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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar [Browse]
• Arabic language—Morphology [Browse]

Related name

• Bettini, Lidia [Browse]
• Lancioni, Giuliano [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 62. [More in this series]
• Brill eBook titles
• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 62 [More in this series]

Summary note

This is the first monograph-length volume entirely devoted to the theoretical and empirical issues raised by the definition of ‘word’ and related concepts in Arabic, both at the historical and synchronic level. Some of the best-known scholars in the field of Arabic linguistics debate such issues as the technical definition of words and morphemes in the Arabic grammatical and rhetorical traditions, the theoretical status of the root and its interactions with morphology, the analysis of word in the computer treatment of Arabic texts, some relevant phenomena in the contact of Arabic with other languages. The result is a fresh portrait of some of the most interesting research currently under way in Arabic linguistics from different theoretical and methodological viewpoints.

Notes

The present volume is a selection of papers presented at the First Colloquium of Arabic Linguistics (CAL-01), held at Roma Tre University, Rome, March 1-3, 2007.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction / Giuliano Lancioni and Lidia Bettini
• The Concept of kalima in Old Arabic Grammar / Aryeh Levin
• What is a kalima? ʾAstarābāḏī’s Answer / Pierre Larcher
• Defining the Word within the Arabic Grammatical Tradition: ʾAstarābāḏī’s Predicament / Jean-Patrick Guillaume
• Ellipsis in the Arabic Linguistic Thinking (8th–10th century) / Cristina Solimando
• ‘Word’ in the linguistic thinking of ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī / Antonella Ghersetti
• On lafḏ̣ and maʿnā Again: Some Aspects of Their Relationship According to the balāġiyyūn / Lidia Bettini
• Levels of Analysis of the Word in Arabic / Georges Bohas
• Automatic Extraction of Prepositions in a Corpus of Modern Standard Arabic Written Texts / Giuliano Lancioni
• Heavy and Light Borrowing of Arabic Verbs / Kees Versteegh
• When Arabic Resonates in the Words of an African Language: Some Morphological and Semantic Features of Arabic Loanwords and Calques in Bambara / Francesco Zappa
• Index of Names
• Subject Index
• Index of Arabic Words
• Language Index
• List of Contributors.

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ISBN

• 9786613310590
• 9781283310598
• 1283310597
• 9789004206427
• 9004206426

LCCN

2011020327

OCLC

758335960

Doi

10.1163/ej.9789004201439.i-267

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