Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar Kitab al-'Uqud fi Tasarif al-Luga al-'Ibraniyya

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by  Nadia Vidro

Verbal 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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Georges Vajda
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Paul B. Fenton
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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
By
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
viii contents
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