The problem of objecting the logical grammatical boundaries in Al-Kafya book through (Alfkuk Fi Shrh Alshkuk)

Abstract

The phenomenon of objection to the logical grammatical boundaries is one of the issues that frequently occur in Arabic grammar books generally, and in Shorooh Al-Kafya Fil Nahw (Al- Kafya explanations of grammar) particularly. Although Ibn al-Hajib is one of the grammarians who paid special attention-fundamentally and critically- to logical grammatical boundaries, many of the boundaries he set faced logical objections, either them being not comprehensive, exhaustive or subject to addition or different vicious circles. Perhaps a single boundary faced many logical objections. The responses to these objections stem from a misunderstanding of the purpose of the setter of the boundary, or that the boundary is valid according to the approach of its setter. Here emerges the problems of these logical objections, this article attempts to analyse these logical objections to identify their weak points. That comes for two reasons in this work: Firstly, the difficulty of logical boundaries which depend on definition of things that depending on its intrinsic characteristics. Secondly, grammatical boundaries depend on the approach of its setter. The outcomes were reached through studying several forms of the objections to grammatical boundaries in the book (al-Kafiyah fi alnnhu) Jarbardi's answers are in his book )Shukuk ʻalá alhajibiyh) And his explanation (Alfkuk fi shrh alshkuk).