The Word in Arabic

ISBN-13: 9789004201439 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 268 str.

Giuliano Lancioni;Lidia Bettini

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Giuliano Lancioni and Lidia Bettini

Section I: The Word in the Arabic Linguistic Tradition
1. The Concept of kalima in Old Arabic Grammar
Aryeh Levin
2. What is a kalima? Astaraba i's Answer
Pierre Larcher
3. Def ining the Word within the Arabic Grammatical Tradition: Astaraba i's Predicament
Jean-Patrick Guillaume
4. Ellipsis in the Arabic Linguistic Thinking (8th-10th century)
Cristina Solimando

Section II: The Word in the Arabic Rhetoric Tradition
5. 'Word' in the linguistic thinking of Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani
Antonella Ghersetti
6. On laf and mana Again: Some Aspects of Their Relationship According to the bala iyyun
Lidia Bettini

Section III: The Arabic Word in Contemporary Linguistic Theory
7. Levels of Analysis of the Word in Arabic
Georges Bohas
8. Automatic Extraction of Prepositions in a Corpus of Modern Standard Arabic Written Texts
Giuliano Lancioni

Section IV: The Arabic Word in Contact
9. Heavy and Light Borrowing of Arabic Verbs
Kees Versteegh
10. 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

O autorze

Giuliano Lancioni , Ph. D. (1995) in Linguistics, Roma Tre University, is Professor of Linguistics at Roma Tre University. He has published extensively on the history of the Arabic grammatical tradition and on Arabic generative and computational linguistics. Lidia Bettini is professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Florence. Her research interests include Arabic medieval linguistic thinking and modern Arabic Bedouin dialects. Her recent publications include the volumes Contes féminins de la Haute Jézireh syrienne - Matériaux ethno-linguistiques d'un parler nomade oriental , (Firenze, 2006) and Min sawalif al-harim fi l-Jazira al-suriyya al-'ulya , published by the Ministry of Culture of the Syrian Arab Republic, Damascus.