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Zayabaatar, Dalai; Dashdavaa, Vanchinsuren; Enkhjargal, Dagvasumberel; Onon, Tsulbaatar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper presents peculiarities of the genitive case marked subject in Modern Mongolian. First, we argue that subordinate clauses with the genitive case-marked subject in Modern Mongolian are CP. Second, we provide an explanation for certain conditions of the genitive subject construction in Modern Mongolian (MM). Third, we attempt to show the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Modern Languages, Asians, Suffixes
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Abrejo, Barira; Sartaj, Shabana; Memon, Sadia – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
Language is a complex phenomenon whether it counts in speaking or writing. Teaching and learning English language is much demanded in today's globalization era. The increasing need of English language learning has demanded English language teaching around the globe. Therefore, the demand for language learning needs a tremendous quality in language…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials
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Toma, Shivan; Saddiq, Mahdi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
This study is an attempt to investigate the acquisition of translation competence of the English tense and aspect system by Behdini learners who are students at the Translation Department at the College of Languages in the University of Duhok. This paper is an experimental study that adopts the Translation Competence Acquisition model. There are…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Verbs, Translation, Task Analysis
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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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Lomashvili, Leila – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The paper examines the preverbal markers in Mengrelian as the possible loci of post-syntactic phonological rules that affect the allomorphy of these preverbs. The goal of the paper is to pinpoint the series of these rules and the extent to which the final form of the derived material changes as a result of their application. The phonological rules…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Phonology, Linguistic Theory, Language Research
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El-Zawawy, Amr M. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The present study addresses the problem of rendering the ?? ?? 'fa??al' hyperbolic pattern into English in two recent translations of the Qur'an. Due to the variety of Qur'an translations and the large amount of hyperbolic forms of Arabic verbs recorded in the Qur'an, only two translations of the Qur'an are consulted and analyzed: these two…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Accuracy, Syntax, Translation
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Ahmed, Mumtaz; Irshad, Ayesha – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The stylistic analysis of Robert Browning's poem "Patriot into Traitor" is done by using graphological, phonological, morphological and lexico-syntactic patterns. This analysis is helpful in decoding the underlying meanings of the poem. It clearly brings to surface what the poet really wants to impart.
Descriptors: Poetry, Language Styles, Phonology, Morphology (Languages)
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Saeed, Feras – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper investigates the syntactic dependency between complementisers and verbal forms in Standard Arabic and provides a new analysis of this dependency. The imperfective verb in this language surfaces with three different forms, where each form is indicated by a different suffixal marker attached to the end of the verb as (-u), (-a), or (-Ø).…
Descriptors: Syntax, Verbal Communication, Morphology (Languages), Transfer of Training
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AlBzour, Baseel Ali – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Arabic varieties show explicit linguistic behavior, especially at the syntactic level. This apparent diversity is mainly due to how syntactic rules confine the scope and the flexibility of movement of certain constituents inside and outside their syntactic domains. This paper examines solely how the mother tongue from which all these varieties…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Phrase Structure, Syntax, Native Language
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Alfallaj, Fahad Saleh Suleiman – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The trend in the Reading class in KSA has been what is called "Standards Based Proficiency" as opposed to the more desirable "Real World Reading Requirements". This is also where the greatest gap occurs. Whereas white collar jobs may require more reading, blue collar jobs may invariably involve reading of technical manuals and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ojanga, Jael Anyango; Chai, Furaha; Mutiti, James – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Code switching, the use of any two or more languages or dialects interchangeably in a single communication context, is a common linguistic practice owing to the trend of multilingualism in the world today. In many situations of language in contact, constituents of one language can be found within the constituents of another language in a number of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Morphology (Languages), Bilingualism, Qualitative Research
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Rahayu, Ely Triasih – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
This research studies Japanese "keigo" in the office domain, a case study at XXX Corporation Japan. "Keigo" consists of "sonkeigo," "kenjougo," and "teineigo." Each of those speech levels is going to be analyzed based on linguistic and nonlinguistic factors. In this qualitative research, the data…
Descriptors: Japanese, Questionnaires, Case Studies, Corporations
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Tizazu, Yoseph – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study reports the dominant linguistic errors that occur in the written productions of Arba Minch University (hereafter AMU) students. A sample of paragraphs was collected for two years from students ranging from freshmen to graduating level. The sampled compositions were then coded, described, and explained using error analysis method. Both…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students, Morphology (Languages)