<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Thu 14 Jul 2011<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: New Book: Syriac Dialects<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 14 Jul 2011<br>From: reposted from LINGUIST<br>Subject: New Book: Syriac Dialects<br><br>Title: Grammar of the Dialects of the Vernacular Syriac <br>Subtitle: As Spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, North-West Persia and the<br>Plain of Mosul, with Notices of the Vernacular of the Jews of Azerbijan and<br>of Zakhu Near Mosul<br><br>Publication Year: 2011 <br>Publisher: Cambridge University Press<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <a href="http://us.cambridge.org/">http://us.cambridge.org</a><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>Author: Arthur John Maclean<br><br>Paperback: ISBN: 9781107648128 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 15.99<br>Paperback: ISBN: 9781107648128 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 23.99<br><br>Abstract:<br><br>Originally published in 1895, this volume was created to provide a<br>grammatical guide to the various dialects of the Eastern Syrians<br>(Nestorians or Chaldeans) inhabiting the mountains of Kurdistan, the plains<br>of Azerbaijan in north-west Persia, and Mosul in eastern Turkey. Highly<br>organised and informative, the text provides a practical guide to the<br>various dialects used in these areas, many of which had only recently begun<br>to be written down. This is an important book that will be of value to<br>anyone with an interest in Eastern Syriac and the history of linguistics. <br><br>Introduction<br><br>Part I. The Letters<br>Part II. Accent<br>Part III. Signs<br>Part IV. Pronouns<br>Part V. Substantives<br>Part VI. Adjectives<br>Part VII. Verbs<br>Part VIII. Adverbs<br>Part IX. Prepositions<br>Part X. Conjunctions<br>Part XI. Interjections<br>Part XII Position of Words. Emphasis. Questions<br>Part XIII. Idiomatic Phrases<br>Part XIV Derivation<br>Part XV. Rules for Aspiration<br>Part XVI. Vowels and Consonants<br><br>Appendix. <br><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 14 Jul 2011</div></body></html>