
An Introduction to Young Avestan: A Manual for Teaching and Learning
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- Cover
- Title Pages
- Contents
- Introduction to the English version
- Introduction
- Bibliography and fundamental tools
- Lesson 1
- 1.1 What is the Avestan language?
- 1.2 The Avestan alphabet
- 1.3 Ahuric and Daevic vocabulary
- 1.4 Vocabulary
- 1.5 Exercises
- Lesson 2
- 2.1 Morphological Categories
- 2.2 Declensions of a-Stems (ALF § 87, IA § 19.1)
- 2.3 The verb "to be"
- 2.4 Coordination particles (IA § 38.2)
- 2.5 Vocabulary
- 2.6 Exercises
- Lesson 3
- 3.1 declensions of non-apophonic a-stems (ALF § 88, IA § 19.2)
- 3.2 Present stems
- 3.3 Syntax of causative verbs (VAV 141 SS)
- 3.4 Vocabulary
- 3.5 Exercises
- Lesson 4
- 4.1 Vocalism I. General phenomena affecting vocalism
- 4.2 The apophony (= Ablaut) (ALF § 43, IA § 13.2)
- 4.3 The declension of a-stems: The apophonic a-stems (ALF § 89, IA § 19.2)
- 4.4 The past tense: The imperfect and the injunctive (OAV. 227-249)
- 4.5 Compounds
- 4.6 Vocabulary
- 4.7 Exercises
- Lesson 5
- 5.1 vocalism II. The vowel a
- 5.2 Personal pronouns (ALF § 112-116, IA § 22.1)
- 5.3 Syntax of personal pronouns
- 5.4 Vocabulary
- 5.5 Exercises
- Lesson 6
- 6.1 Vocalism III. The vowel a
- 6.2 Relative, interrogative and indefinite pronouns
- 6.3 Syntax of the relative pronoun
- 6.4 The middle voice
- 6.5 Vocabulary
- 6.6 Exercises
- Lesson 7
- 7.1 Vocalism III. The vowels i, i, u, u (ALF § 41)
- 7.2 The declension of i-stems I (ALF § 95, IA § 19.5)
- 7.3 The passive
- 7.4 Passive syntax
- 7.5 Vocabulary
- 7.6 Exercises
- Lesson 8
- 8.1 Vocalism IV. The diphthongs (IA § 10)
- 8.2 The declension of i-stems II (ALF § 95-96, IA § 19.5)
- 8.3 Root-nouns in -i (NRA III.H-30)
- 8.4 The comparative and superlative (IA § 20.1)
- 8.5 The secondary endings of the middle voice (VAV 228-235)
- 8.6 Syntax of Cases I: nominative, vocative (IA § 36.1)
- 8.7 Vocabulary
- 8.8 Exercises
- Lesson 9
- 9.1 The laryngeals (ALF § 44-45)
- 9.2 i-stems
- 9.3 The demonstratives
- 9.4 The athematic present I: The present root and imperfect (VAV 199-217, 227-234)
- 9.5 Syntax of cases II: Accusative (IA § 36.1)
- 9.6 Vocabulary
- 9.7 Exercises
- Lesson 10
- 10.1 Consonantism I
- 10.2 Pronominal adjectives: aniia- "other", vispa- "all" (ALF § 123, IA § 20.2)
- 10.3 Athematic present II
- 10.4 Syntax of cases III: The ablative (IA § 36.2)
- 10.5 Vocabulary
- 10.6 Exercises
- Lesson 11
- 11.1 Consonantism II. The labials
- 11.2 Phonetic phenomena affecting u-stems
- 11.3 The u-stems (ALF § 93, IA § 19.5)
- 11.4 The u-stems (ALF § 92, IA § 19.4)
- 11.5 The subjunctive (VAV 250-291)
- 11.6 Syntax of cases IV. The genitive and the dative (IA § 36.2-3)
- 11.7 Vocabulary
- 11.8 Exercises
- Lesson 12
- 12.1 The declension of consonantal stems I: Root-nouns (ALF § 97, 99-102, IA § 18.1)
- 12.2 The optative (VAv 292-297)
- 12.3 Syntax of cases V: The instrumental (IA § 36.3)
- 12.4 Vocabulary
- 12.5 Exercises
- Lesson 13
- 13.1 Consonantism III. Dentals (ALF § 64)
- 13.2 declension of consonantal stems II: Dental stems (ALF § 100, 105, IA § 18.13)
- 13.3 The imperative (VAV 314318, IA § 30.1c, 37.5)
- 13.4 Syntax of cases VI: The locative (IA § 36.3)
- 13.5 Vocabulary
- 13.6 Exercises
- Lesson 14
- 14.1 Consonantism IV. Nasals (ALF § 15, IA § 11.3)
- 14.2 Nasal stems
- 14.3 The aorist (VAV 353-383, ALF § 187-202, IA § 27)
- 14.4 Prepositions and preverbs (IA § 23)
- 14.5 Vocabulary
- 14.6 Exercises
- Lesson 15
- 15.1 consonantism V. The sibilants (ALF § 69-79, IA § 11.19-31)
- 15.2 ah-stems (ALF § 109, IA § 18.7)
- 15.3 The perfect (VAV 400-425, ALF § 203-210, IA § 28, 32.6)
- 15.4 The negation (VAv 244, 274, 314, 318, IA § 39)
- 15.5 Vocabulary
- 15.6 Exercises
- Lesson 16
- 16.1 consonantism VI. Liquids (ALF § 56-58)
- 16.2 Stems in -ar and stems in -r /-n
- 16.3 Future tense (VAV 160)
- 16.4 Adverbial subordinate clauses introduced by a conjunction (Purpose, consequence, concession, comparison)
- 16.5 Vocabulary
- 16.6 Exercises
- Lesson 17
- 17.1 Numbers
- 17.2 Participles
- 17.3 Infinitives (ALF § 211, IA § 33, VAV 338 SS)
- 17.4 Conditional and temporal clauses
- 17.5 Vocabulary
- 17.6 Exercises
- Avestan - English Glossary
- Overview tables
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