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1)<br>Date: 15 Apr 2013<br>From:reposted from LINGUIST<br>Subject:New Book: Verbal Groups<br><br><div>Title: The Verbal Groups of English and Arabic </div><div>Subtitle: A Comparative Exploration </div><div>Series Title: Linguistics Edition 94 </div>
<div><br></div><div>Publication Year: 2013 </div><div>Publisher: Lincom GmbH </div><div><a href="http://www.lincom-shop.eu" target="_blank">http://www.lincom-shop.eu</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Book URL: <a href="http://www.lincom-shop.eu" target="_blank">http://www.lincom-shop.eu</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Author: Ahmed Umar </div><div><br></div><div>Paperback: ISBN: 9783862884186 Pages: 120 Price: Europe EURO 56.80 </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Abstract: </div><div><br></div><div>
This is a comparative study of the verbal group in English and Arabic, with a </div><div>particular focus on verbal elements like tense, aspect, finiteness and voice. </div><div>The study analysed the data using the systemic functional framework </div>
<div>complemented by some Arabic grammatical theories. The Systemic Functional </div><div>theory (Halilday and Matthiessen, 2004) proved efficient in analysing the data </div><div>due to its view of language as a mega-system of sub-systems, whereby items are </div>
<div>selected and arranged by language users based on the functional suitability of </div><div>the items. In English and Arabic grammars (Hudson, 2005; Baidhoon, 2005), </div><div>verbal formations entail systematic selection and use of words and affixes. </div>
<div>With the Systemic Functional theoretical tool, this study discovered that the </div><div>two languages agree on salient functional dimensions (tense, aspect, etc) but </div><div>differ on minute structural details (word order, word forms). English relies </div>
<div>mainly on word order, using same forms for various functions; Arabic uses </div><div>morphological processes, with minimal word order, for such functions. English </div><div>uses word order especially in the perfect and progressive aspects, wherein </div>
<div>tense is indicated by the operator, and lexical verbs are repetitive of form. </div><div>Arabic uses word order in the past continuous tense only. </div><div><br></div><div>Ahmed Umar Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of </div>
<div>Maiduguri, Nigeria. His areas of specialization are Comparative Bilingual / </div><div>Multilingual Studies and Creative Writing. His linguistic researches cover </div><div>English, Arabic, Hausa, Kanuri and Bura. </div>
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