ABSTRACT: This study examines two distinctive linguistic approaches separated by more than a millennium: Ibn Fāris’s theory of Uṣūl and Maqāyīs )الأصول والمقاييس( in his book “Maqāyīs Al-Lugha” and Noam Chomsky’s Transformational - Generative Theory. The study seeks to investigate the principles underlying Ibn Fāris’s attempt to trace the diverse meanings of Arabic lexical forms to underlying semantic origins and to compare them with the principles...
Keywords: Ibn Fāris; Maqāyīs Al-Lugha; Uṣūl and Maqāyīs; Noam Chomsky; Transformational- Generative Theory; Arabic linguistic heritage; Comparative linguistics.
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