Arabic-L:LING:Term for 'syntactic position' query

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Date: 26 Jun 2013
From:Kais Dukes <kais at kaisdukes.com>
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Hello,

I'm doing some writing that explains traditional Arabic grammar to a
Western audience. As part of this, I'm trying to pick a single Arabic word
for the term "syntactic position". This is often used in traditional Arabic
grammar, such as (ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل). The term I'm looking relates
to function, syntactic role, position or place. I'd like to choose one word
from the following three:

1. محل
2. موقع e.g. "mawqi' al-mubtada"
3. موضع e.g. "mawdi' fi al-kamal"

I've noticed that in traditional analysis, the word "mahal" is used a lot,
e.g. "fee mahal nasb". But it appears that term is used only when another
word or phrase is occupying the position usually taken by another word. Are
the other two terms better?

My question in a nutshell is: What is the best word single to refer to the
concept of "syntactic position" in traditional Arabic grammar?

So far, I'm leaning towards using موقع  for this term. Examples would be
the positions of subject and predicate in nominative sentences, and the
positions of verb, subject and object in verbal sentences

Kais Dukes
University of Leeds

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