Oral Composition in Pre-Islamic Poetry

Monroe, James T.

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“…There is no clear substantiation to manifest that such poems were composed throughout those early times, other than mentioning them in works related to the 8th century AD. As a matter of fact, they do not reflect the diverse Arab tribal dialects of Arabia, so it was dubitable whether they were composed or added in the early times during the Islamic era (Monroe, 1972).…”

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Classical Standard Arabic Versus Modern Standard Arabic:A theoretical Framework اللغة العربیة الفصحى مقابل اللغة العربیة الفصحى الحدیثة:إطار نظری

Ibrahim¹

2022

مجلة کلیة الآداب و العلوم الإنسانیة جامعة قناة السویس

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There are twenty-three countries using the Arabic language, whilst the native speakers of Arabic are around 300 million people. Arabic is considered the third major language with regards to the countries that use it as its official language. Arabic is in the third place after English and French. This research reviews the historical development of the Arabic ‫اإلنسانية‬ ‫والعلوم‬ ‫اآلداب‬ ‫كلية‬ ‫جملة‬ ‫الثالث‬ ‫العدد‬ ‫واألربعون‬ 66 language from its standard classic form till the modern period and sheds the light on the variance between the classical Arabic and modern standard Arabic. It manifests the linguistic typology and defining characteristics of each variety in terms of their syntactic, phonological morphological, and lexical features.

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Section: Classical Standard Arabicmentioning

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Classical Standard Arabic Versus Modern Standard Arabic:A theoretical Framework اللغة العربیة الفصحى مقابل اللغة العربیة الفصحى الحدیثة:إطار نظری

Ibrahim¹

2022

مجلة کلیة الآداب و العلوم الإنسانیة جامعة قناة السویس

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“…A plausible solution to both problems lies in the oral-poetic nature of OA, as highlighted in Monroe's (1972) andZwettler's (1978) work. The argument is built as follows.…”

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“…Last but not least, such an inability of OA to avail itself of pause in its relativization, and the related usage of the focus-markers lla, ḥay, min instead, is deeply rooted in the oral-poetic nature of this language, which was in origin a Kunstsprache that privileged poetic contents, and expressed them in oral form, as attested by the formulaic nature of pre-Islamic poetry (Monroe 1972, Zwettler 1978) and, to a lesser extent of the Koranic saǧ c prose (Rippin 2005:121, and cp. also the formulaic expression bi-Ḫayfi Banī Kinānata ḥayṯu taqāsamū c alā l-kufri studied at beginning of Sect.…”

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The Composite Nature of llaḏī, ḥayṯu, man/mā-min : Distributional, Typological and Pragmatic Aspects of Old Arabic Relative Markers

Grande¹

2013

The Arabist

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This paper offers a distributional account of the morphology and semantics of the Old Arabic relativizers llaḏī, ḥayṯu, man/mā-min, showing that they constitute a multi-layered pattern of complementary distribution, based on the semantic opposition {-/+restrictive}, and on its audible counterpart. Far from being a suprasegmental opposition {+/-pause} (cp. English), the latter opposes lla, ḥay to min, which are analyzed accordingly as replacive morphemes of {+/-pause}. Such a replacive allomorphy is also given a pragmatic characterization, and explained as an adaptive behavior of Old Arabic, relative to its oral-poetic ecological conditions. Deviations from the aforesaid pattern are explained here by invoking typological factors such as heaviness and Jespersen cycle which, in turn, are triggered by an instance of phonological reduction described by Arab Grammarians, and targeting min. This phenomenon is arguably part and parcel of a more general shift from analytical to synthetical language, well-known to typologically-oriented studies on (Old) Arabic.1 This paper is based on some materials presented at the 4th Congress of the Coordinamento dei Dottorati Italiani in Scienze Cognitive (Rome, June 7-9, 2010) and the 26th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (Basel, September 12-16, 2012). It ideally complements the research on Old Arabic relative markers and clauses carried out in Grande (2013: Chs. 2, 3), but can be read independently of it. Abbreviations

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“…Rather, it is probably a composite based on the cross-dialectal poetic koine common to the Arabian peninsula. Observations of the nature of oral poetry have led some scholars (like Monroe 1972) to view Classical Arabic as based on an artificial structure spoken by no one. Other scholars have hypothesized as the source for the Classical lan-guage a (complex of) "military" koine(s) that would underlie the dialects as well.…”

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Studies in Near Eastern Culture and History in Memory of Ernest T. Abdel-Massih

Wakin¹

1993

Journal of the American Oriental Society

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Oral Composition in Pre-Islamic Poetry

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Classical Standard Arabic Versus Modern Standard Arabic:A theoretical Framework اللغة العربیة الفصحى مقابل اللغة العربیة الفصحى الحدیثة:إطار نظری

Classical Standard Arabic Versus Modern Standard Arabic:A theoretical Framework اللغة العربیة الفصحى مقابل اللغة العربیة الفصحى الحدیثة:إطار نظری

The Composite Nature of llaḏī, ḥayṯu, man/mā-min : Distributional, Typological and Pragmatic Aspects of Old Arabic Relative Markers

Studies in Near Eastern Culture and History in Memory of Ernest T. Abdel-Massih

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