The word in Arabic / edited by Giuliano Lancioni and Lidia Bettini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bettini, Lidia.

Lancioni, Giuliano.

Series:

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 62.

Brill eBook titles

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Grammar.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Morphology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613310590

9781283310598

1283310597

9789004206427

9004206426

OCLC:

758335960

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004201439.i-267 DOI