Studies in the linguistic structure of classical Arabic / by Naphtali Kinberg ; edited by Leah Kinberg and Kees Versteegh.

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Kinberg, Naphtali [Browse]
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Book
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English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.
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1 online resource (ix, 275 pages)

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In 1997 Naphtali Kinberg died, one of the best specialists in Classical Arabic and the Arabic grammatical tradition. His main work, the index on Farrā’'s Ma‘ānī l-Qur’ān, which appeared in the Brill series Handbook of Oriental Studies (1996) will remain one of the most important reference tools for future research in this field. In this volume the editors have collected a number of articles in which Kinberg demonstrates his ability to combine modern linguistic insights with the theories of the Arab grammarians. The result is a series of detailed studies on such aspects of the structure of Arabic as conditional sentences, adverbial clauses, and the particles lākin and qad . These articles have been published before, sometimes in relatively inaccessible journals. They are now made available in a collective volume, and made accessible by an index that will facilitate using them in research on Arabic linguistics. This volume also contains an important study that was part of Kinberg's legacy, the edition and translation of a treatise on the pronunciation of the ḍād by the grammarian ‘Alī al-Mansūrī (12th/18th century). This treatise is an important document on a hitherto neglected aspect of Arabic phonetic studies. It discusses the phonetic status of the sound that was regarded by the Arabs themselves as the most characteristic sound of their language.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • Preliminary Material / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • PREFACE / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • AN INVESTIGATION OF THE COMBINATION 'N LAW IN CLASSICAL ARABIC / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • NOTES ON THE SHIFT FROM ACCUSATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS TO PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES IN HEBREW AND ARABIC / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • A STUDY OF LA-'IN CLAUSES IN EARLY LITERARY ARABIC / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • ADVERBIAL CLAUSES AS TOPICS IN ARABIC: ADVERBIAL CLAUSES IN FRONTAL POSITION SEPARATED FROM THEIR MAIN CLAUSES / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • CAUSAL AND ADVERSATIVE MEANINGS OF THE PARTICLE LĀKIN IN ARABIC / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • SOME TEMPORAL, ASPECTUAL, AND MODAL FEATURES OF THE ARABIC STRUCTURE LA-QAD + PREFIX TENSE VERB / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • SOME MODAL, ASPECTUAL AND SYNTACTIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE USE OF QAD IN THE VERBAL SYSTEM OF CLASSICAL ARABIC / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • FIGURATIVE USES, POLYSEMY AND HOMONYMY IN SYSTEMS OF TENSE, MOOD AND ASPECT / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • SEMI-IMPERFECTIVES AND IMPERFECTIVES: A CASE STUDY OF ASPECT AND TENSE IN ARABIC PARTICIPIAL CLAUSES / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • THE CONCEPTS OF ELEVATION AND DEPRESSION IN MEDIEVAL ARABIC PHONETIC THEORY / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • TREATISE ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE ḌĀD / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • INDEX / NAPHTALI KINBERG
  • STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS / NAPHTALI KINBERG.
ISBN
  • 1-280-46434-8
  • 9786610464340
  • 1-4175-9086-6
  • 90-474-0048-8
OCLC
191953240
Doi
  • 10.1163/9789047400486
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