19.1971, Books: Discipline of Ling/Syntax/Morphology: Baalbaki

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Date: 16-Jun-2008
From: Liesbeth Kanis < kanis at brill.nl >
Subject: The Legacy of the Kit?b: Baalbaki

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Title: The Legacy of the Kit?b 
Subtitle: S?bawayhi?s Analytical Methods within the Context of the Arabic Grammatical
Theory

Series Title: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Brill
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Book URL: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=26210 

Author: Ramzi Baalbaki

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004168138 Pages: 352 Price: Europe EURO 129
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004168138 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 199

Abstract:

This book is a comprehensive study of the Kit?b of S?bawayhi (d. 180/796),
undoubtedly the most authoritative work in the long history of Arabic
grammar. It carefully examines the methodological concepts and methods that
underline S?bawayhi's analysis of Arabic and the way in which these methods
evolved at the hands of later grammarians. Placing the Kit?b within the
context of early Arabic philological activity, this book analyzes a wide
range of its passages and demonstrates the coherency of its author's system
of grammatical analysis and the interrelatedness of his analytical tools
and notions. In particular, S?bawayhi's huge influence on the overall
Arabic grammatical tradition is highlighted throughout the book. This
notwithstanding, it is argued that most later grammarians largely neglect
the semantic dimension which vividly features in S?bawayhi's approach to
language as a social behavior and his reconstruction of the internal
thinking of the speaker and the listener. 

About the Author
Ramzi Baalbaki, Ph.D. 1978), University of London, is the Margaret
Weyerhaeuser Jewett Professor of Arabic at the American University of
Beirut. He has published extensively on the history of the Arabic
grammatical tradition. Several of his articles were collected in a Variorum
volume entitled Grammarians and Grammatical Theory in the Medieval
Arabic Tradition (2004).

Readership
All those interested in the Arabic grammatical theory, in particular
morphology and syntax, as well as Arabists in general and researchers in
the history of linguistics having a basic knowledge of Arabic.

<b>Keywords:</b> Grammar, linguistics, morphology, syntax, pragmatics,
rhetorics, Qu'ranic readings

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Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Written In: English  (eng)

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