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| Preface | |
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| Preliminary Matters | |
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| The Sounds of Syriac: Consonants and Vowels | |
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| Begadkepat and the Schwa | |
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| Syllabification | |
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| Stress | |
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| Vocalic Reduction and Prosthesis | |
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| The Syriac Alphabet | |
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| Other Orthographic Devices | |
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| Alphabetic Numerals | |
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| Comparative Chart of Semitic Consonants | |
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| Preliminary Exercise | |
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| The Emphatic State | |
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| Gender | |
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| The Perfect of the Simple Verb | |
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| The Proclitics | |
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| The Perfect: Full Inflection | |
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| Direct Objects | |
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| Pronominal Enclitics I | |
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| Predication of Existence and the Expression of Possession | |
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| Relative Clauses | |
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| Possessive Pronouns | |
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| Noun-Noun Possession | |
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| The Pronoun Koll | |
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| Pronominal Anticipation with Prepositions | |
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| Noun Plurals: Emphatic State | |
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| Independent Pronouns | |
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| The Short Pronouns as Copulas | |
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| Demonstratives | |
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| Inflection of III-Weak Verbs | |
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| The Perfect of Hwa | |
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| The Perfect with Object Suffixes | |
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| The Active Participles | |
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| Uses of the Participle | |
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| Object Suffixes with the Third-Person Plural Verb | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Pronominal Enclitics II | |
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| Possessive Suffixes with Plural Nouns | |
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| Paradigm of ya(h)b | |
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| Paradigm of I-y Verbs | |
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| Object Suffixes with the Remaining Persons (Perfect) | |
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| The Construct Singular | |
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| The Construct Plural | |
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| Adjectives in the Construct State | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Paradigm of Hollow Verbs: Perfect | |
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| Paradigm of Geminate Verbs: Perfect | |
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| Paradigm of II-alap Verbs: Perfect | |
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| The Pleonastic Dative | |
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| Passive Participle | |
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| III-Weak Verbs with Pronominal Objects | |
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| Aba, Aha, and Hma with Pronominal Possessives | |
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| The Absolute State | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Ordinals | |
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| The Infinitive: G-Verbs | |
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| Infinitives with Pronominal Objects | |
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| Imperfect and Imperative of G-Verbs: Sound Roots | |
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| Imperfect Inflection of I-n Verbs | |
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| Imperfect of I-alap Verbs | |
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| Imperfect of I-y Verbs | |
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| Imperfect of III-Weak Verbs | |
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| Imperfect of Hollow Verbs | |
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| Imperfect of Geminate Verbs | |
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| Imperfect of II-alap Verbs | |
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| Uses of the Imperfect | |
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| The Imperfect with Enclitic Objects | |
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| Suffix Pronouns with III-Weak Imperfect | |
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| Imperatives with Suffix Pronouns | |
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| Imperatives of III-Weak Roots with Suffix Pronouns | |
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| Nouns in -u and -i | |
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| The Pael Conjugation | |
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| Pael Conjugation: Various Verb Types | |
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| The Aphel Conjugation | |
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| Aphel Conjugation: Various Verb Types | |
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| Medio-passive Verbs: Ethpeel, Ethpaal and Ettaphal Conjugations | |
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| The Ethpeel Conjugation | |
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| Metathesis in Ethpeel | |
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| Ethpeel with Various Verb Types | |
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| The Ethpaal Conjugation | |
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| Metathesis in Ethpaal | |
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| III-Weak Verbs in Ethpaal | |
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| The Ettaphal Conjugation | |
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| Adjectives/Nouns in -ana | |
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| Substantivation of Participles | |
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| Abstraction of Substantivized Participles | |
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| Other Verbal Forms | |
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| Verbal Inflections | |
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| States of the Noun | |
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| Verbs with Enclitic Objects | |
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| Readings | |
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| From the Psitta | |
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| From Pseudo-Callisthenes' Legend of Alexander | |
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| The First Discovery of the True Cross | |
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| The Teaching of the Apostle Thaddeus | |
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| The Martyrdom of St. Barbara | |
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| From The Tale of Sindban the Wise | |
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| From The Cave of Treasures | |
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| From Kalilag and Demnag | |
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| From a Metrical Sermon by Ephraem Syrus | |
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| From The Syriac Book of Medicines | |
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| A Flood in Edessa | |
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| From the Chronicon Syriacum of Barhebraeus | |
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| Syriac-English Vocabulary | |
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| Index | |