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Sībawayhi Conference Programme

The document provides the programme for the Foundations of Arabic Linguistics Conference II over two days, with sessions on various topics related to the transmission and interpretation of Kitāb Sībawayhi including papers on grammar, syntax, semantics and the impact of Arabic grammar on other languages. Keynote lectures were given by experts in the field and the programme included presentations, discussions, meals and social activities.

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Sībawayhi Conference Programme

The document provides the programme for the Foundations of Arabic Linguistics Conference II over two days, with sessions on various topics related to the transmission and interpretation of Kitāb Sībawayhi including papers on grammar, syntax, semantics and the impact of Arabic grammar on other languages. Keynote lectures were given by experts in the field and the programme included presentations, discussions, meals and social activities.

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Programme of the Foundations of Arabic Linguistics Conference II

Kitb Sbawayhi: Transmission and Interpretation


13th & 14th September 2012

Rooms 8/9
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Cambridge

Participants: Jamal Ali, Georgine Ayoub, M.G. Carter, Hanadi Dayyeh, Jean N. Druel,
Manuela Giolfo, Wilfrid Hodges, va Jeremias, Almog Kasher, Giuliano Lancioni, Mohamed
Hnid, Amal Marogy, Noel A. Rivera, Arik Sadan, Haruko Sakaedani, Wendy Shamier, Beata
Sheyhatovitch, Cristina Solimando, Bert Vaux, Kees Versteegh, Nadia Vidro, Hana Zabarah.

Supported by:
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
(University of Cambridge)

Programme FAL2 Conference


Thursday, 13
09.10 09.30 Registration
Keynote lecture
09.30: Kees Versteegh:

What's it like to be a Persian? Sibawayhi and the ubiyya

Session I (Chair: Georgine Ayoub)


10.15: Noel A. Rivera:

Grammar, Social mobility and the Standardisation of Arabic


Language

10.45: Arik Sadan:

Sibawayhis and later grammarians usage of ads as a


grammatical tool

11.15: Book launch reception (The foundations of Arabic linguistics: Sbawayhi and early
Arabic Grammatical theory)
Session II (Chair: Amal Marogy)
11.45: Almog Kasher:

The Operator Assigning raf to Verbs

12.15: Jean N. Druel:

What happened to the grammar of numerals after Sbawayhi?

12.45: Lunch (Common Room) and visit to the Wren Library (Trinity College)

Session III (Chair: Almog Kasher)


15.00: Georgine Ayoub: Some Aspects of the relation between enunciation and
utterance in Sbawayhi's Kitb
15.30: Jamal Ali

An age-old debate regarding kalima, kalm, and kalim

16.00: Hana Zabarah:

Variant readings in Zajjaji's Jumal

16.30: Coffe break

Session IV (Chair: M.G. Carter)


16.45: va Jeremias:

The impact of Arabic grammar on Persian grammatical


thinking: abstract concepts and general rules

17.15: Nadia Vidro:

A Judaeo-Arabic grammar of classical Arabic

17.45: punting (if weather permits!)

Programme FAL2 Conference

FRIDAY, 14
Keynote lecture
9.30: M.G. Carter:

The grammar of affective language in the Kitb

Session V (Chair: Manuela Giolfo)


10.15: Hanadi Dayyeh:

Ittis: a semantic illa to disorders in meaning and form

10.45: Hnid Mohamed:

Sbawayhis approach of the semantic value, al-istil


superimposition

11.15: Coffee break

Session VI (Arik Sadan)


11.45: Manuela Giolfo:

On the meaning of law from the perspective of in. Astarb


to Sbawayhi: from syntax to semantics

12:15: Giuliano Lancioni & Cristina Solimando: The analysis of valency in Sbawayhis
Kitb
12.45 Lunch (Common Room)
Session VII (Chair: Kees Versteegh)
13.30: Beata Sheyhatovitch: The term fida in the medieval Arabic grammatical theory
14.00: Amal Marogy:

The notion of Tanwn in the Kitb: evaluation of functions


and meanings

14.30: Haruko Sakaedani:

Pronouns of matter in Sbawayhis Kitb

15.00: Coffee Break


15.20: Panel discussion: Bert Vaux, Kees Versteegh and M.G. Carter
(moderated by Amal Marogy)
16.00 free afternoon
19.30: Conference Dinner at Kings College (dress code: smart casual)

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