A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF CERTAIN ARABIC AND ENGLISH SYNTACTIC FEATURES IN SELECTED CHILDREN’S STORIES

Authors

  • Sura Shather Abd Al-Hamzah Department of English, College of Education for Human Sciences, University of Babylon, Iraq
  • Prof. Dr. Qasim Abbas Dhayef Department of English, College of Education for Human Sciences, University of Babylon, Iraq

Keywords:

Contrastive Analysis, Syntactic Features, Children’s Stories

Abstract

This paper is a contrastive analysis of syntactic aspects of languages shows how languages share some universal syntactic properties, for example, the verb phrase is seen to be universal, and, at the same time, how generating the constituents may vary substantially. This study attempts to tackle the possible differences in syntactic features that have been made by translators of children's stories namely Old Man and Bird, and The Rabbit from two angles: Arabic and English.

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Published

2022-04-22

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Sura Shather Abd Al-Hamzah, & Prof. Dr. Qasim Abbas Dhayef. (2022). A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF CERTAIN ARABIC AND ENGLISH SYNTACTIC FEATURES IN SELECTED CHILDREN’S STORIES. European Journal of Humanities and Educational Advancements, 3(4), 54-60. Retrieved from https://scholarzest.com/index.php/ejhea/article/view/2092

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Vol. 3 No. 4 (2022): EJHEA

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