A Syntactic- Semantic Analysis of the Role of Punctuation in Clause Complexes Organization and Text Redaction تحلیل نحوی دلالی لدور علامات الترقیم فی تنظیم الجمل المعقدة و تنقیح النص

Abstract

It has been noticed that the Arabic language, which currently appears in the Egyptian newspapers, resorts to western punctuation marks that make different texts look like their English counterparts. Before 1912, Arabic heritage was written with no punctuation marks, no commas, no periods, etc. Then Ahmad Zaki Basha (May 1867-July 1934), an Egyptian philologist and dean of Arabism, called for the revival of the western tradition of using punctuation marks which help compile, edit and organize texts-hence redacting them. Investigating the way these marks appear on Arabic texts is the main aim of this paper. Halliday's Functional Grammar and the structure of clause complexes are adopted as the theoretical framework here. The paper addresses two main questions: (1) What is the role of punctuation marks in ‫تنظي‬ ‫ىف‬ ‫الرتقيم‬ ‫عالمات‬ ‫لدور‬ ‫دالىل‬ ‫حنوى‬ ‫حتليل‬ ‫األول‬ ‫اجلزء‬ ‫النص‬ ‫وتنقيح‬ ‫املعقدة‬ ‫اجلمل‬ ‫م‬