ABSTRACT
We will argue that style is context sensitive and does not tolerate semantic unacceptability, that is, we cannot say: (I drank a glass of air). For a word to be stylistically appropriate, its semantic componential features need to match its context. It provides a syntactic and semantic analysis of morphologically different words which belong to the same verb root. The argument is that words of different morphological patterns signify distinct meanings and perlocutionary effects. The discussion also involves the analysis of sentences where a specific word is employed and the underlying semantic reasons of a stylistic choice and the impact of semantic context. The examples will demonstrate that the grammatically oriented coherent sequence requires the employment of a word in the singular rather than the plural, the masculine rather than the feminine or vice versa in order to achieve coherence and consolidate the intended meaning of the message. The thesis of this chapter is that style is context sensitive. The chapter investigates: semantically oriented morphological patterns, context-based sentence-final epithets, the active participle, semantic factors, componential features, collocation, surface structure semantic incongruity, semantic redundancy, violation of selection restriction rule, semantically oriented syntactic structures, and sound and meaning. The present discussion is of high value to contrastive linguistics, computational Qur’anic linguistics and translation studies.
