A Grammar of Arabic
eBook - ePub

A Grammar of Arabic

  1. 640 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Grammar of Arabic

About this book

A Grammar of Arabic models a new framework for studying varieties of Arabic comparatively, highlighting the patterns of variation and consistency, and showing how different styles, from primarily spoken and casual to primarily written and formal, are linguistically interrelated.

This non-traditional reference grammar is structured around patterns of usage rather than prescriptive rules, aligning function with form and taking advantage of general principles of language. Using data from Classical Arabic, Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, and dialects spoken in Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, the Levant, Iraq, and the Arabian Gulf, this grammar examines the actual usage of these language varieties, broadening understanding of Arabic dialects from a linguistics perspective while also giving readers the ability to engage language diversity.

Designed for instructors, researchers, and advanced students of Arabic, A Grammar of Arabic explores Arabic from an internally comparative perspective that will also be valuable to theoretical linguists.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of tables
  7. Collaborating authors
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Transcription symbols
  10. Arabic terminology
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Introduction
  13. Chapter 1 Phonology and orthography
  14. Chapter 2 Roots, patterns, and lexical innovation
  15. Chapter 3 Inflection of nominals and verbs
  16. Chapter 4 Nouns in context
  17. Chapter 5 Verbs in context
  18. Chapter 6 Basic sentence structures
  19. Chapter 7 Interrogatives, conditionals, negation, and exception
  20. Chapter 8 Sentence complements
  21. Chapter 9 Mapping out physical and discursive location
  22. Chapter 10 Linguistic tools of rhetoric
  23. Appendix texts
  24. References
  25. Index