TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butts,Aaron Michael
TI  - Language change in the wake of empire: Syriac in its Greco-Roman context 
T2  - Linguistic studies in Ancient West Semitic
SN  - 9781575064222
AV  - PJ5415 
U1  - 492/.32481 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Winona Lake, Indiana
PB  - Eisenbrauns
KW  - Greek language
KW  - Influence on Syriac
KW  - Syriac language
KW  - History
KW  - Languages in contact
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
KW  - Arabic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Revision of the author's thesis, University of Chicago, 2013; Includes bibliographical references, appendixes, and indexes
N2  - "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." "--
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