Approaches to Arabic Linguistics

Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-16015-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 762 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1568 g

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

For a lifetime Kees Versteegh played a leading role in Arabic linguistics, dialects (diglossia, creolization, pidginization), the history of Arabic grammar, and other fields related to Arabic. From among his global contacts, colleagues contributed to a Liber Amicorum in appreciation of his stimulating efforts to reopen, deepen and complete our knowledge of Arabic Grammar and Linguistics.
In three sections, History, Linguistics and Dialects, 27 contributors discuss (alphabetically): bilingual verb construction; contractual language; current developments; language description; language use; lexicology; organization of language; pause; sentence types; and specific topics: ʾallaá¸Ä«; featuring; government; homonymy; ʾiá¸mÄr; inflection; maá¹£dar; the origin of grammatical tradition; variety conflicts; and verbal schematic (ir)regularities; waqf; and ẓarf.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Motzki, Harald

Ditters, Everhard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

W. Everhard Ditters, Ph.D (1992) in Arabic (computational) Linguistics, Nijmegen University (the Netherlands), where he has been Assistant Professor. Recently retired, he continues to publish on formal grammars for the description of Arabic syntax and semantics and is preparing a new parser for the analysis of Modern Standard Arabic text data. Harald H. Motzki, Ph.D (1978) in Islamic studies, Bonn University, habilitation (1988), Hamburg University, is Professor of Islamic Studies at Nijmegen University (the Netherlands). He has published extensively on early Islamic sources and scholarship.