Mohammad Ibrahim Khalifeh Shoushtari; Hossein Pour-Maddah Ardakani
Volume 3, Issue 1 , August 2011, , Pages 69-84
Abstract
After finishing the collection of language elements which they wanted to restrict to the Arabian Peninsula, after organizing and categorizing them under deliberate subjects which include ...
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After finishing the collection of language elements which they wanted to restrict to the Arabian Peninsula, after organizing and categorizing them under deliberate subjects which include all the language aspects and finally after fulfilling all those scholastic stages, the syntax scholars found another scholastic stage which they felt obliged to deal with and this stage is ‘cause finding’. They observed that for each form of language and for each issue of the syntax and morphology, there is a cause which facilitates the process of understanding, learning and teaching. They do not insist on the certainty of causes but believed in their probability and uncertainty. It is assumed that the causes mentioned in Sibawayh’s Kit?b come from emotions resulting from different speech usages due to diverse meanings and speech conditions. This article intends to explain examples selected from Sibawayh’s Kit?b for cause finding of connotations.
