الفهرس 
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Abstract
The present study is conducted to examine the occurrence of adjectives in English and Arabic newspaper corpora. The purpose is to find out the most frequent lexical phrases and their phraseological patterns. In addition, the study is an attempt to explain the cognitive phenomenon behind how linguistic units are constructed, produced and developed into other forms. The research seeks to answer the following questions: What are the frequent phrases in both corpora? What are the mental representations that underlie these recurrent phrases, and how are they produced in the brain? What is the impact of frequency and language interaction on the development of language? The theoretical framework is the usage-based cognitive approach that focuses on the integration of lexical items and the role of frequency and usage in entrenching and generalizing new schematic constructions. Corpus linguistics, as a method, analyzes naturally occurring language obtained from corpora by means of specialized software. Both corpora, the Arabic Web (ar TenTen) and the English Web (en TenTen), are processed by Sketch Engine. The Arabic Web corpus, a collection of online Arabic texts with a total of 663,810,644 words, is contrasted with the English Web Corpus that contains 2,420,719,017 words in the newspaper domain. The results show that all the constructions of the adjective category are governed by the same single category prototype in both languages. All other adjective patterns are either instances or extensions of the central prototype.