Syriac Orthography (A Grammar of the Syriac Language, Volume 1)
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Syriac Orthography (A Grammar of the Syriac Language, Volume 1)

  1. 544 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Syriac Orthography (A Grammar of the Syriac Language, Volume 1)

About this book

This volume, the first in a comprehensive grammar of the Syriac language, is a thematic presentation of orthography in the Syriac grammatical tradition, bringing the study of Syriac writing closer to modern linguistic accounts of writing systems.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents at a Glance
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Plates and Credits
  5. Transcription and Transliteration
  6. Abbreviations and Symbols
  7. Note on Examples
  8. Abbreviations and Symbols
  9. Bibliography
  10. 1. Sources and their Historical Context
  11. I. The Graphemic Inventory
  12. 2. Consonantal Graphemes
  13. 3. Vowel Graphemes
  14. 4. Grammatical Graphemes
  15. 5. Editorial, Liturgical and Musical Graphemes
  16. 6. Ancient Prosodic Graphemes or Accents
  17. 7. Numbering Systems
  18. II. Graphotactics, Writing, and Ductus
  19. 8. Graphotactics
  20. 9. Writing
  21. 10. Ductus
  22. III. Garšūnography, Adaptation, and Alloglottography
  23. 11. Garšūnography I: Syriac as the Target Script
  24. 12. Garšūnography II: Syriac as the Source Language
  25. 13. Nongaršūnographic Adaptations of the Syriac Script
  26. 14. Alloglottography
  27. IV. Technological Developments
  28. 15. Lithography and Mimeography
  29. 16. Typewriters
  30. 17. Digital Typography
  31. 18. Coding Standards
  32. General Index
  33. Authority Index
  34. Biblical Citations
  35. CV Patterns
  36. Grammatical & Technical Terms
  37. Graph Index
  38. Manuscripts Index
  39. Word Index
  40. Quotations Index