Language variation in classical and modern standard Arabic: The case of interrogation
This study aims at investigating the functions of interrogatives in classical Arabic and the differences/similarities regarding the syntactic features of interrogatives in classical Arabic and modern standard Arabic.
Moustafa, Enas
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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The translation and validation of the surgical anxiety questionnaire into the modern standard Arabic language: results from classical test theory and item response theory analyses. [PDF]
Alghamdi AA +9 more
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A Crazy Idea: Ibn Sīnā on Hylomorphism, the Elements, Mixture and Evolutionary Processes
ABSTRACT Ibn Sīnā (c. 973‐1037), the Avicenna of Latin fame, developed a unique theory of the elements and their status in mixtures that severely challenged the views of earlier natural philosophers and in its turn was severely challenged by later Latin Schoolmen in the West.
Jon McGinnis
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Improving neural machine translation for low resource languages through non-parallel corpora: a case study of Egyptian dialect to modern standard Arabic translation. [PDF]
Faheem MA +3 more
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Modern Standard Arabic in the Minds of Diglossic Speakers of Arabic [PDF]
openaire +1 more source
Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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EFL learning, religious faith and globalization in Indonesia's pesantren
Abstract Increasing global demands to teach and learn English in religious educational institutions remain high, yet little EFL research has been conducted in such contexts. Using Indonesia's Islamic educational institutions (i.e., the pesantren) as a focus of analysis, this article seeks to narrow that gap by examining the key factors driving EFL ...
Muhammad Jauhari Sofi +1 more
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ABSTRACT The study aimed to investigate the cultural and gender differences in the attitudes of Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs toward homosexuality. A self‐reporting questionnaire was completed by 519 participants. A significant difference was discovered between Jewish and Arab individuals, with those who had prior familiarity with the lesbian, gay ...
Vered Ben David, Felix Kaplan
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