Lectures on the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages

, by Wright, William; Patrick, Bennett; Smith, William Robertson

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ISBN: 9781931956123 | 193195612X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/1/2002

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Introductory Remarks. The term Semitic. Diffusion and original home of the Semites

(9)

The subject

(1)

Founders of Semitic philology

(1)

Books recommended

(1)

Distribution of the Semitic races

(1)

Their original seat

(5)

General survey of the Semitic Languages

(25)

Northern and southern Semites

(2)

Northern dialects: Babylonian and Assyrian

(2)

Aramean group

(5)

Western and Eastern Aramaic

(2)

Modern Aramaic dialects ibid.---Canaanites

(1)

Phoenicians

(1)

Hittites

(2)

Hebrews ibid.---Moabites

(1)

Southern dialects: Arabic

(2)

Himyaritic

(1)

Ge'ez or Ethiopic

(1)

Relation of the Semitic languages to the Indo-European

(3)

to the Egyptian

(2)

Semitic Writing

(7)

Literature

(1)

Egyptian origin of the alphabet

(1)

Oldest monuments of Semitic writing

(1)

Old Hebrew alphabet of the Siloam inscription

(1)

Square character

(1)

Aramaic alphabet ibid.---Alphabets of the southern Semites

(1)

Inadequacy of the Semitic alphabets

(1)

The Letters of the Semitic Alphabet and the changes they undergo

(33)

The gutturals

(8)

The palatals

(2)

The dentals

(3)

Aspirated dentals

(2)

The sibilants

(7)

The labials

(3)

The liquids

(2)

The weak letters w and y

(4)

Table of permutations

(2)

The Vowels and their Permutations

(20)

The original vowel-system

(1)

Modifications of the vowels in Arabic

(2)

The short vowels in Hebrew and Aramaic

(3)

under the influence of the tone in Hebrew

(3)

The long vowels in Hebrew and Aramaic

(3)

The diphthongs

(4)

Supplementary vowels, especially in Hebrew

(2)

Prosthetic vowels

(2)

The Pronouns

(36)

The personal pronouns: suffix forms

(3)

Separate forms: 1st person

(3)

2nd person

101

(2)

3rd person

103

(3)

The demonstrative pronouns

106

(6)

The sign of the definite pronominal accusative

112

(2)

The definite article

114

(2)

The relative pronouns

116

(2)

The Hebrew relative

118

(1)

Certain possessive pronouns

119

(1)

The interrogative pronouns

120

(5)

as indefinites

125

(2)

The reflexive pronouns

127

(1)

Expression of the reflexive by the aid of substantives

128

(3)

The Noun

131

(30)

Gender

131

(1)

The fem. termination t (at, ah)

132

(3)

used adverbially

135

(1)

with increment (te)

136

(2)

Other feminine terminations

138

(1)

Cases

139

(1)

in Arabic and Ethiopic

140

(1)

Traces of case-endings in Hebrew

141

(1)

The nouns

142

(1)

Origin of the case-endings

143

(1)

Nunation

143

(1)

Mimation

144

(1)

Origin of these ibid. ---The plural

145

(2)

The feminine plural

147

(1)

Broken plurals

148

(1)

The dual

149

(2)

Construct dual and plural

151

(1)

The feminine plural in Aramaic

152

(1)

The emphatic state ibid.---Pronominal suffixes to the noun

152

(9)

The Verb

161

(66)

Nominal forms underlying the inflexion of the verb

161

(1)

Intensive forms

162

(1)

Segholates

163

(2)

The Perfect

165

(2)

Forms with characteristic a, i, u ibid.---Inflexion: 3 sing. fem

167

(1)

3 pl. masc

168

(1)

3 pl. fem

169

(1)

Accentuation of 3rd pers

170

(1)

2nd pers

171

(1)

2 sing. masc. ibid.---2 sing. fem

172

(1)

2 pl. masc

173

(1)

2 pl. fem

174

(1)

1 sing

175

(2)

1 pl

177

(1)

Dual ibid.---Later analogies to the formation of the Perfect

178

(1)

The Imperfect

179

(3)

3 sing. masc.: the preformative ya

182

(1)

Other preformatives

183

(1)

3 sing. fem

184

(1)

3 pl. masc. ibid.---3 pl. fem

185

(1)

2 sing. m. and f. ibid.---2 pl. m. and f

186

(1)

1 sing. and pl

187

(1)

Dual ibid.---Accentuation

188

(1)

The Imperative

188

(1)

Plural

189

(2)

Variations of Imperfect and Imperative

191

(1)

Moods of the Imperfect in Arabic ibid.---in Hebrew: Jussive forms

192

(1)

Energetic forms

193

(2)

Moods of the Imperative

195

(1)

The Infinitive

195

(1)

The Participles

196

(1)

Passive participle

197

(1)

Derived Conjugations. First group

198

(1)

The intensive and iterative stem

198

(4)

The conative stem

202

(2)

The factitive or causative stems

204

(3)

Second group, Reflexive stems

207

(2)

Reflexive of the simple stem ibid.---Reflexive of the intensive

209

(3)

Reflexive of the conative

212

(1)

Infinitives of B. 2 and B. 3

213

(1)

Reflexive of the causative

214

(1)

Third group (with characteristic syllable na)

215

(2)

Niph'al and its congeners ibid.---2 Ethiopic forms with preformative an

217

(1)

Nithpa ``el

218

(1)

Arabic forms with infixed n ibid.---D. Fourth group, Reduplicated stems

218

(1)

Pi'lel and its congeners ibid

Pe'al'al

219

(1)

Pilpel and its congeners

220

(1)

Arabic Conj. XII. ibid

Forms of the type katlaya

221

(1)

Passive Forms

222

(1)

in Arabic ibid

in Hebrew

223

(1)

in Aramaic

224

(3)

The Iregular Verb

227

(59)

Verbs

in Hebrew and Syriac: simple stem

228

(4)

Derived conjugations

232

(2)

Verbs and

234

(1)

Verbs with original was first radical

235

(4)

Derived conjugations

239

(2)

Verbs with y as first radical

241

(1)

Verbs and

242

(2)

Uncontracted verbs of this class ibid.---Contracted forms in Arabic

244

(1)

in the other dialects

245

(6)

Derived conjugations

251

(4)

C. Verbs and

255

(8)

Perfect of the simple stem ibid.---Imperfect

263

(3)

Imperative

266

(2)

Infinitive

268

(1)

Participle

269

(1)

Derived conjugations

270

(7)

Appendix

Verbs with a radical

277

(1)

Verbs

278

(4)

Verbs

282

(1)

Verbs

283

(1)

History of radical in Hebrew

284

(2)

Additional Notes and Corrections

286

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