Duval’s Syriac grammar takes its place beside that of Nöldeke as a standard resource for every student and scholar of Syriac. The grammar appeared shortly after Nöldeke’s, and the sections on orthography, phonology, and morphology were written independent of it. Indeed, in many ways, Duval’s work is more thorough than Nöldeke’s “compendious” grammar was intended to be. One unique feature, for example, of Duval’s grammar is his list of Syriac grammatical terms in use by the native grammarians. In addition, Duval approaches the subject more comparatively in terms of the other Semitic languages and also interacts more with the secondary literature on Syriac grammar. An index of Syriac words discussed completes the volume. This book belongs on the shelf of every serious student of Syriac and comparative Semitic linguistics.