Abdulazeez Jaradat
Biographic Data
| ID | 971352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abdulazeez Jaradat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abdulazeez |
| FAMILY NAME | Jaradat |
| SIGNATURE | JARADAT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yarmouk University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-3822-3119 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Phasal polarity in northern rural Jordanian Arabic: Beyond a simplified view
This paper provides a descriptive account of the phasal polarity system in the Arabic vernacular spoken in the northern rural area of Jordan (NRJA). It demonstrates that this variety has phasal polarity (PhP) items that encode ‘still’, ‘already’, and ‘no longer’. For ‘not yet’, it has no specialized item to encode it. Instead, it is expressed via a ‘still’ item scoping over negation. More intriguingly, this paper shows that NRJA has more than one…
Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Two Arabic Varieties: Evidence for REF-REC Category
Languages vary in expressing reflexivity and reciprocity. In some languages, reflexive and reciprocal constructions are formally identical, while in some other languages, they are distinct. The third group comprises languages that have non-reflexive and reflexive–reciprocal (REF-REC) constructions. This paper investigates marking reflexivity and reciprocity in Standard Arabic and Jordanian Arabic. It demonstrates that these two varieties possess …
A Semiotic Analysis of Arab Political Cartoons on U.S. President Trump
Evaluation of Translatability of Pun in Audio-Visual Content: The Case of Shark Tale
Translating puns in audio-visual content is challenging, as they are often humorous, are paired with visual cues that restrict translators’ creativity, and do not last long on the screen. This research article investigates the translatability of puns in the animated movie Shark Tale from English into Arabic in both its subtitled and dubbed versions. The data are qualitatively analyzed according to Aleksandrova’s (2019. Audiovisual translation of …
Idiomaticity in the English Subtitling of Jordanian Movies on Netflix: A Cultural Analysis
The current study investigates the subtitling of dialect-specific idiomatic expressions from vernacular Jordanian Arabic to English. The data are extracted from two Jordanian Arabic films, namely ‘The Alleys’ and ‘Blessed Benefits’. Adopting Baker’s taxonomy (1992), it has been found that paraphrasing is the most frequently applied strategy to translate the target idiomatic expressions, followed by an idiomatic translation (i.e., an idiomatic equ…
From nominal source to demonstrative: A case of grammaticalization in Standard Arabic
There is a debate concerning the history of demonstratives. Are they primitive or grammaticalized elements in languages? Moreover, notwithstanding the relevance of demonstratives to NP, nominals are not regarded as a potential source of grammaticalized demonstratives. The present study, based on synchronic observations, argues that the proximal demonstratives ða ‘this’ and ʔulaaʔ ‘these’, which constitute the nucleus of the demonstrative system o…
The Role of Partial Desemanticization in the Emergence of Grammatical Subsystems: The Case of Epistemic Modality in Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic
Desemanticization, a mechanism of language change, is either full or partial. The former is the total loss of the lexical content while developing a gram from a lexical source, whereas the latter is the reduction of the lexical content. One of the merits of partial desemanticization reported in the relevant literature is that the remaining lexical residue in a gram often determines its function, especially through metaphor and metonymy. The prese…
Uncovering the Norms of Subtitling Taboo Language Into Arabic: Two and a Half Men From Past to Present
Subtitling of obscene language has been the subject of extensive study in the field of audio-visual translation. Nevertheless, most studies have primarily focused on collecting quantitative and qualitative data concerning translation strategies, often overlooking the critical dimension of subtitling norms. Attempting to discern these norms presents substantial methodological challenges, as they are not readily observable. This research addresses …
A split morphosyntactic analysis of diminutives in two Arabic varieties
Contra the literature on Arabic prosodic morphology where templatic diminutive morphemes are often regarded as inflectional, this research paper argues for a distinction between their inflectional and derivational function in two Arabic varieties, i.e. Standard Arabic (SA) and Jordanian Arabic (JA), by offering a split analysis for these morphemes. It is demonstrated that the diminutive template C1u.C2ajC3 in SA and C1aC2.C2uuC3 in JA may enter t…
A Split Analysis of the Templatic Diminutive in Standard Arabic: Diminutivization and Paucal Quantification
Visual puns in the Arabic subtitled and dubbed versions of Shark Tale
This piece of research, which is part of a project concerned with the translatability of figurative language in AV content from English into Arabic and vice versa, investigates the translatability of visual puns in the animated movie Shark Tale from English into Arabic in both its subtitled and dubbed versions. The data of this study consist of the original English film scenes and their Arabic subtitles and dubs. Based on Aleksandrova’s (2019) ta…
Branching lexical plural into greater and paucal
Lexical plural merges in or below the categorizing head n0. It often yields abundance in quantity, as in Greek and Innu-aimun. However, it is reported that it denotes paucity in quantity in one language, namely Telugu, to the best of the researcher’s knowledge. The current study reports that Jordanian Arabic has lexical plural that is semantically similar to the lexical plural in Telugu. Specifically, it yields paucity in quantity. From a typolog…
Prosodic words are the domain of emphasis spread: Evidence from Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic
This article, which reports on an experimental study based on data obtained from 86 native speakers of Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic (NRJA), offers empirical evidence that emphasis spread can apply bidirectionally across word edges when they are prosodically word internal. In other words, emphasis can spread from one word to a neighboring (plain) word when the two words form one prosodic word (ω). In order to support this hypothesis, we examine…
When a Dual Marker Acts as a Paucal Marker: The Case of the Dual -e:n in Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic
In this research paper, based on an acceptability judgment task, it is demonstrated that dual morphology can denote paucity in northern rural Jordanian Arabic (NRJA), asserting on Blanc and Brustad's observation that some Arabic varieties have pseudo-dual (or unspecified dual), i.e., it may refer to numbers above two. It is shown that the dual morpheme -e:n in this dialect does not only refer to an exact (dual) number, but also to an approximativ…
The syntax of the diminutive morpheme -aaj in Egyptian Arabic, Syrian Arabic, and Jordanian Arabic
This article investigates the morphosyntactic behavior of the diminutive morpheme -aaj in three Arabic dialects (Egyptian Arabic, Syrian Arabic, and Jordanian Arabic). It argues that this morpheme is categorially a head that projects Size Phrase (cf. De Belder, Marijke. 2008. Size matters: Towards a syntactic decomposition of countability. In Natasha Abner & Jason Bishop (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics …
On Secondary Grammaticalization: The Case of hatta in Rural Jordanian Arabic
Secondary grammaticalization is viewed as a continuation to a grammaticalization path (Traugott 2002) or an independent process that does not necessarily imply the occurrence of a precedent primary grammaticalization (Givón 1991). This paper provides a case from vernacular Arabic supporting the second view, namely, the secondary grammaticalization of the functional hatta (its evolution into a proclitic) in Rural Jordanian Arabic. Evidence support…
When a General Classifier Acts as a Quantifier? The Case ofĦabbit'a Grain of' in Jordanian Arabic
This article offers a morphosyntactic account of the observation that the general dividing classifier ħabbit 'a grain of' in Jordanian Arabic (JA) can express another unpredictable interpretation when it is combined with non-count nominals. When ħabbit occurs with nominals that refer to [-animate] collectives (granular aggregates, legumes, nuts and seeds), it can give rise to individuation or paucal quantification. On the other hand, when it occu…
The position of the broken plural in the grammar: Rural Jordanian Arabic as a case study
Twitter Use and its Impact on Public Attitudes Toward Bank Robberies in Jordan
This study examines the influence of Twitter as a social media network on public punitive attitudes toward bank robbers in Jordan. After fifteen bank robberies were committed in Jordan over two weeks in 2018, social networks were flooded with comments from Jordanians expressing their attitudes and opinions about the incidents. Individuals' tweets from January to August 2018 were analyzed in order to reveal people's attitudes toward the crimes, ex…
Prosodic words are the domain of emphasis spread: Evidence from Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic
This article, which reports on an experimental study based on data obtained from 86 native speakers of Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic (NRJA), offers empirical evidence that emphasis spread can apply bidirectionally across word edges when they are prosodically word internal. In other words, emphasis can spread from one word to a neighboring (plain) word when the two words form one prosodic word (ω). In order to support this hypothesis, we examine…
When a General Classifier Acts as a Quantifier? The Case ofĦabbit'a Grain of' in Jordanian Arabic
This article offers a morphosyntactic account of the observation that the general dividing classifier ħabbit 'a grain of' in Jordanian Arabic (JA) can express another unpredictable interpretation when it is combined with non-count nominals. When ħabbit occurs with nominals that refer to [-animate] collectives (granular aggregates, legumes, nuts and seeds), it can give rise to individuation or paucal quantification. On the other hand, when it occu…
Twitter Use and its Impact on Public Attitudes Toward Bank Robberies in Jordan
This study examines the influence of Twitter as a social media network on public punitive attitudes toward bank robbers in Jordan. After fifteen bank robberies were committed in Jordan over two weeks in 2018, social networks were flooded with comments from Jordanians expressing their attitudes and opinions about the incidents. Individuals' tweets from January to August 2018 were analyzed in order to reveal people's attitudes toward the crimes, ex…
The position of the broken plural in the grammar: Rural Jordanian Arabic as a case study
The syntax of the diminutive morpheme -aaj in Egyptian Arabic, Syrian Arabic, and Jordanian Arabic
This article investigates the morphosyntactic behavior of the diminutive morpheme -aaj in three Arabic dialects (Egyptian Arabic, Syrian Arabic, and Jordanian Arabic). It argues that this morpheme is categorially a head that projects Size Phrase (cf. De Belder, Marijke. 2008. Size matters: Towards a syntactic decomposition of countability. In Natasha Abner & Jason Bishop (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics …
On Secondary Grammaticalization: The Case of hatta in Rural Jordanian Arabic
Secondary grammaticalization is viewed as a continuation to a grammaticalization path (Traugott 2002) or an independent process that does not necessarily imply the occurrence of a precedent primary grammaticalization (Givón 1991). This paper provides a case from vernacular Arabic supporting the second view, namely, the secondary grammaticalization of the functional hatta (its evolution into a proclitic) in Rural Jordanian Arabic. Evidence support…
When a General Classifier Acts as a Quantifier? The Case ofĦabbit'a Grain of' in Jordanian Arabic
This article offers a morphosyntactic account of the observation that the general dividing classifier ħabbit 'a grain of' in Jordanian Arabic (JA) can express another unpredictable interpretation when it is combined with non-count nominals. When ħabbit occurs with nominals that refer to [-animate] collectives (granular aggregates, legumes, nuts and seeds), it can give rise to individuation or paucal quantification. On the other hand, when it occu…
Visual puns in the Arabic subtitled and dubbed versions of Shark Tale
This piece of research, which is part of a project concerned with the translatability of figurative language in AV content from English into Arabic and vice versa, investigates the translatability of visual puns in the animated movie Shark Tale from English into Arabic in both its subtitled and dubbed versions. The data of this study consist of the original English film scenes and their Arabic subtitles and dubs. Based on Aleksandrova’s (2019) ta…
Branching lexical plural into greater and paucal
Lexical plural merges in or below the categorizing head n0. It often yields abundance in quantity, as in Greek and Innu-aimun. However, it is reported that it denotes paucity in quantity in one language, namely Telugu, to the best of the researcher’s knowledge. The current study reports that Jordanian Arabic has lexical plural that is semantically similar to the lexical plural in Telugu. Specifically, it yields paucity in quantity. From a typolog…
Prosodic words are the domain of emphasis spread: Evidence from Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic
This article, which reports on an experimental study based on data obtained from 86 native speakers of Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic (NRJA), offers empirical evidence that emphasis spread can apply bidirectionally across word edges when they are prosodically word internal. In other words, emphasis can spread from one word to a neighboring (plain) word when the two words form one prosodic word (ω). In order to support this hypothesis, we examine…
When a Dual Marker Acts as a Paucal Marker: The Case of the Dual -e:n in Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic
In this research paper, based on an acceptability judgment task, it is demonstrated that dual morphology can denote paucity in northern rural Jordanian Arabic (NRJA), asserting on Blanc and Brustad's observation that some Arabic varieties have pseudo-dual (or unspecified dual), i.e., it may refer to numbers above two. It is shown that the dual morpheme -e:n in this dialect does not only refer to an exact (dual) number, but also to an approximativ…
From nominal source to demonstrative: A case of grammaticalization in Standard Arabic
There is a debate concerning the history of demonstratives. Are they primitive or grammaticalized elements in languages? Moreover, notwithstanding the relevance of demonstratives to NP, nominals are not regarded as a potential source of grammaticalized demonstratives. The present study, based on synchronic observations, argues that the proximal demonstratives ða ‘this’ and ʔulaaʔ ‘these’, which constitute the nucleus of the demonstrative system o…
The Role of Partial Desemanticization in the Emergence of Grammatical Subsystems: The Case of Epistemic Modality in Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic
Desemanticization, a mechanism of language change, is either full or partial. The former is the total loss of the lexical content while developing a gram from a lexical source, whereas the latter is the reduction of the lexical content. One of the merits of partial desemanticization reported in the relevant literature is that the remaining lexical residue in a gram often determines its function, especially through metaphor and metonymy. The prese…
Uncovering the Norms of Subtitling Taboo Language Into Arabic: Two and a Half Men From Past to Present
Subtitling of obscene language has been the subject of extensive study in the field of audio-visual translation. Nevertheless, most studies have primarily focused on collecting quantitative and qualitative data concerning translation strategies, often overlooking the critical dimension of subtitling norms. Attempting to discern these norms presents substantial methodological challenges, as they are not readily observable. This research addresses …
A split morphosyntactic analysis of diminutives in two Arabic varieties
Contra the literature on Arabic prosodic morphology where templatic diminutive morphemes are often regarded as inflectional, this research paper argues for a distinction between their inflectional and derivational function in two Arabic varieties, i.e. Standard Arabic (SA) and Jordanian Arabic (JA), by offering a split analysis for these morphemes. It is demonstrated that the diminutive template C1u.C2ajC3 in SA and C1aC2.C2uuC3 in JA may enter t…
A Split Analysis of the Templatic Diminutive in Standard Arabic: Diminutivization and Paucal Quantification
Evaluation of Translatability of Pun in Audio-Visual Content: The Case of Shark Tale
Translating puns in audio-visual content is challenging, as they are often humorous, are paired with visual cues that restrict translators’ creativity, and do not last long on the screen. This research article investigates the translatability of puns in the animated movie Shark Tale from English into Arabic in both its subtitled and dubbed versions. The data are qualitatively analyzed according to Aleksandrova’s (2019. Audiovisual translation of …
Idiomaticity in the English Subtitling of Jordanian Movies on Netflix: A Cultural Analysis
The current study investigates the subtitling of dialect-specific idiomatic expressions from vernacular Jordanian Arabic to English. The data are extracted from two Jordanian Arabic films, namely ‘The Alleys’ and ‘Blessed Benefits’. Adopting Baker’s taxonomy (1992), it has been found that paraphrasing is the most frequently applied strategy to translate the target idiomatic expressions, followed by an idiomatic translation (i.e., an idiomatic equ…
Phasal polarity in northern rural Jordanian Arabic: Beyond a simplified view
This paper provides a descriptive account of the phasal polarity system in the Arabic vernacular spoken in the northern rural area of Jordan (NRJA). It demonstrates that this variety has phasal polarity (PhP) items that encode ‘still’, ‘already’, and ‘no longer’. For ‘not yet’, it has no specialized item to encode it. Instead, it is expressed via a ‘still’ item scoping over negation. More intriguingly, this paper shows that NRJA has more than one…
Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Two Arabic Varieties: Evidence for REF-REC Category
Languages vary in expressing reflexivity and reciprocity. In some languages, reflexive and reciprocal constructions are formally identical, while in some other languages, they are distinct. The third group comprises languages that have non-reflexive and reflexive–reciprocal (REF-REC) constructions. This paper investigates marking reflexivity and reciprocity in Standard Arabic and Jordanian Arabic. It demonstrates that these two varieties possess …
A Semiotic Analysis of Arab Political Cartoons on U.S. President Trump
Arabic (14 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (10 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (5 works)