Aux racines de la racine : le Kitāb al-ˁAyn de Ḫalīl

Kitāb al-ˁAyn by Ḫalil (died in 791 or 793) is the first monolingual dictionary of Arabic, and the first known text to make use of the root as a metalinguistic tool. After a short presentation of its author and the context in which it appeared and circulated, this paper addresses the method followed...

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Main Author: Jean-Patrick Guillaume
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage 2023-11-01
Series:Histoire Épistémologie Langage
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/hel/4101