Call Number : RR-040

The Akkadian Influences

on Aramaic

By

Stephen A. Kaufman

Content

ABBREVIATIONS 1
INTRODUCTION 5
I. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS  
  • Goals of This Study
  • The Nature of Language Contact
  • The Evidence for Borrowing
  • The Problems of Akkadian- West Semitic Contact
  • Early Akkadian Loans in West Semitic
  
II. THE LEXICAL INFLUENCES  
  • Lexican List
  • Month Names
  

Content

III. THE NON-LEXICAL INFLUENUE 116
  • Phonology
    • Spirantization of Postvocalic Stops
    • The Loss of Laryngeals
    • Nasalization
    • Dissimilation of Emphatics
  • Morphology
    • Shaphel
    • The Imperfect Prefix
    • The Loss of the n-bearing Pronominal Suffixes
    • The Plural Determined suffix
    • The Infinitive of the Derived Conjugations
    • The PlurelEnding ;ân (in)
    • The Imperial Aramaic Passive
  • Syntax
    • The Genitive Construction
    • Word Order
      • The Eastern Aramaic System of States
      • The Use of kî
      • The Interrogative Particle mî
  
IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY 171
V. INDEX OF NORTH WEST SEMITIC WORDS 187

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IV. ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS 137
  • Phonology
    • Stops
    • Labials
    • Dentals
    • Velars
    • Sibilants
    • Glottal Stop and h
    • Nasals
    • Liquids
    • Final Feminine –t
    • Vowels and Length
    • Spirantization
  • The Development of the Aramaic Dialects
    • Old Aramaic
    • Mesopotamian Aramaic
    • Imperial Aramaic
    • Monumental Dialects
    • Jewish Aramaic
    • The Targums
    • Babylonian Talmudic
    • Mandaic
    • Syriac
  • A Quantitative Analysis of the Lexical Data
  
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  • Publisher - The Oriental Iinstitute of the University of Chicago
  • Printed at - The University of Chicago Press . Chicago & London
  • Language - English

Keywords - The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic, Stephen A. Kaufman, The Oriental Iinstitute of the University of Chicago, Chicago & London

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