This paper explores the non-indicative modal meanings that classical indicative plural inflection -ūn and preverbal particle b- express in different varieties of Arabic. Moreover, it argues these two forms allow speaker to introduce a marked stance specific grammatical contexts, where choice or clearly introduces reading proposition. Taking comparative approach examine modality Arabic, I build ...

The poetic witness has a great effect in the Arabic lesson, ancient and modern, whether lesson is grammatical, linguistic or rhetorical. By quickly following references sources of Arabic, researcher notes that appears once body, another an explanation, third summary abbreviation. Perhaps this due to fact general rhetoric particular at time carved educational approach, so it noted verse was used...

That is the way Miriam Butt begins her book. Apparently, she felt that the quote fits her introduction to case theory within grammatical traditions (Latin grammar is one) and their relationship to various notions of case within modern theoretical linguistics. In her introduction to the book, Butt states “...several issues must be dealt with. One is the issue of what “case” really means and what...

The Quranic Arabic Corpus (http://corpus.quran.com) is a collaboratively constructed linguistic resource initiated at the University of Leeds, with multiple layers of annotation including part-of-speech tagging, morphological segmentation (Dukes & Habash, 2010) and syntactic analysis using dependency grammar (Dukes & Buckwalter, 2010). The motivation behind this work is to produce a resource th...

This comparative study aimed at finding out the types of grammatical shifts which have occurred in two English translations of the Quranic rhetorical questions, and the impact of such shifts on the said rhetorical questions. For these purposes, the study firstly analyzed the Arabic and English texts syntactically using the x-bar theory for Haegeman (2006) and then classified the grammatical shi...

This study focuses on the identification of grammatical structures that could serve as indices of the grammatical ability of non-native speakers of English. We obtain parse trees of manually transcribed non-native spoken responses using a statistical constituency parser and evaluate its performance on noisy sentences. We then use the parse trees to identify the grammatical structures of the Ind...

the comparison between the views of ibne malek, in alfye, and his son, ibn al-nazem, in sharh ibn al-nazem ‘ala alfiye ibn malek, is one of the most important morphological and grammatical issues in the arabic grammer. alfye (ألفیة ابن مالک) is an educational poetry in arabic grammar that has been versed by ibne malek in the 13th century. at least 43 explanations have been written on this work....