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The Fundamentals of Lebanese Grammar
About this book
The Fundamentals of Lebanese Grammar provides a comprehensive guide to the grammar of the spoken language of Lebanon.
It presents the fundamentals and complexities of the Lebanese variety of Arabic in a practical and organized way. This guide also utilizes side-by-side transliterations in both the Arabic script and the Latin alphabet in the way that they are used by native speakers. The explanations of the grammar concepts are presented in English and are made to be easily understandable for everyone, regardless of prior linguistic knowledge. Special features of this text include endnotes on culture, expressions, and an entire chapter dedicated to regional varieties of Lebanese.
This book is an essential tool for all learners of the Lebanese variety of Arabic, and it is a useful resource for every stage of the language learning process, from beginner to advanced.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The writing system
- 3 Adjectives
- 4 Nouns
- 5 Sentence structure
- 6 Adverbs
- 7 Pronouns
- 8 Prepositions
- 9 The genitive construct
- 10 Ken and its sisters
- 11 The verb system
- 12 Simple past tense
- 13 Present indicative tense
- 14 Future tense
- 15 Auxiliary and modal verbs
- 16 Continuous tense
- 17 Active participles
- 18 Perfect tenses
- 19 Passive participles and passive voice
- 20 Gerunds
- 21 Conditionals
- 22 Imperfect tense and the subjunctive voice
- 23 Imperative voice
- 24 Quantifiers
- 25 Numbers
- 26 Accusative of circumstance
- 27 Exclusion and exception
- 28 Exclamation
- 29 Conjunctions
- 30 Vocatives and discourse markers
- 31 Diminutive
- 32 Regional variation
- Index