http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2166 Search the Channel search http://repository.ksu.edu.sa/jspui/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4256 Title: Transformational stylostatistics and the novel<br/><br/>Authors: Ardat, Ahmad K.<br/><br/>Abstract: The assessment of transformational generative grammar in the present study indicates that it can provide a clue to the inner life of a work of art and can as well lend itself freely to statistics. Both transformations and statistics have helped the present writer to construct a profile of John Updike's style in Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux. The findings have revealed that Updike's style is identifiable through the distribution of particular transformations, especially those taking place in the speech of the author's characters.<br/><br/>Description: Associate Professor, English Department, College of Arts,King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Fri, 01 Jan 1988 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2024 Title: Verb in Abha Arabic<br/><br/>Authors: Al-Azraqi, Munira A.<br/><br/>Abstract: This study investigates some morphological and phonological features of verbs in the Abha dialect, which is spoken in the southwest of Saudi Arabia. It clarifies the changes in verb vowels in the process of inflection in the perfect, imperfect and imperative aspects. It studies the patterns of the verbs from Forms I to X, with the exception of IX, provides semantic analysis where necessary and examines the passive verb in this dialect. This is a descriptive study that deals with everyday usage of the dialect Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2022 Title: Information transmission of English majors in Jordan<br/><br/>Authors: Rababah, Ghaleb Ahmed<br/><br/>Abstract: This article reports an empirical research into the relationship between L2 learners' target language proficiency/task type and their ability to transmit comprehensible messages to their listeners. In order to test the assumption that even low-level English learners can transmit comprehensible messages despite their limited linguistic resources by using communication strategies, a sample of 30 Arab English majors at Yarmouk University in Jordan were asked to perform 3 communicative tasks: picture story telling, object-identification and role-play. The performance of the subjects was audio-recorded, transcribed and analyzed. The results indicate that the transmission of comprehensible messages varies according to the learner's proficiency level and the task type. These findings lend further support to the hypothesis that even low-level English proficiency learners can communicate and pass comprehensible messages to their interlocutors by resorting to communication strategies (CSs) despite the linguistic errors they may commit. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2023 Title: Nankina trochees<br/><br/>Authors: Al-Harbi, Awwad Ahmad Al-Ahmadi<br/><br/>Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of the stress system in Nankina (a language of Papua New Guinea) cast in the framework of Optimality Theory (OT), initially set forth in Prince and Smolensky (1993). This pattern reflects binary trochaic feet constructed from the right edge leftward. A word-initial stress clash is taken to indicate the presence of a degenerate foot at the left edge of the word. It is argued that standard OT can handle the stress facts without costs since it is more conservative in its theoretical assumptions than are grid-based analyses. Our analysis shows that exceptional stress can be modeled by a grammar with standard constraints and that catalexis is helpful in analyzing Nankina as a trochaic system. The respective patterns provide evidence against the claim that onset can contribute to syllable weight and against HEAD DEPENDENCE, a positional faithfulness constraint which bans epenthetic material in prosodic heads Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT