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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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Verb-Stranding VP Ellipsis in Najdi Arabic
International Journal of Linguistics Literature & TranslationThe main goal of this paper is to establish that Najdi Arabic (NA, henceforth) has the property of verb-stranding VP ellipsis. This claim is cross linguistically contingent on V-to-T movement. Four diagnostics of verb-stranding VP ellipsis have also been examined in NA: licensing of inflectional head, islands insensitivity, sloppy identity ...
Yasser Albaty
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ACOUSTIC EFFECTS OF DURATIONAL CUES IN THE PERCEPTION OF NAJDI ARABIC VOWEL CONTINUA [PDF]
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2021 This paper explores how the manipulation of vowel duration as a perceptual cue influences listeners’ perceptual ability. Four native speakers of Najdi Arabic, a well-known variety of Arabic in the Arabian Peninsula, were tested on the perception of /a ...
Mahmoud Al Mahmoud
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The interaction between Nunation and English definiteness: the case of L1 Najdi and Hijazi speakers
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Various factors affect second language (L2) use of English. One of these is the first language (L1) influence on L2, in relation to the way L1 grammaticalises articles.
Abdulrahman Alzamil
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The Phonological Word in Najdi Arabic
Journal of Education, Teaching and Social Studies, 2022 Numerous studies on Arabic linguistics make reference to the phonological word (PW) as a constituent that serves as the domain for various phonological phenomena, however, there is no clear and precise definition in the Arabic linguistics literature of what actually constitutes as a PW and whether it consists of just the bare morphological stem or ...
Alsuhaibani, Alwaleed A. +1 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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Syllables and Stress Assignment in Najdi Arabic
Studies in English Language Teaching, 2022 The purpose of this paper is to present a detailed and unified analysis of word stress in Najdi Arabic (NA), a variety of Arabic spoken in Najd, located in the central region of Saudi Arabia. Regular stress, seemingly exceptional cases, and also variations within NA itself are all accounted for in a simple and straightforward manner.
Alsuhaibani, Alwaleed A.
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Chemistry and biology of essential oils of genus boswellia.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2013 The properties of Boswellia plants have been exploited for millennia in the traditional medicines of Africa, China, and especially in the Indian Ayurveda. In Western countries, the advent of synthetic drugs has obscured the pharmaceutical use of Boswellia, until it was reported that an ethanolic extract exerts anti‐inflammatory and antiarthritic ...
Hussain H +3 more
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An Acoustic Study of Emphasis Spread in Najdi Arabic
Studies in Linguistics and Literature, 2022 As with other varieties of Arabic, Najdi Arabic (NA), spoken in central Saudi Arabia, contains a set of emphatic consonants, /? – ? – ð?/, which have an uncontrollable phonological effect on neighboring segments whereby the presence of an emphatic in a word entails “emphasis spread” to the adjacent non-emphatic segments.
Alsuhaibani, Alwaleed A. +1 more
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The Word gid in Najdi Arabic: An Evidentiality Head
Linguistic Forum - A Journal of Linguistics, 2020 This research paper investigates the word gid which is used in Najdi Arabic, a dialect spoken in Najd region in Arabic peninsula. This particle is analyzed syntactically using the recent assumptions of the minimalist program (Chomsky 1993, 1995, and subsequent work).
Alshammari, Ahmad +1 more
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