The foundations of Arabic linguistics II : Kitab Sibawayhi: interpretation and transmission / edited by Amal Elesha Marogy, Kees Versteegh.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 9, 2015).

Introduction / Amal E. Marogy and Kees Versteegh -- Some Aspects of the Relation between Enunciation and Utterance in Sībawayhi's Kitāb. A Modal Category: wājib/ġayr al-wājib / Georgine Ayoub -- The Grammar of Affective Language in the Kitāb / Michael G. Carter -- Ittisāʻ in Sībawayhi's Kitāb : A Semantic ʻilla for Disorders in Meaning and For/ Hanadi Dayyeh -- What Happened to the Grammar of Numerals after Sībawayhi / Jean N. Druel -- Real and Irreal Conditionals in Arabic Grammar: From al-ʻAstarābāḏī to Sībawayhi / Manuela E.B. Giolfo -- Abstract Principles in Arabic Grammatical Theory: The Operator Assigning the Independent Mood / Almog Kasher -- The Analysis of Valency in Sībawayhi's Kitāb / Giuliano Lancioni and Cristina Solimando -- The Notion of tanwīn in the Kitāb: Cognitive Evaluation of Function and Meaning / Amal E. Marogy -- Sībawayhi's and Later Grammarians' Usage of ḥadīṯs as a Grammatical Tool / Arik Sadan -- The Notion of fāʼida in the Medieval Arabic Grammatical Tradition: Fāʼida as a Criterion for Utterance Acceptability / Beata Sheyhatovitch -- What's It Like to be a Persian? Sībawayhi's Treatment of Loanwords / Kees Versteegh.

The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics II contains eleven studies of grammatical theories in Sibawayhi's Kitāb (end 8th century C.E.) and their reception in the later grammatical literature.

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