Date: 16-Jun-2008 From: Liesbeth Kanis <kanisbrill.nl> Subject: The Legacy of the Kitāb: Baalbaki E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Legacy of the Kitāb
Subtitle: Sībawayhi’s Analytical Methods within the Context of the Arabic Grammatical
Theory
Series Title: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
Published: 2008
Publisher: Brill
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Author: Ramzi Baalbaki
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004168138 Pages: 352 Price: Europe EURO 129
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004168138 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 199
Abstract:
This book is a comprehensive study of the Kitāb of Sībawayhi (d. 180/796), undoubtedly the most authoritative work in the long history of Arabic grammar. It carefully examines the methodological concepts and methods that underline Sībawayhi's analysis of Arabic and the way in which these methods evolved at the hands of later grammarians. Placing the Kitāb within the context of early Arabic philological activity, this book analyzes a wide range of its passages and demonstrates the coherency of its author's system of grammatical analysis and the interrelatedness of his analytical tools and notions. In particular, Sībawayhi's huge influence on the overall Arabic grammatical tradition is highlighted throughout the book. This notwithstanding, it is argued that most later grammarians largely neglect the semantic dimension which vividly features in Sībawayhi's approach to language as a social behavior and his reconstruction of the internal thinking of the speaker and the listener.
About the Author Ramzi Baalbaki, Ph.D. 1978), University of London, is the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Professor of Arabic at the American University of Beirut. He has published extensively on the history of the Arabic grammatical tradition. Several of his articles were collected in a Variorum volume entitled Grammarians and Grammatical Theory in the Medieval Arabic Tradition (2004).
Readership All those interested in the Arabic grammatical theory, in particular morphology and syntax, as well as Arabists in general and researchers in the history of linguistics having a basic knowledge of Arabic.
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