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Alaowffi, Nouf; Alharbi, Bader – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Based on data from numerous languages, such as English, Frisian, and Danish, Merchant (2001) proposes the "preposition stranding generalization" (PSG), which states that only languages that allow preposition stranding under wh-movement also allow preposition stranding under sluicing. The availability of this generalization has been the…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Form Classes (Languages), Generalization, Linguistic Theory
Alqahtani, Fatmah A. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
This study is intended to help English foreign language learners avoid a type of syntactic ambiguity in sentences resulting from prepositional phrases (PPs). The students are guided to make use of the features of both adverbials and adjectivals in resolving this type of ambiguity. The movability of adverbials and the use of relative clauses…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Ambiguity (Semantics), Inferences
Alenizi, Aied – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This qualitative study aims at exploring the internal structure of personal experience oral narrative in Arabic in terms of Woodbury (1987) rhetorical components and Labov (1972) approach of narrative structure, who claimed its presence in all well-formed narratives. Recordings of orally told narratives by five Saudi informants were elicited in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Semitic Languages, Phrase Structure, Syntax
Mushait, Saud; Al-Athwary, Anwar A. H. – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This study aims at investigating how borrowed nouns from English are inflected for plural and gender in Colloquial Saudi Arabic (CSA). The attempt is also made to account for the possible linguistic factors which may affect this inflection in light of some theories in morphology. The analysis is based on more than 250 loanwords collected from…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semitic Languages, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2010
Unlike English, Standard Arabic has two forms of subject pronouns: Independent such as "?na" ("I"), and a pronominal suffix that is an integral part of the verb such as "katab-tu" ("I wrote"). Independent subject pronouns are commonly used in nominal sentences, not verbal sentences. Use of independent…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Error Analysis (Language), Language Processing, English (Second Language)