by Prof. Jacob Mansour
Or-Yehuda, The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center, 1991
18x25 cm., 329p. (English) XXI p. (Hebrew). $20

CONTENTS

Preface
Abbreviations
Transcription and transliteration
Signs

Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction: Characteristic Features of JB

1.1 Consonants
1.2 Vowels
1.3 The verb
1.4 The noun
1.5 Particles and markers
1.6 Syntactic constructions
1.7 Vocabulary

Part I
Studies in Phonology and Morphology

Phonology

Chapter 2. Phonemic Contrasts of Consonants

2.1 Table of consonants
2.2 Voiced vs. Voiceless
2.3 Stops vs. fricatives
2.4 Affricates vs. their components
2.5 Nasals vs. orals
2.6 Velarized vs. non-velarized


Chapter 3. Phonetic Change in Consonants

3.1 General remarks
3.2 Voiced - Voiceless assimilation
3.3 Stop - fricative assimilation
3.4 Velarization
3.5 Individual cases

Chapter 4. Phonemic Contrast and Distribution of Vowels

4.1 General remarks
4.2 Stressed final syllables
4.3 Stressed non-final syllables
4.4 Unstressed syllables following the stressed syllable
4.5 Unstressed syllables preceding the stressed syllable
4.6 Conclusion
4.7 Table of vowel distribution

Chapter 5. Position of Word-Stress and its Influence on Vowels
5.1 Position of word-stress
5.2 Stress and meaning
5.3 Long vowels from which stress has shifted
5.4 A short vowel from which stress has shifted

Chapter 6. Clusters and Anaptyxis

6.1 Introduction
6.2 FInal consonant sequences
6.3 Initial consonant sequences
6.4 Medial consonant sequences

Chapter 7. Diphthong and Glide

7.1 Retention of diphthong
7.2 Monophthongization
7.3 Insertion of glide
7.4 Glide or monophthongization?
7.5 Elision of vowel


Morphology

Chapter 8. Inflectional Affixes of the Verb

8.1 General remarks
8.2 The perfect
8.3 The imperfect
8.4 The imperative

Chapter 9. Root Patterns of the Perfect

9.0 Introduction
9.1 Paradigms of strong verbs
9.2 Paradigms of verbs with geminate root
9.3 Paradigms of verbs with C 1 - '/w/y
9.4 Paradigms of verbs with hollow root and verbs with C2 = w/y
9.5 Paradigms of verbs with C3 = w/y
9.6 Paradigms of quadriconsonantal verbs
9.7 Derivation of Pat. B from Pat.A
9.8 Derivation of Pat. C from Pat.A
9.9 Conclusion

Chapter 10. Root Patterns of the Imperfect and Imperative

10.0 Introduction
10.1 Paradigms of strong verbs
10.2 Paradigms of verbs with geminate root
10.3 Paradigms of verbs with C1='/w/y
10.4 Paradigms of verbs with hollow root and verbs with C2=w/y
10.5 Paradigms of verbs with C3=w/y
10.6 Paradigms of quadriconsonantal verbs
10.7 Derivation of Pat.E from Pat.D
10.8 Derivation of Pat.G from Pat.F
10.9 Conclusion


Chapter 11. Direct Object Pronominal Suffixes

11.1 Paradigms
11.2 Notes on the paradigms
11.3 The forms of the pronominal suffixes
11.4 Conclusion

Chapter 12. Indirect and Double Object Pronominal Suffixes

12.1 Indirect object pronominal suffixex
12.2 Double object pronominal suffixex

Part II
Texts
Text A
The informant: Mrs. Regina Mansour
Marriage Customs
Children
Method of teaching the Hebrew alphabet

Text B
The informant: Mr. Ezra Mashiah
Story I: "If the sun rises before the crack of dawn..."
Story II: "Is he not worthy that I should sell my cooking pot
for him?"
Story III: "What have you got to be so haughty about?"

Text C
The informant: Mr. Joseph Rejwan
Story I: "I swear by the seven commandments"
Story II: "Woe to the man who bequeaths his possessions in his
lifetime"
Story III: "Why enter the next world with black face?"
Story IV: "When you exaggerate I shall cough"
Story V: "If I had been inside the nightdress, I would have
been dashed to pieces"
Story VI: "God takes cognizance of everything"
Story VII: "What did you whisper to the donkey?"
Story VIII "That's my son, who hit me!"
Story IX: "I'll tell the mukhtar to get you married"
Story X: "Perhaps she was marriageable, after all?"
Text D
The informant: Mr. Moshe Muallem
A Sermon: "The spark within the man"
A Discussion: Life in Baghdad comparted with life in Israel

Text E
The informant: Mr. A. Shina
The flood in Baghdad in 1915
In the Turkish army in World War I
A story about the capture of forty robbers in the days of the Turks
A tale about watchmen who were caught stealing
During World War II - the Rashid Ali coup de'tat
A Jewish group infiltrates among German soldiers in World War II


References

Index

Hebrew Section

List of Contents
Preface
Summary