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Albirini, Abdulkafi; Benmamoun, Elabbas; Saadah, Eman – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study presents an investigation of oral narratives collected from heritage Egyptian and Palestinian Arabic speakers living in the United States. The focus is on a number of syntactic and morphological features in their production, such as word order, use of null subjects, selection of prepositions, agreement, and possession. The degree of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Semitic Languages, Language Dominance, Grammar
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Mitchell, T. F. – Journal of Linguistics, 1978
Challenges the descriptive linguist to tackle the problem of Educated Spoken Arabic and its regional varieties, in particular in regard to aspect and the participle. (AM)
Descriptors: Arabic, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar