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Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar/18. Peculiarities and Changes of Letters: the Syllable and the Tone

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Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (1909)
by Wilhelm Gesenius, translated by Arthur Ernest Cowley, edited by Emil Kautzsch
Peculiarities and Changes of Letters: the Syllable and the Tone
Wilhelm GeseniusEmil Kautzsch587657Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar — Peculiarities and Changes of Letters: the Syllable and the Tone1909Arthur Ernest Cowley

CHAPTER II

PECULIARITIES AND CHANGES OF LETTERS: THE SYLLABLE AND THE TONE

§18.

The changes which take place in the forms of the various parts of speech, depend partly on the peculiar nature of certain classes of letters and the manner in which they affect the formation of syllables, partly on certain laws of the language in regard to syllables and the tone.