有明确的二分法，因为存在过渡情况。

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期刊介绍： The Mental Lexicon is an interdisciplinary journal that provides an international forum for research that bears on the issues of the representation and processing of words in the mind and brain. We encourage both the submission of original research and reviews of significant new developments in the understanding of the mental lexicon. The journal publishes work that includes, but is not limited to the following: Models of the representation of words in the mind Computational models of lexical access and production Experimental investigations of lexical processing Neurolinguistic studies of lexical impairment. Functional neuroimaging and lexical representation in the brain Lexical development across the lifespan Lexical processing in second language acquisition The bilingual mental lexicon Lexical and morphological structure across languages Formal models of lexical structure Corpus research on the lexicon New experimental paradigms and statistical techniques for mental lexicon research.