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Grammatical redundancy and the process of teaching literary Arabic
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2004) Siwiec, Paweł; Institute of Middle and Far Eastern Studies, Jagiellonian University
Redundancy in the literary Arabic is particularly significant on the grammatical level. It manifests itself in the omission of a number of morphological and syntactical formants in the spoken language like the indefinite article suffix, case and gender affixes etc. This property of the Arabic language had drawn attention of the earliest Arab philologists as they were working out principles of the so-called waqf, i.e. the syntactic pause. Those principles, however, applied only to the techniques of recitation of poetry and sacred texts as well as oratorical speeches. But the mere fact that the neutralization of some grammatical morphemes was in specific contexts considered permissible is nothing else but a clear signal that these morphemes are to a certain degree redundant.
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The so-called verba hamzata, verba infirma and verba mediae geminatae in the dialect of Baghdad
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2003) Siwiec, Paweł; Institute of Middle and Far Eastern Studies, Jagiellonian University
Even the earliest Arab grammarians emphasized the distinctiveness of the verb stems with hamza and w or y as one of the root consonants. Similar attention was paid to the verbs of which the second and third radical are identical. A quite substantial part of Sībawaihi’s (750-793) Al-Kitāb deals with these issues. Sībawaihi presents in detail all the possible phonetic changes that result from such configurations of consonants in the Arabic verb stems. He does not limit himself to a rigid and strictly normative description. When drawing the boundaries of linguistic correctness, he takes into consideration local colors of the Arabic tongue of Naǧd in the east and that of Al-Ḥiǧāz in the west. When describing the mechanism of phonetic transformations, he often points to the reasons that lie behind them. Not infrequently, he resorts to examples from the spoken Arabic.

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License: Uznanie autorstwa-Na tych samych warunkach 3.0 Polska Publisher: Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski Affiliation: Institute of Middle and Far Eastern Studies, Jagiellonian University Author: Siwiec, Paweł
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