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This study is an attempt to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of English and Arabic verbs of eating. After surveying the literature on the meaning of verbs in both languages, three chapters address the major issues in this subject.
The problem to be investigated in this study can be summarized in the following points:
1. The overlapping of semantic and syntactic features within the category of verbs of eating in English and Arabic.
2. Which semantic classification is more accurate and through which method?
3. Which classification, the semantic or the syntactic, is more important?
This study hypothesized the following:
1. The semantic features are more influential in analyzing the category of verbs of eating than the syntactic
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