Multiple Functional Significance of the Object: A Study in the Light of the Theory of Propping
Khalid Sulaiman Alkindi, Associate professor, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman.
Abstract
The term “object” for grammarians denotes: 1- What the “subject” has fallen on. 2-The result of the conversion. 3- The “predicate” and the “ascribed to it” in the attribution indicating what the subject’s verb fell on. 4- Who participated in the action and other functions. Because of the multiplicity of functions of the “object”, its concept has become ambiguous among grammarians with other concepts such as “Mansob because of the deletion of the preposition”. This study seeks to find out the reason that prompted the grammarians to launch the term “object” on all these functions despite their differences and to solve the problem of confusion in the concepts of the object with other concepts, using the theory of “propping”, which is a modern ontological and epistemological theory that seeks to evaluate the foundations of science and solve its terminological problems.
Keywords: Object, Multiplicity of functions, Theory of propping.