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Old 02-May-2007, 22:16
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Default Re: contrastive linguistics

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Originally Posted by aliaa View Post
Thanks a lot you are great

So I can say that English and Arabic are contrastive not compared as they came from two different families
Good evening,
Despite of being from 2 different language families, English & Arabic still have many things in common .such similarities could have the same functionality but they may positionally have some contrasts.
For example ,
English and Arabic have the concept of definiteness ( the ,ال ). they, however ,differ graphologically speaking,in the insertion of both.
The book الكتاب
The definite article 'the' is seperated from the head noun , while the definite article is prefixed with the head word " الكتاب"

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