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Author(s) Ahmad Matar Atiyyeh
Affiliation AssiSfallf Professor. Departmellf (IfArabic. College o/Arts, King Salld V/liversit)', Riyadh, S(wdi Arabia
Title Grammatical Causality: An Attempt to Justify the Linguistic System
Source Journal of King Saud University. Arts. Volume 11, No 1. (1999/1419)
Abstract Grammatical casualily is a striking feature of Arabic grammar. The great grammarians of the early centuries of the Hijra carried the sch01arship of this trait to its peak. Books of grammar were replete with gram-matical and morphological causalities to the point where it was unlikely to find a case unsupported by a specifi<: reference to causa1ity- Special books were indeed fully dedicated to this phenomenon. Grammatical causality. Ihis paper maintains, is a direct result of the comprehensi ve view of language that [ollows from a long and deep examination of the linguistic phenomena. This paper aims at proving that grammatic