THE ELUCIDATION OF SYNTACTIC CHANGES AND THEIR CAUSES IN “MIFTOHU-L-ULUM”
Abstract
Theoretical and Practical Elucidation of Syntactic Changes and Their Causes in the Treatise Miftahu-l-Ulum by Sakkaki. The treatise is significant as it perfectly systematized the sciences of not only balagha (rhetoric/eloquence) but also ṣarf (morphology) and naḥw (syntax) in classical Arabic linguistics. The study analyzes specific grammatical rules within the syntax (naḥw) section of the work, particularly the process of case inflectional variation in nouns, words with unique declension patterns, and the subtle differences occurring in the structure of phrasal constructions.
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