القصدية : في المقاربات التراثية للابتداء بالنكرة

Abstract EN

The permissibility of starting a sentence with an indefinite noun in Arabic seemed to be a settled issue since Sibawaihi.

Though, the later treaties (Linguistic, Rhetorical, grammatical, etc.

), discussed it in details under the heading (Justifications of Starting a Sentence with an Indefinite Noun).

Those justifications, in fact, no more than observations and descriptions of the abundant possibilities that Arabic exhibits in its discoursal usages.

It is plain that those treaties' usage of the term "Justification", here, amounts to the prohibition of starting a sentence with an indefinite noun since justification means a permission to use something that is not allowed.

This study, however, will not deal with these discussions since old and modern approaches discussed the matter in minute details.

Instead, it will start, in achieving its goals, with the hypothesis that starting the sentence with an indefinite noun does not reflect a departure from the standard normative usage; that is, the variaty of the justifications led to connecting the issue with usages and intentional discoursal consequentiality, since the actual usage of language is hardly stable, and is difficult to constrain with rigid analogical constrains.

This is what made the syntactic variations of starting with an indefinite noun to be no more than permitted possibilities and choices that are conditioned by communicational purposes and goals, and by context of discourse.

These are pragmatic dimensions with which traditional pragmatic treaties dealt with, whether they endorsed the idea of justification or refused it.

The aim of this study is to clarify this idea in the light of intentionality concept that encompasses all those dimensions.