1. Abbreviations and Conventions; 2. Preface; 3. 1. Introduction; 4. 1. The problem; 5. 1.1 The schools; 6. 1.2 The data; 7. 1.3 The Quranic variants, the Qiraa'aat; 8. 1.4 The players; 9. 1.5 Plan of the book; 10. 1.6 Odd remarks; 11. 2. Two General Points; 12. 2.1 Dependency; 13. 2.2 The i-inf (genitive); 14. 2.3 Scope of study; 15. 3. Farra' as Linguist; 16. 3.1 'Asl; 17. 3.2 General rules; 18. 3.3 Position, context, mawdi'; 19. 3.4 Analogical reasoning; 20. 3.5 Farra' on gender; 21. 3.6 Ma'aaniy l-Qur'aan: Farra' and Zajjaj; 22. 3.7 Conclusion; 23. 4. Sibawayhi's Methodology; 24. 4.1 Sibawayhi's use of substitution; 25. 4.2 Techniques; 26. 4.3 Sibawayh and Sarraj; 27. 5. Noun Complementation; 28. 5.1 Sarraj; 29. 5.2 Sibawayh; 30. 5.3 Types of relation in Sibawayh's treatment of NC; 31. 5.4 General summary; 32. 5.5 Farra'; 33. 5.6 Axfash; 34. 5.7 Mubarrid, Tha'lab and others; 35. 5.8 The class of noun complementizers; 36. 6. Sibawayh and Farra' vs. Later Grammarians; 37. 6.1 'Isnaad; 38. 6.2 The a-inf form; 39. 6.3 Sequence of the tamyiyz (or the proper use of analogy); 40. 7. Farra' as Transitional Figure; 41. 7.1 The specifier, tamyiyz; 42. 7.2 The locative, darf, and sifa; 43. 7.3 Passive; 44. 8. Farra' and the Period of Heterogeneity; 45. 8.1 Meaning, structural categories and precision of terminology; 46. 8.2 Are terminological differences categorical differences?; 47. 8.3 Summary; 48. 9. Minor Writers; 49. 9.1 The linguists; 50. 9.2 MN; 51. 9.3 Ibn Kaysan; 52. 9.4 Lughda; 53. 9.5 KJN; 54. 9.6 Tabular summary; 55. 9.7 Tha'lab and Abu Bakr al-Anbari; 56. 9.8 Terminological and conceptual heterogeneity; 57. 9.9 Non-standard traditions; 58. 9.10 Dating works; 59. 10. The Development of the Basran and Kufan Schools; 60. 10.1 Sibawayh; 61. 10.2 Farra'; 62. 10.3 Linguists after Farra'; 63. 10.4 Zajjaj; 64. 10.5 From data to theory; 65. 11. The Structural Development of Early Arabic Syntactic Theory; 66. 11.1 The data; 67. 11.2 Technical questions; 68. 11.3 Periodization; 69. 11.4 The schools and linguistic data; 70. 11.5 Reconstruction; 71. 11.6 Principles of development; 72. 11.7 The early evolution of Arabic syntactic theory; 73. Appendix 1; 74. IA. Subject Matter of Ma'aaniy l-Qur'aan, Farra' and Zajjaj; 75. IB. Harf in Morphology and Syntax; 76. IC. The musnad and musnad 'ilayhi in Farra'; 77. ID. The term sagala; 78. IE. Noun complementation citations in Axfash; 79. IF. Page references to 7.1.4; 80. IG. Form and function of governed item in Farra's 'iyqaa' relation, vol. I; 81. IH. References to Basra, Kufa and individual linguists in Tha'lab's Majaalis; 82. IJ. References to Basrans and Kufans in first two volumes of Zajjaj's MQ; 83. Appendix II Arabic Quotes; 84. Appendix III Arabic Linguists; 85. References; 86. Primary; 87. Secondary; 88. Index of Arabic Grammarians; 89. Index of Arabic Grammatical Terms; 90. Subject Index