Lafẓ and maʿnā

by Germann, Nadja

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Lafẓ (linguistic expression, utterance) and maʿnā (meaning, signification) are terms in which linguists as well as scholars in other Islamic disciplines have described language, beginning with Sībawayh (d. c.180/796) in his famous Kitāb , the oldest extant treatise on Arabic grammar (on Sībawayh, see Carter). In the fourth chapter of his Kitāb , Sībawayh draws attention to the various ways in which expression and meaning may be related: each distinct expression can have a specific meaning; one …

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Lafẓ (linguistic expression, utterance) and maʿnā (meaning, signification) are terms in which linguists as well as scholars in other Islamic disciplines have described language, beginning with Sībawayh (d. c.180/796) in his famous Kitāb , the oldest extant treatise on Arabic grammar (on Sībawayh, see Carter). In the fourth chapter of his Kitāb , Sībawayh draws attention to the various ways in which expression and meaning may be related: each distinct expression can have a specific meaning; one expression may possess several meanings (homonymy); and different expressions can have an identical

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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eng Islam

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Germann, Nadja

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