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The tautological use of the infinitive absolute in Biblical Hebrew has drawn attention as a linguistic phenomenon unique to Biblical Hebrew. However, it has not received a coherent treatment in ancient and modern translations, nor has its function been clearly defined by modern …

This study investigated the development of the interlanguage of learners of Arabic as a foreign language from a processability perspective as presented in Pienemann (1998). Pienemann's Processability Theory (PT) procedures were applied to seven syntactic structures of Arabic and…

Ke -clauses (CPs) in Persian can be proposition-denoting or property-denoting. Proposition-denoting ke -clauses can combine directly with a predicate or appear embedded in a DP. CPs embedded in a DP can be preverbal or postverbal but unembedded CPs can only appear postverbally. …

This is a qualitative study of the syntax of Quranic Classical Arabic (QCA). It answers two main questions. First, considering its complex and unique syntactic behavior, how can QCA most accurately and comprehensively be described? Second, to what extent can the theory of Princi…