Books by Riyadh Tariq Kadhim Al-Ameedi

Retribution and/or reward-and-punishment ideology is an acknowledged tenet in almost most cultures and religions. To be more specific, in monotheistic religions, retribution is both a core-tenet and teaching. A large portion of Glorious Qur'anic texts embodies the righteous judgment of Allah the Almighty, His gracious as well as wrath feature. They present this tenet in its double-face meaning: the future rewards and bliss to the righteous for their good done, and punishment and misery to the wicked for their evil done in their earthly lives. Both be summed by the doctoral idea of ' heaven' and ' hell'. Such a solemn theme itself is really challenging to be studied linguistically especially from the stylistic perspective for being part and parcel of the Glorious Qur'an; the supreme and highly style religious texts.

The present study is based on a MA thesis submitted to the council of College of Education, Ibn Rushd, University of Baghdad, Iraq in 1989 for the degree of master of Arts in English Language and Linguistics. It describes the syntactic and semantic aspects of adverbial clauses and phrases of reason through which the English language mainly expresses the idea of causality. Furthermore, it presents the general points of causality as a philosophical context. A short review of the traditional treatment of causality is given at first, followed by the transformational treatment. It derives some rules that transform kernel sentences into adverbial clauses and, if possible, phrases of reason having the same meaning and embed them within a matrix sentence.