Michael G. Carter

List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael G. Carter plays a role.

Titles

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | History of linguistics | Syntax
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | History of linguistics

Articles

Carter, Michael G. 2015 Linguistique arabe et pragmatiqueHistoriographia Linguistica 42:1, pp. 203–209 | Review
Carter, Michael G. 1994 Writing the History of Arabic GrammarHistoriographia Linguistica 21:3, pp. 385–414 | Review article
Carter, Michael G. 1982 The Use of Proper Names as a Testing Device in Sībawayhi's ‘Kitāb’The History of Linguistics in the Near East, Versteegh, Kees, E.F.K. Koerner † and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 109 ff. | Article
On numerous occasions Sībawayhi (d.2nd/8th century) asks his master al-Khalīl how certain elements (not necessarily nouns) would behave if used as a man or woman’s name. The purpose of these questions is evidently to test the morphological range of Arabic nouns, and proper names were chosen as… read more