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An Exploration of Adjective Intensification System in Najdi Arabic

Journal of Research in Language & Translation
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Modal Ellipsis in Najdi Arabic

International Journal of English and Education, 2023
This paper discusses modal ellipsis in Najdi Arabic (NA) as a case of VP ellipsis. One of the goals of this paper is to show whether or not modal ellipsis exists in NA. It has been argued that modal ellipsis should be considered as a type of VP ellipsis. In VP ellipsis, the main predicate and its arguments are deleted.
Raneem S. Alsaud
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Najdi Arabic

, 1994
The region of Najd in Central Arabia has always been regarded as inaccessible, ringed by a belt of sand deserts, the Nafūd, Dahana and the Rub’ al-Khāli and often with its population at odds with the rulers of the outer settled lands. It is however the centre of a purely Arabian culture based on a partnership between bedouin camel husbandry and settled
Bruce Ingham, Ingham, Bruce
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The Predicate Restriction in Najdi Arabic: A Theoretical Perspective

Journal of Semitic Studies
Abstract One of the grammatical properties of the existential sentence is the predicate restriction, which states that only stage-level predicates are allowed in the coda position of the existential sentence; individual-level predicates are disallowed. This restriction has shown to be available in some languages but absent in others. The
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The Najdi Arabic Corpus: a new corpus for an underrepresented Arabic dialect

Language Resources and Evaluation
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THE VOWEL OF THE IMPERFECT PREFIX IN NAJDI ARABIC

1978
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Yes/No question intonation in Urban Najdi Arabic

Speech Prosody 2016, 2016
Hussain Almalki
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The verb in northern Najdi Arabic

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1979
The dialects spoken in the Najd of Saudi Arabia have striking features which not only are unknown or unreported in other dialects but also retain some characteristics of the 'Arabiyya and of ancient dialects of the peninsula reported by the Arab grammarians.
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Relative Clause Attachment Preference in Najdi Arabic monolinguals and Najdi Arabic Learners of English

Critical Studies in Languages and Literature
There is cross-linguistic variation in how speakers process ambiguous relative clauses (RCs) (e.g., The girl saw the maid “NP1” of the princess “NP2” who was eating chocolate). English speakers, for example, prefer to interpret the RC (e.g., who was eating chocolate) as modifying the second noun phrase (the princess; low attachment), whereas Spanish ...
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