The Actual Structure of the Arab Republic of Egypt’s Constitution (2012): A Sociolinguistic Study

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The scope of this research is to conduct a count of the composition of the verbs in the Constitution of Egypt 2012 (which is a grammatical study in the light of sociolinguistics, where the researcher has noted, through reading the articles of the Constitution which amounts to 236 items, that the composition of the verbs, known also as the verb sentence, had been stated in 986 contexts. The researcher also noted that that the present tense has been dominantly mentioned in 92 percent of the text because it is appropriate to both the situation as well as the social context of the present and the future. However, the past tense has been used in 8% mostly in a conditional context to refer to the future and suit the context. The first person verb has not been implemented since the constitutional project does not address particular persons, classes, or groups.
The researcher has identified more than twenty features for the composition of the verbs; through both the linguistic and non linguistic context. This has made the constitutional legislator to use the word "law" from a referable perspective, in a hundred and one citations, while using the word "constitution" in two places to adhere to the saying of the lawmakers of the constitution, "the constitution is the father of all laws."
The research has proven that the constitutional project has resorted to the probability verb in 51 citations, and used the improbability affirmations in 17 citations.