Approaches To Arabic Linguistics: Presented To Kees Versteegh On The Occasion Of His Sixtieth Birthday (studies In Semitic Languages And Linguistics)

Approaches to Arabic Linguistics Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Editorial board T. Muraoka VOLUME 49 Kees Versteegh Approaches to Arabic Linguistics Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday Edited by Everhard Ditters and Harald Motzki LEIDEN • BOSTON 2007 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 0081-8461 ISBN 978 90 04 16015 6 Copyright 2007 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands CONTENTS Preface .................................................................................................. xi Bibliography Kees Versteegh ............................................................ xv HISTORY Inside the Speaker’s Mind: Speaker’s Awareness as Arbiter of Usage in Arabic Grammatical Theory ......................................... Ramzi Baalbaki 3 Pragmatics and Contractual Language in Early Arabic Grammar and Legal Theory ......................................................... Michael Carter 25 Idmār in the Maānī of al-Farrā: A Grammatical Approach between Description and Explanation ......................................... Kinga Dévényi 45 Arabic alladī as a Conjunction: An old Problem and a New Approach ......................................................................................... Werner Diem 67 Les origines de la grammaire arabe, selon la tradition: description, interprétation, discussion .......................................... Pierre Larcher 113 Sībawayhi’s View of the zarf as an āmil ......................................... Aryeh Levin 135 Problems in the Medieval Arabic Theory of Sentence Types ......... Yishai Peled 149 viii contents 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 189 209 LINGUISTICS The Linguistic Analysis and Rules of Pause in Arabic ................... Salman H. Al-Ani 247 The Explanation of Homonymy in the Lexicon of Arabic ............. Georges Bohas and Abderrahim Saguer 255 The Periphrastic Bilingual Verb Construction as a Marker of Intense Language Contact. Evidence from Greek, Portuguese and Maghribian Arabic ................................................................. Louis Boumans 291 Faula, faila, faala: dispersion et régularités sémantiques dans les trois schèmes simples du verbe arabe ...........................