Lutz Edzard Ordre des livres

In the context of Arabic and Semitic, it is natural to treat case and mood together, as Arab grammarians used the same terms for both independent and dependent forms. This volume primarily focuses on case in Semitic and Afroasiatic languages, addressing controversial data and discussions. Contributions include analyses of Akkadian, Hebrew, Arabic, Ethio-Semitic, Berber, and select Cushitic and Omotic languages. One paper explores the diachronic development of case and mimation in Akkadian, while another examines accepted and controversial aspects of case in Biblical Hebrew, suggesting reanalyses. A critical reading of al-Zaǧǧāǧī’s ʾĪḍāḥ is presented, alongside a summary of recent discussions on case in historical Arabic varieties. The volume also follows up on the topic of Proto-Semitic and Proto-Arabic case. Additionally, it delves into the complexities of defining case and state in Berber and the relevance of the “nominative” vs. “absolutive” distinction within a broader Afroasiatic context. The final paper concludes the volume with general discussions on the verbal system in Semitic, proposing a four-stage model.

The Festschrift dedicated to Jan Retsö on the occasion of his official retirement in 2015 contains within the field of Arabic and Semitic linguistics and neighboring disciplines 29 papers by the following contributors: Slavic linguistics: Silje Susanne Alvestad and Antoaneta Granberg; Arabic linguistics and philology: Werner Arnold, Rudolf de Jong, Werner Diem, Melanie Hanitsch, Barry Heselwood/Janet Watson, Otto Jastrow, Ablahad Lahdo, Pierre Larcher, Gunvor Mejdell, Maria Persson and Ori Shachmon; Arabic literature, science and history of ideas: Lena Ambjörn, Stephan Guth, Pernilla Myrne and Georges Tamer; Hebrew linguistics: Silje Susanne Alvestad/Lutz Edzard, Mats Eskhult, Steven Fassberg, Bo Isaksson, Na? ama Pat-El, and Ofra Tirosh-Becker; Aramaic, Ethiopic, and comparative Semitic linguistics: Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee, Janne Bondi Johannessen/Lutz Edzard, Geoffrey Khan, Fekede Menuta/Ronny Meyer, Sina Tezel and Kjell Magne Yri. The Festschrift is of interest to both scholars and students working in the disciplines of Arabic, Hebrew, Semitic and Afroasiatic linguistics and to linguists and philologists working in the realms of Old Church Slavonic, Slavic in general, Hebrew Bible and the Qur? an.

The majority of these articles dedicated to Michael G. Carter address aspects of Classical Arabic grammar. Ramzi Baalbaki discusses Mu'addib’s treatise Daqa-'iq al-Tas. rif. Kees Versteegh considers questions of the government of 'inna in a treatise by the grammarian al-Warraq. Yasir Suleiman considers the fierce extra-linguistic debates which took place in the wake of two recent publications provocatively featuring Sibawayhi’s name in the title. Pierre Larcher treats questions of authenticity surrounding a longish quotation from al-Farabi's Kitab al-'alfaz wa-l-huruf. Adrian Gully addresses the relationship between two important treatises on syntax and rhetoric from the eighth and sixth centuries AH respectively. Georges Bohas and Abderrahim Saguer consider the extent to which Arabic roots display a biliteral core which can be assigned a fairly constant semantic value. James Dickins provides an in-depth analysis of the system of verbal diatheses in Central Urban Sudanese Arabic. Werner Diem investigates the euphemistic use of the root lhq in its first and fourth forms to refer to death. Ronak Husni and Janet Watson analyse typical patterns of errors in Arabic essays written by English-speaking learners of Arabic. Finally, in a case study of the medieval translations of Aristotle’s Poetics, Lutz Edzard and Adolf Köhnken look at the central status of Arabic for the transmission of Classical knowledge.

The papers in this collection address a wide range of data-related and methodological issues in Arabic and Semitic linguistics. The contributions fall under three categories: (I) “Modern perspectives on Comparative Semitic and Afroasiatic” (papers by Olga Kapeliuk, Rainer Voigt and Andrzej Zaborski); (II) “Modern perspectives on native Arabic grammatical theory” (papers by Michael Carter, Rafi Talmon and Mohammed Nekroumi); and (III) “Modern linguistic and literary theory applied to Arabic” (papers by Pierre Larcher, Utz Maas, Jeffrey Heath, Lutz Edzard and Joseph Bell). In an attempt to foster international scholarly understanding, this volume brings together a variety of different scientific “schools” or “traditions” in the realms of Arabic and Semitic linguistics, from Israel, from Maghreb, from USA, from France, from Norway and from Germany.