1st Edition
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume III The Arabic Linguistic Tradition
By Kees Versteegh
Copyright 1997
216 Pages
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Routledge
212 Pages
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Routledge
216 Pages
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Routledge
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Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Vol 3 is devoted to a linguistic tradition that lies outside the Western mainstream, namely that of the Middle East. The reader is introduced to the major issues and themes that have determined the development of the Arabic linguistic tradition. Each chapter contains a short extract from a translated `landmark' text followed by a commentary which places the text... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Linguistics and exegesis; Chapter 2 AI-Khalîl and the Arabic lexicon; Chapter 3 Sîbawayhi and the beginnings of Arabic grammar; Chapter 4 The debate between logic and grammar; Chapter 5 The development of linguistic theory; Chapter 6 The relationship between speech and thought; Chapter 7 The ’Ikhwân a?-?afâ’ on the theory of sound and meaning; Chapter 8 The origin of speech; Chapter 9 A new semantic approach to linguistics; Chapter 10 The conventional character of language; Chapter 11 Ibn Ma?â’ and the refutation of the grammarians; Chapter 12 Ibn Khaldûn on the history of Arabic; Chapter 13 The Arabic model and other languages;
Biography
Kees Versteegh is currently Professor of Arabic and Islam at the Middle East Institute of the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His publications include Zajjaji's Explanation of Linguistic Causes (1995), (ed.) Arabic Outside the Arab World (1994).
