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The pragmatic functions of religious expressions in Najdi Arabic [PDF]
Saudi Journal of Language Studies, 2021 Purpose – This study attempts to identify and analyze the pragmatic functions of religious expressions, that is, invocations that include the name of Allah (God), in naturally occurring social interactions in Najdi Arabic, which is spoken in Central ...
Yousef Ibrahim al-Rojaie
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Nunation and the L2 acquisition of English indefinite articles by L1 Najdi and Hijazi speakers [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Whether nunation is a marker of indefiniteness is a controversial issue in the literature of Arabic grammar. To date, no study has investigated whether the use of nunation in a speaker’s L1 can affect their second language (L2) acquisition of English ...
Dr Abdulrahman Alzamil
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On the Syntax of Existential Sentences in Najdi Arabic [PDF]
Languages, 2022 The existential sentence is a noncanonical sentence type that is used crosslinguistically to assert the (non)existence of one or more entities. It consists of a set of syntactic items that includes an expletive, pivot, and coda.
Bader Alharbi
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The fine structure of low topics in Najdi Arabic
Linguistics, 2022 This article explores the low IP area of Najdi Arabic, with special reference to a construction involving a post-verbal object that is resumed on the verb (as in ‘The man saw-her the woman’).
Marwan Jarrah, Murdhy Alshamari
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2022 This article analyses the translation of advice proverbs in Muhammad Alsudais’s A Selection of Najdi Arabic Proverbs (1993) to identify, in the first place, the author’s strategies in rendering the various features of these highly stylized forms of Najd’
Mimouna Zitouni +4 more
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On low topics in Najdi Arabic: a rejoinder to Alshamari and Jarrah (2022)
LinguisticsIn this article empirical evidence is presented against the existence of a discourse-laden low IP in Najdi Arabic as proposed by Alshamari, Murdhy & Marwan Jarrah. (2022. The fine structure of low topics in Najdi Arabic. Linguistics 60(4). 1011–1038). In
Alzayid Ali
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The Emergence of Tab in Najdi Arabic
Languages, 2023 This study empirically investigates functional and social variation in the use of TAYYIB (‘okay, well, right’) in light of grammaticalisation. Thirty naturally occurring conversations of 60 Najdi Arabic speakers were recorded in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The
Amereh Ibrahim Almossa
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A prosodic morphophonological analysis of the trilateral perfect passive verbs in Qassimi Arabic [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 This paper advances a comprehensive account of the pattern of trilateral perfect passive verbs (TPPVs) in Qassimi Arabic (QA), a major variety of Najdi Arabic. Data were collected from 31 native QA speakers from three different generations.
Raghad Alkhudair, Mohammad Aljutaily
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Sound Correspondences of Modern Standard Arabic Moroccan Arabic and Najdi Arabic
Sunan Kalijaga: International Journal of Islamic Civilization, 2020 This paper studies the process of sound correspondences that occur in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), Moroccan Arabic (MAR), and Najdi Arabic (NAR). It attempts to find answers for the following questions: a) What are the identical word pairs, words ...
Darsita Suparno +3 more
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SauDial: The Saudi Arabic dialects game localization datasetMendeley Data [PDF]
Data in BriefContent creation and localization for video games demand substantial effort from script writers and localization teams. Consequently, we present SauDial, the Saudi Arabic Dialects Game Localization Parallel Dataset, a collection of Saudi dialectal ...
Naif Alanazi +2 more
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