The proceedings of this first conference were published in this volume:
The foundations of Arabic linguistics: Sībawayhi and early Arabic grammatical theory (edited by Amal E. Marogy), Leiden: Brill, 2012 (“Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics”; 65).
This volume includes:
- “The term mafʿūl in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb” by Almog Kasher (pages 1–26)
- “Don’t be absurd: The term muḥāl in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb” by Avigail S. Noy (pages 27–58)
- “Spatial language in the Kitāb of Sībawayhi: The case of the preposition fī/in” by Mohamed Hnid (pages 59–74)
- “The relation between frequency of usage and deletion in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb” by Hanadi Dayyeh (pages 75–98)
- “The parsing of Sībawayhi’s Kitāb, title of Chapter 1, or Fifty ways to lose your reader” by Michael G. Carter (pages 99–118)
- “Zayd, ʿAmr and ʿAbdullāhi: Theory of proper names and reference in early Arabic grammatical tradition” by Amal E. Marogy (pages 119–134)
- “Yaqum vs qāma in the conditional context: A relativistic interpretation of the frontier between the prefixed and the suffixed conjugations of the Arabic language” by Manuela E. B. Giolfo (pages 135–160)
- “A comparison between the usage of laysa in the Qurʾān and laysa in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb” by Haruko Sakaedani (pages 161–172)
- “The mood of the verb following ḥattā, according to medieval Arab grammarians” by Arik Sadan (pages 173–185)
- “Elements of the Syriac grammatical tradition as these relate to the origins of Arabic grammar” by Daniel King (pages 187–209)
- “The medieval Karaite tradition of Hebrew grammar” by Geoffrey Khan (pages 211–230)
