اللهجات عند ابن جني : بين الوصفية و المعيارية

الملخص EN

The paper aims to uncover Ibn Jinni’s approach in studying dialects and his attempt to find balance in an era dominated by strict prescriptiveness that does not reach satisfactory results in the study of dialects because given that it will measure the same with the balance of the prescriptive language, and it will judge its natural phenomena by deviating from the rule and perversion.

It will not be consistent with the form made prior to the study thereof.

Dialects shall be studied descriptively.

It seems that Ibn Jinni realized this fact and tried to be moderate, so in his discussion about dialects, he was moderate and closer to the descriptive approach than to the prescriptive.

The criterion in his speech on dialectal substitutionis only for transmission and quotation from the ancients, or in order to show his skills in explaining the linguistic phenomen