Compendious Syriac Grammar

Theodor Nöldeke

Eisenbrauns, 2001 - Foreign Language Study - 365 pages

This quality Eisenbrauns reprint (now in its third printing) of Crichton's 1904 translation of Nöldeke's Kurzgefasste Syrische Grammatik incorporates for the first time Anton Schall's transcription of the great Semitist's original handwritten supplementary material (translated by Peter T. Daniels). Nöldeke outlines in great detail the orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax of Syriac in this reference grammar.

Contents

• Pronunciation: 3
• Other Active Participles and Nomina: 8
• Marking Length of Vowels: 11
• Interpunctuation: 12
• Upper and Under Line: 17
• R and Q in closely associated words: 19
• 8: 24
• 44: 31
• New Vowels and Syllables: 37
• Quadriliteral Roots: 43
• A GENDER NUMBER STATE: 48
• Feminineending treated as a Radical: 55
• Nouns undergoing no change in Plural: 62
• 48: 68
• With short Vowel after 2nd: 69
• With: 79
• 49: 81
• 140: 85
• Substantives and Adjectives: 91
• 50: 96
• Days of the month: 97
• Prepositions with Suffixes: 103
• Preliminary Observations: 105
• Verbs with Gutturals: 111
• 285: 114
• 175: 118
• 51: 122
• 177: 125
• Inflection: 131
• Regular Verb with Suffixes: 138
• On the Imperfect: 146
• 52: 147
• GENITIVE AND CONSTRUCT STATE: 161
• 53: 162
• 833: 164
• 55: 171
• ܡܕܡ E: 173
• G PRONOUNS Personal Pronouns 220 Separate: 174
• Enclitic for Emphasisingpurposes: 175
• Reflexive Pronouns: 176
• Pleonastic with Pronominal Suffixes: 177
• 70: 178
• Demonstrative Pronouns: 179
• Personal Pronoun of 3rd pers placed with demonstrative effect before Substantives and before other Demonstratives: 180
• ThisThat: 181
• 1 182 234: 182
• The Relative Pronoun 235 By itself: 183
• H NUMERALS 237 Numeral and Numbered Object: 185
• Determination of that which is numbered: 186
• Adverbial Expressions: 187
• J ADVERBIAL EXPRESSION 243 Substantives as Adverbs: 188
• Examples of Variations: 189
• Adjectives as Adverbs of Quality: 190
• 71: 191
• 8: 193
• 58: 194
• 250: 196
• Between: 197
• Prepositional Phrases treated like Substantives: 198
• VERBS A PERSON AND GENDER 253 Subject of the 3rd pers not expressed: 199
• B TENSES AND MOODS Perfect 255 Tempus Historicum: 202
• Pluperfect: 203
• In Hypothetical Clauses: 204
• l Optative: 205
• Other dependent Perfects: 206
• Future: 207
• 71: 208
• Imperfect with loo: 209
• Participles 269 Active Participle Present: 211
• In Conditional Clauses: 212
• In Dependent Clauses: 213
• Apposition in Words denoting Measure: 214
• Use of Part in denoting what was on the point of happening in the Past: 215
• Modal Colouring: 216
• Passive Participle For the Perfect: 218
• With: 219
• Active Use: 220
• Participles used as Nouns 281 As Pure Substantives: 221
• GOVERNMENT OF THE VERB: 226
• Fivelettered Nouns: 229
• Doubletransitive Construction: 232
• D: 238
• 307: 244
• Pronoun of the 3rd pers as Copula: 246
• Personal Pronoun as Subject: 248
• A as Copula Wide choice in expressing the Copula: 249
• Timerange of the Nominal Sentence: 250
• Concordance of the Parts of the Sentence 318 Collectives as Sing and plur: 251
• Plur in Phrases with: 253
• Prep with Substantive as Subject: 254
• Verb in the Sing with Subj in the Plur: 255
• c ܒܪ ܫܥܬܗ ݂821 8: 256
• The different Persons 1st 2nd 3rd when bound together: 258
• Position of the Object: 261
• Position of certain Particles: 262
• and its strengthened Forms: 266
• Interrogative Sentences: 267
• COMBINATION OF SEVERAL SENTENCES OR CLAUSES A COPULATIVE SENTENCES 332 Ellipses in Copulative Sentences: 268
• Copulative Sentence for a Contemporaneous circumstance or for a Con sequence: 271
• Close Combination of two Verbs by means of and: 272
• Government of such Combinations: 273
• Close Combination of two Verbs without and: 274
• Government of such Combinations: 276
• Note upon: 277
• 342: 278
• Relative Clauses attached to Adverbs: 284
• 59: 290
• 62: 296
• 168: 300
• Relative Clauses set in a Series: 302
• 171: 306
• Leading Rules: 307
• Nominal Sentence Verbal Sentence: 309
• 375: 311
• ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS: 318
• 63: 323
• 127: 327
• 97: 330
• APPENDIX: 337
• 99: 345
• With u of Strong Root: 364

Popular passages

Page iv - Noldeke. . . . With a table of characters by Julius Euting. Translated . . . from the second and improved German edition by James A. Crichton. . . . London, 1904.‎

Page iii - S PERSONAL COPY EDITED BY ANTON SCHALL TRANSLATED BY PETER T. DANIELS EISENBRAUNS 2RRZ-RGA-8JLJ Winona Lake, Indiana 2001 Reprinted 2001 by Eisenbrauns from the 1904 Williams & Norgate edition.‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Compendious Syriac Grammar; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
• Author: Theodor Nöldeke
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns, 2001
• ISBN: 1575060507, 9781575060507
• Length: 365 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages; Foreign Language Study / Arabic; History / Ancient / General; Religion / General