Syntactic Operations Used in the Sentence Structures of Ulul'AZIM Arguments and their Semantic Effects

Abstract

Reading through Qur’anic expressions, one can find reasoning-based arguments between some prophets and their people. Such arguments were mainly found in the arguments of Ulul'AZIM, the strong-will prophets (Noah, Ibrahim, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad); Ulul'AZIM made great efforts in convincing people of the oneness of God. We find it important to analyze these expressions, their semantic affects, and the way they can be convincing. I found several syntactic operations; such as deletion, fronting, delaying, concord, etc; these operations influenced and strengthened the meaning and made it more convincing, hence the aim of this research. I followed the descriptive approach whose main tool is structural analysis; I found out several results, mainly the point that deletion is the most common syntactic operation utilized in the sentences I analyzed: this can be due to the prophets’ rapid delivery of the supportive proof; prophets were very keen on convincing their people of their arguments. Prophets’ arguments deleted some structural elements, depending on the addresses’ knowledge of these deleted elements. We have also found out some other results