This study examined the beliefs and opinions of U.S university students towards learning foreign languages. Four major areas were explored, including attitudes and motivations towards learning foreign languages, perceptions of foreign languages in the U.S., and favorability of A…
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This paper reports the results of a study investigating the extent to which native speakers of American English associate specific personal qualities to native speakers of Arabic based solely on auditory information. 234 participants, recruited through online social networks, he…
Negation is a unique and fascinating property of human language which has been given extensive theoretical and typological treatment. One categorization divides negation use into metalinguistic negation and descriptive negation (Horn, 1985). Descriptive negation (DN) is the trut…
This dissertation examines the rhetorical articulation of home in the work of Mahmoud Darwish and Assia Djebar. In their attempt to reconstitute the trope of home differently from its inherited configurations, the two writers recall moments of interruption in their literary heri…
It is known that adult language learners often struggle to accurately pronounce unfamiliar sounds in the target language, but the extent and duration of the linguistic experience is found to affect native-like production of target segments. In order to explore the variability in…
There has been an increase in interest among researchers in the study of loanword phonology, but only limited studies have been carried out on the phonology of English loanwords in Arabic. Thus, there is a need for more linguistic studies to shed light on the borrowing of Englis…
During the eighth and ninth centuries, in the Islamic empire governed from 'Abbāsid Baghdad, a new body of Christian literature appeared: theological treatises written in Arabic rather than in Syriac or Greek, and composed with the express purpose of articulating Christian doctr…
Morpho-syntactic features of Modern Standard Arabic mix intricately with those of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in ordinary speech. I study the lexical, phonological and syntactic features of verb phrase morphemes and constituents in different tenses, aspects, moods. A corpus of ov…
Abū Ishāq al-Husrī died in Qayrawān in 413/1022 and gained renown as an adīb through his mentorship of the youth of Qayrawān, including Ibn Rashīq (d. 456/1063) and Ibn Sharaf (d. 460/1067), and through his authorship of several works, most notably the Zahr al-ādāb wa-thamar al-…
This dissertation examines a set of phenomena in Jordanian Arabic (JA) related to the subject and its position, providing an analysis for each within the assumptions of generative grammar, particularly those related to the provocative syntax model (Branigan 2010), and functional…
This study relates philosophy of science and philosophy of religion. It compares a system of western thought and its implications for contemporary Arab-Islamic philosophy. The basis for this approach lies in the concept of worldview as rooted in the process of systematization of…
This thesis investigates the causes of gender and number agreement errors in learners of both Arabic and Spanish as second languages. Data was collected from each of these groups during beginner level language courses at a university. There were a total of eight tests. The first…
This two-year qualitative study examined parental involvement, advocacy in particular, of four Arabic-speaking Muslim couples who fled Iraq to the United States as refugees. Through interviews and ethnographic observations at their homes, children's schools, religious and social…
This dissertation is a quantitative study of social change and linguistic variation in the dialect of Tunisian Arabic spoken in Korba, a small town in the Cap Bon, the northeastern penninsula of Tunisia. A sample of twenty-four speakers (eleven males and thirteen females) partic…
This study explores the dynamics of colonialism and nationalism in the Sudan, a de facto colony of Great Britain (in nominal alliance with Egypt) from 1898 to 1956, and today the largest country in Africa. Many of the earliest articulators of Sudanese nationalism were graduates …
This thesis is an analysis of performance, linguistic repetition, and silence in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's March 30, 2011 speech to the People's Assembly given 2 weeks after riots erupted in the Syrian province of Deraa on March 15, 2011. Various types of repetition inc…
The writings of Moustapha Chehabi (best known as author of the Dictionnaire francais-arabe des termes agricoles and of a book about Arabic scientific terminology, Al-mustalahat al-ilmiyyat fi al-lught al-arabiyyat fi al-qadim wal-hadi th) illustrate the continuing influence of t…
In this study, I examine how resistance is shaped by participants in an Arabic immersion program. Using ethnomethodology, I defined resistance by how contributions by students aligned or disaligned with the local social organization, and by extension, the work of the classroom, …
This dissertation provides the first in-depth study of the Lebanese-American immigrant writer, journalist, and translator ‘Afīfa Karam (1883-1924), an important contributor to the nahda, the Arabic cultural renaissance of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Karam published t…