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  • From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>, <biblical-studies AT yahoogroups.com>, <archaeology2 AT yahoogroups.com>, <neareasternarchaeology AT yahoogroups.com>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Aramaic in Babylonia
  • Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:48:13 +0200

Hi y'all, and with apologies for cross-posting?

Does anyone have any information on the status of Aramaic IN BABYLON during
the Neo-Babylonian period? How widely was it used, by whom, did it have any
official status (like it would during the Persian period)? Was the exiled
Jewish community more likely to speak Aramaic or Babylonian/Akkadian? Are
there any official documents in Aramaic?

Thanks,

Yigal Levin
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew and English word order
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On 7/5/05 1:05 AM, "David Gray" <david_gray AT sil.org> wrote:

> To all discourse analysists out there!



I recently re-read Lenart de Regt¹s
> paper critiquing Alter¹s translation of Genesis, and specifically his use of
> word-order. One thing that Alter doesn¹t really discuss is how English
> handles
> topic, contrastive focus, and salient information. In order to properly
> critique Alter one would need to know this. Who has done work on discourse
> analysis of English?

Hello David,


Birner, Betty J., and Gregory Ward. 1998. Information status and
noncanonical word order in English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

This looks promising but I have not read it.

kol tuv,

Clay Bartholomew







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