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Approaches to Arabic Linguistics: Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics) PDF

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Approaches to Arabic Linguistics Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Editorial board T. Muraoka VOLUME 49 Kees Versteegh Approaches to Arabic Linguistics Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday Edited by Everhard Ditters and Harald Motzki LEIDEN • BOSTON 2007 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 0081-8461 ISBN 978 90 04 16015 6 Copyright 2007 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. 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Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands CONTENTS Preface .................................................................................................. xi Bibliography Kees Versteegh ............................................................ xv HISTORY Inside the Speaker’s Mind: Speaker’s Awareness as Arbiter of Usage in Arabic Grammatical Theory ......................................... 3 Ramzi Baalbaki Pragmatics and Contractual Language in Early Arabic Grammar and Legal Theory ......................................................... 25 Michael Carter (cid:2)Id(cid:3)mār in the Ma(cid:4)ānī of al-Farrā(cid:2): A Grammatical Approach between Description and Explanation ......................................... 45 Kinga Dévényi Arabic allad(cid:5)ī as a Conjunction: An old Problem and a New Approach ......................................................................................... 67 Werner Diem Les origines de la grammaire arabe, selon la tradition: description, interprétation, discussion .......................................... 113 Pierre Larcher Sībawayhi’s View of the za(cid:3) rf as an (cid:4)āmil ......................................... 135 Aryeh Levin Problems in the Medieval Arabic Theory of Sentence Types ......... 149 Yishai Peled viii contents Arabic avant la lettre. Divine, Prophetic, and Heroic Arabic ....... 189 Stefan Wild Inflection and Government in Arabic According to Spanish Missionary Grammarians from Damascus (XVIIIth Century): Grammars at the Crossroads of Two Systems ............................. 209 Otto Zwartjes LINGUISTICS The Linguistic Analysis and Rules of Pause in Arabic ................... 247 Salman H. Al-Ani The Explanation of Homonymy in the Lexicon of Arabic ............. 255 Georges Bohas and Abderrahim Saguer The Periphrastic Bilingual Verb Construction as a Marker of Intense Language Contact. Evidence from Greek, Portuguese and Maghribian Arabic ................................................................. 291 Louis Boumans Fa(cid:4)ula, fa(cid:4)ila, fa(cid:4)ala: dispersion et régularités sémantiques dans les trois schèmes simples du verbe arabe ..................................... 313 Joseph Dichy Featuring as a Disambiguation Tool in Arabic Natural Language Processing ....................................................................... 367 Everhard Ditters Arabic on the Media: Hybridity and Styles ..................................... 403 Mushira Eid The Use of Morphological Patterns in Arabic Grammars of Turkic ............................................................................................... 435 Robert Ermers Lexical Gaps in Arabic: Evidence from Dictionaries ...................... 455 Jan Hoogland contents ix Masd(cid:3) ar Formation .............................................................................. 475 Joost Kremers Méthodologie linguistique: organisation de la langue arabe. Organisation générale des langues ............................................... 501 André Roman DIALECTS How to be KOOL in Arabic Writing: Linguistic Observations from the Side Line .......................................................................... 527 Gert Borg “Hello, I say, and welcome! Where from, these riding men?” Arabic Popular Poetry and Political Satire: a Study in Intertextuality from Jordan ........................................................... 543 Clive Holes Notes on the Dialects of the ‘Lēgāt and H(cid:3)amāda(cid:5)(cid:3) h of Southern Sinai ................................................................................................. 565 Rudolf de Jong Classical and Colloquial Arabic Archaisms ..................................... 595 Alan S. Kaye † Do They Speak the Same Language? Language Use in Juba Local Courts .................................................................................... 607 Catherine Miller Paradigmatic Stability and Final Laryngeals in Nigerian Arabic: Why History Repeats itself, without Actually Doing so ............. 639 Jonathan Owens Some Aspects of Diglossia as Reflected in the Vocabulary of Literary and Colloquial Arabic ..................................................... 653 Judith Rosenhouse

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For a lifetime, Kees Versteegh played a leading role in Arabic linguistics, dialects (diglossia, creolization, pidginization), the history of Arabic grammar, and other fields related to Arabic.
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