AIN’T GRAMMAR WORKING FOR YOU ? Mr. William G. Banks B.A English Linguistics MLST Applied Linguistics/Syntax/Discourse Analysis PhD (candidate) Applied Linguistics/Syntax/Pragmatics (05/05/2014)

WHAT IS GRAMMAR? Prescriptive  Formal and Academic  Meticulous Mechanics  Correct & Incorrect Signatures  Speeches, and academic Descriptive  Casual Informal  Creative Mechanics  Relative and Flexible  Oral and novice writing

“ ” CERTAIN THOUGHTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL IN THEIR ONE LANGUAGE CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD BY THOSE WHO LIVE IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE… Whorf-Sapir Theory Can native Arab speakers understand the words?

GRAMMAR ARGUMENTS Noam Chomsky PhD.  Structured or Uniformed  Phrasal Identification  Deep Layered  Universal Ronald Langacker PhD.  Symbolic  Relative  Conceptualized  Ain’t no such thing as Universal Grammar

HOW DO ARABS SPEAK?

PRACTICAL AWARENESS VS. ACTUAL AWARENESS  الولد مصري al-walad miSri) The boy is Egyptian.  ولد الولد في مصر. wulida l-walad fi miSr) The boy was born in Egypt.  بنت عمي مدرسة. bint 3ammi mudarrisa) Daughter my Uncle teacher. My cousin is a teacher.  من اللازم أن تصحو مبكرا min al-laazim an taSHu mubakkiran) From necessity that you wake early. You need to wake up early

Sounds Meanings Structure Performance Synthesis Commonality Global Local Culture