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Name: Language Change in the Wake of Empire: Syriac in Its Greco-roman Context
Author: Butts, Aaron Michael
ISBN: 9781575064215

Butts, Aaron Michael

9781575064215: Language Change in the Wake of Empire: Syriac in Its Greco-roman Context

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ISBN 10 : 1575064219 ISBN 13 : 9781575064215

Editeur : Eisenbrauns, 2016

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It is well documented that one of the primary catalysts of intense language contact is the expansion of empire. This is true not only of recent history, but it is equally applicable to the more remote past. An exemplary case (or better: cases) of this involves Aramaic. Due to the expansions of empires, Aramaic has throughout its long history been in contact with a variety of languages, including Akkadian, Greek, Arabic, and various dialects of Iranian. This books focuses on one particular episode in the long history of Aramaic language contact: the Syriac dialect of Aramaic in contact with Greek.

In this book, Butts presents a new analysis of contact-induced changes in Syriac due to Greek. Several chapters analyze the more than eight-hundred Greek loanwords that occur in Syriac texts from Late Antiquity that were not translated from Greek. Butts also dedicates several chapters to a different category of contact-induced change in which Syriac-speakers replicated inherited Aramaic material on the model of Greek. All of the changes discussed in the book are located within their broader Aramaic context and analyzed through a robust contact linguistic framework.

By focusing on the Syriac language itself, Butts introduces new - and arguably more reliable - evidence for locating Syriac Christianity within its Greco-Roman context. This book, thus, is especially important for the field of Syriac studies. The book also contributes to the fields of contact linguistics and the study of ancient languages more broadly by analyzing in detail various types of contact-induced change over a relatively long period of time.

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�diteur: Eisenbrauns
Date d'�dition: 2016
Langue: anglais
ISBN 10: 1575064219
ISBN 13: 9781575064215
Reliure: Reli�
Nombre de pages: 312
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Language Change in the Wake of Empire (Hardcover)

Aaron Michael Butts

Edit� par Pennsylvania State University Press, Indiana, 2016

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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. "Although it is widely acknowledged that Syriac was influenced by Greek, the specific contours of this interaction remain unclear. This study aims to present a new analysis of contact-induced changes in Syriac due to Greek. More specifically, the study intends to show that Syriac is the outcome of a particular socio-linguistic situation in which inherited Aramaic material was augmented and adapted through contact with Greek. To demonstrate this, Butts examines the place of Greek loanwords in Syriac as well as the way that Syriac-speakers replicated inherited Aramaic material on Greek, the latter being considered "grammatical replication." "-- Revision of author's thesis, University of Chicago, 2013. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N� de r�f. du vendeur 9781575064215

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