Expression of Case-meanings in Urmi Neo-Aramaic

Student: Sarkisov Ivan

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2016

My research examines the locution of case-meanings in literary Urmi Neo-Aramaic dialect, which belongs to the North-West Semitic languages. I am going to address three main questions: are Urmi case-markers prefixes or prepositions, what are the rules of differential object marking, and can the subject of ergative construction be marked by an accusative case-marker? The research combines corpora and field methods. I expect to discover a number of rules, totally describing locution of cases in Urmi and give answers for adverted three questions. The study consists information about the history of Aramaic languages and their speakers, overview of previous researches, information about methods, results and conclusion.

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