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Language change in the wake of empire: Syriac in its Greco-Roman context.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Language change in the wake of empire: Syriac in its Greco-Roman context./
Author:	Butts, Aaron Michael.
Description:	536 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-11A(E).
Subject:	Ancient languages. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3568362
ISBN:	9781303228582

Language change in the wake of empire: Syriac in its Greco-Roman context.
Butts, Aaron Michael.

Language change in the wake of empire: Syriac in its Greco-Roman context. - 536 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2013.

Greek-Aramaic bilingualism was wide-spread throughout Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamia. Among the various Aramaic dialects, Syriac underwent a particularly intense and prolonged period of contact with Greek. This contact led to changes in both languages. The present study provides a new analysis of contact-induced changes in Syriac due to Greek, from the earliest attestations of Syriac at the turn of the Common Era up until the beginning of the eighth century when the socio-linguistic situation changed due to the Arab conquests. More specifically, the study argues that Syriac is the outcome of a particular socio-linguistic situation in which inherited Aramaic material was augmented and adapted through contact with Greek. Augmentation refers to the fact that Syriac-speakers added a large number of Greek loanwords to their inherited Aramaic vocabulary. Greek loanwords in Syriac are the subject of Chapters §4-7 of the study. Adaptation, in contrast, refers to instances in which speakers of Syriac replicated inherited Aramaic material on the pattern of Greek. This type of change, which is termed grammatical replication in this study, is the subject of Chapters §8-10. It is proposed that the augmentation and adaptation of inherited Aramaic material was a factor in the development of Syriac as it is now known.

ISBN: 9781303228582Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122823
Ancient languages.

Language change in the wake of empire: Syriac in its Greco-Roman context.
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