Contains contributions from the second conference on Arabic linguistics, hosted by the University of Cambridge in 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter / Amal Elesha Marogy and Kees Versteegh -- Introduction / Amal E. Marogy and Kees Versteegh -- Some Aspects of the Relation between Enunciation and Utterance in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb. A Modal Category: al-wājib/ġayr al-wājib / Georgine Ayoub -- The Grammar of Affective Language in the Kitāb / Michael G. Carter -- Ittisāʿ in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb: A Semantic ʿilla for Disorders in Meaning and Form / Hanadi Dayyeh -- What Happened to the Grammar of Numerals after Sībawayhi? / Jean N. Druel -- Real and Irreal Conditionals in Arabic Grammar: From al-ʾAstarābāḏī 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 fāʾida in the Medieval Arabic Grammatical Tradition: Fāʾida as a Criterion for Utterance Acceptability / Beata Sheyhatovitch -- What’s It Like to be a Persian? Sībawayhi’s Treatment of Loanwords / Kees Versteegh -- Index / Amal Elesha Marogy and Kees Versteegh.

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This second volume on The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics contains contributions from the second conference on Arabic linguistics, hosted by the University of Cambridge in 2012. All contributions deal with the grammatical theories formulated by the first grammarian to write a complete survey of the Arabic language, Sībawayhi (died at the end of the 8th century C.E.). They treat such topics as the use of hadith in grammar, the treatment of Persian loanwords, the expression of modality, conditional clauses, verbal valency, and the syntax of numerals. Contributors are: Georgine Ayoub, Michael G. Carter, Hanadi Dayyeh, Jean N. Druel, Manuela E.B. Giolfo, Almog Kasher, Giuliano Lancioni, Amal Marogy, Arik Sadan, Beata Sheyhatovitch, Cristina Solimando, and Kees Versteegh.