The traditional opinions of Arabic scholars about exclamation (taʿajjub) in Classical Arabic are found in various discourses, not only in that of the grammarians, in fragments inserted in works belonging to grammar (naḥw), rhetoric (balāġa), foundations of grammar (ʾuṣūl an-naḥw), scholastic theology (kalām), Qurʾānic exegesis (tafsīr), etc. We find in fact two ways of speaking about exclamation in the Arabic sciences of the language:
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- the first in a limited acceptance of this concept, referring to an evaluative act, i.e. not only an act of admiration, but in general, that of …