Good evening everybody,
I'd like to specify the difference between Comparative & Contrastive linguistics .
It basically derives from the concept of TRANSFER by Lado
Whether there is +ve transfer between L1 and L2 , the 2 languages to be compared is easy to accomplish .
For example, we can find LEXICAL, MORPHOLOGICAL,PHONOLOGICAL,SYNTACTIC ,etc.,+ve transfer between Arabic and English .
The concept of definiteness exists in both English & Arabic ,
The boy ال_ ولد ( that's a +ve ttransfer ) , consequently , we can comare between the 2 languages from th concept of definiteness .However, the 2 languages are not the same in the pre-nominal modification through the determiner ( the-ال) . Therefore , we can easily contrast the position of the determiners in English & Arabic .
Thank you so much
Mohammed said
An English Instructor at Helwan university
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