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The Syriac Dot : A Short History / George Kiraz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463204259
  • 9781463236571
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 537.622
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Script and Transcription -- 1. The First Single Dot -- 2. The First Double Dot -- 3. The Power of the Single Dot -- 4. An Intelligent Dot -- 5. The Kenoro Dotless Experiment -- 6. The Silent Dot -- 7. The Shifting Dot -- 8. A Suffix Dot -- 9. Tagging Dots -- 10. Red Dots -- 11. A Pair of Dots -- 12. Vowel Dots -- 13. Punctuation Dots -- 14. Reading Dots -- 15. The Net of Dots -- 16. Oops Dots -- 17. Garshunography Dots -- 18. Dots Today -- 19. Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Script Guide -- Appendix 2: KDE Data -- Appendix 3: Chronology of Events -- Appendix 4: Manuscripts Consulted -- Plates -- Appendix 5: Comments on Plates -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Word Index -- General Index -- Reader’s Notes
Summary: The dot is used for everything in Syriac from tense to gender, number, and pronunciation, and unsurprisingly represents one of the biggest obstacles to learning the language. Using inscriptions, early grammars, and experiments with modern scribes, Dr. Kiraz peels back the evolution of the dot layer by layer to explain each of its uses in detail and to show how it adopted the wide range of uses it has today.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Script and Transcription -- 1. The First Single Dot -- 2. The First Double Dot -- 3. The Power of the Single Dot -- 4. An Intelligent Dot -- 5. The Kenoro Dotless Experiment -- 6. The Silent Dot -- 7. The Shifting Dot -- 8. A Suffix Dot -- 9. Tagging Dots -- 10. Red Dots -- 11. A Pair of Dots -- 12. Vowel Dots -- 13. Punctuation Dots -- 14. Reading Dots -- 15. The Net of Dots -- 16. Oops Dots -- 17. Garshunography Dots -- 18. Dots Today -- 19. Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Script Guide -- Appendix 2: KDE Data -- Appendix 3: Chronology of Events -- Appendix 4: Manuscripts Consulted -- Plates -- Appendix 5: Comments on Plates -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Word Index -- General Index -- Reader’s Notes

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The dot is used for everything in Syriac from tense to gender, number, and pronunciation, and unsurprisingly represents one of the biggest obstacles to learning the language. Using inscriptions, early grammars, and experiments with modern scribes, Dr. Kiraz peels back the evolution of the dot layer by layer to explain each of its uses in detail and to show how it adopted the wide range of uses it has today.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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