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| Preface | ||
| Introduction: Az-Zaggagi and his book on the explanation of linguistic causes | 1 | |
| I | The parts of speech | 22 |
| II | The disagreement of the grammarians about the definitions of noun, verb and particle | 43 |
| III | The knowledge of the definitions of noun, verb and particle | 49 |
| IV | The theories about the verb and the infinitive: which one of them is derived from the other? | 72 |
| V | The theory of linguistic causes | 87 |
| VI | The theory about declension and speech: which one of them is prior to the other? | 95 |
| VII | The theory about the declension: why was it introduced into speech? | 101 |
| VIII | The theory about the declension: is it a vowel or a consonant? | 109 |
| IX | The theory about the declension: why does it occur at the end of the word, rather than at the beginning or in the middle? | 118 |
| X | The theory about [the problem] which of these three parts - the noun, the verb and the particle - is entitled to declension? | 121 |
| XI | The theory about the noun, the verb and the particle: which one of them comes first in rank and hierarchy? | 135 |
| XII | The theory concerning the verbs: which one of them is prior to the others? | 139 |
| XIII | The present verb and its real nature | 142 |
| XIV | What is the reason for calling grammar nahw? | 147 |
| XV | The difference between 'grammar', 'lexicography', 'declension' and 'glosses' | 152 |
| XVI | The theory about the lexical meaning of the [words] 'nominative', 'accusative' and 'genitive' | 157 |
| XVII | The use of learning grammar | 164 |
| XVIII | The reason for the introduction of nunation into speech, and its different aspects | 168 |
| XIX | The reason for the heaviness of the verb and the lightness of the noun | 177 |
| XX | The reason why nouns cannot have a jussive | 182 |
| XXI | The reason why verbs cannot have a genitive | 190 |
| XXII | The theory about the dual and the plural | 216 |
| XXIII | The theory about the 'alif, the y and the w in the dual and the plural: are they the declension or the consonants of the declension? | 231 |
| Selected problems | 240 | |
| List of references | 258 | |
| Abbreviations | 280 | |
| Index of names | 283 | |
| Index of subjects | 289 | |
| Index of terms | 301 |
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Lenny Hayes Hayes
reviewed The Explanation of Linguistic Causes: AZ-Zaggagi's Theory of Grammar (Studies in the History of the Language Series #75) on February 22, 2014
The Explanation of Linguistic Causes
This book is most suitable for those completely new to syntax wishing a generative-ish introduction to the topic. The approach is original: as described circumstantially on the back flap of the tome, the textbook mainly introduces the learner to a new style of thinking about syntax and language in general.
However, if you already have an idea of what linguistics entails and its methods are, and maybe have some knowledge of any syntactic theory, this book might come across as a nuisance rather than a helpful guide. Its explanations are lengthy and, frankly, slightly uninformative. Overexplanations of even the simplest of concepts are repeated ad nauseam. After reading one hundred pages, one wonders what exactly one has learned - if one hasn't given up already, because reading those lengthy considerations is extremely time-consuming. The whole book could probably be summarised in less than twenty pages.
Read this if you're new to syntax and envisage a future at the more formalist end of the spectrum. Don't read this if you want an efficient and state-of-the-art intro to generative syntax.
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