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Plural and Gender Inflection of English Loanwords in Colloquial Saudi Arabic

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Mushait, Saud; Al-Athwary, Anwar A. H. – Arab World English Journal, 2020

This study aims at investigating how borrowed nouns from English are inflected for plural and gender in Colloquial Saudi Arabic (CSA). The attempt is also made to account for the possible linguistic factors which may affect this inflection in light of some theories in morphology. The analysis is based on more than 250 loanwords collected from…

Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semitic Languages, Morphology (Languages), Nouns