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Yazarlar: ["Maather AlRawi", "Nuha AlShurafa", "Tariq Elyas", "Abdulrahman Alqurashi"]

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DOI:10.14744/felt.2022.4.2.1

Anahtar Kelimeler:Saudi English,Morphosyntactic features,Substrate effect,Transfer effect,Typology

Özet: Although some Englishes in Asia have received extensive attention, the grammar of Saudi English remains relatively unexamined. It remains unclear whether the Saudi English grammatical (or morphosyntactic) patterns derive from universal principles. Al-Rawi (2012); Mahboob and Elyas (2014) seem to provide an individual description. This paper is an attempt to provide an analysis for the morphosyntactic features of the variety of English in Saudi Arabia from a global approach by adopting Kortmann and Szmrecsanyi (2004) geographic and variety-specific perspectives. Our findings show that Saudi English has 7 distinctive features. Four of them are universal. Due to the limitations in covering all the distinctive features and due the clear analogy between these features and the substrate Arabic patterns, we argue that the distinctive features are simply the result of the substrate influence rather than universal principles that derive these deviant forms

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