Muteb Alqarni
Biographic Data
| ID | 138975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muteb Alqarni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muteb |
| FAMILY NAME | Alqarni |
| SIGNATURE | ALQARNI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | King Khalid University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6909-4947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards an interdisciplinary definition of pragmatics
The definition of pragmatics has long oscillated between two views: as a component of linguistics and as a perspective on language use ( Haberland and Mey 1977 ; Verschueren and Östman 2009 ). The perspective view, now dominant ( Rajagopalan 2009 ), commits the field to interdisciplinary inquiry but leaves its conceptual core unsettled. Within Caffi’s ( 2006 , 2010 ) metapragmatic framework, this study analyzes 365 single-sentence definitions of …
Direct words, deep bonds
There are no broad subjects in Standard Arabic
The current article argues that the multiple nominative constructions of the Japanese type do not exist in Standard Arabic. Based on evidence from binding, A′-interception and Case, the article shows that the so-called ‘broad subject’ is a clitic left-dislocated element base generated in the A′-domain. The article thus follows the spirit of the analysis proposed by Landau (e.g., Landau, Idan. 2009. Against broad subjects in Hebrew. Lingua 119(1).…
The Syntax of Nominal Appositions in Modern Standard Arabic
The current paper argues that there are three types of nominal appositions, i.e. two juxtaposed noun phrases (NPs), in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Each type shows special properties in terms of the nominal category of the two units, the deletion of the NP, word order, case agreement, and semantic relation. For each type, we propose a separate structural analysis. An adjunction analysis is motivated for Type I appositions which consist of a comm…
The Introductory Sentence in Literature Research Articles Published in High-Impact vs. Predatory Journals
The current study discusses the stylistic properties of the introductory sentence with which scholars begin their introduction in the literature field. The study draws upon a dataset of 624 introductory sentences, half of which are collected from high-impact Web of Science indexed journals and the other half are drawn from presumably predatory journals. The study shows that the introductory sentence written by authors of high-impact journals is a…
Cat Naming Practices in Saudi Arabia
The current paper explores cat naming practices in Saudi Arabia (SA), an Islamic Arabic-speaking country in the Middle East. Based on a corpus of 586 cat names, the study reveals that female cat owners assign non-Arabic foreign names to their cats, while their male counterparts prefer traditional Arabic ones. In general, however, Saudi cat owners of both genders choose Arabic or non-Arabic names on the basis of whether or not their cat is local o…
Mock Impoliteness in Saudi Arabia
The current paper explores evil curses in the Bani Buhair tribe, which is located in the southwestern part of Saudi Arabia. It shows that cursing in Bani Buhair is a well-constructed speech act that follows linguistic rules and patterns. Buhairi cursers formulate their evil curse constructions by deriving verbs from the consonants of the roots of the preceding words in the discourse. These derivational strategies are of four types: (i) full morph…
Arabic loanwords in seven Ethiopian languages
Within the Theory of Constraints and Repair Strategies (Paradis, 1988a,b; Paradis & LaCharité, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, henceforth TCRS ), we provide a formal analysis to the Arabic loanwords in seven languages spoken in Ethiopia: Ge’ez, Tigre, Tigrinya, Amharic, Harari, Argobba and Gurage. The analysis draws upon a corpus of 540 loanwords extracted from the works of Leslau (1956a,b,c; 1957a,b,c; 1958; 1963; 1990). The article presents…
No Gender Polarity in Arabic Numeral Phrases
Gender polarity is an intriguing morphological phenomenon in Arabic. The numerals 3-10 take the gender opposite to that of their count nouns; that is, when the count noun is feminine, the numerals 3-10 appear in the masculine form, and vice versa. Earlier analyses (see, e.g., Alqassas 2013, 2017, Alqarni 2015) proposed that the numerals 3-10 bear an inherent feminine feature, which is deleted by an impoverishment rule in the presence of a feminin…
The Morphosyntax of the Demonstrative System in Classical Arabic
The current article explores the morphosyntax of the demonstrative system in Classical Arabic (CA) within the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz 1993, 1994; Halle 1997; and Embick and Noyer 2005). The paper decomposes the demonstratives into bimorphemic forms. The first morphemes represent the deictic information and capture the three types of demonstratives in CA: proximal, medial and distal. The second morphemes bear number,…
Mock impoliteness in Saudi Arabia
Mock impoliteness in Saudi Arabia
Cat Naming Practices in Saudi Arabia
The current paper explores cat naming practices in Saudi Arabia (SA), an Islamic Arabic-speaking country in the Middle East. Based on a corpus of 586 cat names, the study reveals that female cat owners assign non-Arabic foreign names to their cats, while their male counterparts prefer traditional Arabic ones. In general, however, Saudi cat owners of both genders choose Arabic or non-Arabic names on the basis of whether or not their cat is local o…
Mock Impoliteness in Saudi Arabia
The current paper explores evil curses in the Bani Buhair tribe, which is located in the southwestern part of Saudi Arabia. It shows that cursing in Bani Buhair is a well-constructed speech act that follows linguistic rules and patterns. Buhairi cursers formulate their evil curse constructions by deriving verbs from the consonants of the roots of the preceding words in the discourse. These derivational strategies are of four types: (i) full morph…
No Gender Polarity in Arabic Numeral Phrases
Gender polarity is an intriguing morphological phenomenon in Arabic. The numerals 3-10 take the gender opposite to that of their count nouns; that is, when the count noun is feminine, the numerals 3-10 appear in the masculine form, and vice versa. Earlier analyses (see, e.g., Alqassas 2013, 2017, Alqarni 2015) proposed that the numerals 3-10 bear an inherent feminine feature, which is deleted by an impoverishment rule in the presence of a feminin…
The Morphosyntax of the Demonstrative System in Classical Arabic
The current article explores the morphosyntax of the demonstrative system in Classical Arabic (CA) within the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz 1993, 1994; Halle 1997; and Embick and Noyer 2005). The paper decomposes the demonstratives into bimorphemic forms. The first morphemes represent the deictic information and capture the three types of demonstratives in CA: proximal, medial and distal. The second morphemes bear number,…
Mock impoliteness in Saudi Arabia
Arabic loanwords in seven Ethiopian languages
Within the Theory of Constraints and Repair Strategies (Paradis, 1988a,b; Paradis & LaCharité, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, henceforth TCRS ), we provide a formal analysis to the Arabic loanwords in seven languages spoken in Ethiopia: Ge’ez, Tigre, Tigrinya, Amharic, Harari, Argobba and Gurage. The analysis draws upon a corpus of 540 loanwords extracted from the works of Leslau (1956a,b,c; 1957a,b,c; 1958; 1963; 1990). The article presents…
No Gender Polarity in Arabic Numeral Phrases
Gender polarity is an intriguing morphological phenomenon in Arabic. The numerals 3-10 take the gender opposite to that of their count nouns; that is, when the count noun is feminine, the numerals 3-10 appear in the masculine form, and vice versa. Earlier analyses (see, e.g., Alqassas 2013, 2017, Alqarni 2015) proposed that the numerals 3-10 bear an inherent feminine feature, which is deleted by an impoverishment rule in the presence of a feminin…
The Syntax of Nominal Appositions in Modern Standard Arabic
The current paper argues that there are three types of nominal appositions, i.e. two juxtaposed noun phrases (NPs), in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Each type shows special properties in terms of the nominal category of the two units, the deletion of the NP, word order, case agreement, and semantic relation. For each type, we propose a separate structural analysis. An adjunction analysis is motivated for Type I appositions which consist of a comm…
The Introductory Sentence in Literature Research Articles Published in High-Impact vs. Predatory Journals
The current study discusses the stylistic properties of the introductory sentence with which scholars begin their introduction in the literature field. The study draws upon a dataset of 624 introductory sentences, half of which are collected from high-impact Web of Science indexed journals and the other half are drawn from presumably predatory journals. The study shows that the introductory sentence written by authors of high-impact journals is a…
Cat Naming Practices in Saudi Arabia
The current paper explores cat naming practices in Saudi Arabia (SA), an Islamic Arabic-speaking country in the Middle East. Based on a corpus of 586 cat names, the study reveals that female cat owners assign non-Arabic foreign names to their cats, while their male counterparts prefer traditional Arabic ones. In general, however, Saudi cat owners of both genders choose Arabic or non-Arabic names on the basis of whether or not their cat is local o…
Mock Impoliteness in Saudi Arabia
The current paper explores evil curses in the Bani Buhair tribe, which is located in the southwestern part of Saudi Arabia. It shows that cursing in Bani Buhair is a well-constructed speech act that follows linguistic rules and patterns. Buhairi cursers formulate their evil curse constructions by deriving verbs from the consonants of the roots of the preceding words in the discourse. These derivational strategies are of four types: (i) full morph…
There are no broad subjects in Standard Arabic
The current article argues that the multiple nominative constructions of the Japanese type do not exist in Standard Arabic. Based on evidence from binding, A′-interception and Case, the article shows that the so-called ‘broad subject’ is a clitic left-dislocated element base generated in the A′-domain. The article thus follows the spirit of the analysis proposed by Landau (e.g., Landau, Idan. 2009. Against broad subjects in Hebrew. Lingua 119(1).…
Direct words, deep bonds
Towards an interdisciplinary definition of pragmatics
The definition of pragmatics has long oscillated between two views: as a component of linguistics and as a perspective on language use ( Haberland and Mey 1977 ; Verschueren and Östman 2009 ). The perspective view, now dominant ( Rajagopalan 2009 ), commits the field to interdisciplinary inquiry but leaves its conceptual core unsettled. Within Caffi’s ( 2006 , 2010 ) metapragmatic framework, this study analyzes 365 single-sentence definitions of …
Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · History (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Arabic (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works)