This paper examines some aspects of the morphology and syntax of the copula in the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects. The first part proposes a possible pathway for the diachronic development of the morphology of the copula, with particular attention to the innovative inflection of the 3rd person. It is argued that this originated in deictic constructions that were reanalysed as deictic copulas. The second part offers a functional explanation for the position of the copula before or after the predicate. It is argued that many constructions that place the copula before the predicate should be interpreted as thetic sentences, whereas those that place the copula after the predicate should be interpreted as categorical sentences. The thetic structures are likely to have developed by the replication of the pattern of copula constructions in Kurdish.

本文研究了东北新阿拉姆语（NENA）中的系词的形态和语法的某些方面）方言。第一部分提出了一种可能的途径，可以使颌骨的形态历时发展，尤其要注意第三人称的创新性拐弯。有人认为，这起源于被重新分析为奉献系的奉献构造。第二部分对谓词在谓词之前或之后的位置提供了功能说明。有人认为，将系词放在谓词之前的许多构造都应解释为主题句，而将系词放在谓词之后的构造应视为类别句。主题结构很可能是通过复制库尔德语中的copula结构模式而发展起来的。