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Title In the shadow of Arabic the centrality of language to Arabic culture : studies presented to Ramzi Baalbaki on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday / edited by Bilal Orfali
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 572 pages) : illustrations, color portrait
Series Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; v. 63
Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 63. 0081-8461
Contents Acknowledgements; Preface; Bibliography Ramzi Baalbaki; History of Arabic Grammar; Ideology, Grammar-Making and the Standardization of Arabic; The Andalusian Grammarians, Are They Diffferent?; Khabar / Inshā', une fois encore; From Lexical to Grammatical: Nafs and Other Identifijiers; La coordination à un constituant du noyau en arabe; Mustaqīm, muhāl, hasan, qabīh: Les critères de recevabilité dans le Kitāb de Sībawayhi; An Afrikaans Footnote to the History of Arabic Grammar: Sheikh Ismail Ganief's Grammar of Arabic (ca. 1958); Profiles of Grammarians
Pioneers of Arabic Linguistic StudiesAl-Zajjāj and Glassmaking: An Expanded Range of Options in a Comparative Context; Against the Arabic Grammarians: Some Poems; Linguistics; Linguistic Observations on the Theonym Allāh; Arabic Datives, Ditransitives, and the Preposition li-; Dialects of the Dative Shift: A Re-Examination of Sībawayhi's Dispute with the Nahwiyyūn over Ditransitive Verbs with Two Object Pronouns; Style, Lexicography, and Phonosymbolism; Homonymie, polysémieet critères de distinction; Sulamī's Treatise on the Science of the Letters ('ilm al-hurūf)
Style formulaire et parallélisme dans le CoranStyles in Premodern Arabic Popular Epics; Arabic Contextualized; Ghazal and Grammar:al-Bā'ūnī's Tadmīn Alfiyyat Ibn Mālik fī l-Ghazal; The Qur'ān as a Late Antique Text; A Formal Description of Sentences in Modern Standard Arabic; Index of Arabic Terms; Index of Proper Nouns; Notes on the Contributors
Summary The collection of articles in this volume is dedicated to Ramzi Baalbaki of the American University of Beirut on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It provides an interesting glimpse into the early medieval and modern traditions related to the Arabic language, its grammar, historical development, and demonstrate its centrality to other fields of study such as qur'?nic studies, adab, folk literature, sufism, and poetry
Notes "Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2012."
Bibliography "Bibliography of Ramzi Baalbaki."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Arabic language -- Grammar -- History
Semitic languages -- History
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
Arabic language -- Grammar
Semitic languages
Genre/Form Festschriften
History
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Urfahʹlī, Bilāl.
Baʻlabakkī, Ramzī.
ISBN 9789004216136
9004216138