Coakley J.F. Robinson's Paradigms and Exercises in Syriac Grammar

Oxford University Press, 2013. — viii + 179 с.T. H. Robinson’s Paradigms and exercises in Syriac grammar was first published in 1915, and it served generations of students in four little-changed editions, the last of which appeared in 1962. The fifth edition of 2002 was a thorough revision aimed at repairing some of the less satisfactory features in the way the grammar and exercises were presented. The changes in this sixth edition do not go so deep. Here and there the grammar has been clarified, awkward sentences for translation replaced, and other miscellaneous errors corrected. These small-scale improvements are all products of the decade of testing that the 2002 book has had, and I thank my students at Harvard and Cambridge Universities, as well as some kind correspondents, for helping to expose the places where revision and correction were needed. The format of the present edition, though not
so handy as the old pocket-sized one, has allowed for a less crowded layout and I hope it will be found to be more comfortable to read.