Michael G. Carter

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael G. Carter is involved.

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Studies in the History of Arabic Grammar II: Proceedings of the second symposium on the history of Arabic grammar, Nijmegen, 27 April–1 May, 1987

Edited by Kees Versteegh and Michael G. Carter

This volume presents papers given at the second Symposium on the History of Arabic Grammar (Nijmegen, 1987). The subject has many aspects and invites many different approaches, which might roughly be categorized into three main groupings, viz. treatments of individual grammarians, examinations of… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 56] 1990. x, 320 pp.

Arab Linguistics: An introductory classical text with translation and notes

Edited by Michael G. Carter

This volume provides an analysis of a famous medieval Arabic grammatical text, al-Ājurrūmiya (c. 1300), as commented on by aš-Šhirbīnī (d. 1570). This edition includes the original text and a translation into English, as well as extensive comments and annotations, with the aim of making accessible… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 24] 1981. ix, 485 pp.

Articles (9) | Order by:

Carter, Michael G. 2015 Linguistique arabe et pragmatique Historiographia Linguistica 42:1, pp. 203–209 | Review

Carter, Michael G. 2001 Arabic Grammar and Linguistics. Ed. by Yasir Suleiman Historiographia Linguistica 28:1/2, pp. 221–225 | Review

Carter, Michael G. 1994 Writing the History of Arabic Grammar Historiographia Linguistica 21:3, pp. 385–414 | Review article

Carter, Michael G. 1992 The Arabic Linguistic Tradition. By Georges Bohas, J[ean]-P[atrick] Guillaume & D[jamel] E[ddin] Kouloughli Historiographia Linguistica 19:2/3, pp. 361–367 | Review

Carter, Michael G. 1990 Qāḍī, Qāḍi, Qāḍ: Which is the Odd Man out? Studies in the History of Arabic Grammar II: Proceedings of the second symposium on the history of Arabic grammar, Nijmegen, 27 April–1 May, 1987, Versteegh, Kees and Michael G. Carter (eds.), pp. 73–90 | Article

Carter, Michael G. 1987 When Did the Word naḥw Come to Denote Grammar? (Abstract) Papers in the History of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 19–23 August 1984, Aarsleff, Hans, L.G. Kelly and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 85–86 | Article

Carter, Michael G. 1983 Ibn Jinni, an Early Arab Muslim Phonetician: An Interpretative Study of his Life and Contribution to Linguistics. By Muhammad Hasan Bakalla Historiographia Linguistica 10:1/2, pp. 103–111 | Review

Carter, Michael G. 1982 The Use of Proper Names as a Testing Device in Sībawayhi's ‘Kitāb’ The History of Linguistics in the Near East, Versteegh, Kees, E.F.K. Koerner † and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 109–120 | Article

Carter, Michael G. 1981 The use of proper names as a testing device in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb Historiographia Linguistica 8:2/3, pp. 345–356 | Article

On numerous occasions Sībawayhi (d.2nd/8th century) asks his master al-Khalīl how certain elements (not necessarily nouns) would behave if used as a man or woman’s name. The purpose of these questions is evidently to test the morphological range of Arabic nouns, and proper names were chosen as… read more