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Volume 11 : 5 May 2011
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A Contrastive Analysis of Inflectional Affixes in
English and Arabic

Ghazwan Mohammed Saeed, Ph.D. Scholar
A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to contribute to the field of Arabic-English comparative studies. It compares the two languages, English and Arabic, at the morphological level. The scope of the paper has been restricted to the comparison of the two systems of the inflectional affixes in English and Arabic.

A Brief Review of Contrastive Linguistics and Contrastive Analysis

Comparative Linguistics is one of the broad subdivisions of General Linguistics the second and third of which are Descriptive Linguistics and Historical Linguistics. In Comparative Linguistics, one may compare various stages in the development of a language or compare the history of two or more languages in order to find out a proto-language.

Contrastive Linguistics or Contrastive Analysis is a practice-oriented approach that is concerned with comparing two or more languages to explore the similarities and dissimilarities between them. Both Comparative Typological Linguistics and Contrastive Linguistics compare languages synchronically. So, Contrastive Linguistics is the synchronic comparison of two or more languages, but the diachronic comparison of two or more languages to find out a proto-language is Comparative or Historical Linguistics. Contrastive Linguistics is "only a predictive technique" (Verma and Krishnaswamy, 1989) by which we compare the structures of two or more languages to explore the similarities and dissimilarities between them and thus we can "predict the difficulties the learner is likely to encounter" (Verma and Krishnaswamy, 1989).

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Ghazwan Mohammed Saeed, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh 202002
Uttar Pradesh
India
ghazwanalmekhlafi@yahoo.com

A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh 202002
Uttar Pradesh
India
fatihi.ar@gmail.com
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