Grammar as a Window onto Arabic Humanism

ISBN 10: 3447054441 / ISBN 13: 9783447054447

Published by Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006

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A Collection of Articles in Honour of Michael G. Carter. Edited by Lutz Edzard and Janet Watson. Ten articles, two of them in french. The majority of these articles dedicated to Michael G. Carter address aspects of Classical Arabic grammar. 264 Seiten, Leinen (Harrassowitz Verlag 2006). Früher EUR 64,00. Gewicht: 626 g - Gebunden/Gebundene Ausgabe.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Grammar as a Window onto Arabic Humanism
• Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3447054441
• ISBN 13: 9783447054447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Neu
• Weight: 626 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Arabische Sprache und Kultur/ Islam

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Synopsis

The majority of these articles dedicated to Michael G. Carter address aspects of Classical Arabic grammar. Ramzi Baalbaki discusses Mu'addib's treatise Daqa-'iq al-Tas.rif. Kees Versteegh considers questions of the government of 'inna in a treatise by the grammarian al-Warraq. Yasir Suleiman considers the fierce extra-linguistic debates which took place in the wake of two recent publications provocatively featuring Sibawayhi's name in the title. Pierre Larcher treats questions of authenticity surrounding a longish quotation from al-Farabi's Kitab al-'alfaz wa-l-huruf. Adrian Gully addresses the relationship between two important treatises on syntax and rhetoric from the eighth and sixth centuries AH respectively. Georges Bohas and Abderrahim Saguer consider the extent to which Arabic roots display a biliteral core which can be assigned a fairly constant semantic value. James Dickins provides an in-depth analysis of the system of verbal diatheses in Central Urban Sudanese Arabic. Werner Diem investigates the euphemistic use of the root lhq in its first and fourth forms to refer to death. Ronak Husni and Janet Watson analyse typical patterns of errors in Arabic essays written by English-speaking learners of Arabic. Finally, in a case study of the medieval translations of Aristotle's Poetics, Lutz Edzard and Adolf Kohnken look at the central status of Arabic for the transmission of Classical knowledge.