
Emirati Arabic
A Comprehensive Grammar
- 500 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering and studying in detail the specific dialect of Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates. It covers all major areas of Emirati Arabic grammar, describing in detail its phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic systems. Each grammatical point is illustrated with numerous examples drawn from native Emirati Arabic speakers and is thoroughly discussed providing both accessible and linguistically informed grammatical description.
This book is a useful reference for students of Gulf Arabic and/or Modern Standard Arabic or other Arabic dialects with an interest in the dialect spoken in the UAE, researchers interested in Arabic language and linguistics as well as graduate students and scholars interested in Arabic studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The sounds of Emirati Arabic
- Chapter 3 Phonological processes
- Chapter 4 Morphology and word formation
- Chapter 5 Syntactic categories and parts of speech
- Chapter 6 The noun phrase
- Chapter 7 The verb phrase
- Chapter 8 Aspect
- Chapter 9 Mood and modality
- Chapter 10 Negation
- Chapter 11 Word order
- Chapter 12 Relative clauses
- Chapter 13 Questions
- Chapter 14 Subordination
- Chapter 15 Coordination
- Chapter 16 Ellipsis
- Chapter 17 Interjections
- Chapter 18 Speech conventions
- Glossary of terms
- References
- Index