The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of BarwarThis work, in three volumes, presents a detailed description the neo-Aramaic dialect of the Assyrian Christian community of the Barwar region in northern Iraq, which is now endangered. Volume one contains a description of the grammar of the dialect. Volume two contains an extensive glossary. Volume three contains transcriptions of recorded texts |
Contents
introduction | 1 |
PHONOLOGY | 27 |
chapter one consonants | 29 |
chapter two vowels | 63 |
chapter three consonant gemination | 95 |
chapter four syllable structure | 105 |
chapter five word stress | 123 |
chapter six stress groups | 133 |
A27 The Tale of M6rza Pgtm6t Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1753 |
A28 The Tale of Rustam 1 Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1763 |
A29 The Tale of Rustam 2 Informant B6nyam6n B6nyam6n nNune | 1771 |
A30 The Crafty Hireling Informant Mišayel Bar6m nNune | 1785 |
A31 The Giants Cave Informant Awiko Sulaqa nNune | 1797 |
A32 The Fox and the Miller Informant Awiko Sulaqa nNune | 1801 |
A33 The Lion with a Swollen Leg Informant Awiko Sulaqa nNune | 1809 |
A34 The Girl and the Seven Brothers Informant Blandina Barwari nNune | 1813 |
MORPHOLOGY | 139 |
chapter seven pronouns | 141 |
chapter eight verbs | 155 |
chapter nine verb paradigms | 299 |
chapter ten nouns | 309 |
chapter eleven adjectives | 407 |
chapter twelve numerals | 421 |
chapter thirteen particles | 429 |
SYNTAX | 448 |
chapter fourteen the syntax of nominals | 449 |
chapter fifteen the syntax of verbs | 569 |
chapter sixteen the syntax of prepositions | 791 |
chapter seventeen the clause | 823 |
chapter eighteen clause sequences | 909 |
chapter nineteen syntactic subordination of clauses | 951 |
CONTENTS VOLUME TWO | 1029 |
chapter twenty Remarks on the Lexicon | 1029 |
chapter twentyone Semantic Fields | 1041 |
Glossary of Verbs | 1103 |
General Glossary | 1213 |
Illustrations | 1459 |
CONTENTS VOLUME THREE | v |
Folktales | 1493 |
A2 The Priest and the Mullah Informant Yuw6l Yu?anna Dure | 1501 |
A3 The Sel? sh Neighbour Informant Yuw6l Yu?anna Dure | 1505 |
A4 A Tale of a Prince and a Princess Informant Yuw6l Yu?anna Dure | 1507 |
A5 The Cooking Pot Informant Yuw6l Yu?anna Dure | 1523 |
A6 A Hundred Gold Coins Informant Yuw6l Yu?anna Dure | 1527 |
A7 A Man called uxo Informant Yuw6l Yu?anna Dure | 1531 |
A8 Gozali and Nozali Informant Nan6s B6nyam6n nNune | 1539 |
A9 The Scorpion and the Snake Informant Yuwar6š Xošgtba Kena Dure | 1569 |
A10 I am Worth the same as a Blind Wolf Informant Yuwar6š Xošgtba Kena Dure | 1571 |
A11 D6md6ma Informant Yuwar6š Xošgtba Kena Dure | 1575 |
A12 The King with Forty Sons Informant Yuwar6š Xošgtba Kena Dure | 1581 |
A13 A Tale of Two Kings Informant Yuwar6š Xošgtba Kena Dure | 1601 |
A14 Tales from the 1001 Nights Informant Yuwar6š Xošgtba Kena Dure | 1605 |
A15 The Monk and the Angel Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1629 |
A16 The Monk Who Wanted to Know When He Would Die Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1635 |
A17 The Wise Young Man Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1639 |
A18 Baby Lelia Informant Xošebo Odišo nNune | 1647 |
A19 The Lelia from ôàl Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1655 |
A20 The Bear and the Fox Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1657 |
A21 The Daughter of the King Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1661 |
A22 The Sale of an Ox Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1671 |
A23 The Man Who Wanted to Work Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1683 |
A24 The Tale of Parizada Warda and Nargis Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1693 |
A25 The Tale of Farxo and S6ttiya Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1711 |
A26 The Tale of Mgtmo and Zine Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1731 |
A35 Nanno and J6ndo Informant Dawið Gw6rg6s nNune | 1821 |
A36 The Story with No End Informant Gw6rg6s Dawið nNune | 1827 |
A37 The Tale of Nasimo Informant Xošebo Odišo nNune | 1829 |
A38 352oš6t Xere Informant Xošebo Odišo nNune | 1835 |
A39 The Brother of Giants Informant Xošebo Odišo nNune | 1839 |
A40 The Wise Daughter of the King Informant Xošebo Odišo nNune | 1845 |
A41 Measure for Measure Informant Kena Kena Dure | 1849 |
Fables | 1851 |
A43 Sour Grapes Informant B6nyam6n B6nyam6n nNune | 1853 |
A44 The Cat and the Mice Informant B6nyam6n B6nyam6n nNune | 1855 |
A45 The Fox and the Stork Informant Nawiya Odišo Dure | 1857 |
A46 The Lion King Informant Gw6rg6s Dawið nNune | 1859 |
A47 Man is Treacherous Informant Gw6rg6s Dawið nNune | 1861 |
A48 The Man Who Cried Wolf Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1863 |
A49 The Crow and the Cheese Informant Leya Oraha Dure | 1865 |
The Qa8224ina Legend | 1867 |
A51 Qa8224ina Rescues His Nephew from Lelia Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1871 |
A52 The Battle with Yuwan6s the Armenian Informant Awiko Sulaqa nNune | 1875 |
section b history and culture | 1881 |
B2 The Village of Dure 2 Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1889 |
B3 The Village of nNune 1 Informant Gw6rg6s Bakus nNune | 1891 |
B4 The Village of nNune 2 Informant Nanis B6nyam6n nNune | 1897 |
B5 Life in nNune 1 Informant Dawið Bakus nNune | 1901 |
B6 Life in nNune 2 Informant B6nyam6n B6nyam6n nNune | 1979 |
B7 Life in Dure 1 Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 1993 |
B8 Life in nNune 3 Informant Bibe B6nyam6n nNune | 2001 |
B9 A Miraculous Escape from Kurds Informant Bibe B6nyam6n nNune | 2011 |
B10 Life in nNune 4 Informant Naze Israyel nNune | 2019 |
B11 Games 1 Informant Odišo nwiya D5r6ške | 2045 |
B12 Games 2 Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 2055 |
B13 Games 3 Informant Nawiya Odišo Dure | 2057 |
B14 Life in Dure 2 Informant Nawiya Odišo Dure | 2059 |
B15 Life in nNune 5 Informant Gw6rg6s Bakus nNune | 2065 |
B16 Life in nNune 6 Informant Siranoš Xam6s nNune | 2089 |
B17 The Mysterious Priest in ?iyare Informant B6nyam6n B6nyam6n nNune | 2099 |
B18 The Church of all6k Informant B6nyam6n B6nyam6n nNune | 2103 |
B19 Rašid Bek Informant Dawið Adam Dure | 2107 |
section c songs | 2110 |
C2 Rawe Songs | 2117 |
C3 Dirges J6nne | 2137 |
C4 Lullabies 3526dle | 2141 |
C5 Churn Song | 2144 |
C6 Dance Songs | 2148 |
C7 Xošaba Margaya | 2153 |
C8 The Bridge of Zakho | 2157 |
section d riddles and proverbs | 2159 |
D2 Proverbs and Sayings | 2165 |
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Common terms and phrases
1st pers 2nd pers 3rd pers adjective adverbial Amedia ána anaphoric ánna Arab Aramaic áti áwwa áxni áyya Barwar cliticized closed syllable consonant construction contexts deictic copula deixis denote direct object discourse diya diye elided emphatic consonants enclitic enclitic copula ending epenthetic event example existential particle express feminine final function gemination genitive particle hátxa head noun hóla hóle imperative ína independent infinitive inflection initial interrogative intonation group killed king kúlla Kurd Kurdish L-suffixes laryngal loanwords málka mára máre medial narrative náše negated NENA NENA dialects nominal nuclear stress occurs open syllable original past base pattern perfective aspect phrase placed plural preceding predicate preposition present base prominence pronominal object pronominal suffixes qtille quadriliteral rába radical referent relative clause resultative participle singular sometimes speaker stem suffix tàma temporal text corpus verb verbal forms Verbal noun village vowel word yoghurt