Robinson's Paradigms and Exercises in Syriac Grammar / Edition 5

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Overview

T. H. Robinson published Paradigms and Exercises in Syriac Grammar in 1915 to meet the need for 'something of an elementary nature which should be of value to the student who takes up Syriac for the first time'. Since then, the book has met this need for generations of students. Still, teachers have recognized its weaknesses and this fifth edition is a thorough revision. Much of the old explanatory text and many of the exercises have been superseded. Some matters of grammar and pronunciation receive more systematic treatment and there are new appendices to introduce the estrangela and East Syriac scripts. In its format and level, however, the book aims to be, as before, an approachable introduction to this important language.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780199261291
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 3/28/2003
  • Edition description: REV
  • Edition number: 5
  • Pages: 190
  • Product dimensions: 7.20 (w) x 4.60 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

J. F. Coakley is Senior Lecturer in Syriac at Harvard University

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1
2 The Script 4
3 Pronunciation 10
4 Pronouns. Particles. Simple sentences 16
5 Nouns and adjectives: gender, number, state 21
6 Pronominal suffixes 26
7 Prepositions. The words [actual symbol not reproducible] and [actual symbol not reproducible] 30
8 Verbs. The perfect tense 34
9 Simple nouns with variable vowels 40
10 Participles 45
11 Other nouns with variable vowels 50
12 Miscellaneous and irregular nouns 55
13 The imperfect tense 60
14 The imperative and infinitive. The verb [actual symbol not reproducible] 64
15 The ethpe'el 68
16 The pa'el and ethpa'al 73
17 The aph'el and ettaph'al. Other conjugations 79
18 Objective pronominal suffixes, 1: attached to the perfect 84
19 Objective pronominal suffixes, 2: attached to other forms of the verb 89
20 Weak verbs. Pe-nun verbs 94
21 Pe-alaph verbs 98
22 Pe-yod verbs 103
23 'E-alaph verbs 107
24 Hollow verbs 111
25 Geminate verbs 116
26 Lamad-yod verbs, 1: the pe'al 120
27 Lamad-yod verbs, 2: other conjugations 125
28 Pronominal suffixes attached to lamad-yod verbs 129
29 Numbers 134
App. A Pronunciation of the bgdkpt letters 139
App. B The estrangela script. Diacritical points 141
App. C East Syriac writing and phonology 144
App. D Dates 147
Syriac-English glossary 149
English-Syriac glossary 165
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