Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya
Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya

Author: Nadia Vidro

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-08-25

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9004214259

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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 This book reconstructs from unpublished manuscripts a medieval Karaite treatise on the grammar of Biblical Hebrew in Judaeo-Arabic Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya and studies verbal morphological theories expressed in this and related Karaite works. Furthermore, the book examines Karaite approaches to the verbal classification as well as didactic tools used in Karaite pedagogical grammars.

Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar Kit?b Al-?Uq?d F? Ta??r?f Al-Lu?a Al-?Ibr?niyya
Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar Kit?b Al-?Uq?d F? Ta??r?f Al-Lu?a Al-?Ibr?niyya

Author: Nadia Vidro

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-08-25

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9004214240

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This book studies verbal morphological theories expressed in medieval Karaite grammars of Biblical Hebrew, in particular Kit?b al-?Uq?d f? Ta??r?f al-Lu?a al-?Ibr?niyya. Furthermore, it examines Karaite approaches to the verbal classification and didactic tools used in Karaite pedagogical grammars.

Roots and Patterns
Roots and Patterns

Author: Maya Arad

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-07-15

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781402032431

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This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots, rather than verbs or nouns, are the primitives of word formation. A central claim made throughout the book is the role of locality in word formation, teasing apart word formation from roots and word formation from existing words syntactically, semantically and phonologically. The book focuses on Hebrew, a language with rich verb morphology, where both roots and noun- and verb-creating morphology are morphologically transparent. The study of Hebrew verbs is based on a corpus of all Hebrew verb-creating roots, offering, for the first time, a survey of the full array of morpho-syntactic forms seen in the Hebrew verb. While the focus of this study is on how roots function in word-formation, a central chapter studies the information encoded by the Hebrew root, arguing for a special kind of open-ended value, bounded within the classes of meaning analyzed by lexical semanticists. The book is of wide interest to students of many branches of linguistics, including morphology, syntax and lexical semantics, as well as of to students Semitic languages.

The Syntax of the Verb in Classical Hebrew Prose
The Syntax of the Verb in Classical Hebrew Prose

Author: Alviero Niccacci

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1990-05-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0567390071

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Syntax of verbs in Hebrew is fraught with problems. According to classic grammars, many Hebrew words can be translated by virtually all the finite tenses of modern languages. Such grammars include lengthy catalogs of special cases and rules for exceptional uses, which illustrate how difficult the problem of verb syntax is. In turn, translators select the equivalent tense of modern languages based more on their own interpretation than on the rules of Hebrew syntax itself. In this landmark study on the syntax of Hebrew verbs, Niccacci reexamines the fundamental linguistic categories of prose and provides a systematic classification of the forms and constructions of Hebrew verbs. A final chapter deals with tense in poetry.

Contrastive transformational grammar
Contrastive transformational grammar

Author: Muhammad Ali Al-Khuli

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9004348220

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Preliminary Material /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- INTRODUCTION /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- THE UNDERLYING TRANSFORMATIONAL THEORY /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- THE CORPUS /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- PHRASE-STRUCTURE RULES (PS-RULES) /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- LEXICAL RULES (L-RULES) /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- TRANSFORMATIONAL RULES (T-RULES) /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- TESTING THE GRAMMAR EFFICIENCY /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- PHONEMIC SYMBOLS /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- NON-PHONEMIC SYMBOLS -- ABBREVIATIONS /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- GLOSSARY /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- BIBLIOGRAPHY /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli -- INDEX /Muhammad Ali Au-Khuli.

The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 2
The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 2

Author: Geoffrey Khan

Publisher:

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781783748587

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The form of Biblical Hebrew that is presented in printed editions, with vocalization and accent signs, has its origin in medieval manuscripts of the Bible. The vocalization and accent signs are notation systems that were created in Tiberias in the early Islamic period by scholars known as the Tiberian Masoretes, but the oral tradition they represent has roots in antiquity. The grammatical textbooks and reference grammars of Biblical Hebrew in use today are heirs to centuries of tradition of grammatical works on Biblical Hebrew in Europe. The paradox is that this European tradition of Biblical Hebrew grammar did not have direct access to the way the Tiberian Masoretes were pronouncing Biblical Hebrew. In the last few decades, research of manuscript sources from the medieval Middle East has made it possible to reconstruct with considerable accuracy the pronunciation of the Tiberian Masoretes, which has come to be known as the 'Tiberian pronunciation tradition'. This book presents the current state of knowledge of the Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew and a full edition of one of the key medieval sources, Hidāyat al-Qāriʾ 'The Guide for the Reader', by ʾAbū al-Faraj Hārūn. There is also an accompanying oral performance of samples of the reconstructed pronunciation by Alex Foreman. It is hoped that the book will help to break the mould of current grammatical descriptions of Biblical Hebrew and form a bridge between modern traditions of grammar and the school of the Masoretes of Tiberias.