PERSPECTIVES OF A SPECULATIVE APPROACH TO THE DESCRIPTION OF ARABIC GRAMMAR

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  O. Khamray

Abstract

Grammar paradigms traditionally occupy a leading place in the description of the grammatical system of the language. Along with this, the basis of the language paradigmatic is the idea of targeting a set of idealized forms that can be used as the most typical patterns for describing grammatical phenomena that actually exist in the language. Within this publication, the search for principles of analysis of the grammatical system of Arabic, common to Western Arabistics and traditional Arabic linguistics. One of the approaches that is relevant in this context is, in the opinion of the author, the use of speculative constructions to determine the theoretical bases of the above principles of a language. Moreover, usually the scientific theories are built for an idealized object, so the understanding of the correlation of these objects with real phenomenon existing in the language is necessary. Western Arabic uses paradigms, designed for describing European languages, primarily the Latin language, to characterize the grammatical phenomena of the Arabic language, and the Arabic linguistic tradition relies on specific patterns of grammatical phenomena present in classical Arabic. At the same time, both traditions widely use such technique as judgment by analogy, well known in logic. However, for our research, the main thing is that both of the above approaches use an idealized representation that makes a universalized approach to the description of the grammatical system of a language possible. As we can see, to universalize the description of a specific linguistic phenomenon, idealization is a necessary operation. According to the author, one of the speculative methods that it is expedient to use to achieve the goal of the proposed research is the phenomenological method. Phenomenological theories are used not only in the humanities, but in physics and technology, where this method makes it possible to describe the most common relationships between parameters, the specific meanings of which are established statistically. The author concludes that we often deal with idealized descriptions of grammatical phenomena in Arabic objects whose properties are determined by similarity lines, by virtue of which these phenomena can be described with the help of speculative inferences having speculative origin.

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Khamray, O. (2018). PERSPECTIVES OF A SPECULATIVE APPROACH TO THE DESCRIPTION OF ARABIC GRAMMAR. The World of the Orient, (4 (101), 78-88. https://doi.org/10.15407/orientw2018.04.078
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Keywords

Arabic language, Arabic linguistic tradition, grammatical system, phenomenological method

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