Full Description
All contributions deal with the reception of theories in the Arabic grammatical tradition from the time of Sībawayhi (d. end of the 8th century C.E.) to the later grammarians in the 14th century C.E.. After Sībawayhi, 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 Sībawayhi. 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 Sībawayhi's Kitāb.
Contents
List of contributors
Introduction
Georgine Ayoub and Kees Versteegh
1 Case and reference: The theory of mā yanṣarif wa-mā lā yanṣarif in Sībawayhi's Kitāb
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 Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī's grammar of numerals
Jean N. Druel
5 Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in al-Sīrāfī and Ibn Sīnā
Manuela E.B. Giolfo and Wilfrid Hodges
6 Early pedagogical grammars of Arabic
Almog Kasher
7 What is meant by al-ḥāl al-muqaddara?
Aryeh Levin
8 Demonstratives in Sībawayhi's Kitāb
Arik Sadan
9 How have the descriptions of taḥḏīr changed?
Haruko Sakaedani
10 Origin and conceptual evolution of the term taḫṣīṣ in Arabic grammar
Manuel Sartori
11 The classification of the verb in the Arab grammatical tradition: From Sībawayhi to al-Jurjānī
Zeinab Taha
12 Learning Arabic in the Islamic world
Kees Versteegh
Index
