The Koranic Lexicon of Flora and Fauna

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_116
dc.creator	Grande Francesco
dc.title	The Koranic Lexicon of Flora and Fauna. Structural and Palaeolinguistic Aspects
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	In this study, three linguistic methods are synergistically applied to the lexicon of the Koran in order to reconstruct the material context of early Islam. Due to their material relevance, the focus is placed on the zoonyms and phytonyms of this lexicon. The comparative method selects among them thirty nouns which are frequent in terms of genetic relationship: zoonyms and phytonyms with cognates in North-West and South Semitic and with no Semitic cognates. The structural method highlights the semantic connections among these nouns, and the philological method better defines them by investigating Arabic lexicography. These thirty zoonyms and phytonyms reveal in a coherent and detailed manner a non-desert material context.
dc.relation.ispartof	Medieval and Modern Philologies
dc.relation.ispartof	Serie orientale
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/978-88-6969-105-8
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2016-12-18
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-104-1/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-945X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9441
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-104-1
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-105-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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Structural and Palaeolinguistic Aspects

Francesco Grande Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia

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In this study, three linguistic methods are synergistically applied to the lexicon of the Koran in order to reconstruct the material context of early Islam. Due to their material relevance, the focus is placed on the zoonyms and phytonyms of this lexicon. The comparative method selects among them thirty nouns which are frequent in terms of genetic relationship: zoonyms and phytonyms with cognates in North-West and South Semitic and with no Semitic cognates. The structural method highlights the semantic connections among these nouns, and the philological method better defines them by investigating Arabic lexicography. These thirty zoonyms and phytonyms reveal in a coherent and detailed manner a non-desert material context.

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