Analogy in Arabic Syntax

Abstract

This research aims to shed light on analogy indicating its limits and its positions in syntax, the similarity between implication and interpretation, and the positions of interpretation, as well as the effect of analogy on factors and reasoning. The research, consisting of an introduction, three sections and a conclusion, concludes that analogy is one of the pillars of syntactic concerns; it is an imagined logical relationship based on looking at the relations that connect words with each other, or structures with each other, and it is not a verbal link that connects the parts of the text. Rather, it is a logical link based on creating a relationship that connects two words or two structures in a certain judgement or explains these two similarities. Linguists however have not put a limit to it as if it were a natural relationship imposed by the laws of natural language.