Tayyebe Ghasemi; Ameneh Zare; Mohammad Hossein Sharafzadeh
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A Linguistic typology is a field of linguistics that studies the systematic similarities and differences between the different languages of the world and compares the morphological and syntactic structures between different languages without considering their background. The present study, ...
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A Linguistic typology is a field of linguistics that studies the systematic similarities and differences between the different languages of the world and compares the morphological and syntactic structures between different languages without considering their background. The present study, in the framework of Dryer article (1992), examined the order of words in the Kholosi language. The method of data collection was through recording the answers of informants to the questionnaire that was prepared in this regard and interviewing them. The results showed that Kholosi in comparison with the Eurasia languages, by having 14 verb-final criteria and 14 verb-medial criteria have a balance between the criteria and in comparison with the languages of the world, by having 15 verb-final criteria and 17 verb-medial criteria, like Persian language, shows a tendency towards the verb-medial group. Considering the values of the criteria in both groups of languages, we find that Kholosi has undergone fewer changes in terms of word order compared to Persian language.
Mulham Al-shair; Mohammad DabirMoghaddam; Rezamorad Sahraee
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As you know, in typology, languages are categorized on the basis of morphological, syntactic, and semantic features. These categories help linguistics to introduce language universals. This article aims to determine the word order typology in Standard Arabic. Standard Arabic is the standardized and literary ...
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As you know, in typology, languages are categorized on the basis of morphological, syntactic, and semantic features. These categories help linguistics to introduce language universals. This article aims to determine the word order typology in Standard Arabic. Standard Arabic is the standardized and literary variety of Arabic used in writing and in most formal speech throughout the Arab world. The results of the article are of importance in teaching Persian to Arab students. In this article, word-order of the Standard Arabic is analyzed on the basis of the 25 typological correlations (Dryer 1992 and Dabirmoghaddam 2014). The results suggest that Standard Arabic, in comparison to African, Eurasia languages and other languages, which Dryer indicated them in his article, has 20, 22 and 23 correlations of strong VO languages; and also, has 12, 8 and 8 correlations of strong OV languages. Thus, Standard Arabic has a tendency towards strong VO languages.
