A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic
A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic
A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic is a comprehensive handbook on the structure of Arabic. Keeping technical terminology to a minimum, it provides a detailed yet accessible overview of Modern Standard Arabic in which the essential aspects of its phonology, morphology and syntax can be readily looked up and understood. Accompanied by extensive carefully-chosen examples, it will prove invaluable as a practical guide for supporting students' textbooks, classroom work or self-study, and will also be a useful resource for scholars and professionals wishing to develop an understanding of the key features of the language. Grammar notes are numbered for ease of reference, and a section is included on how to use an Arabic dictionary, as well as helpful glossaries of Arabic and English linguistic terms and a useful bibliography. Clearly structured and systematically organised, this book is set to become the standard guide to the grammar of contemporary Arabic.
- Clearly structured and systematically organised to cover the essential aspects of Arabic phonology, morphology and syntax
- Numbered grammar notes for ease of reference, along with helpful glossaries of both Arabic and English linguistic terms
- Each aspect of the language discussed is illustrated with carefully-chosen examples
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September 2005Adobe eBook Reader
9780511113703
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction to Arabic
- 2. Modern Standard Arabic phonology and script
- 3. Arabic word structure: an overview
- 4. Basic Arabic sentence structures
- 5. Arabic noun types
- 6. Participles: active and passive
- 7. Noun inflections: gender, humanness, number, definiteness, and case
- 8. Construct phrases and nouns in apposition
- 9. Noun specifiers and quantifiers
- 10. Adjectives: form and function
- 11. Adverbs and adverbial expressions
- 12. Personal pronouns
- 13. Demonstrative pronouns and their functions
- 14. Relative pronouns and relative clauses
- 15. Arabic numerals and numeral phrases
- 16. Prepositions and prepositional phrases
- 17. Questions and question words
- 18. Connectives and conjunctions
- 19. Subordinating conjunctions: the particle 'inna and her sisters
- 20. The classes of Arabic verbs
- 21. Verb inflection: a summary
- 22. Form I the base form of the triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns and participles
- 23. Form II triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
- 24. Form III triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
- 25. Form IV triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
- 26. Form V triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
- 27. Form VI triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
- 28. Form VII triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
- 29. Form VIII triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
- 30. Form IX triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
- 31. Form X triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
- 32. Forms XI-XV triliteral verb
- 33. Quadriliteral verbs: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
- 34. Moods of the verb I: indicative and subjunctive
- 35. Moods of the verb II: jussive and imperative
- 36. Verbs of being, becoming, remaining, seeming
- 37. Negation and exception
- 38. Passive and passive-type expressions
- 39. Conditional and opative expressions.
