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Syriac Orthography (A Grammar of the Syriac Language, Volume 1)
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This volume, the first in a comprehensive grammar of the Syriac language, is a thematic presentation of orthography in the Syriac grammatical tradition, bringing the study of Syriac writing closer to modern linguistic accounts of writing systems.
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Table of contents
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Preface
- Plates and Credits
- Transcription and Transliteration
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- Note on Examples
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- Bibliography
- 1. Sources and their Historical Context
- I. The Graphemic Inventory
- 2. Consonantal Graphemes
- 3. Vowel Graphemes
- 4. Grammatical Graphemes
- 5. Editorial, Liturgical and Musical Graphemes
- 6. Ancient Prosodic Graphemes or Accents
- 7. Numbering Systems
- II. Graphotactics, Writing, and Ductus
- 8. Graphotactics
- 9. Writing
- 10. Ductus
- III. Garšūnography, Adaptation, and Alloglottography
- 11. Garšūnography I: Syriac as the Target Script
- 12. Garšūnography II: Syriac as the Source Language
- 13. Nongaršūnographic Adaptations of the Syriac Script
- 14. Alloglottography
- IV. Technological Developments
- 15. Lithography and Mimeography
- 16. Typewriters
- 17. Digital Typography
- 18. Coding Standards
- General Index
- Authority Index
- Biblical Citations
- CV Patterns
- Grammatical & Technical Terms
- Graph Index
- Manuscripts Index
- Word Index
- Quotations Index