Approaches to Arabic Linguistics: Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday (Studies in Semitic Languages & Linguistics): 49 (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004160159 ISBN 13: 9789004160156

Publisher: Brill, 2007

Synopsis

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: 'alladi; featuring; government; homonymy; 'idmar; inflection; masdar; the origin of grammatical tradition; variety conflicts; and verbal schematic (ir)regularities; waqf; and zarf.

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Review:

"The Festschrift is doubtless a worthy present to this iconic siglum of Arabic linguistics in its most challenging form." Amidu Olalekan Sanni, Journal of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 18, 2009

About the Author:

W. Everhard Ditters, Ph.D (1992) in Arabic (computational) Linguistics, Nijmegen University (the Netherlands), where he has been Assistant Professor. Recently retired, he continues to publish on formal grammars for the description of Arabic syntax and semantics and is preparing a new parser for the analysis of Modern Standard Arabic text data. Harald H. Motzki, Ph.D (1978) in Islamic studies, Bonn University, habilitation (1988), Hamburg University, is Professor of Islamic Studies at Nijmegen University (the Netherlands). He has published extensively on early Islamic sources and scholarship.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9004160159
• ISBN 13: 9789004160156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 762
• Editor: Motzki Harald, Ditters Everhard