A Contrastive Study of Relativization in English and Arabic

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ABSTRACT

This research studies relative clauses in English and Arabic

comparatively. It aims at determining some essential properties of

relative clause structure in both languages. To achieve this aim the study

touches the

syntactic functions of relative clause structure in both

languages. It then focuses on the main a symmetris and symmetries of

these constructions in English and Arabic. The study ends with a

summary of the main concluding remarks that highlight the main ar

eas

of difficulties in understanding relative clauses of English , these are

expected to lead into committing serious interlingual and intralingual

errors.