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  <Title>A PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE</Title>
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A PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE
AYMAN ELNAGGAR i
ABSTRACT
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A lot of work has been done in the field of natural language processing (NLP) for ARABIC. Few researchers have tried hard to apply on ARABIC the methods of computational linguistics, as for example, Definite Clause Grammar (DCG) \[I\] and Augmented Transition Networks (ATN) \[2\]. Because there is not a modern linguistic model for ARABIC grammar within the frame of computational linguistics, the results achieved are not comparable with that achieved on ENGLISH.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In this paper, we represent the phrase structures covering ARABIC.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> They are completely different from ENGLISH.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> i. INTRODUCTION Since ARABIC is a rich and highly inflected language \[3\], there are grannnatical categories in ARABIC which do not exist in other foreign languages such as in ENGLISH \[4\]. For example, there is an ARABIC category 2 called 'I/AFOOL MOTLAK' which has no equivalent in ENGLISH. Moreover, there are syntactic categories in ARABIC which could themselves be a whole sentence or even a psepositional phrase An example of such a category is the adverb . In addition, there are other differences in the order of the constituents within the sentence. For example, in ARABIC, adjectives follow the noun which they modify.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> In fact, ARABIC has its own structure, which is completely i 21 KASER EL-EINI St. CAIRO, EGYPT. 2 When there is no equivalent translation available for any category in ENGLISH, the transliterated form will be shown between single quotes.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> different from ENGLISH and hence, requires a different treatment.</Paragraph>
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