Full Description
This volume contains sixteen contributions from the fourth conference on the Foundations of Arabic linguistics (Genova, 2016), all having to do with the development of linguistic theory in the Arabic grammatical tradition, starting from Sībawayhi's Kitāb (end of the 8th century C.E.) and its continuing evolution in later grammarians up till the 14th century C.E. The scope of this volume includes the links between grammar and other disciplines, such as lexicography and logic, and the reception of Arabic grammar in the Persian and Malay linguistic tradition.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: the Evolution of Theory in the Arabic Linguistic Tradition
Manuela E.B. Giolfo and Kees Versteegh
1 Insights from the Approach of Sībawayhi's Grammar: a Foundations Proposal
Hassina Aliane
2 Pronouns in Sībawayhi's Kitāb and Related Concepts: ḍamīr, ʾiḍmār, muḍmar
Georgine Ayoub
3 Grammar for Beginners and Ibn Hišām's Approach to Issues of ʾiʿrāb
Ramzi Baalbaki
4 Sallaṭa/tasallaṭa, a Possible Parallel for 'Govern'?
Michael G. Carter
5 The Notion of taqdīm wa-taʾḫīr in al-Kitāb and Its Development in the Arabic Grammatical Tradition until the 4th/10th Century
Hanadi Dayyeh
6 The Intriguing Issue of Dictionary Arrangement in Medieval Arabic Lexicography
Joseph Dichy
7 Can Ambrosiana X Sup 56 Renew Our Understanding of Sībawayhi's Grammar?
Jean Druel
8 Conditionality: Syntax and Meaning in al-Sīrāfī and Ibn Sīnā
Manuela E.B. Giolfo and Wilfrid Hodges
9 The Technical Term taqdīr and tahfīf in Persian Classical Sources
Éva M. Jeremiás
10 How to Parse Effective Objects according to Arab Grammarians? A Dissenting Opinion on al-mafʿūl al-muṭlaq
Almog Kasher
11 The Phenomenon of ittisāʿ al-kalām
Aryeh Levin
12 Which Verbal Nouns Can Function as Adverbial Accusatives of State or Condition (ḥāl) according to Sībawayhi and Later Grammarians?
Arik Sadan
13 What is Definiteness in Arabic? Focusing on Proper Nouns for Genera and ʾasmāʾ mubhama 'Ambiguous Nouns'
Haruko Sakaedani
14 Definition and Determination in Medieval Arabic Grammatical Thought
Manuel Sartori
15 The Concept of tawṭiʾa in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī
Beata Sheyhatovitch
16 Malay Grammar between Arab and Western Model
Kees Versteegh
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