Grammar of Arabic

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.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Phonology and orthography
2. Roots, Patterns and Lexical Innovation
3. Inflection of Nominals and Verbs
4. Nouns in Context
5. Verbs in context
6. Basic sentence structures
7. Interrogatives, conditionals, negation, and exception
8. Sentence Complements
9. Mapping Out Physical and Discursive Location
10. Linguistic Tools of Rhetoric

About the author

Kristen Brustad retired as Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author of Syntax of Spoken Arabic and co-author of the Al-Kitaab fi Ta‘allum al- Arabiyya series.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kristen (The University of Texas At Austi Brustad
• Assisted by: Kristen Brustad (Editor), Brustad Kristen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032309538
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230953-8
• No. of pages: 640
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Arabic, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax and morphology