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Volume 11 : 12 December 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Syntactical and Grammatical Analysis of
Vocative Sentences (Grief, Reprimand and Recollection) in
the Holy Qur'an

Nida S. Omar, Ph.D. Candidate, Salahuddin Bin Mohd, Ph.D. and
Kais A. Kadhim, Ph.D.

Abstract

The present study deals with investigating common linguistic tools in the Holy Qur'an. It is devoted to study and follow the syntactic and grammatical categories of the vocative sentences in the Holy Qur`an. The study aims at uncovering the syntactic and grammatical nature of the vocative sentences in the Qur`anic text. Therefore, the theory of X bar theory by Haegeman (2006) will be used to achieve the objective of the current study.

Key words: vocative, X bar theory, syntax, grammar, Quran, and genitive

Introduction

Arabic language is characterized of various colorful linguistic tools and styles give it identifiable aesthetic. These tools are used daily directly or indirectly even in colloquial language. But they outstand clearly in the Standard Arabic Language and in the Holy Qur'an in particular. Deeply thinking, these tools bring in various rhetorical meanings understood through the context or the background that the individual has. Since this study is dedicated to fulfill the syntactic analysis of vocative sentences in the Holy Qur`an, specific concern is given to Arabic language only. Taking into consideration to expose syntactic features of the three rhetorical purposes of vocative sentences in the Holy Qur'an, i.e. Grief, Reprimand and Recollection based upon the theory of natural languages for Haegeman(2006) to diagnose the smallest constituents of these sentences.

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Nida S. Omar, Ph.D. Candidate
English Department
University of Malaya
nidaa.omar@gmail.com

Salahuddin Bin Mohd, Ph.D.
Arabic Department
University of Malaya
Xtre_zar@yahoo.com

Kais A. Kadhim, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
English Department
University of Malaya
Kaisamir2011@hotmail.com

Faculty of Languages and Linguistics
University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
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