In the shadow of Arabic : the centrality of language to Arabic culture : studies presented to Ramzi Baalbaki on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday
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In the shadow of Arabic : the centrality of language to Arabic culture : studies presented to Ramzi Baalbaki on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday
(Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, v. 63)
Brill, 2011
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The collection of articles in this volume is dedicated to Ramzi Baalbaki of the American University of Beirut on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It provides an interesting glimpse into the early medieval and modern traditions related to the Arabic language, its grammar, historical development, and demonstrate its centrality to other fields of study such as qur'anic studies, adab, folk literature, sufism, and poetry.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Bibliography Ramzi Baalbaki
History of Arabic Grammar
1. Ideology, Grammar-Making and the Standardization of Arabic
Yasir Suleiman
2. The Andalusian Grammarians, Are They Diffferent?
Michael G. Carter
3. Khabar / Insha', une fois encore
Pierre Larcher
4. From Lexical to Grammatical: Nafs and Other Identifijiers
Nadia Anghelescu
5. La coordination a un constituant du noyau en arabe
Hassan Hamze
6. Mustaqim, muhal, hasan, qabih: Les criteres de recevabilite dans le Kitab de Sibawayhi
Georgine Ayoub
7. An Afrikaans Footnote to the History of Arabic Grammar: Sheikh Ismail Ganief's Grammar of Arabic (ca. 1958)
Kees Versteegh
Profiles of Grammarians
8. Pioneers of Arabic Linguistic Studies
Monique Bernards
9. Al-Zajjaj and Glassmaking: An Expanded Range of Options in a Comparative Context
Wadad al-Qadi
10. Against the Arabic Grammarians: Some Poems
Geert Jan van Gelder
Linguistics
11. Linguistic Observations on the Theonym Allah
Aziz Al-Azmeh
12. Arabic Datives, Ditransitives, and the Preposition li-
Karin Christina Ryding
13. Dialects of the Dative Shift: A Re-examination of Sibawayhi's Dispute with the Nahwiyyun over Ditransitive Verbs with Two Object Pronouns
David Wilmsen
Style, Lexicography, and Phonosymbolism
14. Homonymie, polysemie et criteres de distinction
Ibrahim Ben Mrad
15. Sulami's Treatise on the Science of the Letters ('ilm al-huruf)
Gerhard Boewering
16. Style formulaire et parallelisme dans le Coran
Georges Bohas
17. Styles in Premodern Arabic Popular Epics
Peter Heath
Arabic Contextualized
18. Ghazal and Grammar: al-Ba'uni's Tadmin Alfijiyyat Ibn Malik fi l-Ghazal
Bilal Orfali
19. The Qur'an as a Late Antique Text
Angelika Neuwirth
20. A Formal Description of Sentences in Modern Standard Arabic
Everhard Ditters
Index of Arabic Terms
Index of Proper Nouns
Notes on the Contributors
by "Nielsen BookData"