《西伯威书》(以下简称《书》)是最早的阿拉伯语语法著作。作者西伯威是一位波斯裔的阿拉伯语语法学家和语言学家。他在《书》中细致解释了各种语法现象,并且论述了对语言问题的看法和见解,铸就了一部承载着语言学思想的语法著作。《书》的前七章建立了理论框架和方法论,被视为“绪论”。本文以现代西方语言学思想为参照,从《书》“绪论”各章中提炼表现语言思想的内容,揭示早期阿拉伯语言思想及其内涵在语法研究中的作用。 Book of Seth (the Book) is the earliest Arabic grammar. The author Sebwi is a Persian-Arabic grammar and linguist. He explained various grammatical phenomena in the book in detail and discussed his views and opinions on language problems and created a grammatical work bearing the linguistic thinking. The first seven chapters of the book establish the theoretical framework and methodology, which is considered as an “introduction.” Based on the modern Western linguistic thoughts, this essay extracts the expression of language thoughts from the chapters of “Book” and “Introduction” to reveal the role of early Arabic language thoughts and their connotations in grammar research.