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Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; volume 106
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"What was the language of the Quran like, and how do we know? Today, the Quran is recited in ten different reading traditions, whose linguistic details are mutually incompatible. This work uncovers the earliest linguistic layer of the Quran. It demonstrates that the text was composed in the Hijazi vernacular dialect, and that in the centuries that followed different reciters started to classicize the text to a new linguistic ideal, the ideal of the arabiyyah. This study combines data from ancient Quranic manuscripts, the medieval Arabic grammarians and ample data from the Quranic reading traditions to arrive at new insights into the linguistic history of Quranic Arabic"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Contents |
Preface and Acknowledgements -- Transcription -- Abbreviations -- Sigla -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Previous Scholarship -- 1.2 The Uthmanic Text Type and the Quranic Consonantal Text -- 1.3 Overview -- 2 What Is the ʕarabiyyah ? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Linguistic Variation in the ʕarabiyyah -- 2.3 Where Is Classical Arabic? -- 2.4 Prescriptivism of the Grammarians -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Classical Arabic and the Reading Traditions -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Reading or Recitation? -- 3.3 Lack of Regular Sound Change -- 3.4 The Readings Are Not Dialects -- 3.5 Readers Usually Agree on the Hijazi Form -- 3.6 The Readings Are Intentionally Artificial -- 3.7 The Choices of the Canonical Readers -- 3.8 Conclusion -- 4 The Quranic Consonantal Text: Morphology -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The ʔalla- Base Relative Pronoun -- 4.3 The Distal Demonstrative Expansion with -l(i)- in ḏlika , tilka and hunlika -- 4.4 The Plural Demonstratives (hʔulʔi/(hʔul; ʔulʔika/ʔulka -- 4.5 Proximal Deictics with Mandatory h- Prefix -- 4.6 Feminine Proximal Deictic hḏih -- 4.7 Loss of Barth-Ginsberg Alternation -- 4.8 Uninflected halumma -- 4.9 Imperatives and Apocopates of II = III Verbs Have the Shape vCCvC Rather Than (v)CvCC -- 4.10 M iziyyah -- 4.11 The Morphosyntax of kla -- 4.12 The Presentative hʔum -- 4.13 The Use of Zaw as 'Wife' -- 4.14 Alternations between G- and C-stems -- 4.15 Morphological Isoglosses Not Recognized by the Grammarians -- 4.16 Questionable Morphological Isoglosses -- 4.17 The Quran Is Morphologically Hijazi -- 5 The Quranic Consonantal Text: Phonology -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Loss of the *ʔ -- 5.3 Development of the Phoneme -- 5.4 Lack of Cy > C -- 5.5 Passive of Hollow Verbs -- 5.6 Retention of ir -- 5.7 Lack of Syncopation of *u and *i -- 5.8 Development of the Phoneme -- 5.9 Hollow Root ʔimlah -- 5.10 Major Assimilation in Gt-stems. -- 5.11 *raʔaya, *naʔaya > rʔa, nʔa -- 5.12 Lexical Isoglosses -- 5.13 Phonetic Isoglosses Not Recognized by the Grammarians -- 5.14 The Quran Is Phonologically Hijazi -- 5.15 Conclusion -- 6 Classicized Hijazi: Imposition of the Hamzah -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Pseudocorrect Hamzah -- 6.3 Hamzah among the Quranic Readers -- 6.4 Pseudocorrect Presence of Hamzah -- 6.5 Failure to Insert Hamzah -- 6.6 Conclusion -- 7 Classicized Hijazi: Final Short Vowels and tanwn -- 7.1 Lack of Final Short Vowels in the Reading Traditions -- 7.2 Was ʔab ʕamr's Reading an ʔiʕrb-less Reading? -- 7.3 A Phonetic Rule That Requires Absence of Full ʔiʕrb -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 8 From Hijazi Beginnings to Classical Arabic. -- 8.1 The Prophet's Career -- 8.2 The Uthmanic Recension (ca. 30 AH /650 CE ) -- 8.3 The Era of the Readers (ca. 40 AH -250 AH ) -- 8.4 Crystallization of Classical Arabic (ca. 250-350 AH ) -- 8.5 Conclusion -- Appendix A: Notes on Orthography, Phonology and Morphology of the Quranic Consonantal Text -- Appendix B: Orthographic Comparison -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Qur'an -- Language, style.
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Coran -- Style.
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Qur'an
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Arabic language -- Grammar.
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Arabe (Langue) -- Grammaire.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Etymology
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Language and languages -- Style
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Arabic language -- Grammar
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linguistics |
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Historical & comparative linguistics |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Van Putten, Marijn. Quranic Arabic Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] 9789004506244 (DLC) 2021058286 |
| ISBN |
9789004506251 (ebook) |
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900450625X |
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9789004506244 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000070316476 |
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AU@ 000073995985 |
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