TY - BOOK ID - 77937935 TI - The subjunctive mood in Arabic grammatical thought AU - Sadan, Arik AU - Brill PY - 2012 SN - 1283551349 9786613863799 9004234233 9789004234239 9789004232952 9004232958 9781283551342 6613863793 PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Arabic language KW - Semitic languages KW - Subjunctive. KW - Mood. KW - Verb. KW - Grammar KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77937935 AB - In The Subjunctive Mood in Arabic Grammatical Thought Arik Sadan outlines the grammatical theories on the naṣb (subjunctive mood) in Classical Arabic. Examining over 160 treatises written by 85 grammarians, lexicographers and Qurʾān commentators, the author defines and characterizes the opinions of medieval Arab grammarians concerning this mood in the verbal system of Classical Arabic. Special attention is given to the prominent early grammarians Sībawayhi (d. circa 180/796) and al-Farrāʾ (d. 207/822), who represent the Schools of al-Baṣra and al-Kūfa respectively. The analysis of the grammarians’ views enables the author to draw several important conclusions and hypotheses on the syntactic environments of the subjunctive mood, the dialectal differences relating to its employment and the historical changes and developments it underwent. ER -