Grammarians and Grammatical Theory in the Medieval Arabic Tradition

by Baalbaki,Ramzi

• ISBN13: 9780860789482
• ISBN10: 0860789489
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781000939361
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

Professor Baalbaki deals here with the Arabic grammatical tradition and the analytical methods of the medieval Arab grammarians. The essays included open new perspectives on the most authoritative work on Arabic grammar, Sibawayhi's tome or Kitab, on the relation between grammatical study and other areas of linguistic enquiry such as Qur'anic readings and stylistics, and on the techniques which the grammarians employed to explain and rationalize usage and to incorporate within their system the vast body of dialectal material which the corpus comprises. The author has sought to highlight the central position which Arabic grammar enjoys within the wider Arab culture, and in so doing has examined several aspects of a legacy which has been revered over a millennium and which forms to this very day the backbone of the teaching of grammar in the Arab world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Preface	xi
SIBAWAYHI'S KITAB
The book in the grammatical tradition: Development in content and methods	123
The Book in the Islamic World: The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East
George. N. Atiyeh
Some aspects of harmony and hierarchy in Sibawayhi's grammatical analysis	7	(107)
Zeitschrift fur arabische Linguistik II. Wiesbaden, 1979
A possible early reference to Sibawaihi's Kitab?	114	(49)
Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft CXXXI. Wiesbaden, 1981
A contribution to the study of technical terms in early Arabic grammar: The term asl in Sibawayhi's Kitab	163
A Miscellany of Middle Eastern Articles: In Memoriam
Thomas Muir Johnstone
A.K. Irvine
R.B. Serjeant
G. Rex Smith
Coalescence as a grammatical tool in Sibawayhi's Kitab	86
Arabic Grammar and Linguistics
Yasir Suleiman
GRAMMARIANS AND RELATED DISCIPLINES
The treatment of qira' at by the second and third century grammarians	11
Zeitschrift fur arabische Linguistik XV. Wiesbaden, 1985
The relation between nahw and balaga: A comparative study of the methods of Sibawayhi and Gurgani	7	(82)
Zeitschrift fur arabische Linguistik XI. Wiesbaden, 1983
A balagi approach to some grammatical sawahid	89	(28)
Proceedings of the Colloquium on Arabic Grammar, Budapest, 1--7 September 1991
Kinga Devenyi
Tamas Ivanyi
Early Arab lexicographers and the use of Semitic languages	117
Berytus XXXI. Beirut, 1983
Kitab al- `ayn and Jamharat al-lugha	44
Early Medieval Arabic: Studies on al-Khalil ibn Ahmad
Karin C. Ryding
GRAMMATICAL THEORY
Arab grammatical controversies and the extant sources of the second and third centuries A.H	1	(232)
Studia Arabica et Islamica: Festschrift for Ihsan `Abbas
Wadad al-Qadi
Tawahhum: An ambiguous concept in early Arabic grammar	233
Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies XLV, part 2. London, 1982
`I`rab and bina' from linguistic reality to grammatical theory	17
Studies in the History of Arabic Grammar II. Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on the History of Arabic Grammar, Nijmegen, 27 April--1 May 1987
Kees Versteegh
Michael G. Carter
Reclassification in Arab grammatical theory	1	(22)
Journal of Near Eastern Studies LIV. Chicago, III., 1995
Expanding the ma nawi awamil: Suhayli's innovative approach to the theory of regimen	23	(170)
al-Abhath XLVII. Beirut, 1999
The occurrence of' insa' instead of habar: The gradual formulation of a grammatical issue	193
Linguistique arabe et semitique I. Paris, 2000
Bab al-fa' [ fa' + subjunctive] in Arabic grammatical sources	186
Arabica XLVIII. Leiden, 2001
Teaching Arabic at university level: Problems of grammatical tradition	85
Proceedings of the Colloquium on Arabic Linguistics, Bucharest, August 29 -- Sept. 2, 1994, part 1
Nadia Anghelescu
Andrei A. Avram
Index	1