Nominal Constructions in Modern Standard Arabic With Reference to English

Ali Hussein Hazem, Waleed Younus Meteab

Abstract


The aim of this study is to investigate nominal constructions of modern standard Arabic in terms of their types, their patterns and selectional restrictions and compare them with their counterparts in English so as to arrive at points that will be productive for pedagogical and translation purposes. The analysis of the data focuses on morphsyntactic processes to see in order to show the constructions morphologically as one word nominal or syntactically as a group of nouns in nominal positions. The objective of this study is to provide an account on a specific syntactic structure with special reference to English, in efforts to promote the importance of modern standard Arabic studies as an appropriate mean to better understand the standard and formal form of a language. The study concludes with the investigation as well as the main conclusions reached and offers a suggestion for further studies.

Keywords


Nominals, Noun Phrase, Syntax, Morphology, Predicative, Copula

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.2p.97

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