| dc.description.abstract | English and Arabic are languages which have gender agreement. English
belongs to Indo-European language family and Arabic belongs to Semitic language
family. They come from different language family, but they have some similarities
and differences in gender agreements.
In this thesis, the definitions of gender are explained. Genders are defined
generally as gender gap, gender in politic and also gender in language. Gender in
language is called as grammatical gender. The grammatical gender of English and
Arabic is the focus of discussion.
The descriptions of gender agreement in this thesis are explored in order to get
more understanding about the gender in English and Arabic. Further, by comparing
English and Arabic descriptions, the similarities and differences are found. The
comparative study is chosen as the methodology of this thesis.
The data of this study are collected through library research. The type of data
is qualitative data. The analysis belongs to descriptive method. It begins with
describing the concept of both languages in term of gender and identifying the
similarities and differences between them. After comparing both English and Arabic,
it is found that both languages have similarities. The first similarity is using different
words and adding suffixes at the end of the nouns. The second similarity is the third
singular pronouns which differentiate male from female. Besides the similarities,
there are differences between them. The differences are in the verb and adjective
agreement. English has not verb and adjective agreement, while Arabic has them. | en_US |
