Foundations of Arab Linguistics

A group of scholars passionate about the history of Arab linguistics

FAL 3 (Paris, 2014)

The proceedings of this third conference were published in this volume:

The foundations of Arabic linguistics III: The development of a tradition: Continuity and change (edited by Georgine Ayoub & Kees Versteegh), Leiden: Brill, 2018 (“Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics; 94).

This volume includes:

  • “Case and reference: The theory of mā yanṣarif wa-mā lā yanṣarif in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb” by Georgine Ayoub (pages 11–49)
  • “The grammatical and lexicographical traditions: Mutual foundations, divergent paths of development” by Ramzi Baalbaki (pages 50–75)
  • “A twelfth-century league table of Arab grammarians” by Michael G. Carter (pages 76–95)
  • “Blind spots in Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī’s grammar of numerals” by Jean N. Druel (pages 96–114)
  • “Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in al-Sīrāfī and Ibn Sīnā” by Manuela E. B. Giolfo & Wilfrid Hodges (pages 115–145)
  • “Early pedagogical grammars of Arabic” by Almog Kasher (pages 146–166)
  • “What is meant by al-ḥāl al-muqaddara?” by Aryeh Levin (pages 167–177)
  • “Demonstratives in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb” by Arik Sadan (pages 178–189)
  • “How have the descriptions of taḥḏīr changed?” by Haruko Sakaedani (pages 190–202)
  • “Origin and conceptual evolution of the term taḫṣīṣ in Arabic grammar” by Manuel Sartori (pages 203–228)
  • “The classification of the verb in the Arab grammatical tradition from Sībawayhi to al-Jurjānī” by Zeinab A. Taha (pages 229–244)
  • “Learning Arabic in the Islamic world” by Kees Versteegh (pages 245–267)

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