The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics III

The Development of a Tradition: Continuity and Change
xii, 267 pp., index
ISBN: 978-90-04-36346-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 94, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 601 g

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

All contributions deal with the reception of theories in the Arabic grammatical tradition from the time of Sibawayhi (d. end of the 8th century C.E.) to the later grammarians in the 14th century C.E. After Sibawayhi, considerable changes in the linguistic situation took place. The language of the Arab Bedouin described by him died as a native language. Grammars also changed, even if grammarians used for the most part the data given by Sibawayhi. This volume aims to determine continuities and changes in Arabic grammars, providing a new perspective on the impact of cultural and historical developments and on the founding principles of Sibawayhi's Kitab.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ayoub, Georgine

Versteegh, Kees

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors

Introduction
Georgine Ayoub and Kees Versteegh

1 Case and reference: The theory of ma yan?arif wa-ma la yan?arif in Sibawayhi’s Kitab
Georgine Ayoub

2 The grammatical and lexicographical traditions: Mutual foundations, divergent paths of development
Ramzi Baalbaki

3 A twelfth-century league table of Arab grammarians
Michael G. Carter

4 Blind spots in Ra?i l-Din al-?Astaraba?i’s grammar of numerals
Jean N. Druel

5 Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in al-Sirafi and Ibn Sina
Manuela E.B. Giolfo and Wilfrid Hodges

6 Early pedagogical grammars of Arabic
Almog Kasher

7 What is meant by al-?al al-muqaddara?
Aryeh Levin

8 Demonstratives in Sibawayhi’s Kitab
Arik Sadan

9 How have the descriptions of ta??ir changed?
Haruko Sakaedani

10 Origin and conceptual evolution of the term ta??i? in Arabic grammar
Manuel Sartori

11 The classification of the verb in the Arab grammatical tradition: From Sibawayhi to al-Jurjani
Zeinab Taha

12 Learning Arabic in the Islamic world
Kees Versteegh

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Georgine Ayoub is professor of Arabic linguistics at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), Paris. She specializes in theoretical linguistics and Arabic linguistic thought. She published La question de la phrase nominale en arabe littéraire (1996) and co-edited La langue et le Sacré (2017).

Kees Versteegh is emeritus professor of Arabic and Islam at the University of Nijmegen. He specializes in historical linguistics and the history of linguistics. He published The Arabic language (revised ed. 2014) and was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics (2006-2009).

Contributors are Georgine Ayoub, Ramzi Baalbaki, Michael G. Carter, Jean N. Druel, Manuela B.M. Giolfo, Wilfrid Hodges, Almog Kasher, Aryeh Levin, Arik Sadan, Haruko Sakaedani, Manuel Sartori, Zeinab Taha, and Kees Versteegh.