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Title

The explanation of linguistic causes : az-Zaǧǧāǧī's theory of grammar : introduction, translation, commentary / Kees Versteegh.

Author

Zajjājī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq, -approximately 950.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Versteegh, C. H. M.

Description

xvi, 310 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 75

Uniform Title

• Kitāb al-Īḍāḥ fī ʻilal al-naḥw. English
• Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 75.

Alternative Title

Kitāb al-Īḍāḥ fī ʻilal al-naḥw.

Subjects

• Linguistics > Arab countries > History
• Linguistics > Early works to 1800
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Early works to 1800

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-279) and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction: Az-Zaggagi and his book on the explanation of linguistic causes -- I. The parts of speech -- II. The disagreement of the grammarians about the definitions of noun, verb and particle -- III. The knowledge of the definitions of noun, verb and particle -- IV. The theories about the verb and the infinitive: which one of them is derived from the other? -- V. The theory of linguistic causes -- VI. The theory about declension and speech: which one of them is prior to the other? -- VII. The theory about the declension: why was it introduced into speech? -- VIII. The theory about the declension: is it a vowel or a consonant? -- IX. The theory about the declension: why does it occur at the end of the word, rather than at the beginning or in the middle? -- X. The theory about [the problem] which of these three parts - the noun, the verb and the particle - is entitled to declension? --
• XI. The theory about the noun, the verb and the particle: which one of them comes first in rank and hierarchy? -- XII. The theory concerning the verbs: which one of them is prior to the others? -- XIII. The present verb and its real nature -- XIV. What is the reason for calling grammar nahw? -- XV. The difference between 'grammar', 'lexicography', 'declension' and 'glosses' -- XVI. The theory about the lexical meaning of the [words] 'nominative', 'accusative' and 'genitive' -- XVII. The use of learning grammar -- XVIII. The reason for the introduction of nunation into speech, and its different aspects -- XIX. The reason for the heaviness of the verb and the lightness of the noun -- XX. The reason why nouns cannot have a jussive -- XXI. The reason why verbs cannot have a genitive -- XXII. The theory about the dual and the plural -- XXIII. The theory about the 'alif, the y and the w in the dual and the plural: are they the declension or the consonants of the declension?

ISBN

1556196113 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95013720

OCLC

• 32272216
• ocm32272216

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries