RT Article
T1 Paronomastic Infinitives in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic: A Typological Approach
JF Aramaic studies
VO 16
IS 2
SP 270
OP 299
A1 Mengozzi, Alessandro 1969-
A1 Miola, Emanuele
A2 Miola, Emanuele
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1683559282
AB In the present article we aim to describe the distribution and functions of preposed and postposed paronomastic infinitives in literary and spoken varieties of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA). In the first part, the syntax and the function(s) of constructions involving a paronomastic infinitive will be described from a typological point of view. Syntactic and functional variation of NENA paronomastic infinitives largely corresponds to what is found in other Semitic languages, as well as in many languages belonging to other families. In the second part of the article we will address the rendering of Biblical Hebrew and Classical Syriac paronomastic infinitives in NENA Bible translations and offer a survey of various constructions found in spoken varieties and in the language of early Christian Neo-Aramaic poetry.
K1 Bible translations
K1 North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
K1 paronomastic infinitives
K1 Typology
DO 10.1163/17455227-01602006