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TheFoundationsofArabicLinguisticsII Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics EditorialBoard A.D.RubinandC.H.M.Versteegh volume83 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/ssl The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics II KitābSībawayhi: InterpretationandTransmission Editedby AmalEleshaMarogy KeesVersteegh leiden | boston Thispublicationhasbeentypesetinthemultilingual“Brill”typeface.Withover5,100characterscovering Latin,ipa,Greek,andCyrillic,thistypefaceisespeciallysuitableforuseinthehumanities.Formore information,pleaseseewww.brill.com/brill-typeface. issn0081-8461 isbn978-90-04-30229-7(hardback) isbn978-90-04-30266-2(e-book) Copyright2015byKoninklijkeBrillnv,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillnvincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopiand HoteiPublishing. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillnvprovided thattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive, Suite910,Danvers,ma01923,usa.Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. Contents Acknowledgments vii ListofContributors viii Introduction 1 AmalE.MarogyandKeesVersteegh SomeAspectsoftheRelationbetweenEnunciationandUtterancein Sībawayhi’sKitāb.AModalCategory:wājib/ġayral-wājib 6 GeorgineAyoub TheGrammarofAffectiveLanguageintheKitāb 36 MichaelG.Carter IttisāʿinSībawayhi’sKitāb:ASemanticʿillaforDisordersinMeaningand Form 66 HanadiDayyeh WhatHappenedtotheGrammarofNumeralsafterSībawayhi? 81 JeanN.Druel RealandIrrealConditionalsinArabicGrammar:Fromal-ʾAstarābāḏīto Sībawayhi 100 ManuelaE.B.Giolfo AbstractPrinciplesinArabicGrammaticalTheory:TheOperatorAssigning theIndependentMood 120 AlmogKasher TheAnalysisofValencyinSībawayhi’sKitāb 138 GiulianoLancioniandCristinaSolimando TheNotionoftanwīnintheKitāb:CognitiveEvaluationofFunctionand Meaning 160 AmalE.Marogy vi contents Sībawayhi’sandLaterGrammarians’UsageofḥadīṯsasaGrammatical Tool 171 ArikSadan TheNotionof fāʾidaintheMedievalArabicGrammaticalTradition:Fāʾida asaCriterionforUtteranceAcceptability 184 BeataSheyhatovitch What’sItLiketobeaPersian?Sībawayhi’sTreatmentofLoanwords 202 KeesVersteegh Index 223 Acknowledgments ThisvolumecontainsaselectionofthepaperspresentedatthesecondFounda- tionsofArabicLinguisticsConference(FALII),whichwasheldintheFaculty ofAsianandMiddleEasternStudiesattheUniversityofCambridgeonSeptem- ber13–14,2012.Theeditorswishtothankthecontributorsfortheirhardwork anddedication,andfortheirpatienceandgood-naturedcooperationduring theeditingprocess. Theyalsowishtothankthepublisher’sstaff,inparticularStephaniePaalvast andMarjoleinSchaake,whodidtheirbesttoensurethatthemanuscriptwas publishedinthebestpossibleway,andwhowereapleasuretoworkwith. Amal E. Marogy wishes to state that she is greatly indebted to Michael G. Carter for being always there to guide and encourage. She expresses very warmthankstoherdearcolleagues,whomadetheFALIIconferenceasuccess ineverysense.Shealsoexpressesherdeepestgratitudetoherfamily,especially EliseandLana.HerheartfeltthanksareduetoMrsAuLaiFong,AnnaandSavio Leeandtheirfamilyfortheirgenerosityandfriendship. AmalE.Marogy Cambridge,April2015 KeesVersteegh Batenburg,April2015 List of Contributors GeorgineAyoub is professor of Arabic linguistics at the National Institute of Languages and Civilizations(INALCO),Paris,France,andaresearcheratCermominthesame university.Herfieldsofresearchincludetheoreticallinguistics,thehistoryof theArabiclanguage,Arabiclinguisticthought,andancientArabicpoetry.Her booksincludePrédicat,figures,catégories:Laquestiondelaphrasenominaleen arabelittéraire(Lille,1996).ShehaswidelypublishedonSībawayhi’sKitāband onsyntaxandsemanticsinArabiclinguistictheory. MichaelG.Carter after a D.Phil. (Oxon) taught at Sydney University (1968–1985), then Duke (1985–1986),NewYorkUniversity(1986–1996)andOsloUniversity(1996–2004) untilretirement.HisresearchinterestsareSībawayhiandearlyArabicgram- maticaltheory,andtherelationshipbetweengrammar,lawandphilosophyin MedievalIslam. HanadiDayyeh is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern LanguagesintheAmericanUniversityofBeirut.HerthesisconcentratesonSīb- awayhiinthecontextofArabichistoricallinguistics.Shehasmorethanfifteen yearsexperienceinthefieldofteachingandresearchingteachingmethodsin Arabic,bothtonativeandnon-nativespeakers,andhasproducedanumberof textbooksinthisfield. JeanN.Druel isaresearcherinthehistoryofArabicgrammar;sinceOctober2014,hehasbeen thedirectorofIDEO(DominicanInstituteforOrientalStudies)inCairo.Aftera Master’sdegreeintheologyandCopticpatristics(InstitutcatholiquedeParis, 2002),heobtainedaMaster’sdegreeinteachingArabicasaforeignlanguage (AmericanUniversityinCairo,2006),andin2012heobtainedhisPh.D.atthe UniversityofNijmegenwithathesisontheArabicgrammarians’theoriesabout thesyntaxofnumerals. ManuelaE.B.Giolfo was lecturer in Arabic at the University of Exeter (2008–2012). In 2013 she movedtotheUniversityofGenoa,wheresheisresearcherinArabiclanguage andliterature,andlecturerinArabiclanguageandphilology.From2014sheis list of contributors ix alsochercheuseassociéeattheInstitutderecherchesetd’étudessurlemonde arabeetmusulman(IREMAM)—CNRS—Aix-MarseilleUniversité.Sheholds an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Milan, and a Ph.D. in Arabic linguisticsfromAix-MarseilleUniversité. AlmogKasher hasaPh.D.degree(2007)inArabic;heisLecturerinBar-IlanUniversity.His mainfieldofstudyistheMedievalArabicgrammaticaltradition,withempha- sisonitsearlyhistory,Sībawayhi’scommentaries,andpedagogicalgrammars. GiulianoLancioni (Rome,1967)isProfessorofArabicLanguageandLiteratureatRomeUniversity. HisresearchinterestsincludethehistoryofArabiclinguisticthinking(Diminu- tivesinSībawayhi’s Kitāb, Rome, 2011) and Arabic formal and computational linguistics.Heco-edited(withLidiaBettini)ThewordinArabic(Leiden,2011) and is co-editing, with Vanna Calasso, Dār al-Islām/Dār Al-Ḥarb: Territories, people,identities(Leiden,forthc.). AmalE.Marogy isAffiliatedResearcherinNeo-AramaicStudiesattheUniversityofCambridge andisFounderDirectorofAradinCharitableTrust(www.aradin.org.uk).She holdsaPh.D.inOrientalLanguagesandCulturesfromtheUniversityofGhent (Belgium).ShetaughtArabicattheUniversityofCambridgeandwasDirector ofStudiesinAsianandMiddleEasternStudiesatKing’sCollege(Cambridge). In2010shelaunchedandorganizedthefirstFoundationsofArabicLinguistic Conference,followedbythesecondin2012.Shehasalsolaunchedanewseries ofconferencesunderthetitle‘NewHorizonsinInterculturalDialogue’(NHID), thefirstofwhichtookplaceinCambridgein2014.Herpublicationsinclude: Kitāb Sībawayhi: Syntax and pragmatics (Leiden, 2010) and The foundations ofArabiclinguistics:SībawayhiandearlyArabicgrammaticaltheory (Leiden, 2012). ArikSadan holds a B.A. in linguistics and Arabic language and literature (2001) and an M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. (2010) in Arabic language and literature, all from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research fields are Arabic grammatical thought,Arabgrammarians,Classical,ModernandColloquialArabiclinguis- tics, manuscripts in Arabic grammar and other fields. He teaches various coursesinvariousacademicinstitutionsinthesefields.Afterthepublication ofseveralarticles,hepublishedtwobooks:Acriticaleditionofthegrammatical

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