Grammar as a Window onto Arabic Humanism: A Collection of Articles in Honour of Michael G. Carter

Edzard, Lutz und Janet Watson:

ISBN 10: 3447054441 / ISBN 13: 9783447054447

Published by Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006

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264 Seiten Hardcover, original Pappeinband in sehr gutem Zustand, innen wie außen. Bitte beachten Sie unsere Bilder. Hardcover, original cardboard binding in very good condition, immaculate inside and out. Please note our pictures. PO-80 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 612.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Grammar as a Window onto Arabic Humanism: A Collection of Articles in Honour of Michael G. Carter
• Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3447054441
• ISBN 13: 9783447054447
• Binding: 24,5 x 17,5 cm
• Edition: 1., Auflage.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 612 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modernes Antiquariat

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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.