سقوط تاء التأنيث في الشعر : قراءة في اتجاهات الفكر اللغوي

الملخص EN

The current study aims at exploring words that are abundantly used in one of the main sources of Arabic rule regulation system, i.e.

poetry.

The investigated words include the feminine 'haa', but which has been dropped out.

Such a dropping has confused Arab grammarians and linguists who tried to interpret it to find its causes and applications.

However, since there have been different scholarly treatments, without reaching a consensus about the various aspect of this drop, this study comes to resolve such an ambiguity related to the various attitudes of Arab grammarians and linguists towards it.

To achieve the study objectives, the inductive approach has been adopted to clarify the confusion and trace the various examples in Arabic poetry as well as identify the trends of Arab linguists regarding this dropping in order to interpret it adequately.

The study reviews the different trends and shows the similarities and differences between them.

The study reveals that Arabic allows the addition of feminine 'haa' to words for different purposes as set by Arab linguists and grammarians as shown in this study.

The retain of this 'haa' has been stressed as it maintains clear-cut meanings; when the 'haa' is dropped out, these meanings may vanish or disappear, not excluding the semantic differences between them.

However, retaining the feminine 'haa' has not been always plausible and possible, as there have been many poetic texts that included words and phrases containing this 'haa' which has been left out.

The researcher tried to trace some manifestations of this dropping in vocative and non-vocative cases as well as in genitive ones.

The current study attempts also to explore the various linguistic trends embraced by Arab linguists by investigating the various aspects, reasons, and justifications of such a dropping, whether or not it was acceptable by them, whether or not it was relatable to a poetic necessity, whether or not it was anomalous, and whether or not it was ascribable to something else.

The study also reveals that the dropping of this 'haa' has not always been plausible ; it has served different purposes; it has been used for poetic need; and, sometimes it has been completely weird.

The findings also show that this kind of dropping has been done to ease the structure of the word and that it has been abundant in Arabic poetry in a way that shows the extent to which Arabic can extend its structures and words and that the language allows the dropping-out of the 'haa' that has been previously added to designate a new meaning.