A Medieval Karaite Pedagogical Grammar of Hebrew

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Copyright

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CONTENTS1

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

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TRANSCRIPTION GUIDE

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PREFACE

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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INTRODUCTION

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Kitāb al-‘Uqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-‘Ibrāniyya and Its Place in the Karaite Grammatical Tradition

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Description of Manuscripts

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The Vocalisation of the Manuscripts

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Non-standard Tiberian Vocalisation30

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Elements of Babylonian Pronunciation38

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Notes on the Edition and Translation

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TEXT AND TRANSLATION

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CHAPTER ONE

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CHAPTER TWO ON ESTABLISHING ROOT LETTERS AND OTHER RELATED MATTERS

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Section on root letters

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CHAPTER THREE ON THE CATEGORIES OF WORDS THAT ARE USED IN SPEECH

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CHAPTER FOUR ON MASCULINE AND FEMININE LETTERS

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Section

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Section

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CHAPTER FIVE ON THE CONDITIONS FOR FORMING MORPHOLOGICAL PATTERNS

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Section

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CHAPTER SIX ON IMPERATIVES THAT DIFFER IN THEIR FIRST VOWEL FROM THE PAST VERB FORMS DERIVED FROM THEM AND ON OTHER RELATED MATTERS

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The symbol הָבֵא consists of six conjugational patterns

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The symbol גַּנִּי consists of twenty conjugational patterns

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The symbol פְָּרת consists of four conjugational patterns

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The symbol שׁוּעָל consists of two conjugational patterns

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The symbol כוֹנַן Consists of two conjugational patterns

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The symbol שִׁיָרה consists of six conjugational patterns

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The symbol שֵׁלָה consists of two conjugational patterns

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The symbol שִׁירו consists of three conjugational patterns

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The symbol מַכֶּה consists of six conjugational patterns

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The symbol אֵבֶה consists of three cojugational patterns

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The symbol עֵלִי consists of three conjugational patterns

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The symbol 9 בֵַר consists of one conjugational pattern

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CHAPTER SEVEN ON IMPERATIVES THAT COINCIDE IN THEIR FIRST VOWEL BUT DIFFER IN THEIR LAST VOWEL FROM THE PAST VERB FORMS (DERIVED FROM THEM) AND ON OTHER RELATED MATTERS

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The symbol מֵסַב comprises nineteen conjugational patterns

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The symbol עֵָדה consists of eleven conjugational patterns

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The symbol עִֵדי consists of three conjugational patterns

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The symbol בֶַּקע consists of one conjugational pattern

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CHAPTER EIGHT ON IMPERATIVES THAT DIFFER NEITHER IN THEIR FIRST VOWEL NOR IN THEIR LAST VOWEL FROM THE PAST VERB FORMS DERIVED FROM THEM

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CHAPTER NINE ON IMPERATIVES THAT HAVE NO PAST FORM

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CHAPTER TEN ON CONJUGATIONAL PATTERNS BELONGING TO MNEMONICS הְנֹן ,ָהֵהם , OR הֶהָמֵת

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CHAPTER ELEVEN ON ESTABLISHING THE FORM OF AN IMPERATIVE IN DIFFICULT CASES

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CHAPTER TWELVE ON TYPES OF ACTIVE PARTICIPLES

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CHAPTER THIRTEEN ON PASSIVE PARTICIPLES THAT BELONG TO A CONJUGATIONAL PATTERN

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN ON THE INFINITIVE

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Section on the differences between verbal nounsand nouns called infinitives

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Section

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CHAPTER FIFTEEN ON STRIPPING WORDS OF ADDED LETTERS IN ORDER FOR A WORD TO RETURN TO ITS ESSENTIAL FORM WITHOUT ADDITIONS

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN ON TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERBS

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ON THE FIRST AND THE SECOND IMPERATIVE

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ON INFI‘ĀL AND IFTI‘ĀL

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CHAPTER NINETEEN ON THE STRUCTURE OF AGENT-ORIENTED AND PATIENT-ORIENTED VERBS

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CHAPTER TWENTY ON TYPES OF NOUNS

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Section on pronouns

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CHAPTER TWENTY ONE ON CONJOINING

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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO ON THE CONNECTIVE

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CHAPTER TWENTY THREE ON THE ATTRIBUTE

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CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR ON THE EMPHATIC AND THE PERMUTATIVE ELEMENTS

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CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE ON THE INITIAL ITEM AND THE PREDICATE

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CHAPTER TWENTY SIX ON TRUE AND PSEUDO-VERBS

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Section

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Section

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CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN ON LEGITIMATE COMBINATIONS OF THE THREE PARTS OF SPEECH INTO SELF-SUFFICIENT UTTERANCES

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CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT ON THE DIVISION OF VERBAL COMPLEMENTS

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CHAPTER TWENTY NINE ON SOME OF THE FUNCTIONS OF MASCULINE LETTERS

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CHAPTER THIRTY ON PARTICLES AND WORDS THAT RESEMBLE THEM

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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GLOSSARY OF GRAMMATICAL TERMINOLOGY

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INDEX OF SOURCES

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Biblical Verses

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Manuscripts

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Other Grammars and Grammarians

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INDEX OF IMPERATIVE BASES

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