@inbook{7fdf4956e02246cabfb71f5053c0a1e8,
title = "The Loss of the Infinitive and Its Replacement by the Imperfect in Christian Palestinian Aramaic",
abstract = "Christian Palestinian Aramaic is the only Late Aramaic dialect that lacks an Infinitive. I argue that the loss of the form and the choice of the Imperfect to take over its functions were facilitated by convergence with Arabic, just like in the typologically similar Western Neo-Aramaic. Sedentarization processes of Arabic-speaking pastoralists in the centuries preceding the Muslim conquest and subsequent language shift to Aramaic provide a possible contact-scenario that could account for the Arabic influence.",
keywords = "Convergence, Western Aramaic, Aramaic-Arabic Language Contact",
author = "Christian Stadel",
note = "ISBN: 9789004499133",
year = "2021",
month = nov,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1163/9789004499140_011",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789004499133",
series = "The IOS Annual: The Israel Oriental Studies Annual Dedicated to the Ancient Near East, Semitics, and Arabic",
publisher = "Brill",
pages = "274--310",
editor = "Yoram Cohen and Amir Gilan and Letizia Cerqueglini and Sheyhatovitch, {Beata }",
booktitle = "The IOS Annual",
}