Syntax
Maedeh bigom Shirazi; Seyed hossein Seyedi; Ahmad Reza Heidarian Shahri
Volume 16, Issue 1 , August 2024, , Pages 129-150
Abstract
The nineteenth century can be considered a time when modern Arab thought formed, and contemporary linguistic research was also born in line with other Arab intellectual fields. Modernist linguists presented their new findings, derived from contemporary linguistic approaches to the Arabic-speaking readership. ...
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The nineteenth century can be considered a time when modern Arab thought formed, and contemporary linguistic research was also born in line with other Arab intellectual fields. Modernist linguists presented their new findings, derived from contemporary linguistic approaches to the Arabic-speaking readership. Despite different reactions often based on sanctifying their traditional linguistic heritage, they established a distinct and independent structure for contemporary Arab linguistics. On the one hand, it was based on ancient theoretical foundations and on the other hand, it was compatible with modern Western approaches in linguistics. Ibrahim Mustafa and Mehdi Makhzoumi are contemporary Arab linguists who adopted a new viewpoint on linguist research and Arabic syntax. This study attempted to delve into the books Ehya Al-nahw (Syntax Revival) by Ibrahim Mustafa and Fi Al-Nahw Alarabi; Naqd Wa Tawjih (On Arabic Syntax: Criticism and Guidance) by Mehdi Makhzoumi. The study tried to comparatively study the linguistic point of view, foundations, and intellectual origins of these two grammarians based on methodological criticism. The results showed that Ibrahim Mustafa, although he does not have a linguistic approach, is looking for the revival of syntax and has been trying to abolish the agent theory in Arabic grammar. But Mehdi Makhzoumi takes a text-linguistic approach and emphasizes the sentence in Arabic syntax. Most contemporary Arab linguists, relying on the necessity of making fundamental changes in Arabic syntax to get rid of traditional syntax, could criticize some of it with their scientific and experimental knowledge and provide accurate, scientific, novel viewpoints theoretically and practically.