The Verbal Noun (Ism al-Fi'l) and its Syntactic, Semantic, and Aspectual Features (±Obligatory) in Sibawayh’s Book by Prof. Dr. Hammadi Zemzem

Abstract

This article aims to clarify the syntactic roles of the verbal noun (Ism al-Fi'l) that indicate aspect (±Obligatory/±Certainty) in a sentence, based on Sibawayh’s definitions in "Al-Kitab" regarding what transitivity exists between the commander, the commanded, and the prohibited, while drawing on its commentaries; it highlights its origin as a condensed category of the noun of action (Ism al-Hadath) whose subject does not appear under its operational conditions, emphasizing the ingenuity of the term "verbal noun" which bridges noun and verb as a grammatical unit conveying verbal meaning without following its morphological or structural behavior, serving as a word category that denotes aspect and time through composition and syntax, characterized by unique construction, inflection, and semantic computation.