A Cognitive-Semantic Study of the Spatial Preposition Fī(يِف) in the Quran

• Main Authors: Sardaraz, Khan, Roslan, Ali
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Sains Malaysia 2017
• Subjects: BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc; P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31889/1/A%20Cognitive-Semantic%20Study%20of%20the%20Spatial%20Preposition%20F%C4%AB%28%D9%8A%D9%90%D9%81%29%20in%20the%20Quran.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31889/; http://web.usm.my/kajh/vol24_2_2017/kajh24022017_04.pdf

The existing literature has examined the preposition fī (يِف) in the Quran from lexical syntactic perspective in strict spatio-geometric sense, but its abundant use with abstract concepts, emotions and states needs an elaborate approach to investigate its complex semantic functions. Ther...