Nihad Al-Mousa and Re-Reading the Grammatical Heritage in the light of Contemporary Linguistics

• Published in: Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Language Sciences and Literature no. 34; pp. 193 - 206
• Main Author: Al-Jawarneh, Yousuf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 30.12.2024
• ISSN: 1658-8126; 1658-8126
• DOI: 10.54940/ll19275803

Research is based on the perspectives of linguist Nihad Al-Mousa in re-reading the grammatical heritage, with the goal of drawing a true picture of grammatical theory among Arabs for its revival, and its contribution to nourishing the absent modern linguistic lesson, in the context of linguistic theory and global grammar. I've discussed two topics: the depiction of Arabic in American linguistics as it seemed to Nihad, and how he exposed its flaws; and how it overlooked essential components of Arabic linguistic theory that linguistics should be aware of and benefit from. The second is sociolinguistics, that demonstrated extra elements and external factors associated with linguistic content and grammatical structures. The approach evolved as a direct response to the previous approaches, which focuses with Linguistic discours on analyzing structures in their formal (internal), component in the interpretation functional aspect in its external dimension (context), in order to illustrate it in the Arabic language lesson, and to nourish modern linguistic attention to it, believing that the grammatical heritage reveals a deep understanding of the role of language in shaping society.