نماذج لتفسير تطور النظرية النحوية العربية في القرون الوسطى

Abstract EN

The most fundamental concept in the conceptualization of early Arabic grammatical theory (c.

175-320/790-920) is that of the Basra and Kufa linguistic schools, constructs that go back at least to the4th/10th century.

Weil (1913) and carter (1973) have called into question the historical validity of the schools.

however, what is the historical reality of early Arabic grammatical thinking was, if it was not dominated by the two schools.

it is argued that the earliest period was one of linguistic heterogeneity, where linguists were relatively free to mix ideas and terminology from different sources.

this period gave way to one of greater homogeneity, culminating in al-Sarraj al-Usul fi al-Nahw, a work, which effectively standardized Arabic grammar.

the emergence of the linguistic schools in the late 3rd/9th and early 4th/10th centuries can be understood as a reflex of this standardization, allowing linguistcs to recognize the diversity of the earlier period by assigning ideas and terminology, which did not become standard to a subordinate Kufa position.