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["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

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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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