Abdulkafi Albirini
List of John Benjamins publications for which Abdulkafi Albirini plays a role.
Articles
2020 L1 and L2 transfer to L3 in L3 and L2 learners of Standard Arabic Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:6, pp. 745–774 | Article
This study examines the influence of previously acquired languages – namely, Colloquial Arabic (CA) and English – on the acquisition of Standard Arabic (SA) by L3 and L2 learners. It reports on the role of typological and structural proximity in language transfer and whether transfer patterns… read more
2014 Arabic plurals and root and pattern morphology in Palestinian and Egyptian heritage speakers Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:1, pp. 89–123 | Commentary
This study investigates heritage speakers’ knowledge of plural formation in their colloquial varieties of Arabic, which use both concatenative and non-concatentative modes of derivation. In the concatenative derivation, a plural suffix attaches to the singular stem (muhandis ‘engineer-sg.’ →… read more