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A contrastive transformational grammar : Arabic and English. English subordinators tend to express syntactic functions, and then their meanings are related to the positions 4. Arabic subordinators are not so evident as they may occupy.
Thus, their functions and meanings are derived from their lexical reference. They may be a constituent of a sentence. Adjunct 2. Disjunct 3. They are paraphrased as believe what he has said. They are of three types: perhaps. Small group B. They are group of nouns which large group of 30 particles are used either as adverbs which are 1- the interrogative 1. Conjunct 1. English adverbs have two common functions: modifiers and constituents of a sentence.
The position of adverbs In English and Arabic is not fixed, they may occur initially, medially and finally. Most of the particle adverbs In Arabic occur at the beginning. The relative position of adverbs In English is: process, place, time. They watched him carefully here yesterday. Adverbs in English are not separable. Adverbs in Arabic are either nouns or particles divided into inseparable and separable.
This means that In English, all postmodifiers belong to an open class and therefore fall outside the structure of the basic noun phrase. In Arabic, however, closed system items may precede, e. Syntactically, It Is Important because it is the element round, which premodifiers and postmodifiers are clustered.
It also determines the concord between the noun phrase and other elements e. If this head is replaced by 'plane' then the speaker is talking about a plane. The speaker may further change some of the elements of this noun phrase. This is another proof of the semantic Importance of the head; the change will be in the direction of choosing suitable elements for the new head. While in relative clause zero. A 'ing' clauses B the past participle clauses C the Infinitive clauses.
Is subjective, I. Although English sometimes used as adjectives normally premodify the head. Adjectives modifying complex indefinite pronouns ending in - body, below illustrates - one, - thing, - where the point.
A few adjectives beginning with a- ablaze, afloat and the adjectives absent, present, concerned, Involved and a few other prefer postposition; 37 F. It may also mean a cottage similar to that belonging to fisherman this is generic genitive. These may be considered exceptions to the this rule. There are stylistic and semantic factors, among others, which affect the position of a premodifier 1.
Subjective 2. German solution citizen. Most of the Items not all occurring before the head, and they are not many, belong to closed systems and are part of the-basic noun clause. Has a definite antecedent. Non-restrictive …………………………………………………………………………………………………. In Arabic, most of the postmodifying elements belong to an open class, but not all.
Some of these elements belong to closed systems ,e. Nevertheless, it is true to say that in Arabic most of the elements of a basic noun phrase closed- system elements occur in a premodifying position, e. Postmodifiers in Arabic mostly belong to open class words, and are therefore characteristic of the complex noun phrase.
The normal position of an open class adjective is after the head. In English, these adjectives normally precede the head only few adjectives follow the head. In English, the reverse tendency is more usual, and the complex noun phrase seems often to be a left hand branching i. This affirms what has already been mentioned.
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