Switching from a heavy word to a heavier one as a form of disdain: A morphological and phonetic study

Abstract

The research is based on a linguistic fact: the law of lightness cannot be applied to all linguistic issues. There are cases in which the development occurs from lighter to heavier, and there are other cases in which a heavy word or letter is modified to a heavier one, as a form of belittling. This is what Abu al-Fath Othman ibn Jinni (d. 392 AH) pointed out (see: Ibn Jinni, Baghdad, 1990 AD: 3/20). Moreover, taste and feeling are linked to lightness and heaviness, and to the pronunciation of the language by speakers. Especially since we cannot judge the lightness or heaviness of an eloquent word without looking at it, pronouncing it, and contemplating its form and meaning. So when the word is pronounced, the speaker can, through his feeling and taste, judge the lightness or heaviness of the sound Or the word, or the sentence; the research topic confirms a linguistic fact clarified by linguists, namely that lightness and heaviness are due either to a mere impression, or to the speaker's sense of the language. If heaviness is a relative process, and the speaker's sense and impression are the two elements that embody heaviness for him, then heaviness only appears in specific places or specifications embodied in the linguistic employment of speakers in an actual manner that linguists have codified in the form of specific rules. Our task is to uncover these places and state linguists' opinions on them