The Increase in Grammatical Terminology: Between Rule-making and Application

This research examines the concept of "addition" in grammatical terminology via description and analysis. It explores the reasons behind applying the term "addition" of specific words in certain syntactic structures. It has become vivid that the transition of language from usage to rule-making is the primary reason for viewing words that appear between the preposition and genitive as obstacles to the manifestation of syntactic effects or as complicating the identification of such effects. This led some grammarians to loosely apply terms like "redundant" and similar labels to these words to clarify the syntactic effect. Consequently, the ambiguity in meaning arose, prompting others to pair the term "redundant" with emphasis to simultaneously indicate syntax and meaning. Those who prioritized meaning confined themselves solely on connection or emphasis, resulting in a proliferation of overlapping terminologies around the concept of "addition." Thus, the concept of "addition" appeared ambiguous and multifaceted. The presence of an intervening word—according to grammarians' terminology—in a syntactic structure is not arbitrary. The meaning of the structure, without it, differs from its meaning with it, a point in which was emphasized by most grammarians, even those who overlooked this fact could not deny it.