Preface |
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The Growth of the Arabic Linguistic Tradition: a Historical Survey; Early grammatical thinking to the end of the second/eighth century; From Sibawayhi to al-Mubarrad; The codification of grammar in the fourth/tenth century; Maturity and decline (fifth/eleventh-tenth/fifteenth centuries) |
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Facts, Rules, and Arguments; Data; The integrative logic of qiyas; Grammar and reality |
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2 Sibawayhi's Kitab: An Enunciative Approach to Syntax |
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Problems and Hypotheses; Interpreting the Kitab; The enunciative hypothesis |
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Predication and Enunciation: Sibawayhi's Theory of the Utterance |
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3 The Canonical Theory of Grammar: Syntax (Nahw) |
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Basic Concepts; Parts of speech; l'rab and bina; Sentence and utterance |
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The Theory of Government; General principles; The governing operators; Abstractness in the theory of government |
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Government and Predication; The two models; Two models or just one? |
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4 The Canonical Theory of Grammar: Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics (Tasrif) |
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Morphology; Verbal morphology; Derived nominal morphology |
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Phonology; Substitution (badal); Erasure (hadj); Mutation (qalb); Transfer (naql); Gemination (idgam); The late phonological processes |
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Phonetics; The phonetics of the grammarians; The phonetics of the reciters; The phonetics of the physiologists. Notes |
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5 Major Trends in the Study of Texts |
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`Greek' Rhetoric (Xataba) |
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The Foundations of Jurisprudence |
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Arabo-Islamic Rhetoric (Balaga) |
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6 Rhetoric and Grammatical Semantics |
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The General Organization of Grammatical Semantics |
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General Operations on Nominals |
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The Scope of Predications |
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Inter-utterance Relationships |
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Proper and Figurative Meaning |
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Over generation in the Xalilian System |
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The Orientalists and the Xalilian System |
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Bibliography; A Selection |
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References; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources |
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Indexes |
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