Connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus
This study analysed the use of connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus of selected Gulf countries. The corpus was built by using Web BootCat where the Arabic sites had been extracted based on Arabic seed-words parallel to the English ones (Sharoff, 2006). A quantitative method has been employed...
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| description | This study analysed the use of connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus of selected Gulf countries. The corpus was built by using Web BootCat where the Arabic sites had been extracted based on Arabic seed-words parallel to the English ones (Sharoff, 2006). A quantitative method has been employed to analyse the Arabic connectives extracted from the word lists prepared by SketchEngine. The results revealed that connectives, particularly connectives’ sub-topic, namely ḥurwf al-jar "حرﻭوﻑف ﺍالجر" (prepositions) appeared to be on the top ten list for the most frequent words used in all corpora irrespective of country and genre. The study also observed that there are few connectives listed and repeatedly cited in the Traditional Arabic Grammar but are not found in the corpus. |
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| spelling | iium-41882011-12-06T02:06:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/4188/ Connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus Hassan, Haslina Mat Daud, Nuraihan PI Oriental languages and literatures This study analysed the use of connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus of selected Gulf countries. The corpus was built by using Web BootCat where the Arabic sites had been extracted based on Arabic seed-words parallel to the English ones (Sharoff, 2006). A quantitative method has been employed to analyse the Arabic connectives extracted from the word lists prepared by SketchEngine. The results revealed that connectives, particularly connectives’ sub-topic, namely ḥurwf al-jar "حرﻭوﻑف ﺍالجر" (prepositions) appeared to be on the top ten list for the most frequent words used in all corpora irrespective of country and genre. The study also observed that there are few connectives listed and repeatedly cited in the Traditional Arabic Grammar but are not found in the corpus. 2010 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/4188/1/Draft_7_IVACS.pdf Hassan, Haslina and Mat Daud, Nuraihan (2010) Connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus. In: The Fifth Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) group International Conference on Connecting Corpus Linguistics, 18th-19th June 2010, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK. (Unpublished) http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1m6s88 |
| spellingShingle | PI Oriental languages and literatures Hassan, Haslina Mat Daud, Nuraihan Connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus |
| title | Connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus |
| title_full | Connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus |
| title_fullStr | Connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus |
| title_full_unstemmed | Connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus |
| title_short | Connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus |
| title_sort | connectives in the world wide arabic corpus |
| topic | PI Oriental languages and literatures |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/4188/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/4188/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/4188/1/Draft_7_IVACS.pdf |