Based in part on author's Ph. D. dissertation--Univ. of Nijmegen, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-418) and indexes.

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- ARABIC GRAMMARS OF TURKIC -- SUBJECT AND OUTLINE -- THE SOURCES -- PERCEPTION AND DESCRIPTION OF PHONOLOGICAL AND PHONETIC FEATURES OF TURKIC -- CASES AND MARKERS -- THE GENITIVE CASE (ĞARR) -- THE ACCUSATlVE CASE (NAṣB) -- CONCLUSIONS -- TRANSLATION OF ᐣABŪ ḤAYYĀN AL-ᐣANDALUSĪ'S KITĀB AL-ᐣIDRĀK LI-LISĀN AL-ᐣATRĀK -- INTRODUCTION -- TRANSLATION OF KITĀB AL-IDRĀK LI-LISĀN AL-ᐣATRĀK -- VERBAL AND NOMINAL PARADIGMS AND SUFFIXES BASED ON DATA FOUND IN KITĀB AL-ᐣIDRĀK. -- LIST OF TURKIC WORDS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- A. INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS.

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This volume consists of two parts. The first is a detailed study of grammars of Turkic written by Arab grammarians (11th-17th century AD), covering internal structure, phonetics, morphonology and syntax. It contains numerous quotations from both little-cited edited texts and unknown manuscripts. The analyses contribute to the study of the application of linguistic models to 'foreign' languages, and the Arabic model in particular. The second part is an English translation of Kitāb al-’Idrāk Li-Lisān al-’Atrāk, a grammar of Mamlūk Qipčaq Turkic, written by the renowned 14th-century grammarian ’Abū ḥayyān Al-’Andalusī. The translation gives an excellent insight in Arabic linguistic reasoning applied to Turkic.