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Date: 19 Aug 2010
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: New Book

Title: Kit?b S?bawayhi 
Subtitle: Syntax and Pragmatics 
Series Title: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.nl
	

Book URL: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=34113 


Author: Amal Marogy

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004178168 Pages: 238 Price: Europe EURO 108
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004178168 Pages: 238 Price: U.S. $ 160


Abstract:

This book presents a comprehensive portrait of the Kit?b S?bawayhi. It
offers new insights into its historical and linguistic arguments and
underlines their strong correlation. The decisive historical argument
highlights al-??ra's role, not only as the centre of pre-Islamic Arabic
culture, but also as the matrix within which early Arab linguistics grew
and developed. The Kit?b's value as a communicative grammar forms the crux
of the linguistic argument. The complementarity of syntax and pragmatics is
established as a condition sine qua non for S?bawayhi's analysis of
language. The benefits of a complementary approach are reflected in the
analysis of nominal sentences and related notions of ibtid?' and
definiteness. The pragmatic principle of identifiability is uncovered as
the ultimate determiner of word order. 

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