الفهرس 
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Abstract
Adopting an eclectic approach of the construction grammar and the pattern grammar as well as utilizing an explanatory research design, the phenomenon of lexis-grammar interface has been investigated on lexical, phrasal, and sentential levels in both English and Cairene Arabic. With the aim of explicating the nature of form-meaning interrelationship, different parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms, affixes, semantic traits, various types of phrases, tenses, as well as different types of sentences including the passive have been examined in both language varieties under investigation. Instances are provided, in part, from parts of charlie Roses’ interview with Hillary Clinton and Amr Ellithy’s interview with Magdy El-Gallad, and, in the other part, from the third edition of the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary. Moreover, nineteen syntactic patterns suggested by Francis 1996 are analyzed to exemplify the colligation of some lexical verbs with some specific syntactic patterns. Besides, the introspection approach has been utilized in instantiating some of the Cairene Arabic data. Results have shown that both English and Cairene Arabic manifest lexis-grammar interdependence with slight differences regarding how such correlations are represented.
Key words
Syntactic structures – lexical items- colligation- contrastive study- Cairene Arabic