An Attempt in the Topicalization Rule | ||
| مجلة آداب البصرة | ||
| Article 5, Volume 10, Issue 68, August 2014, Pages 57-74 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Qasim F. Hassn | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper deals with the point of views of traditional Arab grammarians on the sentence-initial position of Arabic sentence. Arab grammarians used to call this position as al-ibtida` (the sentence-initial position). This position was and still is a good point of departure for grammatical controversies. However, there is no general agreement about the definition and the nature of this position among Arab grammarians. This conflict of opinion results most likely from the inaccurate approaches in dealing with the word order of Arabic; Arab grammarians divided the sentence into constituents and scattered them then in different chapters, mostly unrelated to word order. In this paper, I will present the accounts of Arab grammarians about the sentence-initial position; then, I will show that defining the sentence-initial position cannot take place without taking in consideration the other orderings in Arabic sentence. It is, furthermore, inevitably to consider the governance of the case markers of Arabic in order to reach an adequate understanding of the sentence-initial position. Thus, case markers and sentence ordering are determining factors to define the sentence-initial position. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| An Attempt in; the Topicalization Rule | ||
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