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Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic

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ISBN-10: 0511115350

ISBN-13: 9780511115356

Edition: N/A

Authors: Karin C. Ryding

List price: $155.00
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Keeping technical terminology to a minimum, this comprehensive handbook provides a detailed yet accessible overview of Arabic wherein its phonology, morphology and syntax can be readily accessed. Accompanied by extensive examples, it will prove an invaluable practical guide for supporting students' textbooks, classroom work or self-study, and a useful resource for scholars and professionals.
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Book details

List price: $155.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2005
Binding: E-Book 
Language: English

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