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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.
List of contents
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? Astaraba i's Answer
Pierre Larcher
3. Def ining the Word within the Arabic Grammatical Tradition: Astaraba i'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 laf and mana Again: Some Aspects of Their Relationship According to the bala iyyun
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
