Hassan, H, Daud, N and Atwell, ES (2010) Connectives in the world wide Arabic corpus. In: Proceedings of IVACS'2010 Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference. IVACS'2010 Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference, 18-19 Jun 2010, Edinburgh University, Scotland. IVACS .
Abstract
This study analysed the use of connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus of selected Gulf countries. The corpus was built by using Web BootCat where the Arabic sites had been extracted based on Arabic seed-words parallel to the English ones (Sharoff, 2006). A quantitative method has been employed to analyse the Arabic connectives extracted from the word lists prepared by SketchEngine. The results revealed that connectives appeared to be on the top ten list for the most frequent words used in all corpora irrespective of country and genre. The study also observed that a few connectives are listed and repeatedly cited in Traditional Arabic Grammar but are not found in the corpus.
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| Keywords: | Arabic corpus; Arabic connectives; second language learning |
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| Institution: | The University of Leeds |
| Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) > Artificial Intelligence & Biological Systems (Leeds) |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2015 12:10 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:29 |
| Published Version: | http://www.ivacs.mic.ul.ie/ |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | IVACS |
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