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Semantic roles in Arabic with reference to English
Joint Authors
Muhammad, Majid Zahir
Ali, Hasan Sabhan
Source
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 37 (31 Mar. 2019), pp.510-523, 14 p.
Publisher
Tikrit University College of Arts
Publication Date
2019-03-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Languages & Comparative Literature
Abstract EN
Semantic role is a term used in syntax and semantics to refer to the semantic relations that link a predicate to its arguments in the description of a situation.
Semantic role is the actual role a participant plays in some real or imagined situation, apart from the linguistic encoding of those situations.
They also are referred to as "case frames" or "theta-grids".
The term functional roles might also be used.
These are also called ‘case roles’, ‘deep cases’.
The present study aims at studying the semantic roles in both English and Arabic.
It is an attempt to explain the similarities and differences concerning semantic roles as can as possibly in both English and Arabic .
This study starts with the semantic and syntactic analysis and the role of the verb in deciding the semantic role for the noun phrase.
After that the historical and literature review of the semantic roles in both Arabic and English.
In spite of the similarity in many aspects between Arabic and English with respect to semantic roles but Arabic is quite different from English in many point.
I t also explains the criteria of identifying the semantic roles and showing the similarity and differences in both languages.
The Arabic analyzed data are taken from “Bain Al qasrain “ by Najieb Mahfodh .
American Psychological Association (APA)
Muhammad, Majid Zahir& Ali, Hasan Sabhan. 2019. Semantic roles in Arabic with reference to English. Journal of al-Frahids Arts،Vol. 2019, no. 37, pp.510-523.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1087168
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Muhammad, Majid Zahir& Ali, Hasan Sabhan. Semantic roles in Arabic with reference to English. Journal of al-Frahids Arts No. 37 (2019), pp.510-523.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1087168
American Medical Association (AMA)
Muhammad, Majid Zahir& Ali, Hasan Sabhan. Semantic roles in Arabic with reference to English. Journal of al-Frahids Arts. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 37, pp.510-523.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1087168
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
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Record ID
BIM-1087168