Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic
Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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Validity and reliability of the Arabic community integration questionnaire in a Lebanese sample of adults with physical disability. [PDF]
Saleh NEH +4 more
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Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
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Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision, and Nurse Teacher Evaluation (CLES + T) Scale: Saudi Arabic Version-A Cross-Sectional Validation Study of Nursing Interns and Students. [PDF]
Alanazi NH.
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Arabic version of the SARC-F for evaluating sarcopenia in Saudi older adults. [PDF]
Alqahtani BA +5 more
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The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
Jan Loop +2 more
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation
Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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Psychometric Validation and Arabic Translation of the 11-Item Circadian Type Inventory (CTI-11A) Among Shift Workers. [PDF]
AlBuhmaid SAM +5 more
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A Genre-Analysis of Complaint Letters: A Case Study of English and Arabic Language
Noureddine Derki
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