Pragmatic adequacy in Functional Arabic grammar

Abstract

Functional Arabic grammar is a modern approach to Arabic grammar; based, with the functional grammar theory from which it emerged, on the principle that explanatory adequacy includes three adequacies: pragmatic adequacy, psychological adequacy, and typological adequacy. In this article, we will discuss the pragmatic adequacy in Functional Arabic grammar by highlighting two aspects of this adequacy. One of them is related to the procedures on which functional Arabic grammar depends to achieve this adequacy, and we will focus here on the representation of the pragmatic functions (focus, topic, theme, tail, and vocative). The other is the contribution of pragmatic adequacy in the explanatory adequacy, through the role of pragmatic functions in explaining some phenomena in the Arabic language, such as: stress, functional case, and the order of the constituents of the phrase.