Dr Walid Amer

English department

IUG 2010

Suggested titles for papers in comparative linguistics

1.  Adverbs in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

2.  Adjectives in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

3.  Tense and Aspect in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

4.  The noun phrase in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

5.  Sentence types in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

6.  Coordination in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

7.  Punctuation in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

8.  Spelling in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

9.  Lexical awareness in learning English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

10.  stylistic differences in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

11.  Cross-cultural awareness in learning / teaching English.

12.  Infinitive and gerund in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

13.  Homophones in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

14.  synonyms in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

15.  Polysemy in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

16.  Antonyms in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

17.  collocation in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

18.  Auxiliaries in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

19.  Modal verbs in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

20.  Pronouns in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

21.  types of determiners in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

22.  markedness of Tense, person, gender and aspect in English and Arabic.

23.  passivization in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

24.  Prepositions of time and place in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

25.  Mood in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

26.  Anaphora in English and Arabic.

27.  Relative clauses in English and Arabic.

28.  Syntax and semantics of conditional clauses in English and Arabic.

29.  Intonation in English and Arabic.

30.  Stress in English and Arabic.

31.  Appositive prepositions in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

32.  pro-forms in English and Arabic.

33.  Genitive structure in English and Arabic: A syntactic study.

34.  awareness of super-segmental phonemes in interpretation

35.  awareness of metaphors in translating from English into Arabic and vice versa.

36.  ditransitive verbs in English and Arabic: A syntactic study.

37.  stylistic awareness in translating from English to Arabic and vice versa.

38.  compound adjectives in English and Arabic.

39.  word order in English and Arabic: A syntactic study.

40.  plurality morphemes in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

41.  cohesive devices in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

42.  adjective and adverb order in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

43.  prepositions of manner and apposition in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.

44.  cultural awareness in translation from Arabic to English: A contrastive study.

45.  on quantifiers in English and Arabic: A contrastive study.