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This is the first monograph-length volume entirely devoted to the theoretical and empirical issues raised by the definition of 'word' and related concepts in Arabic, both at the historical and synchronic level. Some of the best-known scholars in the field of Arabic linguistics debate such issues as the technical definition of words and morphemes in the Arabic grammatical and rhetorical traditions, the theoretical status of the root and its interactions with morphology, the analysis of word in the computer treatment of Arabic texts, some relevant phenomena in the contact of Arabic with other languages. The result is a fresh portrait of some of the most interesting research currently under way in Arabic linguistics from different theoretical and methodological viewpoints.

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Author:   Giuliano Lancioni ,  Lidia Bettini
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   62
Weight:   0.619kg
ISBN:  

9789004201439

ISBN 10:   9004201432
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   14 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements Introduction Giuliano Lancioni and Lidia Bettini Section I: The Word in the Arabic Linguistic Tradition 1. The Concept of kalima in Old Arabic Grammar Aryeh Levin 2. What is a kalima? 'Astarabadi's Answer Pierre Larcher 3. Defijining the Word within the Arabic Grammatical Tradition: 'Astarabadi's Predicament Jean-Patrick Guillaume 4. Ellipsis in the Arabic Linguistic Thinking (8th-10th century) Cristina Solimando Section II: The Word in the Arabic Rhetoric Tradition 5. 'Word' in the linguistic thinking of 'Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani Antonella Ghersetti 6. On lafd and ma'na Again: Some Aspects of Their Relationship According to the balagiyyun Lidia Bettini Section III: The Arabic Word in Contemporary Linguistic Theory 7. Levels of Analysis of the Word in Arabic Georges Bohas 8. Automatic Extraction of Prepositions in a Corpus of Modern Standard Arabic Written Texts Giuliano Lancioni Section IV: The Arabic Word in Contact 9. Heavy and Light Borrowing of Arabic Verbs Kees Versteegh 10. When Arabic Resonates in the Words of an African Language: Some Morphological and Semantic Features of Arabic Loanwords and Calques in Bambara Francesco Zappa Index of Names Subject Index Index of Arabic Words Language Index List of Contributors

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Giuliano Lancioni, Ph. D. (1995) in Linguistics, Roma Tre University, is Professor of Linguistics at Roma Tre University. He has published extensively on the history of the Arabic grammatical tradition and on Arabic generative and computational linguistics. Lidia Bettini is professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Florence. Her research interests include Arabic medieval linguistic thinking and modern Arabic Bedouin dialects. Her recent publications include the volumes Contes feminins de la Haute Jezireh syrienne - Materiaux ethno-linguistiques d'un parler nomade oriental, (Firenze, 2006) and Min sawalif al-harim fi l-Jazira al-suriyya al-'ulya, published by the Ministry of Culture of the Syrian Arab Republic, Damascus.

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