Arabic Grammatical Tradition
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In the Arabic grammatical tradition several categories comprising exactly five members can be found, e.g., the types of “meaningful things”, of definite nouns, of tanwīn, of definite article, of tawābiʿ etc. Given the importance of the... more
Ce volume rassemble des textes, les uns connus, les autres méconnus, d’auteurs médiévaux (du IIe/VIIIe siècle au VIIe/XIIIe siècle) sur l’arabe : philologues (al-Farrā’, al-Zaǧǧāǧī, Ibn Fāris, Ibn Ǧinnī), mais aussi un philosophe... more
For the Arab grammarians, as, later on, for grammarians of Arabic, the usual forms of the triliteral verb, known as "augmented" forms by Arab grammarians and "derived" forms for grammarians of Arabic, do not form an incoherent set but... more
إعراب القرآن الكريم وبيانه - ج 9 : الشورى - الحديد
Dieses Glossar enthält grammatische Termini, Begriffe und Konzepte der arabischen linguistischen Tradition (ALT), die in meiner Dissertation der Universität Bayreuth (2006) benutzt und kommentiert worden sind. Die Glossen sind nicht in... more
Asas perbincangan buku ini adalah berkisar tentang bahasa purba Mesopotamia. Topik yang dikemukakan agak bersifat analitis dan kritik untuk mencari jawapan bagi persoalan yang dikemukakan. Hakikatnya, perbincangan tentang bahasa merupakan... more
Դեռևս միջնադարում մշակված արաբերեն լեզվի նորմավորված և հարուստ քերականական ժառանգությունը պայմանավորում է այն հանգամանքը, որ նույնիսկ այժմ էլ գրական արաբերենի տեսության որոշ դրույթների մշակումը անմիջապես պահանջում է վերադարձ դեպի... more
This article traces the immediate and distant origins of the concept of "polyphony" in the theory of French linguist Oswald Ducrot (born in 1930).
This is a prepub version of the volume now published in the PLAL series There is a general introduction, summary of the book's chapters, and bibliography; then follows the whole of Merx's monograph translated from Latin to English.... more
In the discussion about the authenticity of the two schools of grammarians from Basra and Kufa , the terminological differences between the two schools as they are reported by the sources play an important role. The present paper... more
The aim of this work is to translate and analyze some poetical fragments, written by five Arabic-Sicilian poets and included in the anthology al-Durra al-ḫaṭīra min šu‘arā’ al-Ğazīra (“The Precious Pearl about the Poets of the Island”),... more
Scholars in the Arabic Grammatical Tradition have mainly been focusing their attention on the formative stage of the Arabic grammatical theory (2nd-4th/8th-10th centuries). This dissertation aims at broadening the scope and is intended to... more
In the Islamic tradition, the language of the Koran is the “language of Qurayš”, and the “language of Qurayš” is the luġa al-fuṣḥā. Until recently, it has been mainly the poetic Koinè, for most Arabists, with the exception of some... more
This thesis investigates the Arabic grammatical terms that belong to the classes of noun, verb and particle. In order to propose a harmonization of these Arabic terms in Portuguese, we have tried to find equivalent terms in both languages... more
The Arabic notion of ishtiqāq is ambiguous: it is translated into English sometimes as “derivation” and sometimes as “etymology.” Derivation is a synchronic notion, but etymology is a diachronic one. If we refer to the Kitāb al-Taʿrīfāt... more
This succinct but brilliant poem by Shaykh Abdullahi ibn Fuduye`, may Allah be merciful to him and provide us with his baraka; regarding the particles of inflection (huruuf’l-`iraab) was first published according to my knowledge by Shaykh... more
Iconicity, the correspondence between form and meaning, was seldom discussed in Arabic grammatical tradition. The grammarian best known for his interest in this issue in Arabic is Ibn Jinnī. Here it will be demonstrated that iconicity is... more
Explores the conceptual interactions between the fields of grammar and logic among the Syrians in late antiquity. How the two fields were confused or distinguished and how the one influenced developments in the other. Also some... more
The most common and well-known Arabic term for ‘vowel’ is ḥaraka ‘movement’ (pl. ḥarakāt), which somehow describes the phonetic transition between two consonants which are sākin ‘still’. It appears in the earliest eighth-century Arabic... more
Glossary of technical terminology used by medieval authors to describe Semitic vocalisation. Originally published in "Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew." The full text of the... more
In his Šarḥ al-Kāfiya, Raḍī al-dīn al-’Astarābāḏī (d. 688/1289) counts the sentence Zaydun qā’imun (« Zayd is standing ») once as two kalimāt and once as four ones. This double counting shows that the kalima is neither a word nor a... more
Like in the Syriac grammatical tradition, the first Masoretic vowel names emerged from the comparative context of ‘open-and-closed’ comparisons, with the early relative terms pɔtaḥ and qɔmeṣ eventually stabilising as terms for specific... more
Il presente elaborato ha per obiettivo la valutazione di alcune ipotesi sulle ragioni dell’assenza dell’elemento copulativo nelle frasi nominali al presente, in arabo e in russo. Si valuta dapprima una spiegazione diacronica del fenomeno,... more
Die morphologischen Studien in der arabischen linguistischen Tradition sind im ältesten und zugleich umfangreichsten arabischen grammatischen Werk, dem al-Kitāb von Sībawayhi (gest. 180/793) bereits voll ausgeprägt und werden weiterhin... more
At the end of the 2nd/8th century, the two most important grammarians of the time were the Kufan al-Farrāʾ (d. 207/822) and the Basran Sībawayhi (d. 177/793?). In al-Farrāʾ's work the text of the Qurʾān occupied a central place, but in... more
In the seventeenth chapter (or chapter XVII) of the ’Īḍāḥ, al-Zaǧǧāǧī distinguishes between two types of Arabic: inflected and non-inflected. Non-inflected Arabic is that of the majority or “masses” (‘āmma), whereas inflected Arabic is... more
Արաբական լեզվաբանական ավանդույթում լեզվի ստորոգական համակարգը նկարագրելու համար, ըստ էության, օգտագործվում են հիմնականում երկու՝ al-kalaam և al-jumla հասկացությունները։ Ընդ որում al-kalaam-ը սահմանվում է որպես «ամբողջական, ինքնուրույն և... more