In this article, considering impersonal sentences with the subject in the accusative case, which conveys the physical state of a living being, an attempt is made to compare them with the Persian correlates. This type of impersonal sentences can cause different problems for the Persian-speaking students due to their grammatical specificity (e.g. the uses of the subject in the accusative, rather ...

Cypriot Arabic (CyAr) is a severely endangered Semitic variety spoken by Maronites. It belongs to the group of “peripheral varieties” that were separated from core Arabic-speaking area and came into contact with non-Semitic languages. Although there has been renewed interest since turn century for study CyAr, some aspects its structure are still not well known. In this paper, we present analyze...

This article presents the author's methodology for analyzing directive speech acts in English and Arabic academic discourse, developed during writing of dissertation research. The purpose is to describe confirm effectiveness within framework two discourses. In addition substantiating choice research methods respondent groups, a written discursive test with situational examples on basis classifi...

This paper aims to investigate the problems associated with reading Arabic as a foreign language. Workers in field of teaching language must have noticed that learners face some lead hindering or slowing down their progress skill. tried pinpoint difficulties non-native learners, and different factors pertaining those problems. An empirical tool, be described below, was used achieve objectives t...

This study presents SMILLE, a system that draws on the Noticing Hypothesis and on input enhancements, addressing the lack of salience of grammatical information in online documents chosen by a given user. By means of input enhancements, the system can draw the user’s attention to grammar, which could possibly lead to a higher intake per input ratio for metalinguistic information. The system rec...

Grammatical inference methods are expected to find grammatical structures hidden in biological sequences. One hopes that studies of grammar serve as an appropriate tool for theory formation. Thus, we have developed JSequitur for automatically generating the grammatical structure of biological sequences in an inference framework of string compression algorithms. Our original motivation was to fi...

Syntactic analysis is a fundamental phase in NLP (Natural Language Processing) domain. This phase occurs in several applications and at different levels. Moreover, it wasn’t spilled in domain research, especially for Arabic language. In fact, most of researchers working on Arabic language treated simple structures and neglected complicated ones such as relatives, coordination, ellipse and juxta...

Automatic transformation of paper documents into electronic documents requires document segmentation at the first stage. However, some parameters restrictions such as variations in character font sizes, different text line spacing, and also not uniform document layout structures altogether have made it difficult to design a general-purpose document layout analysis algorithm for many years. Thus...

Secondary grammaticalization is viewed as a continuation to path (Traugott 2002) or an independent process that does not necessarily imply the occurrence of precedent primary (Givón 1991). This paper provides case from vernacular Arabic supporting second view, namely, secondary functional hatta (its evolution into proclitic) in Rural Jordanian Arabic. Evidence this view selectivity grammaticali...