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Sabir, Mona – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
This study explores how Arab L2 learners of English acquire mass nouns. The mass/count distinction is a morphosyntactically encoded grammatical distinction. Arabic and English have different morphosyntactic realisations of mass nouns. English mass nouns take the form of bare singular whereas Arabic mass nouns can take the definite singular form or…
Descriptors: Nouns, Arabs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Turjoman, Mona O. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This sociolinguistics study investigates a new phenomenon that has recently surfaced in the field of code-switching among Saudi females residing in the Western region of Saudi Arabia. This phenomenon basically combines bound Arabic pronouns, tense markers or definite article to English free morphemes or the combination of bound English affixes to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Code Switching (Language), Morphemes