Syriac Orthography (A Grammar of the Syriac Language, Volume 1) /

Syriac Orthography (A Grammar of the Syriac Language, Volume 1) / / George Kiraz.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
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Kiraz, George,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (544 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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