Grammar and Semantics in Medieval Arabic by Gully Adrian

Author:Gully, Adrian.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-136-77860-5
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

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that which is ma‘hūdan ḥuḍūriyyan ‘known by its presence’. I-H challenges the views of Ibn ‘Uṣfūr on the application of this catgory. The latter claims that the aspect of presence only occurs after demonstrative pronouns, as in, for example, jā’anī hādhā l-rajulu ‘this man came to me’, or with the vocative, as in yā ayyuhā l-rajulu ‘O man!’, or with the particle idhā of surprise, as in kharajtu fa idhā l-asadu ‘I went out and there was the lion’, or with the noun of the present time, such as al-āna ‘now’. However, I-H notes that are other occasions involving the idea of presence when the definite article is employed, such as when you are talking to a man who is insulting another at that time, so you say to him lā tashtum al-rajula ‘Do not insult the man’. In addition, I-H maintains that the use of al after the particle of surprise in the example of the lion is not for the identification of something present at the moment of speech, because the lion would not be there when the story is being told.

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