Zero Article In English and Arabic

Abstract

Contrastive Analysis is a linguistic enterprise aimed at producing inverted
(i.e. contrastive) two-valued typologies. It is always concerned with a pair of
languages and founded on the assumption that languages can be compared
(Lado 1980.3).
In this paper we attempts a contrastive study of zero article in English and
Arabic. The main objectives of this study are to point out similarities and
differences of zero Articles and their properties in the two languages .The study
is divided into three sections: The first section deals with zero article in English.
It shows the definition, general concept, form and syntactic features of this
article with its generic and specific uses