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A critical examination of five poems by Imruʼ al-Qays
Jusoh, Tengku Ghani T.
Montgomery, James E. (James Edward)
Malaysia Students Department for the United Kingdom and Eire (MASDUKE)
Malaysia. Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam
This dissertation is a critical examination of five
poems taken from the diwan of Imru' al-Qays.
I have
availed myself of the numbering of the poems as given in
the Cairo Edition though the text I have used is that of
the Dar Sadir Beirut Edition.
There are five sections to my dissertation.
1. The Text and Translation.
2. Variant Readings.
3. Structural Analyses of the Poems.
4. A Thematic Thesaurus to the five poems from the
diwan of Imru' al-Qays.
5. Appendix: Arabic Text of the Poems.
My aim throughout has been to present a critical
examination of the poems in a manner which would be readily
accessible to anyone interested.
I have always thought that
a
glossary of the themes of pre-Islamic poetry would be of
great benefit to our study of this period and Section Four
is intended as a
preliminary canter of sorts, as an
experiment in the feasibility of preparing such a lexicon.
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1988-01-29
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19489
en
ix, 172 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
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2013-04-17T09:41:22Z
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A phonological description of Modern Standard Arabic
Sitrak, Sami J.
Suleiman, Muhammad Yasir Ibrahim Hammad
The present work is concerned with some aspects of the phonology of Modern Standard Arabic. The thesis is divided into two parts: Part I, dealing with the theoretical background, consists of three chapters, and each chapter sub-branches into a number of smaller units. Chapter I is concerned with the Axiomatic Functionalism principle of maintaining a strict distinction between the linguistic theory, linguistic descriptions, and the speech-phenomena; it also deals with the 'hypothetico-deductive method' which sets out to explain the philosophical principles underlying the 'Axiomatic Functionalist' approach. This chapter is divided into three sections, the first deals with the 'structure of the theory', the second concerns 'linguistic description and the speech-phenomena', followed by the 'criterion for evaluating the linguistic description and theory'. Chapter II treats the classification of semiotic systems in Axiomatic Functionalism as well as explaining the definition of 'Language' as "a semiotic system with a double articulation" (Mulder 1968, 'b'). Though this is a type of definition found in most functionalist approaches (Martinet 1962 1nd 1964), in Axiomatic Functionalism it has a unique interpretation. Chapter III, which deals with a brief explanation of the phonological system as a whole, comprises two sections, the first of which discusses 'phonematics and phonotactics', and the second introduces some of the main theoretical notions of the phonological theory, such as the notions "phoneme", "distinctive feature", "archi-phoneme", "position", "distributional unit", "archi-position", which is relevant for the phonological description of Modern Standard Arabic. This introduction to the phonological sub-component of the theory is important because description cannot take place without the knowledge of a theory, since a description is "the application of a particular linguistic theory to a selected field of linguistic-phenomena" (Mulder 1980, b). Part II, dealing with the phonological description, consists of five chapters (Chaps. IV-VIII). Chapter IV treats the distributional unit(s) and archi-position of Modern Standard Arabic. Chapter V deals with the consonantal phonemes, their identities and distinctive functions, as well as their realisations. Chapter VI explains the types of neutralisation and the consonantal archi-phonemes. Chapter VII deals with the vowel and semi-vowel phonemes, their identities and distinctive function as well as their realisations. Chapter VIII deals with the neutralisation and vocalic archi-phonemes.
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1981
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3482
en
vii, 150
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews