The Verbal System in the Neo-Aramaic (NA) Dialects by Dr. Estiphan Panoussi is a highly technical linguistic study that systematically analyzes the structure and historical development of verb morphology across the Neo-Aramaic dialect continuum. The document focuses in particular on tense, aspect, voice, and pronominal object marking, with special attention to the preterite and its interaction with subject and object pronouns.
 
The core of the work consists of comparative synoptic charts (pp. 3–7) that map verbal forms across Western, Central, Eastern, and peripheral Neo-Aramaic dialects, including Jewish, Christian, Neo-Mandaic, and Senaya varieties. Panoussi builds on and critically engages Fabrizio Pennacchietti’s classification, clarifying distinctions between intra-conjugational and extra-conjugational objects, reduced versus extended verbal forms, and the role of particles such as qam- and tem- in expressing relative, perfective, or agentive constructions. These charts are designed to replace lengthy prose explanations by offering a panoramic, system-level view of verbal behavior across dialects.
 
Beyond description, the study contributes to historical linguistics and typology, tracing how ergativity, passive constructions, and pronominal attachment evolved differently in regional dialect groups. Extensive endnotes (pp. 8–16) situate the analysis within a broad scholarly tradition and document dialectal variation through examples drawn from fieldwork and earlier grammars. Overall, the document serves as an advanced research monograph and reference tool for specialists in Semitic linguistics, Neo-Aramaic studies, and comparative morphology, rather than as an introductory grammar.