This volume presents papers given at the second Symposium on the History of Arabic Grammar (Nijmegen, 1987). The subject has many aspects and invites many different approaches, which might roughly be categorized into three main groupings, viz. treatments of individual grammarians, examinations of particular grammatical topics, and analysis of medieval concepts from the perspective of contemporary linguistics.
ARABIC CORPUS LINGUISTICS IN PAST AND PRESENT Everhard Ditters
University of Nijmegen 0. Introduction In his article about the linguistic practice of
the early grammarians Zubayr Sa*di (1971) reports that the ancient Arab linguists
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