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Subject(s)

• Sībawayh, ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān active 8th century—Kitāb [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—History [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 51. [More in this series]
• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; v. 51 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-319) and indexes.

Contents

• Preface
• The background of the Kitāb
• Introduction
• Early "grammatical" activity and the Kitāb
• Grammarians cited in the Kitāb
• Grammatical works contemporary with the Kitāb
• Fundamental analytical tools in the Kitāb
• Samā' (attested data)
• Qiyās (analogy)
• ʻIlla (cause)
• Taqdīr (suppletive insertion)
• ʻAmal (government)
• Aṣl (origin)
• Group membership
• Sībawayhi's analytical methods
• The preservation of "basic rules"
• The classification of data within a coherent system
• The balance between form and meaning
• The role of the speaker and listener
• The use of mitāl and Šāhid
• The tools of checking system validity
• The internal unity of the Kitāb
• Comparison with subsequent authors
• From Sībawayhi to Mubarrad
• The degeneration of Sībawayhi's approach and the predominance of formal considerations
• The pedagogical implications
• Attempts to restore the role of meaning.

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Other title(s)

Sībawayhi's analytical methods within the context of the Arabic grammatical theory

ISBN

• 9789004168138 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004168133 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008014324

OCLC

217263701

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