تهدف الدراسة إلى التعرف على أسباب تسرب القيادات النسائية من المناصب القيادية في الجامعات السعودية, من خلال التعرف على طرق ترشيحهن للمناصب القيادية, وأسباب قبولهن الترشيح, والتحديات التي أدت إلى تسربهن, والتعرف على درجة مساهمة القيادات النسائية في زيادة التحديات, وأخيراً الحلول التي يمكن أن تساهم في الحد من تسرب القيادات النسائية.

Soon after Malaysia got its independence from the British colonization in 1957, it has been striving to establish the Malay language (Bahasa Melayu) as the National language (Hassan, 2004). Malay has been seen as a symbol of unity and identity in a country with various ethnic backgrounds speaking unintelligible languages. There was an urgent need to use one common language among all the ethnic communities - Indians, Chinese, and Malay – to achieve two basic goals: communication and social integration.

I argue that the noun in denominative verbs in Arabic and Hebrew is a lexical indivisible part of the verb. Evidence for the lexical analysis of denominal verbs is based on lexical, semantic, and syntactic arguments. I argue that, unlike the lexical analysis, Baker's syntactic analysis of denominative verbs fails to account for the lexical properties of denominative verbs particularly the lack of referential index of the noun and the non-ambiguity of these verbs with adverbs.

Are unaccusatives verbal or non-verbal predicates? Baker (2003) suggests that they are nonverbal predicates and they are decomposed syntactically into a functional predicate and an adjective. However I argue in this paper that unaccusatives really involve verbal predicates and not functional predicates. I discuss three types of predicates: verbal predicate, functional adjectival predicate, and adjectival predicate. The evidence that can conclusively distinguish the type of predicate follows from tense and aspect morphological markings.

The paper discusses the Arabic Broken plural and the Sound plural (BP and SP henceforth) as two instances of two distinct morphological processes involving different characteristics and mechanisms. I propose an analysis based on how morphology operates in the lexicon and the syntax and provide data from Arabic and Hebrew. I argue that the BP is derived lexically as one atomic complex word while the SP involves a two-unit merger deriving a non-atomic word in the syntax.

Collocations are not examined adequately within the minimalist program and other earlier mainstream theories because they are relegated to an irregular lexicon that is distinct from a rule-based syntax despite the fact that collocations may have lexical and syntactic properties. In this paper, I argue that we need to relax this this strict division between the lexicon and the syntax in order to account for collocations. The minimalist program can address, as other non-Chomskyan theories, the basic properties of collocations.

This paper discusses some data of ASC in which regular plural inflection is included inside compounds. These data pose problems to Kiparsky’s level-ordering lexical morphology model (1982) and Li’s generalization on verb incorporation (1990). I argue that ASC is lexically formed based on some pieces of evidence. To support the analysis, I compare the compounds and the construct state constructions in Arabic and Hebrew. Then I show that the lexical analysis explains the morphological, syntactic properties, and the semantics of ASC.