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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
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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