A Medieval karaite pedagogical grammar of Hebrew : : a critical edition and English translation of Kitab al-'Uqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-'Ibrāniyya / / by Nadia Vidro.

• Superior document: Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval, Tome 62
• Author: Vidro, Nadia.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Brill,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 62.; Cambridge Genizah studies series ; v. 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (447 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.; Chapter seventeen on the first and the second imperative.

In this book Nadia Vidro presents a critical edition and English translation of the first Karaite pedagogical grammar of Hebrew, Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya . Composed in Jerusalem in the 11th century, Kitāb al-ʿUqūd is a concise description of Hebrew prepared specifically to cater for the needs of students just beginning their study of the language. The critical edition is accompanied by an historical introduction, a description of manuscripts, and a glossary of grammatical terminology. This publication expands the corpus of available primary sources emanating from the Karaite school of Hebrew grammar, and makes this fascinating and important medieval work accessible to a wide audience of Hebrew linguists, Biblical scholars and those interested in language pedagogy and its history.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material -- Introduction -- Chapter One. (On the Purpose of the Discipline of Grammar) -- Chapter Two: On Establishing Root Letters and Other Related Matters -- Chapter Three: On The Categories Of Words That Are Used In Speech -- Chapter Four: On Masculine And Feminine Letters -- Chapter Five: On The Conditions For Forming Morphological Patterns -- Chapter Six: On Imperatives That Differ In Their First Vowel From The Past Verb Forms Derived From Them And On Other Related Matters -- Chapter Seven: On Imperatives That Coincide In Their First Vowel But Differ In Their Last Vowel From The Past Verb Forms (Derived From Them) And On Other Related Matters -- Chapter Eight: On Imperatives That Differ Neither In Their First Vowel Nor In Their Last Vowel From The Past Verb Forms Derived From Them -- Chapter Nine: On Imperatives That Have No Past Form -- Chapter Ten: On Conjugational Patterns Belonging To Mnemonics הְנֹן,ָהֵהם, or הֶהָמֵת -- Chapter Eleven: On Establishing The Form Of An Imperative In Difficult Cases -- Chapter Twelve: On Types Of Active Participles -- Chapter Thirteen: On Passive Participles That Belong To A Conjugational Pattern -- Chapter Fourteen: On The Infinitive -- Chapter Fifteen: On Stripping Words Of Added Letters In Order For A Word To Return To Its Essential Form Without Additions -- Chapter Sixteen: On Transitive And Intransitive Verbs -- Chapter Seventeen: On The First And The Second Imperative -- Chapter Eighteen: On Infiʿāl And Iftiʿāl -- Chapter Nineteen: On The Structure Of Agent-Oriented And Patientoriented Verbs -- Chapter Twenty: On Types Of Nouns -- Chapter Twenty One: On Conjoining -- Chapter Twenty Two: On The Connective -- Chapter Twenty Three: On The Attribute -- Chapter Twenty Four: On The Emphatic And The Permutative Elements -- Chapter Twenty Five: On The Initial Item And The Predicate -- Chapter Twenty Six: On True And Pseudo-Verbs -- Chapter Twenty Seven: On Legitimate Combinations Of The Three Parts Of Speech Into Self-Sufficient Utterances -- Chapter Twenty Eight: On The Division Of Verbal Complements -- Chapter Twenty Nine: On Some Of The Functions Of Masculine Letters -- Chapter Thirty: On Particles And Words That Resemble Them -- Bibliography -- Glossary Of Grammatical Terminology -- Index Of Sources -- Index Of Imperative Bases.