Approaches to Arabic linguistics : : presented to Kees Versteegh on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday / / edited by Everhard Ditters and Harald Motzki.

• Superior document: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 49
• TeilnehmendeR: Versteegh, C. H. M.; Ditters, Everhard.; Motzki, Harald.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 49.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (794 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / H. Motzki and E. Ditters -- Inside the speaker’s mind: Speaker’s awareness as arbiter of usage in arabic grammatical theory / Ramzi Baalbaki -- Pragmatics and contractual language in early arabic grammar and legal theory / Michael Carter -- ‘Iḍmār in the Ma’ānī of al-Farrā: A grammatical approach between description and explanation / Kinga Dévényi -- Arabic allaḍī as a conjunction: An old pProblem and a new approach / Werner Diem -- Les origines de la grammaire arabe, selon la tradition: Description,interprétation, discussion / Pierre Larcher -- Sībawayhi’s View of the ẓarf as an ‘āmil / Aryeh Levin -- Problems in the medieval arabic theory of sentence types / Yishai Peled -- Arabic avant la lettre. divine, prophetic, and heroic arabic / Stefan Wild -- Inflection and government in arabic according to spanish missionary grammarians from Damascus (XVIIIth Century): Grammars at the crossroads of two systems / Otto Zwartjes -- The linguistic analysis and rules of pause in arabic / Salman H. Al-Ani -- The explanation of homonymy in the lexicon of arabic / Georges Bohas and Abderrahim Saguer -- The periphrastic bilingual verb construction as a marker of intense language contact. Evidence from greek, portuguese and maghribian arabic / Louis Boumans -- Fa’Ula, Fa’Ila, Fa’Ala: Dispersion et régularités sémantiques dans les trois schèmes simples du verbe arabe / Joseph Dichy -- Featuring as a disambiguation tool in arabic natural language processing / Everhard Ditters -- Arabic on the media: Hybridity and styles / Mushira Eid -- The use of morphological patterns in arabic grammars of Turkic / Robert Ermers -- Lexical gaps in arabic: Evidence from dictionaries / Jan Hoogland -- Masdar formation / Joost Kremers -- Méthodologie linguistique: Organisation de la langue arabe. Organisation générale des langues / André Roman -- How to be Kool in arabic writing: Linguistic observations from the side line / Gert Borg -- \'Hello, i say, and welcome! Where from, these riding men?\' Arabic popular poetry and political satire: A study in intertextuality from Jordan / Clive Holes -- Notes on the dialects of the ‘Lēgät and Hamädah ah of Southern Sinai / Rudolf de Jong -- Classical and colloquial arabic archaisms / Alan S. Kaye -- Do they speak the same language? Language use in Juba local courts / Catherine Miller -- Paradigmatic stability and final laryngeals in nigerian arabic: Why history repeats itself, without actually doing so / Jonathan Owens -- Some aspects of Diglossia as reflected in the vocabulary of literary and colloquial arabic / Judith Rosenhouse -- Everything you always wanted to know about ‘äl, yi’ūl ‘to say’ in egyptian arabic / Manfred Woidich -- Index / H. Motzki and E. Ditters.