Chomsky & Sibawaihi - What Connections?
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THIS BOOK IS A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHOMSKY'S TRANSFORMATIONAL-GENERATIVE GRAMMAR THAT OWED HIM ALL HIS FAME AND PRESTIGE IN THE 60S AND 8th CENTURY SIBAWAIHIS ARABIC ALKITAB. THE TWO SEEM STRANGELY SIMILAR IN MANY RESPECTS. THIS BOOK RAISES THE QUESTION: IS IT A NATURAL CHRONOLOGICAL "DEVELOPMENT", "PLAGIARISM" OR SIMPLY "ACCIDENT"?
El Mouatamid Ben Rochd
El Mouatamid is a scholar of languages and religions. He has lectured at different international universities and has published several books about language and culture including Hayya Arabica people and language.
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Chomsky & Sibawaihi - What Connections? - El Mouatamid Ben Rochd
Chomsky & Sibawaihi - What Connections?
Pages de titre
PREFACE
CHOMSKY
SIBAWAIHI
GLOSSARY
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Copyright
THE BOOK
Transformation
[=>] is the notion that made all the fame and prestige of famous American linguist Noam Avram Chomsky from the early 60’s onwards. Chomsky explained, in a very elegant way, the relationship between different types of sentences. It was a great innovation of the 20 th c. But one day, I heard transformation
uttered by a scholar of traditional Arabic grammar, who had never heard about Chomsky. Where was the connection?
I wondered. That was the enigma that kept turning my mind for years. This book will raise the issue: was it a development
, plagiarism
or simply an accident
?
THE AUTHOR
The author holds a BA in American Civilization (Fez 1978), an MA in French linguistics (York 1982) and a PhD in Arabic linguistics (Dublin 1990). He has produced many publications on different subjects and has given talks and lectures in many countries. He spent one academic year in the Linguistic Department of the University of Washington, in which colleagues have much appreciated the diversity of his competences. Dr. Ben Rochd is qualified to teach Arabic and many areas of linguistics: especially introduction to linguistics, syntax and history of linguistics. I met Dr. Ben Rochd personally and find him very knowledgeable, articulate and totally fluent in English.
(Fritz. Newmeyer)
El Mouatamid Ben Rochd
Chomsky & Sibawaihi -
What Connections?
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Contents
PREFACE
SIBAWAIHI
CHOMSKY
CONCLUSION
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PREFACE
Transformation
is the notion that made all the fame and name
of famous American linguist Noam Avram Chomsky from the early 60’s onwards. Chomsky explained in a very elegant way the relationship between different types of sentences such as passive (The ball was hit by the boy), raising (John is easy to please) Equi-NP-deletion (John is eager to please), etc.[see appendix] as well as their UG counterparts.
I was one of Chomsky’s million fans throughout the world for his amazing personality, which was shown on TV several times, (Radford 1981) and his transformational
theory of language; almost an ideology. I am still an admirer of his enormous endeavour in several fields and his hundred books and articles. He has further been the champion
of many causes throughout the world.
But, one day my old father pronounced the word transformation
in front of me, while explaining some Arabic grammatical phenomenon. Amazing! My father never heard about Chomsky nor his transformational theory. He was a traditional Arabic scholar. Where was the connection?
I wondered. That was the enigma that kept torturing my mind for years. In this book I will raise the issue: is it a development
, plagiarism
or simply an accident
.
Meeting Syrian Dr. Mazin Al-Waer at MIT in 1981, I found that he had interviewed Chomsky by asking him about the enormous Linguistic works done on Arabic. Chomsky answered by acknowledging having read the Al-Ajerumiyyah (another famous work done on Arabic grammar). "We Arabs believe that the efforts which the Arab linguists in the middle ages made in the field of linguistics are important and contributed a great deal to modern linguistics. What are your thoughts on this matter?
"I should say that before I began studying general theoretical linguistics i was doing Semitic linguistics. I remember studying the al-ajurrumiyah many years ago, more than thirty years ago I suppose, with Franz Rosenthal