Table Of ContentVerbal Morphology in the
Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar
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Kita¯b al- Uqu¯d f¯ı Tas.a¯r¯ıf al-Lug˙a
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al- Ibra¯niyya
Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval
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Verbal Morphology in the
Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar
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Kita¯b al- Uqu¯d f¯ı Tasa¯r¯ıf al-Lug˙a
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al- Ibra¯niyya
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Nadia Vidro
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2011
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CONTENTS
ListofAbbreviations................................................. xi
TranscriptionGuide ................................................. xiii
Preface ............................................................... xvii
ChapterOne.Introduction............................................ 1
.. HistoryoftheKaraiteGrammaticalTradition ............... 1
.. AimsofthePresentStudy..................................... 3
ChapterTwo.Kita¯bal-#Uqu¯df¯ıTas.a¯r¯ıfal-Lug˙aal-#Ibra¯niyya ........ 5
.. ReconstructionoftheText.................................... 5
.. AuthorandTitleofKita¯bal-#Uqu¯d........................... 7
.. ContentsoftheTreatise....................................... 10
.. NatureoftheTreatise ......................................... 14
.. SourcesofKita¯bal-#Uqu¯d..................................... 14
.. Reception...................................................... 22
ChapterThree.TheMethodofSymbols .............................. 27
.. TheConceptofSymbols ...................................... 27
.. DevelopmentoftheMethod.................................. 28
.. DivisionofSymbolsintoConjugationalPatterns............ 32
... SymbolsBasedontheInitialVowelsofthe
ImperativeandthePast............................... 33
... SymbolsBasedontheFinalVowelsofthe
ImperativeandthePast............................... 36
... ArrangementofSymbolsandConjugational
Patterns................................................ 37
.. TheExtensionoftheSystemofSymbolsinKita¯bal-#Uqu¯d
andMe"or#Ayin................................................ 38
... WideningoftheRangeofFormsAccountedfor
withintheSystem..................................... 39
... ModificationoftheApproachtoVerbalDerivation 39
... PrinciplesofClassification............................ 40
... ConjugationalPatternsIntroducedfora
CombinationofReasons.............................. 47
.. MorphologicalValueofSymbolsandConjugational
Patterns........................................................ 48
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ChapterFour.DescriptionofaConjugationalPatterninKita¯b
al-#Uqu¯d ............................................................. 53
.. SetsofFormsofSampleVerbs................................ 53
.. ListsofStructurallyIdenticalImperatives.................... 56
.. TablesofFormswithObjectSuffixes ......................... 57
ChapterFive.SymbolsandConjugationalPatternsinKita¯b
al-#Uqu¯d ............................................................. 65
.. SymbolsBasedontheInitialVowelsoftheImperativeand
thePast ........................................................ 65
... Symbol(cid:2)(cid:3)(cid:4)(cid:5)(cid:6)............................................ 65
... Symbol(cid:7)(cid:8)(cid:9)(cid:10)(cid:11).............................................. 68
... Symbol(cid:12)(cid:13)(cid:14)(cid:15)............................................ 74
... Symbol(cid:16)(cid:5)(cid:17)(cid:18)(cid:19)........................................... 76
... Symbol(cid:20)(cid:10)(cid:21)(cid:22)(cid:23) ............................................ 76
... Symbol(cid:6)(cid:13)(cid:7)(cid:24)(cid:19)........................................... 77
... Symbol(cid:6)(cid:5)(cid:16)(cid:3)(cid:19)............................................ 80
... Symbol(cid:22)(cid:25)(cid:7)(cid:24)(cid:19)............................................ 81
... Symbol(cid:6)(cid:26)(cid:23)(cid:27)(cid:28)............................................ 82
... Symbol(cid:6)(cid:26)(cid:4)(cid:3)(cid:2)............................................ 85
... Symbol(cid:7)(cid:24)(cid:16)(cid:3)(cid:17) ............................................ 86
... Symbol(cid:29)(cid:30)(cid:3)(cid:31)............................................ 87
.. SymbolsBasedontheFinalVowelsoftheImperativeand
thePast ........................................................ 88
... Symbol(cid:4)(cid:27) (cid:3)(cid:28)............................................ 88
... Symbol(cid:6)!(cid:3)(cid:17)............................................ 95
... Symbol(cid:7)"(cid:3)(cid:17) ............................................ 99
... Symbol(cid:17)#(cid:26)(cid:31)............................................ 101
... Symbol(cid:7)$(cid:26)(cid:15) ............................................ 101
ChapterSix.MorphologicalTheoriesinKita¯bal-#Uqu¯d ............. 103
.. StatusofLetters ............................................... 103
... Radicalsvs.Non-radicals............................. 103
... Root,Auxiliary,Built-inandAffixedLetters......... 106
.. PrinciplesofVerbalDerivation............................... 110
.. AnalysisofIndividualVerbTypes............................ 114
... Hiph#ilVerbs .......................................... 114
... Hitpa#elVerbswiththeAssimilationofthePrefix
TawintotheFirstRadical............................. 117
contents ix
... FinalHehVerbs ....................................... 119
... ThirdGutturalVerbs.................................. 122
... MiddleWeakVerbsinPa#al .......................... 124
... PassiveImperativeBases.............................. 126
... PausalForms.......................................... 129
... InstancesofBabylonianTypeVocalization .......... 131
... FinalAlephVerbs ..................................... 136
... FirstNun,FirstYod(OriginalFirstWaw)and
SimilarVerbsinPa#al(‘ImperativesWhichDonot
HaveaPastForm’).................................... 137
... FormsofPronominalSuffixes ........................ 138
ChapterSeven.RulesofDerivationalRelations ...................... 143
.. DefinitionandTerminology.................................. 143
.. CorpusofRules ............................................... 144
.. TheStructureofRulesofDerivationalRelations............. 149
.. RulesofDerivationalRelationsvs.OtherRemarkson
VerbalMorphology ........................................... 150
.. RulesofDerivationalRelationsandtheSystemofSymbols 152
.. RulesofDerivationalRelationsandBinyanim............... 154
.. FunctionofRulesofDerivationalRelations.................. 155
.. RelationshipbetweentheMaterialinKita¯bal-#Uqu¯dand
Me"or#Ayin .................................................... 156
ChapterEight.PedagogicalStrategiesinKita¯bal-#Uqu¯d............. 165
.. LucidityofConjugationalPatterns ........................... 166
.. ChoiceofVerbsIncludedintheAccount .................... 166
.. DidacticElementsinPatternDescription.................... 167
.. CapturingRegularitiesinVerbForms........................ 169
.. Mnemonics.................................................... 170
... MnemonicsBasedonConsonants ................... 170
... MnemonicsBasedonVowels......................... 171
... MnemonicsBasedonWords ......................... 172
... ClassificationofSampleImperativesbyMnemonics 172
.. AlgorithmsofParsing......................................... 173
... AlgorithmsforEstablishingImperativeBases ....... 173
... AlgorithmsforDeterminingNuclearComponents
ofComplexForms .................................... 175
.. ModelAnalysesofBiblicalPassages.......................... 175
Description:Notwithstanding its early origins and its importance for the history of Hebrew linguistics, the Karaite grammatical tradition has received insufficient scholarly attention, mainly due to the scarcity of reconstructed primary sources emanating from this school of Hebrew grammar. This book reconstruct
