Eleanor Coghill
List of John Benjamins publications for which Eleanor Coghill plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0378-4177 | E-ISSN 1569-9978
Articles
2019 Grammatical relations in Telkepe Neo-Aramaic Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations, Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena and Balthasar Bickel (eds.), pp. 349–398 | Chapter
This chapter describes grammatical relations in the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic. Telkepe Neo-Aramaic has nominative-accusative alignment. The core arguments that can be clearly distinguished are subject, direct object of a transitive verb, dative object of a ditransitive verb and theme of a… read more
2018 Chapter 11. Information structure in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Telkepe Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove (eds.), pp. 297–328 | Chapter
This paper describes the expression of information structure in the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect of Telkepe, a town in northern Iraq. Based on the author’s fieldwork data, it looks at the various ways in which information structure is given linguistic expression in the dialect, in particular… read more
2010 The grammaticalization of prospective aspect in a group of Neo-Aramaic dialects Diachronica 27:3, pp. 359–410 | Article
This paper examines the development of a future (more precisely ‘prospective’) auxiliary from a motion verb in a small group of Neo-Aramaic dialects spoken in Iraq. The long written record of Aramaic allows us to follow the grammaticalization process in some detail, and recent documentation of… read more