Éléments pragmatiques dans la théorie grammaticale arabe postclassique (original) (raw)

1990, Versteegh, Kees & Carter, M.G. (eds), Studies in the History of Arabic Grammar II. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on the History of Arabic Grammar, Nijmegen, 27 April-1 May 1987, p. 195-214. Amsterdam-Philadelphie : Benjamins.

In this paper (0.) we examine the pragmatic aspects of linguistic science in Islam through a clearly defined sector: post-classical grammar naḥw as in the Šarḥ al-Kāfiya of Raḍī l-dīn al-’Astarābāḏī (d. after 688/1289). Basing ourselves on the anthology (1.) of pragmatic elements taken from the two major orders of the naḥw, i.e. the utterance (kalām) and its constituants (kalimāt), in part 2. we question the significance of the presence of such elements in a syntactic treatise. The example of performative (’inšā’) utterances of the type fa‘altu is taken to show that pragmatics is in some instances excluded from the grammar and in others included in it (3.). Insofar as its inclusion takes the form of an ‘abstract’ representation, where the very choice of the fa‘altu form indicates a tendency towards formalisation, the historian finds in traditional Arabic grammar questions of present-day pertinence (4.).

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