In the Shadow of Arabic : Studies Presented to Ramzi Baalbaki on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday.

The collection of articles in this volume is dedicated to Ramzi Baalbaki of the American University of Beirut on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It provides an interesting glimpse into the early medieval and modern traditions related to the Arabic language, its grammar, historical development, an...

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Main Author: Urfahʹlī, Bilāl
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2011.
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Ideology, Grammar-Making and the Standardization of Arabic / Yasir Suleiman
  • The Andalusian Grammarians, Are They Different? / Michael G. Carter
  • Khabar / Inshāʾ, une fois encore / Pierre Larcher
  • From Lexical to Grammatical: Nafs and Other Identifiers / Nadia Anghelescu
  • La coordination à un constituant du noyau en arabe / Hassan Hamzé
  • Mustaqīm, muḥāl, ḥasan, qabīḥ Les criteres de recevabilite dans le Kitāb de Sībawayhi / Georgine Ayoub
  • An Afrikaans Footnote to the History of Arabic Grammar: Sheikh Ismail Ganief's Grammar of Arabic (ca. 1958) / Kees Versteegh
  • Pioneers of Arabic Linguistic Studies / Monique Bernards
  • Al-Zajjāj and Glassmaking An Expanded Range of Options in a Comparative Context / Wadād al-Qāḍī
  • Against the Arabic Grammarians Some Poems / Geert Jan van Gelder
  • Linguistic Observations on the Theonym Allāh / Aziz Al-Azmeh
  • Arabic Datives, Ditransitives, and the Preposition li- / Karin Christina Ryding
  • Dialects of the Dative Shift: A Re-examination of Sībawayhi's Dispute with the Naḥwiyyūn over Ditransitive Verbs with Two Object Pronouns / David Wilmsen
  • Homonymie, polysémie et critères de distinction / Ibrahim Ben Mrad
  • Sulamī's Treatise on the Science of the Letters (ʿilm al-ḥurūf) / Gerhard Böwering
  • Style Formulaire et parallélisme dans le Coran / Georges Bohas
  • Styles in Premodern Arabic Popular Epics / Peter Heath
  • Ghazal and Grammar: al-Bāʿūnī's Taḍmīn Alfiyyat Ibn Mālik fī l-Ghazal / Bilal Orfali
  • The Qurʾān as a Late Antique Text / Angelika Neuwirth
  • A Formal Description of Sentences in Modern Standard Arabic / Everhard Ditters
  • Index of Arabic Terms
  • Index of Proper Nouns
  • Notes on the Contributors.