description: The Arabic grammatical tradition is remarkable for having organized a large amount of descriptive material within a sophisticated formal framework. The present study seeks to elucidate the early development of this system from a theory-internal perspective; it is mainly concerned with the development of the syntactic theory as a formal object, as system of rules. This endeavor is constituted of four a description of early developments, their periodization, their relation to the traditional account in terms of the Basran and Kufan schools, and their relation to modern linguistic theory.
language: English
title: Early Arabic Grammatical Theory
titlecomplete: Early Arabic Grammatical Theory (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences)
series: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company