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Relative Clause Attachment Preference in Najdi Arabic monolinguals and Najdi Arabic Learners of English

Journal of Biochemical and Clinical Genetics
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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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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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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Pragmatic Analysis of the Particle ʁadɪ in Najdi Arabic

International Journal of Linguistics, 2015
<p>The ultimate goal of this paper is to investigate the pragmatic use of the particle ʁadɪ in Najdi Arabic. To do just this, both Grice’s Theory of Conversation and the Relevance Theory (RT) are used. In addition to indicating the speaker’s personal certainty of his/her utterance, ʁadɪ is assumed to encode the speaker’s lack of positive evidence
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Syllabification in Najdi Arabic: A Constraint Based Analysis

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This paper seeks to show how the optimality theory regulates the syllabification of Standard Arabic, in general, and Najdi Arabic in particular. The arrangement of phonemes in the syllables is ruled by constraints. This paper shows how Najdi Arabic repairs the words adopted from Modern Standard Arabic to conform to Najdi Arabic constraints. The data is
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A variational pragmatic analysis of the speech act of complaint focusing on Alexandrian and Najdi Arabic

Journal of Pragmatics, 2021
Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs   +1 more
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