Disputing Approaches Between Semantic and Structural Problematic Readings

Abstract

This study aims to show the relationship between semantics and structure, and highlight the impact of the semantic component in the study of grammar in a comprehensive sense. It addresses the recurrent grammatical dispute over structure and meaning in the grammarians and interpreters instructions to deal with some problematic Quranic readings. The researcher has chosen verses from Surat Al-Ma'idah that he finds adequate for this purpose.

The reading problems are found in the phonological, lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects, revealed through subtle disputes and semantic depth which Arab scholars have indirectly alluded to, attributing their interpretations and explanations of the problematic readings to these discrepancies by referring to them briefly. Many of these references were hardly revealed to be attributed to semantics. The study makes use of these references to meet its purpose in the construction of sufficient evidence in order to resolve those problematic readings, linking each of its grammatical rule to semantics.