ABSTRACT
This chapter considers clause/sentence analysis in traditional Arabic grammar, particularly the distinction between nominal and verbal clauses/sentences, and the traditional recursive analysis of S-V structures, such that a post-subject verbal phrase is itself analysed in traditional Arabic grammar as a verbal clause/sentence. In Standard Arabic, as in Sudanese Arabic, elements are either definite or indefinite. It should also be noted that there is a difference in the analyses of clause/sentence structure typically offered in traditional Arabic grammar and that more typically offered in its sister-discipline traditional Arabic rhetoric. Both Sudanese Arabic and Standard Arabic have definiteness agreement. Accordingly, an indefinite nominal takes an indefinite attributive adjectival. Further degrees of recursion are also possible in nominal clauses/sentences.
