The interpreted infinitive without a source letter: A study of the patterns of construction, the mechanisms of transformation and interpretation, and the connotations of deviation.

Abstract

The implied infinitive in Arabic is any construction that can be interpreted with an explicit infinitive, replacing a singular noun and assuming its syntactic position, whether or not its construction includes a relative pronoun. Based on this definition, implied infinitives can be divided, based on the presence of a source letter in their construction, into: infinitives interpreted with a source letter and infinitives interpreted without a source letter.

    This research aims to demonstrate the syntactic characteristics of the types of implied infinitives without a source letter, the mechanism for converting them from explicit sources to implied sources, and how to interpret them with explicit sources. It also demonstrates the semantic value of shifting from expressing explicit infinitives to expressing these syntactic patterns of the implied infinitive without a source letter. The descriptive-analytical approach was followed to achieve its objectives by describing this type of construction, analyzing its syntactic patterns, and demonstrating their semantic value. The study concludes by putting an end to this type of interpreted infinitives, identifying their structural patterns in Arabic, clarifying the mechanisms for transforming them from their deep to their surface structure, and elucidating the semantic value of shifting from expressing them with the explicit infinitive to expressing them with it.