Grammarians and Grammatical Theory in the Medieval Arabic Tradition (Variorum Collected Studies, 782)

Professor Baalbaki deals here with the Arabic grammatical tradition and the analytical methods of the medieval Arab grammarians. The essays included open new perspectives on the most authoritative work on Arabic grammar, Sibawayhi's tome or Kitab, on the relation between grammatical study and other areas of linguistic enquiry such as Qur'anic readings and stylistics, and on the techniques which the grammarians employed to explain and rationalize usage and to incorporate within their system the vast body of dialectal material which the corpus comprises. The author has sought to highlight the central position which Arabic grammar enjoys within the wider Arab culture, and in so doing has examined several aspects of a legacy which has been revered over a millennium and which forms to this very day the backbone of the teaching of grammar in the Arab world. Cover Series Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Preface SῙBAWAYHI'S KITᾹB I The book in the grammatical tradition: Development in content and methods The Book in the Islamic World: The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East, ed. George. N. Atiyeh. New York: State University of New York Press, 1995 II Some aspects of harmony and hierarchy in Sībawayhi's grammatical analysis Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik II. Wiesbaden, 1979 III A possible early reference to Sībawaihi's Kitāb? Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft CXXXI. Wiesbaden, 1981 IV A contribution to the study of technical terms in early Arabic grammar: The term aṣl in Sībawayhi's Kitāb A Miscellany of Middle Eastern Articles: In Memoriam - Thomas Muir Johnstone, ed. A.K. Irvine, R.B. Serjeant and G. Rex Smith. Essex: Longman, 1988 V Coalescence as a grammatical tool in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb Arabic Grammar and Linguistics, ed. Yasir Suleiman. Edinburgh: Curzon Press, 1999 GRAMMARIANS AND RELATED DISCIPLINES VI The treatment of qirā'āt by the second and third century grammarians Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik XV. Wiesbaden, 1985 VII The relation between naḥw and balāġa: A comparative study of the methods of Sībawayhi and Ǧurǧānī Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik XI. Wiesbaden, 1983 VIII A balāġī approach to some grammatical šawāhid Proceedings of the Colloquium on Arabic Grammar, Budapest, 1-7 September 1991, ed. Kinga Dévényi and Tamás Iványi. Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University, 1991 IX Early Arab lexicographers and the use of Semitic languages Berytus XXXI. Beirut, 1983 X Kitāb al- 'ayn and Jamharat al-lugha Early Medieval Arabic: Studies on al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad, ed. Karin C. Ryding. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1988 GRAMMATICAL THEORY XI Arab grammatical controversies and the extant sources of the second and third centuries A.H. Studia Arabica et Islamica: Festschrift for Iḥsān 'Abbās, ed. Wadād al-Qāḍī. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1981 XII Tawahhum: An ambiguous concept in early Arabic grammar Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies XLV, part 2. London, 1982 XIII 'Icrāb and binā' from linguistic reality to grammatical theory Studies in the History of Arabic Grammar II. Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on the History of Arabic Grammar, Nijmegen, 27 April-1 May 1987, ed. Kees Versteegh and Michael G. Carter. Amesterdam|Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1990 XIV Reclassification in Arab grammatical theory Journal of Near Eastern Studies LIV. Chicago, Ill, 1995 XV Expanding the macnawī cawāmil: Suhaylī's innovative approach to the theory of regimen al-Abḥāth XLVII. Beirut, 1999 XVI The occurrence of 'inšā' instead of ẖabar: The gradual formulation of a grammatical issue Linguistique arabe et sémitique I. Paris, 2000 XVII Bāb al-fā' [fā' + subjunctive] in Arabic grammatical sources Arabica XLVIII. Leiden, 2001 XVIII Teaching Arabic at university level: Problems of grammatical tradition Proceedings of the Colloquium on Arabic Linguistics, Bucharest, August 29 - Sept. 2,1994, part 1, ed. Nadia Anghelescu and Andrei A. Avram. Bucharest: University of Bucharest, 1995 Index Baalbaki compiles 18 articles on the various methods of analysis adopted by medieval Arab grammarians and their attempts to justify and defend linguistic usage, primarily in view of their belief that a grammarian should unveil The Wisdom that characteristically lies at the root of any usage. Five of them focus on the Kitab of Sibawayhi (d. 180/796), the first extant grammatical source, which set out most of the field's concepts, terms, and analytical tools that remain the backbone of teaching Arabic grammar today. Another five survey some schools of grammarians. The rest explore grammatical theory, focusing on controversies. They were originally published 1979-2001. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR