Cognitive Grammar with Reference to Passive Construction in Arabic
Cognitive Grammar with Reference to Passive Construction in Arabic

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine Cognitive Grammar (CG)theory with reference to the active and the passive voice construction in Arabic. It shows how the cognitive approach to linguistics and construction grammar work together to explain motivation beyond the use of this syntactic construction; therefore, formal structures of language are combined with the cognitive dimension. CG characterizations reveal the limitations of the view that grammatical constructions are autonomous categories. They are interrelated with conceptualization in the framework of cognitive grammar. The study also accounts for the verbs which have active form and passive meaning, and the verbs which have passive form and active meaning.

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