Studies in Arabic Syntax and Semantics

Studies in Arabic Syntax and Semantics
Author: Ariel A. Bloch
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1991
Genre: Arabic language
ISBN: 9783447031479

In view of the great upsurge of interest in syntax in recent years, it is remarkable that there are so few studies of Arabic syntax, and the works of a diachronic orientation are virtually nonexistent. The main portion of this book is historical, dealing with fundamental mechanisms of syntactic and semantic change. Here Bloch has made a substantial contribution to the historical syntax of Arabic. Throughout the book the phenomena are viewed form a broad perspective that takes into account evidence not only from all periods and genres of Arabic (Ancient Poetic, Koranic, Classical, Middle, Modern Literary and Colloquial) but also from other Semitic (and occasionally non-Semitic). In the second printing are almost exclusively corrections of misprints and other minor alterations made.

Grammar and Semantics in Medieval Arabic

Grammar and Semantics in Medieval Arabic
Author: Adrian Gully
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136778535

The study focuses on a famous work by a mediaeval Arab grammarian who was once called the 'second Sibawayhi' (the pioneer of Arabic grammatical studies).

Grammar and Semantics in Medieval Arabic

Grammar and Semantics in Medieval Arabic
Author: Adrian Gully
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136778608

The study focuses on a famous work by a mediaeval Arab grammarian who was once called the 'second Sibawayhi' (the pioneer of Arabic grammatical studies).

Arabic Language and Linguistics

Arabic Language and Linguistics
Author: Reem Bassiouney
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2012-04-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1589018850

Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today's political and economic spheres. The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich history: earliest grammatical accounts date from the 8th century and include full syntactic, morphological, and phonological analyses of the vernaculars and of Classical Arabic. In recent years the academic study of Arabic has become increasingly sophisticated and broad. This state-of-the-art volume presents the most recent research in Arabic linguistics from a theoretical point of view, including computational linguistics, syntax, semantics, and historical linguistics. It also covers sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and discourse analysis by looking at issues such as gender, urbanization, and language ideology. Underlying themes include the changing and evolving attitudes of speakers of Arabic and theoretical approaches to linguistic variation in the Middle East.

Arabic Language and Linguistics

Arabic Language and Linguistics
Author: Reem Bassiouney
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2012-04-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1589018915

Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today’s political and economic spheres. The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich history: earliest grammatical accounts date from the 8th century and include full syntactic, morphological, and phonological analyses of the vernaculars and of Classical Arabic. In recent years the academic study of Arabic has become increasingly sophisticated and broad. This state-of-the-art volume presents the most recent research in Arabic linguistics from a theoretical point of view, including computational linguistics, syntax, semantics, and historical linguistics. It also covers sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and discourse analysis by looking at issues such as gender, urbanization, and language ideology. Underlying themes include the changing and evolving attitudes of speakers of Arabic and theoretical approaches to linguistic variation in the Middle East.

The Syntax of Arabic

The Syntax of Arabic
Author: Joseph E. Aoun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2010
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521650178

A guide to Arabic syntax covering a broad variety of topics including argument structure, negation, tense, agreement phenomena, and resumption. The discussion of each topic sums up the key research results and provides new points of departure for further research.

Experimental Arabic Linguistics

Experimental Arabic Linguistics
Author: Dimitrios Ntelitheos
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2021-07-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027259607

This volume is the first systematic attempt to survey current progress in the relatively new field of Experimental Arabic Linguistics. While experimental work on Arabic linguistics has appeared sporadically in several venues in the past, the chapters in this book provide a more coherent picture of the exciting directions which the field is pursuing. They provide insights into the complex nature of the Arabic language and how native speakers process it, using cutting-edge experimental methodologies in the fields of phonetics, psycholinguistics, and typical and atypical language development. This volume is of particular interest to scholars, researchers, and students at both the undergraduate and graduate level, in the fields of linguistics and language studies and can be a point of reference for scholars and researchers in the fields of theoretical and experimental Arabic linguistics.

The Semantics of Form in Arabic in the Mirror of European Languages

The Semantics of Form in Arabic in the Mirror of European Languages
Author: David Justice
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 437
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027230161

Justice's first aim in this volume is to demystify the Arabic language, which is widely perceived as difficult to learn, and has been characterised as ambiguous and confusingly polysemous. The central concern of this three-dimensional portrait of Classical Arabic is a version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that language is a determinant of other aspects of culture. But rather than focusing on the possible influences of language on thought, Justice is intersted in connections between language and language use or langue and parole. Among the topics treated are: the difficulty of Arabic; morphosyntax and Whorfian semantics; the role of duality in Arabic; iconicity; a population profile of vocabulary; the syntactic cut' of Arabic; and the relation between causatives and verbs that ascribe qualities to an object. This erudite and thought-provoking volume will be of interest not only to Arabists but to linguistic anthropologists in general.

The Lexical Semantics of the Arabic Verb

The Lexical Semantics of the Arabic Verb
Author: Peter John Glanville
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2018
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0198792735

This book explores Arabic derivational morphology, focusing on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic forms from a lexical semantic perspective. It explains why verbs with seemingly unrelated meanings share the same phonological shape, and analyses sets of words containing the same consonantal root to arrive at a common abstraction.

Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar

Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar
Author: Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027255652

In light of recent generative minimalism, and comparative parametric theory of language variation, the book investigates key features and parameters of Arabic grammar. Part I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, including the Past/Perfect/Perfective ambiguity akin to the very synthetic temporal morphology, collocating time adverb construal, and interpretability of verbal Number as pluractional. Part II is dedicated to nominal architecture, the behaviour of bare nouns as true indefinites, the count/mass dichotomy (re-examined in light of general, collective, and singulative DP properties), the mirror image ordering of serialized adjectives, and N-to-D Move in synthetic possession, proper names, and individuated vocatives. Part III examines the role of CP in time and space anchoring, double access reading (in a DAR language such as Arabic), sequence of tense (SOT), silent pronominal categories in consistent null subject languages (including referential and generic pro), and the interpretability of inflection. Semantic and formal parameters are set out, within a mixed macro/micro-parametric model of language variation. The book is of particular interest to students, researchers, and teachers of Arabic, Semitic, comparative, typological, or general linguistics.