البحث الدلالي عند ابن جني

The study of the meaning is the oldest intellectual concerns of human over time and in various cultures and civilizations. The meaning has occupied the Chinese and Indian thinkers and philosophers of the Greeks and Romans during centuries. The Arab and Muslim linguists and others mostly shared in study of many issues related to meaning of the words. Arab’s linguistic research has focus on determining of meaning and purposes of Quran. The discussion and survey of issues that took place among the Arab and Islamic scholars related to meaning. But the study of meaning in Islamic and Arabic heritage had merged in the other linguistic studies and the issue mixed with various knowledge and had not the distinctive title and was not independent in his themes and specific criteria. But unfortunately many researchers thought that the semantics is the knowledge that its bases and principals have grown and grew up in the modern linguistic studies and the Arab and Muslim scholars didn’t know it. This research aims to state the contributions of Islamic and Arabs scholars in establishing the principles of bases related to semantics and illustrates the extent of their interest in meaning. And I chose Ibn Jenni as representative of earlier scholars. Because he was one of the greatest scholars who have made a bright example for the issues of language in the Arab and Islamic heritage. In fact, this study states the Ibn Jenni’s studies and shows the extent of his interest to it in various forms. In addition, the study states that a loit of results of the modern semantic studies, received by the scholars of Arabia. While studying the language which made us say that semantics is ancient science that linguists dealt with it in earlier time and is modern as its bases and foundations, and methodology have been identified in the beginning twentieth century until it become independent science after that was studied inside other linguistic studies.