Paul M. Noorlander
List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul M. Noorlander is involved.
Articles
2025 Between VO and OV in Arabic and Aramaic: A corpus-based typology with implications for word-order shifts Studies in Language 49:2, pp. 289–336 | Article
Drawing on a corpus-based typology of 24 spoken dialects of contemporary Arabic and Aramaic, we explore relevant microvariation along the VO-OV spectrum in Central Semitic, which holds implications for the still understudied VO-to-OV shift. While the literature emphasizes that this type of… read more
2021 Source constructions as a key to alignment change: The case of Aramaic Journal of Historical Linguistics 11:2, pp. 248–298 | Article
Alignment patterns in the Eastern varieties of modern Aramaic varieties are generally said to originate in an ergative source construction based on the so-called ‘passive’ participle qṭīl- ‘killed’ and the preposition l- where ergative person markers gradually extended to all intransitive… read more