Antonym Sequence in Qur’anic Arabic: An Emically Etiological Approach
Abstract:This article etiologically examines which principles pattern and govern antonym sequences in the Qur’anic discourse and why antonymous pair members are prone to a particularly regular order in the Qur’an. To conduct a rigorous analysis, the article builds on Jones’s (2002) analytic toolkit for antonym sequence (Chapter 8, 120-137) and tests it on a dataset manually collected from the Qur’an (1420 antonymous pairs). The toolkit accounts for antonym order in language use according to sequence rules which include… Show more
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