The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics: Sībawayhi and Early Arabic Grammatical Theory (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 65), ed. by Amal Elesha Marogy, University of Cambridge. With a foreword by M.G. Carter, University of Sydney, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2012

Il volume che raccoglie parte degli interventi presentati a un convegno tenuto nel 2010 presso l’Università di Cambridge: «Foundations of Arabic Linguistics Conference» [FALC1] è strutturato in tre parti. Acknowledgements [vii] - Foreword [ix] - List of Contributors [xi]. I. SĪBAWAYHI IN THE KITĀB: Almog Kasher, «The Term Maf'ūl in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb» [p. 38] - Avigail S. Noy, «Don’t Be Absurd: The Term Muhāl in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb» [p. 27] - Mohamed Hnid, «Spatial Language in the Kitāb of Sībawayhi – The Case of the Preposition fī/in» [p. 59] - Hanadi Dayyeh, «The Relation between Frequency of Usage and Deletion in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb» [p. 75]. II. SĪBAWAYHI IN HIS HISTORICAL AND LINGUISTIC CONTEXT: M.G. Carter, «The Parsing of Sībawayhi’s Kitāb, Title of Chapter 1, or Fifty Ways to Lose Your Reader» [p. 101] - A.E. Marogy, «Zayd, cAmr and 'Abdullāhi: Theory of Proper Names and Reference in Early Arabic Grammatical Tradition» [p. 119] - M.E.B. Giolfo, «yaqum vs qāma in the Conditional Context: A Relativistic Interpretation of the Frontier between the Prefixed and the Suffixed Conjugations of the Arabic Language» [p. 135] - Haruko Sakaedani, «A Comparison between the Usage of laysa in the Qur’ān and laysa in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb» [p. 161] - Arik Sadan, «The Mood of the Verb Following ðattā according to Medieval Arab Grammarians» [p. 173]. III. THE GRAMMAR OF OTHERS: D. King, «Elements of the Syriac Grammatical Tradition as these Relate to the Origins of Arabic Grammar» [p. 189] - Geoffrey Khan, «The Medieval Karaite Tradition of Hebrew Grammar» [ p. 211] - Subject Index [p. 231] - Index of Names [p. 234]