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Al-Rubaat, Atalah Mohammad – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
The Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and many of its dialects have been investigated, described, and analyzed morphologically by intensive previous research. However, the dialect of Sakakan tribes in the north region of the Arab peninsula has not received any adequate attention in this regard. Therefore, this research aims at describing, analyzing and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Morphology (Languages), Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage
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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