by Andrzej Zaborski

422 Pages·2013·7.41 MB·English

Polska akademia nauk — oddział w krakowie
komisja orientalistyczna
f o l i a o r i e n t a l i a
vol. l
2013
editor in chief:
Andrzej Zaborski
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contents
articles
Vit BUBENIK, John HEWSON
Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart in Arabic .................................... 9
Giuliano MION
Quelques remarques sur les verbes modaux et les pseudo-verbes
de l’arabe parlé à Tunis ................................................. 51
David WILMSEN
More on the Arabic object marker iyyā: Implications for the origin
of the Semitic notae accusativi .......................................... 67
Alexander ANDRASON
Qotel and its dynamics (Part one) ........................................ 83
Michal NEMETH
Ananiasz Zajączkowski’s Doctoral Thesis ................................ 115
Václav BLAŽEK
On the classification of the Kartvelian Languages .......................... 159
Václav BLAŽEK
On the Classification of Mongolian ..................................... 177
Joanna BOCHEŃSKA
What is the source of beauty? Ethic and aesthetic aspects
of the Kurdish fairy tales from Jalils’ family collection ...................... 215
Michał WOJCIECHOWSKI
To fight or not to fight? Various answers to the foreign political power
in the Greek books of the Old Testament ................................. 243
Tomasz HABRASZEWSKI
Kordofan in 1972, as described in the ‘Book of Travel’ (Seyahatname)
by Evliya Çelebi .................................................... 255
Marcin MICHALSKI, Joachim STEPHAN
Noch einmal zum 34. Kapitel der Goldwiesen – al-Mas‘ūdī über die Slawen ..... 283
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Con tents
Krzysztof M. CIAŁOWICZ
Lower Egyptian culture in the light of the new researches ................... 301
obituary
Andrzej PISOWICZ
Tomasz Habraszewski ............................................... 315
notes and documents
Alfredo CRISCUOLO
La polarizzazzione semantica della radice semitica QWL ................... 317
Grzegorz FIRST
The Horus cippus from the National Museum in Poznań ..................... 323
Krzysztof BARDSKI
Holy Scripture through the eyes of the Church Father ....................... 335
Andrzej PISOWICZ
Enigmatic Harandon ................................................. 341
review articles
Federico CORRIENTE
Some Comments on a New Manual of the Semitic Languages ................ 345
Vaclav BLAŽEK
Afroasiatic at a crossroad: forwards or back? .............................. 363
Andrzej ZABORSKI
What Type of Typology of Afroasiatic? .................................. 377
reviews
Kim, Dong-Hyuk. Early Biblical Hebrew, Late Biblical Hebrew, and Linguistic
Variability – A Sociolinguistic Evaluation of the Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts
(by Krzysztof J. Baranowski) .......................................... 387
Gideon Goldenberg, Semitic Languages – Features, Structures, Relations, Processes
(by Andrzej Zaborski) ................................................ 393
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Rebecca Hasselbach, Case in Semitic – Roles, Relations and Reconstruction
(by Andrzej Zaborski) .................................................396
Peter Behnstedt, Manfred Woidich, Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte, Band II:
Materielle Kultur (by Andrzej Zaborski) ..................................399
Pierre Larcher, Le système verbal de l’arabe classique. 2e édition revue et augmentée
(by Andrzej Zaborski) ................................................. 401
Warwick Danks, The Arabic Verb – Form and Meaning in the Vowel-Lengthening
Patterns (by Andrzej Zaborski) .........................................403
Gunvor Mejdell, Lutz Edzard (eds.), High vs. Low and Mixed varieties – Status,
Norms and Functions across Time and Languages (by Andrzej Zaborski) ........405
Abulḫayr Al-Išbīlī (s. V/XI), Kitābu ʻumdati ṭ-ṭabīb fī maʻrifati nnabāt likulli labīb
(by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala) .........................................409
Anna Krasnowolska, Mythes, croyances populaires et symbolique animale dans
la littérature persane (by Andrzej Pisowicz) ...............................413
Bibliographical notes
Joseph M. Brincat. Maltese and Other Languages. A Linguistic History of Malta
(by Andrzej Zaborski) .................................................417
Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun, Texte im arabischen Beduinendialekt
der Region Douz (Südtunesien) (by Andrzej Zaborski) ......................418
Orhan Elmaz, Studien zu den koranischen Hapaxlegomena unikaler Wurzeln
(by Andrzej Zaborski) .................................................419
Nader Al-Jallad. People from the Desert – Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture.
Selected Essays (by Andrzej Zaborski) ...................................419
M. Chłodnicki, K.M. Ciałowicz, A. Mączyńska (eds.) Tell El-Farkha
(by Bartosz Adamski) ................................................421
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list of contributors
Bartosz adamski, Jagiellonian University, Cracow
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Alexander andrason, Stellenbosch University
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Krzysztof J. Baranowski, University of Toronto
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Krzysztof Bardski, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw
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Václav Blažek, Masaryk University, Brno
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Joanna Bocheńska, Jagiellonian University, Cracow
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Vit Bubenik, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Krzysztof M. ciałowicz, Jagiellonian Universitym Cracow
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Federico corriente, University of Zaragoza
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Alfredo criscuolo, Università di Napoli L’Orientale
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Grzegorz first, Jagiellonian University, Cracow
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Tomasz Habraszewski , independent scholar
John Hewson, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Marcin michalski, University of Poznań
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Giuliano Mion, Università G. d’Annunzio, Chieti Pescara
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Juan Pedro monferrer-sala, University of Cordoba
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Michał nemeth, Jagiellonian University, Cracow
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Osama omari, Yarmouk University, Irbid
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Andrzej Pisowicz, Jagiellonian University, Cracow
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Michal schwarz, Masaryk University, Brno
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Joachim stephan, University of Poznań
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David wilmsen, American University of Beirut
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Michał wojciechowski, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn
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Vit Bubenik, John Hewson, Osama Omari
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Osama Omari
Yarmouk University
Irbid
tense, asPect and aktionsart in araBic
A number of specialized studies of tense and aspect in Semitic languages
are available (Cohen 1989, Eisele 1999, 2005, Fleisch 1957, Kuryłowicz 1973,
Woidich 1975, and others) with due attention paid to Arabic. This article examines
these categories in Arabic in terms of a range of recent studies of verbal systems
in Indo-European and Niger-Congo (Hewson & Bubenik 1997, Hewson and
Nurse 2002, 2005, Nurse, Rose, and Hewson 2010). It addresses some of the
theoretical problems surrounding the use of the terms “perfect” and “perfective”
and the suitability of the latter term for Semitic linguistics. It discusses the
appearance of the analytic “double-finite” forms of Arabic (of the type kuntu
katabtu ‘I had written’), the rise of the Progressive and Habitual aspects, and the
role of the particle qad. Finally, a variety of serial constructions are examined
in spoken Arabic (Algerian, Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, Jordanian, Palestinian
and Saudi), focusing on the grammaticalization processes of regional varieties
of Arabic.
introduction
This article has two main purposes. The first is to compare the Tense-
Aspect system of Arabic with such systems in other language families and
phyla, and to reduce, as far as possible, confusions of terminology. The form that
represents complete events in Semitic languages, for example, has been called
sometimes Perfect and sometimes Perfective, but its usage is quite different
from that of Perfects and Perfectives elsewhere in the world. Comrie comments
(1976:78) apropos written Arabic, that the terms Perfect and Perfective do not
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have the same meaning as when they are used in Slavic and elsewhere. Likewise
it is argued by Cohen (1989) that the term Perfective for aspectual contrasts in
languages as diverse as Slavic, Greek, and Arabic is unsatisfactory.
The second purpose is to present an overview of the development of
synthetic aspectual forms (i.e. with auxiliaries) in modern Arabic, introducing
a wide range of data from the regional vernaculars, using the categories and
nomenclature established in Sections 1-3.
1. theoretical considerations
Most linguistic studies on tense and aspect in the twentieth century were
based on proposals by the positivist philosopher Reichenbach (1947) for whom
the tenses and aspects of human languages formed a nomenclature to refer to
moments on the “line of time”, an imaginary line which represented the past, the
present and the future, as in (1) where S represents the moment of the Speech
Act, the space to the left the past, and the space to the right the future. There is
also an arrow to indicate the movement of time from left to right (1947:290)
(1)
S
--------------------------------------------│------------------------------------------>
Our understanding of time, however, has been considerably altered in the
75 years since Reichenbach’s “line of time”, by scientific research in a variety
of fields. Reichenbach’s S, as becomes a positivist philosopher, was supposed to
represent the “point of speech”, an empirical reality. But there is no such empirical
reality, for two reasons: (1) there is a difference of time between the beginning
and the end of an act of language, and (2), an even more serious objection, there
is a difference of time between the speaker and the hearer, essential poles of
any act of language. On the television screen, in reports coming in from the far
reaches of the world, for example, there are occasions where the reporter on the
screen is still listening to the question the listeners at home have already heard.
The “point of speech” is not a static position, a point on Reichenbach’s Line of
Time. In 20th century science, anyone occupying a different space, even in the
same room, necessarily also occupies a different time zone.
Positivists also treat languages as different nomenclatures for things and
events in the real world. Psychologists and linguists, however, have realized
that we do not talk about the real world directly: we can only talk about our
perceptions of the world. We do not have a God’s-eye-view of the world; we can
only talk about what we have perceived, remembered, and imagined: the major
function of language is, consequently, to represent the product of cognitive
processes: of perception, memory, and imagination.
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