Rybalkin V. The Arabic linguistic tradition. /Classical concepts and its modern interpretation/.

The dissertation comprises a study of the process of formation and development of the Arabic linguistic tradition (ALT). Its corpus constitutes one of the major linguistic traditions in the world, together with the Indian and Greek ones. It is obvious that the very limited amount of space devoted to the ALT in the main histories of linguistics is quite out of proportion to the real importance of this tradition. The dissertation aims to give an overall view of the sciences of language in the Arabic culture. Involving the huge corpus of original sources from VIII-XV centuries, the dissertation investigates the continuity of methods in the study of linguistic data in the medieval Arab East, demonstrates the basic concepts of traditional grammar, lexicilogy and lexicography, estimates some philologists' contribution to the ALT, shows the connection of ALT's principles with the concepts of modern Arab linguistics.