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Date: 13 May 2008
From:Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at if.uib.no>
Subject:Two new articles posted on JAIS site

Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/jais
http://www.uib.no/jais


The following articles have just been posted at the sites given above.  
(Please make a note of the first address, at Lancaster University, as  
the page, which has been redesigned, is simpler to use and will soon  
be the main site.)

Volume Six (2005-2006):

Peter Marteinson. La Disjonction de la voix narrative et la  
manipulation de la vraisemblance dans Le Rocher de Tanios d’Amin  
Maalouf. (Adobe Acrobat 7.0 PDF file, 147 kB, pp. 80-94). HTML Unicode  
version to be posted later.

Abstract: This investigation of the narrative voice in Maalouf’s Prix- 
Goncourt win¬ning novel Le Rocher de Tanios observes the manner in  
which the multi¬plicity of enunciators, in the form of secondary  
narrators “cited” intertextually by the primary narrator, engenders  
a subtle play upon points of view, epochs, and cultural outlooks, an  
artifice which lends the novel a breadth in its generic status and  
veridictory grounding. It manages to be both an entirely possible,  
realistic narrative, and a fantastical legend, in which the “strange  
and the marvelous”, in the words of one of the secon¬dary narrators,  
form a counterpoint against the rigorous historical research of the  
primary narrative. The result is a tale in which the appearance of a  
coherent and inevitable progression of providence melds with a  
capricious logic of chance events. The work raises the question of  
fiction and history and answers yes to each one; it is not only a  
fiction aspiring to verisimili¬tude, but conversely, it is also an  
actual history transformed into a novel – into the sort of novel that  
leads the reader to question his sense of truth and falsehood.

Volume Seven (2007):

Abdessatar Mahfoudhi. The Place of the Etymon and the Phonetic Matrix  
in the Arabic Mental Lexicon. (Adobe Acrobat 7.0 PDF file, 347 kB, pp.  
74-102). HTML Unicode version to be posted later.

Abstract: Two units have traditionally been proposed as the basis of  
the organization of the Arabic lexicon: the root and the stem. The  
root approach, the most common, is basʃed on the root and pattern  
theory of Arabic morphology (e.g., McCarthy 1981), which contends that  
derivation is based on the interleaving of consonantal roots into  
patterns. By contrast, the stem ap¬proach is based on the stem-based  
theory of Arabic morphology (e.g., Benmamoun 1999) whose main tenet is  
that the stem is the basis of deri¬vation. More recently, Bohas (e.g.,  
2000) has challenged these two ap¬proaches. He proposes that the  
Arabic lexicon is organized in three layers under three units: the  
phonetic matrix, the etymon, and the ‘radical’. These three  
proposals have different implications for the Arabic mental lexicon.  
This study discusses these theories with a focus on the validity of  
the no¬tions of the etymon and matrix in the Arabic mental lexicon in  
light of old and new psycholinguistic evidence. Keywords: Arabic  
morphology, root, pattern, etymon, phonetic matrix, psycholinguistics,  
lexicon

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