Syntactic Deviation in Abdul-Wahhab Al-Bayyati Poetry With Reference to English Syntax A Functional Study
Haamid Muhammed M. Abdul-Moujod
Makhmour Secondary School for girls
Shireen Abdulmonim Saeed
College of Veterinary Medicine / University of Baghdad
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.6.3.1.8
Keywords: ellipsis, repetition, functional shift, and thematization
Abstract
This research is an attempt to study aspects of syntactic deviation in Abdul-Wahhab Al-Bayyati with reference to English. It reviews this phenomenon from an extra-linguistic viewpoint. It adopts a functional approach depending on the stipulates of systemic Functional Grammar as developed by M.A.K. Halliday and others adopting this approach. Within related perspective, fairly’s taxonomy (1975) has been chosen to analyze the types of syntactic deviation because it has been found suitable and relevant to describe this phenomenon. The research hypothesizes that syntactic deviation is pervasive in Arabic poetry, in general and in Abdul-Wahhab Al-Bayyati Poetry in specific, and can be analyzed in the light of systemic Functional Grammar. It also hypothesize that syntactic deviation intensifies cohesion in poetic texts and does not disrupt or dismantle links between the structures of the clause. The devices tackled in this research are: ellipsis, repetition, functional shift, and thematization.
