AL-Lisaniyyat
Volume 10, Numéro 2, Pages 61-78
2005-12-26

On The Validity Of Exploiting The Basic Concepts Of Arabic Linguistics For The Analysis Of English

Authors : Khalout Fatiha . Hadj-salah Abderrahmane . Khaldi Kamal .

Abstract

This paper aims at discussing the possibility of exploiting the basic concepts of Arabic linguistics for the analysis of a language other than Arabic , namely English . For this , we start by presenting briefly the neo-khalilian theory , being the main source from which we have extracted the methodological tools and the principles put forward by the first arab grammarians for the description of Arabic many centuries ago ; then , we review how some linguistic units have been defined through a number of western linguistic theories in comparison to the neo-khalilian model of analysis ; finally , we end by explaining why we are trying to apply the neo-khaliliar . for the analysis of English.

Keywords

Neo-khalilian theory – linguistic analysis – English language – generating patterns – linguistic units .