Kitāb Sībawayhi: Syntax and Pragmatics

Kitāb Sībawayhi: Syntax and Pragmatics
Author: Amal Marogy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9047440528

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This book presents a comprehensive portrait of the Kitāb Sībawayhi. It offers new insights into its historical and linguistic arguments and underlines their strong correlation. The decisive historical argument highlights al-Ḥīra’s role, not only as the centre of pre-Islamic Arabic culture, but also as the matrix within which early Arab linguistics grew and developed. The Kitāb’s value as a communicative grammar forms the crux of the linguistic argument. The complementarity of syntax and pragmatics is established as a condition sine qua non for Sībawayhi’s analysis of language. The benefits of a complementary approach are reflected in the analysis of nominal sentences and related notions of ibtidā’ and definiteness. The pragmatic principle of identifiability is uncovered as the ultimate determiner of word order.

The (Un)Translatability of Qur’anic Idiomatic Phrasal Verbs

The (Un)Translatability of Qur’anic Idiomatic Phrasal Verbs
Author: Ali Yunis Aldahesh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-07-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0429655207

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Qur’anic idiomaticity, in its all aspects, poses a great deal of challenge to Qur’an readers, learners, commentators, and translators. One of the most challenging aspects of Qur’anic idiomaticity is Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs, where significances of proper Arabic verbs are entirely fused with significances of prepositions following them to produce new significances that have nothing to do with the basic significances of those verbs and prepositions. By examining a corpus of ten of the most influential English translations of the Qur’an, this study scrutinizes how some translators of the Qur’an have dealt with the phenomenon of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs, the difficulties that they have encountered when translating them into English, and the strategies that they have employed in their attempts to overcome the inherent ambiguity of such expressions and provide their functional-pragmatic equivalents for English readership. The study proposes a working model for analysing and assessing the translation of the Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs and provides a number of theory-based recommendations for translators in general and Qur’an translators in particular.

Issues of Syntax and Semantics

Issues of Syntax and Semantics
Author: Zeinab Ahmed Taha
Publisher:
Total Pages: 658
Release: 1995
Genre: Arabic language
ISBN:

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Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume III

Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume III
Author: Kees Versteegh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134727828

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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 in its social and intellectual context. The chosen texts frequently offer scope for comparison with the Western tradition. By contrasting the two systems, the Western and the Middle Eastern, this book serves to highlight the characteristics of two very different systems and thus stimulate new ideas about the history of linguistics. This book presumes no prior knowledge of Arabo-Islamic culture and Arabic language, and is invaluable to anyone with an interest in the History of Linguistics. Kees Versteegh is currently Professor of Arabic and Islam at the Middle East Institute of the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His publications include The Explanation of Linguistic Causes (1995),Ed. Arabic Outside the Arab World (1994)

عربية

عربية
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2004
Genre: Arabic language
ISBN:

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A Grammar of Kumam

A Grammar of Kumam
Author: 乃·稗田
Publisher:
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN: 9784863371491

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The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics

The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics
Author: Amal E. Marogy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004223592

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This volume offers in-depth introductions into major aspects of the Foundations of Arabic Linguistics, early Syriac and medieval Hebrew linguistic traditions. It presents S?bawayhi in the context of his grammatical legacy and reviews his work in the light of modern theories.