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Author Bohas, Georges

Title The Arabic Linguistic Tradition
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (176 pages)
Series Routledge Library Editions: Language & Literature of the Middle East
Routledge Library Editions: Language & Literature of the Middle East
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Transcription system; 1 General Introduction; The Growth of the Arabic Linguistic Tradition: a Historical Survey; Early grammatical thinking to the end of the second/eighth century; From Sībawayhi to al-Mubarrad; The codification of grammar in the fourth/tenth century; Maturity and decline (fifth/eleventh-tenth/fifteenth centuries); Facts, Rules, and Arguments; Data; The integrative logic of qiyās; Grammar and reality; 2 Sībawayhi's Kitāb: an Enunciative Approach to Syntax
Problems and HypothesesInterpreting the Kitāb; The enunciative hypothesis; Predication and Enunciation: Sībawayhi's Theory of the Utterance; 3 The Canonical Theory of Grammar: Syntax (Naḥw); Basic Concepts; Parts of speech; I'rāb and binā'; Sentence and utterance; The Theory of Government; General principles; The governing operators; Abstractness in the theory of government; Government and Predication; The two models; Two models or just one?; 4 The Canonical Theory of Grammar: Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics (Taṣrīf); Morphology; Verbal morphology; Derived nominal morphology; Phonology
Substitution (badal)Erasure (ḥaḏf); Mutation (qalb); Transfer (naql); Gemination (idḡām); The late phonological processes; Phonetics; The phonetics of the grammarians; The phonetics of the reciters; The phonetics of the physiologists; Notes; 5 Major Trends in the Study of Texts; Literary Criticism; 'Greek' Rhetoric (Xaṭāba); The Foundations of Jurisprudence; Arabo-Islamic Rhetoric (Balāḡa); 6 Rhetoric and Grammatical Semantics; The General Organization of Grammatical Semantics; Some Basic Tenets; Utterance Analysis; Types of Predications; General Operations on Nominals
Informative PredicationPerformative Predication; The Scope of Predications; Inter-utterance Relationships; Proper and Figurative Meaning; 7 Metrics; Preliminaries; Observations; The Xalīlian Circles; The Ziḥāfāt; Overgeneration in the Xalīlian System; The Orientalists and the Xalīlian System; Bibliography; A Selection; References; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Indexes
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Author Guillaume, Jean-Patrick
Kouloughli, Djamel Eddine
ISBN 9781315512761
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