A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic

by Karin C. Ryding

• ISBN13: 9780521777711
• ISBN10: 0521777712
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

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 trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns and participles

23. Form II trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles

24. Form III trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles

25. Form IV trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles

26. Form V trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles

27. Form VI trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles

28. Form VII trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles

29. Form VIII trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles

30. Form IX trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles

31. Form X trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles

32. Forms XI-XV trillateral verb

33. Quadrilateral 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.