Kitāb Sībawayhi: Syntax and Pragmatics

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17816-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 271 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

This book presents a comprehensive portrait of 'Kitab Sibawayhi. It offers new insights into its historical and linguistic arguments and underlines their strong correlation. The decisive historical argument highlights al-Ḥīra’s role not only as the centre of pre-Islamic Arabic culture but also as the matrix within which early Arab linguistics grew and developed. The 'Kitab'’s value as a communicative grammar forms the crux of the linguistic argument. The complementarity of syntax and pragmatics is established as a condition sine qua non for Sibawayhi#s analysis of language. The benefits of a complementary approach is reflected in the analysis of nominal sentences and related notions of ibtidÄ’and definiteness. The pragmatic principle of identifiability is uncovered as the ultimate determiner of word order.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marogy, Amal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Amal E. Marogy, Ph.D. (2007) in Oriental Languages and Cultures, is lector of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and a bilingual Arabic-Aramaic speaker.