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Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52828#.VKn7EsnQrzE Author(s)    Baha Makhoul 1,2 , Raphiq Ibrahim 3,4* Affiliation(s) 1 The NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel . 2 Literacy and Language Arts Department, Center for Educational Technology (CET), Tel-Aviv, Israel . 3 The Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel . 4 Department of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel . ABSTRACT A large number of the scientific efforts that have investigated the issue of Arabic language acquisition have mainly...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52381#.VJOIUcCAM4 Author(s) Zhiren Zheng Affiliation(s) National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi County, Chinese Taipei . ABSTRACT It has been widely discussed that Taiwan Southern Min ū “HAVE” (hereafter TSM ū “HAVE”) allows adjectival predicates as its complements, such as Kaka ū suí “Kaka is beautiful”. Besides, TSM ū “HAVE” in this kind of construction is analysed as an emphatic-assertive marker; however, there are quite few studies concerning whether it can select any adjectival predicates as its complements or has any restrictions. I hence investigate whether TSM ū “HAVE” has any restrictions by five tests: (a) mono/disyllabi...