The Aesthetics of Syntactic Fronting in Surat Yunus (The Prepositional Phrase as a model)

Abstract

This study examines the structure of the prepositional phrase in Surat Yunus (peace be upon him). It focuses, in particular, on the justification of fronting the prepositional phrase and attempts to introspect the aesthetics in that fronting. The study includes an introduction that focuses on the aim of the study, its methodology, and previous studies. The study also includes a preface that shows a presentation of Surat Yunus (peace be upon him) in terms of the most prominent ideas that it contained, the reason for its name, its consistency, and its relevance to the Surah before and after it. Moreover, the study contained two topics. The first topic sheds light on fronting and its aesthetics in terms of rhetoric and semantics, in addition to defining the concept of the prepositional phrase. The second topic is devoted to revealing the secrets of fronting the prepositional phrase before the topic and its comment in a nominal sentence, before transitive complementizers, and before some of the elements of the verbal sentence (e.g., subject of active sentences/ subject of passive sentences) and the object. The study concluded with the most important findings reached followed by a list of references.