Reference Grammar Of Modern Standard Arabic, A

Description:
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 is included on how to use an Arabic dictionary, as well as helpful glossaries of Arabic and English linguistic terms and a useful bibliography. Clearly structured and systematically organised, this book is set to become the standard guide to the grammar of contemporary Arabic.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction to Arabic; 2. Modern Standard Arabic phonology and script; 3. Arabic word structure: an overview; 4. Basic Arabic sentence structures; 5. Arabic noun types; 6. Participles: active and passive; 7. Noun inflections: gender, humanness, number, definiteness, and case; 8. Construct phrases and nouns in apposition; 9. Noun specifiers and quantifiers; 10. Adjectives: form and function; 11. Adverbs and adverbial expressions; 12. Personal pronouns; 13. Demonstrative pronouns and their functions; 14. Relative pronouns and relative clauses; 15. Arabic numerals and numeral phrases; 16. Prepositions and prepositional phrases; 17. Questions and question words; 18. Connectives and conjunctions; 19. Subordinating conjunctions: the particle 'inna and her sisters; 20. The classes of Arabic verbs; 21. Verb inflection: a summary; 22. Form I the base form of the triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns and participles; 23. Form II triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles; 24. Form III triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles; 25. Form IV triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles; 26. Form V triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles; 27. Form VI triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles; 28. Form VII triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles; 29. Form VIII triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles; 30. Form IX triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles; 31. Form X triliteral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles; 32. Forms XI-XV triliteral verb; 33. Quadriliteral verbs: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles; 34. Moods of the verb I: indicative and subjunctive; 35. Moods of the verb II: jussive and imperative; 36. Verbs of being, becoming, remaining, seeming; 37. Negation and exception; 38. Passive and passive-type expressions; 39. Conditional and opative expressions.

Author Biography:
Karin C. Ryding is Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic, Department of Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics, Georgetown University.