2023/09/19 by Marijn van Putten · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Families in Therapy and Culture #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/jss/fgad029
openalex publication_date 2023/09/19 · openalex created_date 2023/09/20 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Abstract This paper examines how Quranic text treats the construction of a participle in predicative position when it is followed by a direct object. While the medieval grammarians typically say that the participle may be either followed by the object in the accusative or form a construct phrase with it regardless of the definiteness of the object, close examination of the behaviour of participles in predicative positions in the Quranic text shows that a clear correlation presents itself. Indefinite objects are marked with the accusative, whereas definite objects are formed through a genitive construction. This thus means that the linguistic register of the Qurʾān, different from other forms of Classical Arabic, represents a kind of differential object marking on the objects of predicative participles, differentiating between indefinite and definite objects.