Context and its impact on the grammatical judgment of transitivity or intransitivity of the verb “found” as an example

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Assistant Professor of Syntax and Morphology, Department of Arabic Language, College of Languages and Humanities, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

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This study aims to show the impact of the connotation of the verb “found” in judging it as transitive or intransitive according to the verbal contexts in which it occurs, and to clarify the places where it is required, or transitive to one object by itself, or by means, or transitive to two objects, and to collect as much evidence as possible in which this verb revolves between these two (transitive and intransitive). To show the richness of the Arabic language and its flexibility in its vocabulary, as the Arabic language is full of many verbs that revolve between transitive and intransitive, and to point out that judging some verbs as intransitive only, or transitive only, is a kind of arbitrariness and a stone on the language    . The importance of this study lies in the fact that it shows the provisions of the verb “found” in terms of transitive and intransitive, according to its verbal contexts, and this is not mentioned in most grammar books, but only that it may come transitive to two objects if it means “know, think”, without addressing the situations where it is obligatory or transitive My research was organized into an introduction, a preface, two chapters, and a conclusion that included the most important results I reached, followed by a bibliography that included the names of the sources and references I relied on, and another for the topics I addressed in this study.
   As for my methodology in the study, I relied on the descriptive and analytical approach, by collecting and analyzing the verb “found” in terms of transitive and intransitive, and collecting as much evidence as possible in which this verb comes “hesitating between these two judgments”: The importance of interlanguage studies; that the Arabic language is not isolated from each other; rather, it is an interconnected and cohesive unit; and that this study may add new to the field of linguistic studies in that it shows verbs that many may think are obligatory.
  The research concluded with several recommendations, the most important of which are: The need to direct the attention of researchers and students to this type of verbs and study them in an applied study in the Holy Qur'an, the Prophet's Hadith, and Arabic poetry and prose.

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