The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics
Sībawayhi and Early Arabic Grammatical Theory
Edited by Amal Elesha Marogy, University of Cambridge. With a foreword by M.G. Carter, University of Sydney
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Biographical note
Amal E. Marogy, Ph.D. (2007) in Oriental Languages and Cultures, is lector of Arabic at Cambridge University. She is organiser of the Foundations of Arabic linguistics Conferences, FAL1 (2010) and FAL2 (2012) and her publications include Kitāb Sībawayhi: Syntax and Pragmatics (2010).
Readership
Arabists, general linguistics, Semiticists, especially Syriasts and Hebraists. The book provides students and researchers with a unique reference on the Foundations of the main Semitic linguistic traditions accompanied by a detailed analysis of Kitāb Sībawayhi.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
List of contributors
Part I Sībawayhi in the Kitāb
1. The term mafʿūl in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb
Almog Kasher
2. Don’t be absurd: the term muḥāl in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb
Avigail S. Noy
3. Spatial language in the Kitāb of Sībawayhi – the case of the preposition fī/in
Mohammed Hnid
4. The Relation between frequency of usage and deletion in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb
Hanadi Dayyeh
Part II Sībawayhi in his historical and linguistic context
5. The parsing of Sībawayhi’s Kitāb, title of chapter 1, or fifty ways to lose your reader
M. G. Carter
6. Zayd, ʿAmr and ʿAbdullāhi: theory of proper names and reference in early Arabic grammatical tradition
Amal E. Marogy
7. yaqum vs qāma In the conditional context: a relativistic interpretation of the frontier between the prefixed and the suffixed conjugations of the Arabic language
Manuela E.B. Giolfo
8. A comparison between the usage of laysa in the Qurʾān and laysa in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb
Haruko Sakaedani
9. The mood of the verb following ḥattā, according to medieval Arab grammarians
Arik Sadan
Part III The Grammar of Others
10. Elements of the Syriac grammatical tradition as these relate to the origins of Arabic grammar
Daniel King
11. The medieval Karaite tradition of Hebrew grammar
Geoffrey Khan
Foreword
List of contributors
Part I Sībawayhi in the Kitāb
1. The term mafʿūl in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb
Almog Kasher
2. Don’t be absurd: the term muḥāl in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb
Avigail S. Noy
3. Spatial language in the Kitāb of Sībawayhi – the case of the preposition fī/in
Mohammed Hnid
4. The Relation between frequency of usage and deletion in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb
Hanadi Dayyeh
Part II Sībawayhi in his historical and linguistic context
5. The parsing of Sībawayhi’s Kitāb, title of chapter 1, or fifty ways to lose your reader
M. G. Carter
6. Zayd, ʿAmr and ʿAbdullāhi: theory of proper names and reference in early Arabic grammatical tradition
Amal E. Marogy
7. yaqum vs qāma In the conditional context: a relativistic interpretation of the frontier between the prefixed and the suffixed conjugations of the Arabic language
Manuela E.B. Giolfo
8. A comparison between the usage of laysa in the Qurʾān and laysa in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb
Haruko Sakaedani
9. The mood of the verb following ḥattā, according to medieval Arab grammarians
Arik Sadan
Part III The Grammar of Others
10. Elements of the Syriac grammatical tradition as these relate to the origins of Arabic grammar
Daniel King
11. The medieval Karaite tradition of Hebrew grammar
Geoffrey Khan
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