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A Nineteenth-Century-Arabic Contrastive Syntactic Analysis

A Nineteenth-Century-Arabic Contrastive Syntactic Analysis A NINETEENTH-CENTURY-ARABIC CONTRASTIVE SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS BASED ON THE STORY OF � UDAR OF THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (I) BY MOSHE PIAMENTA Introduction DESCRIPTIVE syntactic analysis of mid-nineteenth-century-po- A pular-Arabic-narrative-style of a story appended a century earlier to the original Arabic composition of 1001 Nights is an intriguing challenge. The 1001 Nights is complex in its language, and has a com- plicated history of transmission. How and when stories were appended to it must await a critical edition of each of them, for there is no evidence that any of them formed part of, or were deemed worthy of being included therein. The printings Bulaq I and Calcutta II, as well as the printing Breslau were based on manuscripts whose common original was composed by a Cairene scribe in order to satisfy a widespread desire for a «complete» copy of the 1001 Nights. See Mahdi pp. v. and viiif. Mahdi's critical edition of the 1001 Nights, Arabic text, is based on Antoine Galland's [ 1 704- 1 7 1 7] manuscript in the Bibliotheque Royale, Paris. The Cairene scribe had appended stories to the original composition, most probably in the late eighteenth century, evidenced by their Egyptian colloquialisms http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Arabica Brill

A Nineteenth-Century-Arabic Contrastive Syntactic Analysis

Piamenta, Moshe
Arabica , Volume 41 (1): 30 – Jan 1, 1994
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© 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0570-5398
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10.1163/157005894X00335
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A NINETEENTH-CENTURY-ARABIC CONTRASTIVE SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS BASED ON THE STORY OF � UDAR OF THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (I) BY MOSHE PIAMENTA Introduction DESCRIPTIVE syntactic analysis of mid-nineteenth-century-po- A pular-Arabic-narrative-style of a story appended a century earlier to the original Arabic composition of 1001 Nights is an intriguing challenge. The 1001 Nights is complex in its language, and has a com- plicated history of transmission. How and when stories were appended to it must await a critical edition of each of them, for there is no evidence that any of them formed part of, or were deemed worthy of being included therein. The printings Bulaq I and Calcutta II, as well as the printing Breslau were based on manuscripts whose common original was composed by a Cairene scribe in order to satisfy a widespread desire for a «complete» copy of the 1001 Nights. See Mahdi pp. v. and viiif. Mahdi's critical edition of the 1001 Nights, Arabic text, is based on Antoine Galland's [ 1 704- 1 7 1 7] manuscript in the Bibliotheque Royale, Paris. The Cairene scribe had appended stories to the original composition, most probably in the late eighteenth century, evidenced by their Egyptian colloquialisms

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Arabica – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1994

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