Syntax 2

Course Main Objective

To make students acquainted with the grammatical rules and apply such grammatical rules to the attestational linguistic examples including the annulers of verbal sentence and the agent and the pro-agent, use the modern standard Arabic in speaking, reading and writing, find out positions of solecism in speech and memorize the eloquent examples so that to be fluent and imaginative.    

Course Learning Outcomes

• 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
•    1.1 Explain the grammatical rules relating to the annulers of nominal sentence and the agent and pr-agent.
• 2. Skills 
  
•    2.1 Distinguish the grammatical rules of the studied subjects through analyzing various texts.
•    2.2 Use communication and information technology and learning resources and apply them to the grammatical rules discovered in the concerned texts.
• 3. Values 
•   3.1 Assume individual, collective and leading responsibility and respect personal relationships upon performing various grammatical assignments. 
•   3.2 Perform the grammatical assignments observing scientific research ethics and academic integrity as well as values of responsible citizen.

Course Content

- An introduction to the course and its objectives and requirements; the annullers of inception, the verbal annullers and their nature; sisters of "Kana", its types
1- Its rules regarding preceding and delaying, incompleteness and completeness, augmentation and elimination, types of the predicate
2- Letters similar to "Lay'sa": (ma, Enna, La, Laat) and conditions of their application and rules of their predicates.
3- Verbs of approximation, hope, beginning: their operation and rule of its predicate's conjugation with the infinitive "Ann"
4- Sisters of "Enna": its meanings and rules concerning preceding and delaying, open modulated with vowel "a" and reduced modulated with vowel "i", attraction to its noun, reduction and attaching the "Lam" (that is pushed away and the inception "Lam") and the neutralizing particle.
5- "Lae" of generic negation: its meaning, conditions of its operation, the acceptable declension aspects of the word of monotheism, its repetition.
6- Dhanna and its sisters: its types (verbs of affectivity and transfer) and its rules regarding elimination, cancellation, suspension and attraction.
7- The verbs "know" and "see": their meanings and relation to the inception and the annullers.
8- The subject: its types (real noun, expressive equivalent to an infinitive, pronoun) and its rules concerning its element, ruling of feminization of its verb, places of preceding the predicate to it and its element.
9- Pro-agent: structuring the different forms of verb into passive voice, forms of pro-agent and what represents it (predicate, adverb, reducer and reduced).

Textbook (s) 

- Ibn Aqil: Explication of Al AlFiyah Ibn Malek. Dar Al-Torath, Dar Misr, Cairo, 20th ed., 2014.

Course ID: ARAB 207