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Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic

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ISBN-10: 0511113706

ISBN-13: 9780511113703

Edition: N/A

Authors: Karin C. Ryding

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $32.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: E-Book 
Language: English

Karin C. Ryding is the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic at Georgetown University.

Introduction to Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic phonology and script
Arabic word structure: an overview
Basic Arabic sentence structures
Arabic noun types
Participles: active and passive
Noun inflections: gender, humanness, number, definiteness, and case
Construct phrases and nouns in apposition
Noun specifiers and quantifiers
Adjectives: form and function
Adverbs and adverbial expressions
Personal pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns and their functions
Relative pronouns and relative clauses
Arabic numerals and numeral phrases
Prepositions and prepositional phrases
Questions and question words
Connectives and conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions: the particle 'inna and her sisters
The classes of Arabic verbs
Verb inflection: a summary
Form I the base form of the triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns and participles
Form II triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
Form III triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
Form IV triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
Form V triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
Form VI triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
Form VII triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
Form VIII triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
Form IX triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
Form X triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
Forms XI-XV triliteral verb
Quadriliteral verbs: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles
Moods of the verb I: indicative and subjunctive
Moods of the verb II: jussive and imperative
Verbs of being, becoming, remaining, seeming
Negation and exception
Passive and passive-type expressions
Conditional and opative expressions