Grammar and truth: time and tense according to Ibn al-Sīd
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Arabic, Grammar, Time, Philosophy, Islamic Spain, Ibn al-Sī, d
Abstract
The Andalusi savant Ibn al-Sīd al-Batalyawsī (d. 521 H/1127 AD) was the author of a number of books conceived as a contribution to the study of language, text and interpretation, which provide us with the necessary elements to reconstruct his notional approach to verbal tenses, as well as his ideas about time in the broader context of Andalusi thinkers. Ibn al-Sīd is close to the rationalist grammarians from Baghdad in his description of Arabic tenses, grounded on the existence of present time in nature. Nevertheless, traces of other conceptions of time are to be found in Ibn al-Sīd’s books. We conclude that there were four different ways of viewing time, depending on the actual level of hermeneutical approach to truth.Downloads
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2006-07-21
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Peña Martín S. . (2006). Grammar and truth: time and tense according to Ibn al-Sīd. Anaquel de Estudios Árabes, 17, 203-220. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ANQE/article/view/ANQE0606110203A
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