الدلالة الزمنية للفعل الماضي في ثلاثية نجيب محفوظ

Abstract EN

Arab scholars paid attention to the study of time and its connotations, in the past and present, in a striking way, as this time and its connotations constitute one of the most important axes of the Arab lesson.

So, this study focused on the merits of this topic for consideration, and the possibility of applying this to a literary text with distinction, which is the three texts of the novelist (Naguib Mahfouz), so his novel was the scientific brush to apply the theoretical material drawn from grammar books and others.

This research has dealt with the temporal significance in light of the evidence available in the context of the texts of the novel.

It should be noted that the term “context” was not known to advanced grammarians as a grammatical or linguistic term.

Rather, they objected to it in terms close to or synonymous with its lexical meaning, including the verse, the link, the evidence, the emirate and the connotation.

The research in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel trilogy has focused on two types of clues: the first is verbal clues that include: verbatim and circumstantial clues, and the second is the moral clues that relate to the context of the case for various reasons, including the frequent occurrence of these clues in the trilogy in the context of the past tense, with what it has the effect of transforming and altering the temporal significance of the past verb, so these clues had the most prominent role in deducing the grammatical time connotation.

Even these clues formed a special chronological feature in the trilogy, as these clues play a role in showing the intention of the speaker in the context in which they are employed.