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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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taww in Najdi Arabic

2014
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The Syntax of Verbless Sentences in Bisha Najdi Arabic

UB Journal for Humanities
This study investigates the syntactic structure of verbless sentences in Bisha Najdi Arabic (henceforth BNA). It explores the different types of BNA verbless constructions, i.e., verbless constructions with nominal predicate, adjectival predicates and adverbial predicate.
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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 El-Dakhs
exaly  

Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in Najdi Arabic

This thesis is a sociolinguistic examination of the variation and change in the use of discourse-pragmatic features in Najdi Arabic (NA), spoken in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia. It investigates three discourse-pragmatic variables: (i) MA: 2ADRI: (‘I don’t know’), presenting three variants: ma: 2adri:, ma: dri:, and madri:; (ii) TAYYIB (‘well, okay’), with
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The Emergence of Tab in Najdi Arabic

Languages, 2023
Amereh Almossa
exaly  

Final laryngeal neutralization in Najdi Arabic stops

The present study investigates the acoustic characteristics of the laryngeal neutralization process in Najdi Arabic stops in utterance-final position. The study is couched within the tenets of laryngeal realism and aims to unravel language-specific differences in final laryngeal neutralization that are due to the phonological representation of the ...
Al-Ghamdi, Nief, Al-Tamimi, Jalal, Khattab, Ghada   +2 more
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EMPHASIS SPREAD IN NAJDI ARABIC

2014
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Diminutive and augmentative formation in northern Najdi/Ḥā’ili Arabic

Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 2019
Stuart Davis
exaly