"Syntactic Structure Mirrors Conceptual Structure: Fronting and Postponement in Al-Jurjānī's Theory"

Abstract

This study aims to clarify the relationship between language and thought, adopting a scientific and procedural approach with the rise of cognitive linguistics. It attempts to provide a more precise scientific explanation of the close relationship between them, as cognitive linguistics represents a modern trend that emerged and flourished in an environment of interdisciplinary convergence. It is based on studying the relationship between language, mind, and experience, drawing on research findings in psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and anthropology. It rejects the notion of the linguistic system's independence and views it as a purely mental faculty. Accordingly, it studies the mechanism of meaning construction within linguistic and non-linguistic frameworks and its operation in the mind. Accordingly, there is a single level at which linguistic and other non-linguistic information are processed; this level is called the conceptual structure.