Approaches to Arabic Linguistics: Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of his Sixtieth BirthdayHarald Motzki, Everhard Ditters For a lifetime Kees Versteegh played a leading role in Arabic linguistics, dialects (diglossia, creolization, pidginization), the history of Arabic grammar, and other fields related to Arabic. From among his global contacts, colleagues contributed to a Liber Amicorum in appreciation of his stimulating efforts to reopen, deepen and complete our knowledge of Arabic Grammar and Linguistics. In three sections, History, Linguistics and Dialects, 27 contributors discuss (alphabetically): bilingual verb construction; contractual language; current developments; language description; language use; lexicology; organization of language; pause; sentence types; and specific topics: ʾallaḏī; featuring; government; homonymy; ʾiḍmār; inflection; maṣdar; the origin of grammatical tradition; variety conflicts; and verbal schematic (ir)regularities; waqf; and ẓarf. |
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Abū adjectif al-Farrā al-hamdu li-llāhi lladī alā Alcalá alladī amal āmil analysis Arabic grammar Arabic language Bedouin c’est Classical Arabic code-switching colloquial Arabic consonants construction context d’état caractéristique d’une deux devenir dialects diathèse interne dictionary diglossia Dīwān Egyptian elements état être etymon example faala fī d-dār fīhā filiyya fushā grammarians Haqqi Hebrew hikāya idmār illi inta Ismāīl Juba Juba Arabic jumla Kitāb Koehler and Baumgartner l’arabe langue lexemes lexical literary Arabic Maānī Mansour masdar matrix meaning mesolectal Modern Standard Arabic morphological mubtada Muhammad nominal noun participle particles pattern periphrastic peut phonological phrase predicate preposition pronoun qāimun qu’il Qurān racines relative clause Šarh schème semantic sémantique sens sentence types Sībawayhi speaker speech stem structure suffix syntactic syntax tion tradition translation valeur varieties of Arabic verb verbal Versteegh vowel voyelle waqf Woidich words xabar zarf Zayd zaydun