Zainab Al-ZaghirSohar University · English language
Zainab Al-Zaghir
PhD
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Introduction
Zainab Al-Zaghir currently works as assistant professor at the English department, Sohar University. Zainab's research interests focuses on Discourse Analysis, Syntax and Linguistic Typology. Her current project is 'Database of relative clauses.'
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September 2018 - present
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Due to the complex diglossic situation in Arabic, the question of what variety of the language to teach has always occupied a central position in work on teaching Arabic as a foreign language (AFL). Basic Standard Arabic may have been the most supported answer to the above question, but the field is not short of proposals for teaching dialectal var...
Relative clauses are among the main structures that are used frequently in written texts and everyday conversations. Different studies have been conducted to investigate how relative clauses are used and distributed in corpora. Some studies support the claim that accessibility to relativisation, represented by the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarch...
This document includes definite and indefinite relative clauses collected from six Classical Arabic books. A detailed explanation on how these relative clauses are collected, and the bases the researcher depends on to identify relative clauses is found in Al-Zaghir (2014).
Relativisation and accessibility: A statistical analysis of relative clauses used in Arabic written texts
