Introduction To Syriac Book

	Preface	vii
	Preliminary Matters
I.	The Sounds of Syriac: Consonants and Vowels	x
II.	Begadkepat and the Schwa	xii
III.	Syllabification	xiv
IV.	Stress	xv
V.	Vocalic Reduction and Prosthesis	xv
VI.	The Syriac Alphabet	xvii
VII.	Other Orthographic Devices	xxi
VIII.	Alphabetic Numerals	xxiii
IX.	Comparative Chart of Semitic Consonants	xxiv
X.	Preliminary Exercise	xxvi
Lesson 13
1.1	The Emphatic State
1.2	Gender
1.3	The Perfect of the Simple Verb
1.4	The Proclitics
Lesson 29
2.1	The Perfect: Full Inflection
2.2	Direct Objects
Lesson 314
3.1	Pronominal Enclitics I
3.2	Predication of Existence and the Expression of Possession
3.3	Relative Clauses
Lesson 419
4.1	Possessive Pronouns
4.2	Noun-Noun Possession
4.3	The Pronoun Koll
4.4	Pronominal Anticipation with Prepositions
Lesson 524
5.1	Noun Plurals: Emphatic State
Lesson 628
6.1	Independent Pronouns
6.2	The Short Pronouns as Copulas
6.3	Demonstratives
Lesson 733
7.1	Inflection of III-Weak Verbs
7.2	The Perfect of Hwa
7.3	The Perfect with Object Suffixes
Lesson 838
8.1	The Active Participles
8.2	Uses of the Participle
8.3	Object Suffixes with the Third-Person Plural Verb
Lesson 944
9.1	Adjectives
9.2	Pronominal Enclitics II
9.3	Possessive Suffixes with Plural Nouns
9.4	Paradigm of ya(h)b
Lesson 1051
10.1	Paradigm of I-y Verbs
10.2	Object Suffixes with the Remaining Persons (Perfect)
10.3	The Construct Singular
10.4	The Construct Plural
10.5	Adjectives in the Construct State
10.6	Adverbs
Lesson 1157
11.1	Paradigm of Hollow Verbs: Perfect
11.2	Paradigm of Geminate Verbs: Perfect
11.3	Paradigm of II-alap Verbs: Perfect
11.4	The Pleonastic Dative
Lesson 1262
12.1	Passive Participle
12.2	III-Weak Verbs with Pronominal Objects
12.3	Aba, Aha, and Hma with Pronominal Possessives
Lesson 1368
13.1	The Absolute State
13.2	Numbers
13.3	Ordinals
13.4	The Infinitive: G-Verbs
13.5	Infinitives with Pronominal Objects
Lesson 1477
14.1	Imperfect and Imperative of G-Verbs: Sound Roots
14.2	Imperfect Inflection of I-n Verbs
14.3	Imperfect of I-alap Verbs
14.4	Imperfect of I-y Verbs
14.5	Imperfect of III-Weak Verbs
14.6	Imperfect of Hollow Verbs
14.7	Imperfect of Geminate Verbs
14.8	Imperfect of II-alap Verbs
Lesson 1586
15.1	Uses of the Imperfect
15.2	The Imperfect with Enclitic Objects
15.3	Suffix Pronouns with III-Weak Imperfect
15.4	Imperatives with Suffix Pronouns
15.5	Imperatives of III-Weak Roots with Suffix Pronouns
15.6	Nouns in -u and -i
Lesson 1694
16.1	The Pael Conjugation
16.2	Pael Conjugation: Various Verb Types
Lesson 17100
17.1	The Aphel Conjugation
17.2	Aphel Conjugation: Various Verb Types
Lesson 18106
18.1	Medio-passive Verbs: Ethpeel, Ethpaal & Ettaphal Conjugations
18.2	The Ethpeel Conjugation
18.3	Metathesis in Ethpeel
18.4	Ethpeel with Various Verb Types
Lesson 19113
19.1	The Ethpaal Conjugation
19.2	Metathesis in Ethpaal
19.3	III-Weak Verbs in Ethpaal
Lesson 20119
20.1	The Ettaphal Conjugation
20.2	Adjectives/Nouns in -ana
20.3	Substantivation of Participles
20.4	Abstraction of Substantivized Participles
20.5	Other Verbal Forms
Appendix A	Verbal Inflections	128
Appendix B	States of the Noun	142
Appendix C	Verbs with Enclitic Objects	144
	Readings
	From the Psitta	151
	From Pseudo-Callisthenes' Legend of Alexander	154
	The First Discovery of the True Cross	157
	The Teaching of the Apostle Thaddeus	162
	The Martyrdom of St. Barbara	169
	From The Tale of Sindban the Wise	173
	From The Cave of Treasures	179
	From Kalilag and Demnag	181
	From a Metrical Sermon by Ephraem Syrus	182
	From The Syriac Book of Medicines	184
	A Flood in Edessa	186
	From the Chronicon Syriacum of Barhebraeus	188
	Syriac-English Vocabulary	193
	Index	227