<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Sat 04 Jul 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:New Dissertation on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 04 Jul 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:<a href="mailto:myavrum@ysu.am">myavrum@ysu.am</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:New Dissertation on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Dear All,<br>A new dissertation (in German) on the development of morphological and<br>semantic Analyses in the Arabic Linguistic Tradition (from Sibawaih to<br>al-Astarabadhi) came out few weeks ago (the author is Marat Yavrumyan).<br><br>A free access under this link:<br><a href="http://opus.ub.uni-bayreuth.de/volltexte/2009/568/">http://opus.ub.uni-bayreuth.de/volltexte/2009/568/</a><br><br>Following is the Abstract of the Dissertation:<br>---<br><br>Arabic-Muslim culture is distinguished by the interest of scientific<br>thinking towards the realities of Arabic. In the complex of sciences,<br>which was called al-‛uluwm al-arabiyya (Arabic sciences) and was<br>presented as a unity of disciplines (Koranic studies, Islamic law,<br>lexicography, metrics etc.) based on Arabic and a conceptual system<br>developed in Arabic, a linguistic constituent was discernible from the<br>very beginning. In the course of time and within a specific<br>historic-cultural context it stood apart and today is known as the Arabic<br>linguistic tradition.<br>Today the historical discussion of Arabic linguistic tradition is in no<br>need of independent justification; the presentation of theoretical<br>positions of the Arabic medieval grammarians is still relevant. This<br>brings up the issue whether or to what extent it is preferable to<br>critically interpret them in the light of new systems and methods of<br>linguistic description. Such an approach allows the concepts of the ALT to<br>be understood with greater clarity.<br>The adequate perception and interpretation of research on the Arabic<br>linguistic tradition as well its modern linguistic methodological base<br>remains one of the current issues in the study of Arabic linguistics.<br>Successful research in recent years in this sphere gives the possibility<br>of a principally new approach for both the individual problems of the<br>tradition as well as its general logic.<br>“The Arabs […] said what they wanted to say, but it might not be what we<br>wanted to hear; nor did they always say it in the way we are accustomed<br>to. Our task is not to think everything out for them but to find out what<br>they thought and how.”: Within the context of such an approach to the<br>problem this study aims to adequately present and interpret the methods<br>and fundamental conceptions of morphological and semantic analysis in the<br>Arabic linguistic tradition and is based on the studies of Arab<br>grammarians such as Sibawaih (d. 180/793), az-Zamakhshari (d. 538/1144),<br>Ibn Yaish (d. 643/1245) and al-Astarabadhi (d. 688/1286).<br>To begin the study a brief presentation of general structure of the<br>linguistic tradition is offered. Then basic concepts and methodological<br>solutions are presented (aSl, far‛, samaa‛, qiyaas etc.) and<br>the research framework is developed (morphological and semantic<br>description of verbal base, word derivation).<br>Thereafter the morphological analysis of the linguistic tradition is<br>presented in terms of word-form (kalim) modelling (tamthiyl) and word base<br>(binaa’) and grouping of the description classes (as classification). The<br>modelling constituents are discussed in detail (wazn, aSl, binaa’, faa’<br>al-fi‛l, ‛ain al-fi‛l, laam al-fi‛l etc.).<br>This is followed by a consideration of the morphological units used (Harf<br>aSliy, Harf zaa’id, taD‛iyf, muftariq, mujtami‛, az-zawaa’id<br>al-arba‛ etc.) and the functional-structural types of word base<br>description (al-gharaD min az-ziyaada, ziyaada li-ma‛naa, ilhaaq).<br>The methodological solutions necessary for a classification of stems are<br>considered in terms of the inner logic of the system. These are presented<br>as a dynamic-causal classification with an open-ended data source during<br>the early period of the tradition, and as a derivative classification with<br>closed sets of data at the later period, after the early 4th/10th century.<br>The semantic analysis of the tradition is presented as an enumeration of<br>semantic components, which are presented as a metalanguage of semantic<br>description. Then the study forms the word stock of this metalanguage,<br>followed by the discussion of the question whether these components are<br>composite or minimal (yuwDaH bi-hi al-ashyaa’). A separate theme for<br>discussion is semantic markers (mughaalaba, takhfiyf, takthiyr, ilaaj<br>etc.) and the conceptions of semantic multiplicators (ziyaada/nuqSaan<br>etc.).<br>The lexical-semantic groups of verbs (‛amal, al-khiSaal,<br>al-‛ilal wa-l-aHzaan, za‛za‛at wa-taHarruk, aS-Sawt) and<br>the so-called word-formation meanings of the tradition (Sayyara, adkhala,<br>ja‛l, tasmiya, ta‛riyD, Saara SaaHib, wajada (li-), salb etc.)<br>are distinguished.<br>A list of terminology, with brief explanations, used in the ALT is also<br>briefly presented in a Glossary.<br><br><br>-- <br>Dr. Marat Yavrumyan<br>"Semitic and Arabic Linguistics" MA-Program<br>Department of Arabic Studies<br>Yerevan State University<br>1 Alex Manoogian Street<br>0025, Yerevan<br><br>Tel./Fax: +374 (0) 10 573330<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:myavrum@ysu.am">myavrum@ysu.am</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 04 Jul 2009</div></body></html>