College of Arts

The Department of English Language at College of Arts held a viva for a doctoral thesis entitled “GENDER ASSIGNMENT IN ARABIC WITH REFERENCE TO ENGLISH: A GENERATIVE PERSPECTIVE,” on November 25, 2021 in the hall of the Faculty of Arts, a part of it was attended by the Head of the English Language Department, Prof. Bassem Yahya Jassem, along with a group of faculty members and teachers.The thesis submitted by the student (Mahfuz Khalaf Mahmoud Jassim) in the Department of English Language, dealt with the system of mnemonic and feminine in the Arabic language from a generative point of view, with the aim of presenting a system of masculinity and feminization for researchers, those engaged in language computing, and specialists in comparative linguistics. It also attempted to depict the natural grammatical system used by native speakers of contemporary Arabic in the remembrance and feminization of Arabized Arabic and non-Arabic nouns.The study of Arabized foreign nouns showed a tendency in the contemporary Arabic language to use the masculine and the apparent feminine, as well as the use of the neuter gender (ie either masculine or feminine for both sexes, such as the ant and the spider), and this strengthens our proposed model, which depends on the formal classification of nouns in the Arabic language.The study of pseudonyms proved that pseudonyms take three forms in terms of their Arabization, namely semantic translation, transliteration, or the formulation of new words, where the expressed name is subject at the end, masculine or feminine, to the rules of the Arabic language in masculine and feminine.The viva committee was chaired by Prof. Dr. Jassim Muhammad Hassan from Al-Hadba University College, and the membership of Prof. Dr. Muhammad Badi’ Ahmed from Tikrit University, Assistant Professor Dr. Iman Hamid Muhammad from the College of Education for Human Sciences at Mosul University, Assistant Professor Dr. Abaa Muzaffar Yahya and Assistant Professor Dr. Wafa Muzaffar Ali at the University of Mosul, under the supervision and membership of Assistant Professor Dr. Marwan Najib Tawfiq.