Semantique et analogie dans la tradition grammaticale arabe: La valeur des formes verbales
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Georgine Ayoub
Résumé
According to the majority of western Arabists, the Arabic grammatical tradition which developed from the 8th to the 15th century is not significant to the study of the semantics of verb forms and, incidentally, to the enunciative aspect of language. However, as early as 1946, an important linguist, Emile Benveniste, emphasized that the Arabic grammatical tradition had perceived, better than other traditions, the category of person in language. If such is the case, how can the Arabic tradition have so well grasped the enunciative aspect of the category of person and so badly grasped the enunciative and semantic aspect of the other verbal categories? This misunderstanding, as we see it, is the result of a common premise that the relevance of form – syntactic inflections – and the relevance of meaning are exclusive from each other. Here, we try to show, in two stages – analysis of modal inflections and analysis of indicative inflections – how formal theory and semantic analyses are linked in these models, making essential use of analogy.
Résumé
According to the majority of western Arabists, the Arabic grammatical tradition which developed from the 8th to the 15th century is not significant to the study of the semantics of verb forms and, incidentally, to the enunciative aspect of language. However, as early as 1946, an important linguist, Emile Benveniste, emphasized that the Arabic grammatical tradition had perceived, better than other traditions, the category of person in language. If such is the case, how can the Arabic tradition have so well grasped the enunciative aspect of the category of person and so badly grasped the enunciative and semantic aspect of the other verbal categories? This misunderstanding, as we see it, is the result of a common premise that the relevance of form – syntactic inflections – and the relevance of meaning are exclusive from each other. Here, we try to show, in two stages – analysis of modal inflections and analysis of indicative inflections – how formal theory and semantic analyses are linked in these models, making essential use of analogy.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements ix
- The natural: Its meanings and functions in the history of linguistic thought 1
- On grammatical gender as an arbitrary and redundant category 24
- Penser l'espace, penser l'espèce: Modélisation des affinités linguistiques 37
- On the origins of the participle as a part of speech 50
- Grammar as a liberal art in antiquity 67
- Priscian's pedagogy: A critique of the Institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo 80
- L'horizon de retrospection du Mithridate de Conrad Gessner (1555) 89
- Montaigne's view of skepticism and language in the Essais 103
- Competing models for a 17th century universal language: A study of the dispute between George Dalgarno and John Wilkins 112
- La notion d'unité sonore dans les grammaires françaises des 17ème et 18ème siècles 120
- Une "Grammaire générale et raisonnée" en 1651 (1635?): Description et intérpretation d'une découverte empirique 131
- 'Analogy': The history of a concept and a term from the 17th to the 19th century 156
- Une écriture de l'histoire: La Lettre à M. Pinglin sur l'histoire de la science grammaticale 169
- Quels facteurs (linguistiques ou historiques) considérer dans l'accord en français? Étude de certains cas dans le Journal de la langue française (1784) d'Urbain Domergue 183
- Nicolas Beauzée: La clé inexploitée de la phonétique française 197
- Colonialism, scientific expeditions and linguistics in 19th century Brazil 212
- The concept of civilization in historic Brazilian linguistics 228
- The European linguistic tradition and early missionary grammars in Central and South America 236
- Steinthal and the limits of etymology: The special case of Chinese 252
- An epistemological assessment of the Neogrammarian movement 262
- Privileged languages and others in the history of historical-comparative linguistics 274
- The nationalist turn: Dutch linguistics and German philosophy in the 18th and early 19th centuries 288
- Représentations de l'autre: L'italien et les Italiens dans quelques dictionnaires bilingues des XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles 308
- L'utile et l'agréable dans les méthodes familières et autres ouvrages utilisés pour l'apprentissage du français aux Pays-Bas (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) 321
- La reformulation dans la lexicographie des XVIe-XIXe siècles: L'emergence de la syntaxe française 333
- Words and concepts for child language learning in late 19th versus late 20th century America 344
- La lexicologie, un savoir scolarisable? 356
- Aspects de la linguistique prescriptive: Les perceptions des vocabulaires de specialité à travers des dictionnaires français (XIXe et XXe s.) 372
- Semantique et analogie dans la tradition grammaticale arabe: La valeur des formes verbales 386
- Meaning by collocation: The Firthian filiation of corpus linguistics 404
- Kristeva on the encyclopedists: Linguistics, semanalysis, and the epistemology of Enlightenment science 416
- La preuve de Gaifman: Réflexions sur la méthode de construction des grammaires catégorielles 432
- Name index 441
- Subject index 447
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements ix
- The natural: Its meanings and functions in the history of linguistic thought 1
- On grammatical gender as an arbitrary and redundant category 24
- Penser l'espace, penser l'espèce: Modélisation des affinités linguistiques 37
- On the origins of the participle as a part of speech 50
- Grammar as a liberal art in antiquity 67
- Priscian's pedagogy: A critique of the Institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo 80
- L'horizon de retrospection du Mithridate de Conrad Gessner (1555) 89
- Montaigne's view of skepticism and language in the Essais 103
- Competing models for a 17th century universal language: A study of the dispute between George Dalgarno and John Wilkins 112
- La notion d'unité sonore dans les grammaires françaises des 17ème et 18ème siècles 120
- Une "Grammaire générale et raisonnée" en 1651 (1635?): Description et intérpretation d'une découverte empirique 131
- 'Analogy': The history of a concept and a term from the 17th to the 19th century 156
- Une écriture de l'histoire: La Lettre à M. Pinglin sur l'histoire de la science grammaticale 169
- Quels facteurs (linguistiques ou historiques) considérer dans l'accord en français? Étude de certains cas dans le Journal de la langue française (1784) d'Urbain Domergue 183
- Nicolas Beauzée: La clé inexploitée de la phonétique française 197
- Colonialism, scientific expeditions and linguistics in 19th century Brazil 212
- The concept of civilization in historic Brazilian linguistics 228
- The European linguistic tradition and early missionary grammars in Central and South America 236
- Steinthal and the limits of etymology: The special case of Chinese 252
- An epistemological assessment of the Neogrammarian movement 262
- Privileged languages and others in the history of historical-comparative linguistics 274
- The nationalist turn: Dutch linguistics and German philosophy in the 18th and early 19th centuries 288
- Représentations de l'autre: L'italien et les Italiens dans quelques dictionnaires bilingues des XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles 308
- L'utile et l'agréable dans les méthodes familières et autres ouvrages utilisés pour l'apprentissage du français aux Pays-Bas (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) 321
- La reformulation dans la lexicographie des XVIe-XIXe siècles: L'emergence de la syntaxe française 333
- Words and concepts for child language learning in late 19th versus late 20th century America 344
- La lexicologie, un savoir scolarisable? 356
- Aspects de la linguistique prescriptive: Les perceptions des vocabulaires de specialité à travers des dictionnaires français (XIXe et XXe s.) 372
- Semantique et analogie dans la tradition grammaticale arabe: La valeur des formes verbales 386
- Meaning by collocation: The Firthian filiation of corpus linguistics 404
- Kristeva on the encyclopedists: Linguistics, semanalysis, and the epistemology of Enlightenment science 416
- La preuve de Gaifman: Réflexions sur la méthode de construction des grammaires catégorielles 432
- Name index 441
- Subject index 447
