A Contrastive Transformational Grammar: Arabic and English

✍ Scribed by Muhammad Ali al-Khuli

• Publisher: Brill Archive
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 128
• Series: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics 10
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is a book that compares English grammar to Arabic grammar using the transformational theoary. It can be used as a textbook for university students (the English Department).

✦ Table of Contents

A CONTRASTIVE TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR: Arabic and English
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Preface
I. Introduction
1. The Purposes
2. The Advantage
3. The Procedure
4. Content
5. Complexity
II. The Underlying Transformational Theory
1. The Need for a Theory
2. A Definition of Transformational Grammar
3. Generative Grammar and its Relation to the T-Grammar
4. Reasons for Using the T-Theory
5. Phrase-Structure Rules
1. Introduction
2. The Base Universality
3. The Sentence in Phrase-Structure Rules
4. The Types of PS-rules
5. Further Terminology in PS-rules
6. The Lexicon
7. Transformational Rules
1. The Nature of T-rules
Introduction
The Function of T-rules
The Condition of T-rules
The Order of T-rules
2. The Types of T-rules
8. Morphophonemic Rules
9. The Criteria for Evaluating a T-grammar
10. Further Remarks on the T-theory
III. The Corpus
1. Introduction
2. Method of Sampling
3. The Representativeness of the Sample
1. Types of Sentences
2. Types of Verbs
3. Types of Nouns
4. Types of Objects
5. Types of Particles
6. Miscellaneous Types
4. The Sentences of the Corpus
IV. Phrase-Structure Rules (PS-Rules)
1. Introduction
2. The Chosen PS-model
3. The Modification of Fillmore’s Model
4. The Justification for Choosing Fillmore’s Model
1. Chomsky’s Model
2. Other Chomskian Modified Models
3. The Advantages of Fillmore’s Model
5. Describing the Corpus according to Fillmore’s Model
V. Lexical Rules (L-Rules)
1. Introduction
2. Plus Noun Words
3. Plus Verbal Words
4. Plus Determiners
5. Plus Prepositions
6. Plus Interrogatives
7. Plus Negatives
8. Plus Auxiliaries
9. Plus Time Adverbials
VI. Transformational Rules (T-Rules)
1. Subject Preposition Deletion
2. Object Preposition Deletion
3. yaku:n¹ Deletion
4. Ergative-Dative Permutation
5. Ergative or Agent Fronting
6. Ergative-Agent Permutation
7. Ergative Deletion
8. Instrument-Agent Permutation
9. Locative Copying
10. Locative Pronominalization
11. Ergative-Locative Permutation
12. Passive Transformation
13. Verbal Agreement
14. Noun Copying
15. Void
16. Case Introduction
17. Reflexive Transformation
18. Determiner Transformation
19. mubtada? Deletion
20. Void
21. Special Verb Transformation
22. Relative Transformation
23. Emphatic Transformation
24. Identical Element Deletion
25. Complement Transformation
26. Manner Transformation
27. Purpose Transformation
28. Adjective Transformation
29. mubtada? Copying
30. Interrogative Transformation
31. Time Transformation
32. Separation Transformation
33. Ergative-Instrument Permutation
34. Condition Transformation
35. Instrument or Locative Fronting
36. mawǰu:d Deletion
VII. Testing the Grammar Efficiency
VIII. Conclusions and Suggestions
Appendix I: Phonemic Symbols
Appendix II: Non-Phonemic Symbols
Appendix III: Abbreviations
Appendix IV: Glossary
Bibliography
Index