Predictive-based syntagms in Kamali Arabic compared with similar patterns in English
[Thesis]
Hadj-Mohamed, Suliman A. K.
Mulder, J. W. F.
University of St Andrews
1980
Thesis (Ph.D.)
1980
The present work is mainly concerned with the syntactic structures of the predicative-based syntagms in I4amali Arabic. The constituents within these syntagms are further analysed until the relations between pleremes (i. E. the minimal syntactic entities) are arrived at. It also offers description of similar structures in English, and brief comparisons between the structures of the two languages in question. Linguistic description has been defined as "the application of a particular linguistic theory to a selected field of linguistic phenomena". (Mulder 1975). The theory applied in this work, to both English and Kamali Arabic, is Mulder