KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
AL-BAHA UNIVERSITY
COLLEG OF ATRS & HUMANITIES
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGEES
A Corpus Exploration of English Suffixes Used in Al-Baha University Foundation Year.
Thesis Research Submitted to the Department of Foreign Languages in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics.
Presented By
Fahad Musleh AlGhamdi
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Under the Supervision of
Dr. RAJAB ALZAHRANI
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Al-Baha University
1436 H / 2015
Chapter One
Abstract
Knowledge of affixes plays an important role in visual word recognition and word
Comprehension, but little is known about how this knowledge is acquired. Affixation is one of the most common and productive ways to form new words in English and forming words through suffix, that placed at the end of word. In Languages such as Arabic, Spanish, French, English, speakers attempt to use one root word as a basic unit with affixation in order to born a new word which became a set of part of speech. Affixation is shown suffix arrays are superior to existing corpus search engines.
Keywords: Corpus, suffix arrays, root, Affixation
Acknowledgement
I am extremely grateful to Dr.Rajab who push me step forward in my life. He
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