The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic Cycles of Alignment Change

Series preface
Acknowledgements
List of maps and tables
Abbreviations and glosses
Map 1: North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects, Turoyo, and Mlahso
1. Introduction
2. Alignment
3. Aramaic
4. Alignment in Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects
5. The verbal system and alignment in earlier Eastern Aramaic
6. The origin and development of the Qṭil li construction
7. The decline of ergative alignment and new developments
8. Conclusions
Appendices
Appendix A: All cases of Qṭil li from the Syriac corpus
Appendix B: Examples of Qṭil li gathered from Syriac secondary sources and other miscellaneous examples
Appendix C: Examples of Qṭil li from Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Appendix D: Examples of Qṭil li from Classical Mandaic
Appendix E: Verb lexemes found in Prefix Conjugation forms in the Syriac Corpus
References
Index