A Contrastive Study of Certain Syntactic Aspects in English and Arabic
Rajaa Hamid Salih
Anbar Directorate of Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.3.2.9
Keywords: -syntactic aspects -sophisticated messages -Studying English and Arabic -Contrast in languages
Abstract
One of the main undertakings of the youthful human being is to
become familiar with the language of the general public into which the
individual is conceived. Typically, it takes numerous years to obtain
the dominance of language expected of mature adult. But, methods of
studying languages are getting developed to help people to get more
information about languages (whether their L1 or other languages they
are interested in) with less effort and time. One of the methods is
contrastive study. Studies of this kind help people with interest to
know more about languages by seeing the differences and similarities
between their elements.
Moreover , a contrastive analysis of syntactic aspects of languages
shows how languages share some universal syntactic properties, for
example VP is seen to be universal , and , at the same time, how
generating the constituents may vary substantially. The current
