1st Edition
A linguistic study of the development of scientific vocabulary in Standard Arabic
First published in 1987. The reasons behind the establishment of this Series on Arabic linguistics are manifold. First: Arabic linguistics is developing into an increasingly interesting and important subject within the broad field of modern linguistic studies. The subject is now fully recognised in the Universities of the Arabic speaking world and in international linguistic circles, as a subject of great theoretical and descriptive interest and importance. Second: Arabic linguistics is reaching a mature stage in its development benefiting both from early Arabic linguistic scholarship and modern techniques of general linguistics and related disciplines. Third: The scope of this discipline is wide and varied, covering diverse areas such as Arabic phonetics, phonology and grammar, Arabic psycholinguistics, Arabic dialectology, Arabic lexicography and lexicology, Arabic sociolinguistics, the teaching and learning of Arabic as a first, second, or foreign language, communications, semiotics, terminology, translation, machine translation, Arabic computational linguistics, history of Arabic linguistics, etc. This is monograph 6 in the series.
TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLITERATION SYSTEMS, INTRODUCTION The problem and its dimensions Purpose and justification Language 1 ARABIC WORD STRUCTURE 1.1 The word 1.2 Standard Arabic stems 1.3 Lexical patterns 1.4 Arabic syllabic structure 1.5 Stress 2 LEXICAL GROWTH THROUGH DERIVATION AND ANALOGY 2 LEXICAL GROWTH THROUGH DERIVATION AND ANALOGY 2.1 Concepts and definitions The concept of al-Qiy s (analogy) 2.2 Growth of vocabulary: historical background 2.3 Lexical adaptation in the first renaissance 2.4 Analogical derivation and modern scientific vocabulary 3 COMPOUNDING: ITS ROLE AND SIGNIFICANCE 3.1 The concept of Naht 3.2 Naht in medieval Arabic 3.3 Naht in modern Standard Arabic 3.3.4 Types of naht construction in modern scientific Arabic 3.4 Al-Murakkabu 1-Mazjiyy (mixed compound) Double nisbah formations 4 ARABICIZATION: A METHOD OF LEXICAL EXPANSION IN ARABIC INTRODUCTION 4.1 Preliminaries and definitions 4.2 History and development 4.3 Borrowing as viewed by Arab writers 4.4 Analogical arabicization: its significance 5 THE QUESTIONNAIRE 5.1 Reasons and objectives 5.2 About the questionnaire 5.3 Results and findings
Biography
Abdul Sahib Mehdi Ali Head of the Department of Translation al-Mustansiriyyah University, Baghdad.
