The markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-Arabic speakers learning English

• Main Authors: AL-Makatrah, Elham Salem, Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Mohamed Zain Sulaiman, Al-Khawaldeh, Mohammad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12861/1/20240-65581-1-PB.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12861/; http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1059
• Institution: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the markedness phenomenon of Do-support as a specificlanguage property poses greater difficulties for adult Arabic-speaking learners thereby bringing about more L1 transfer than the auxiliary verbs BE and HAVE. Do-support in the inter-language of a...