Medieval Karaite Pedagogical Grammar of Hebrew

Nadia Vidro, Ph.D. (2009), Cambridge University, works on history of Hebrew linguistics, mainly the Karaite grammatical tradition. She is author of Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya (Brill, 2011).

• IntroductionKitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya and Its Place in the Karaite Grammatical TraditionDescription of ManuscriptsThe Vocalisation of the ManuscriptsNotes on the Edition and TranslationTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF KITĀB AL-ʿUQŪD FĪ TAṢĀRĪF AL-LUĠA AL-ʿIBRĀNIYYAChapter One. (On the Purpose of the Discipline of Grammar)Chapter Two. On Establishing Root Letters and Other Related MattersChapter Three. On the Categories of Words that Are Used in SpeechChapter Four. On Masculine and Feminine LettersChapter Five. On the Conditions for Forming Morphological PatternsChapter Six. On Imperatives That Differ in Their First Vowel from the Past Verb Forms Derived from Them and on Other Related MattersChapter 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 MattersChapter Eight. On Imperatives That Differ Neither in Their First Vowel Nor in Their Last Vowel from the Past Verb Forms Derived From ThemChapter Nine. On Imperatives That Have No Past FormChapter Ten. On Conjugational Patterns Belonging to Mnemonics הְנֹן ,ָהֵהם , or הֶהָמֵתChapter Eleven. On Establishing the Form of an Imperative in Difficult CasesChapter Twelve. On Types of Active ParticiplesChapter Thirteen. On Passive Participles That Belong to a Conjugational PatternChapter Fourteen. On the InfinitiveChapter Fifteen. On Stripping Words of Added Letters in Order for a Word to Return to Its Essential Form Without AdditionsChapter Sixteen. On Transitive and Intransitive VerbsChapter Seventeen. On the First and the Second ImperativeChapter Eighteen. On Infi,ʿāl and IftiʿālChapter Nineteen. On the Structure of Agent-Oriented and Patient-Oriented VerbsChapter Twenty. On Types of NounsChapter Twenty One. On ConjoiningChapter Twenty Two. On the ConnectiveChapter Twenty Three. On the Attribute Chapter Twenty Four. On the Emphatic and the Permutative ElementsChapter Twenty Five. On the Initial Item and the PredicateChapter Twenty Six. On True and Pseudo-VerbsChapter Twenty Seven. On Legitimate Combinations of the Three Parts of Speech into Self-Sufficient UtterancesChapter Twenty Eight. On the Division of Verbal ComplementsChapter Twenty Nine. On Some of the Functions of Masculine LettersChapter Thirty. On Particles and Words That Resemble ThemBibliographyGlossary of Grammatical TerminologyIndex of SourcesBiblical VersesManuscriptsOther Grammars and GrammariansIndex of Imperative Bases