Homonymous verbs in the Holy Quran : an analysis of three translations of some Quranic texts in terms of Ray Jackendoff's conceptual structures

Abstract EN

This paper attempts to examine the translations of Abdullah Yousif Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall and John Arberry of some homonymous verbs in some Quranic texts.

In order to determine the meanings of the homonymous verbs, the exegete adopted in this paper is Al-Tabary.

The model applied is '' Jackendoff's Conceptual Structures '', where each conceptual structure is analyzed into its conceptual categories.

This paper aims to find which conceptual structures of the translated texts (TT) match the conceptual structure of the source texts (ST).

The present paper concludes that not all the conceptual structures of the translated texts (TT) are in full correspondence with the conceptual structure of the source texts (ST).