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A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic »

Authors: Karin C. Ryding
ISBN-13: 9780521777711, ISBN-10: 0521777712
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: June 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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

An accessibly-written, comprehensive handbook on the essential aspects of the structure of Arabic.

1	Introduction to Arabic	1
2	Phonology and script	10
3	Arabic word structure : an overview	44
4	Basic Arabic sentence structures	57
5	Arabic noun types	74
6	Participles : active and passive	102
7	Noun inflections : gender, humanness, number, definiteness, and case	119
8	Construct phrases and nouns in apposition	205
9	Noun specifiers and quantifiers	228
10	Adjectives : function and form	239
11	Adverbs and adverbial expressions	276
12	Personal pronouns	298
13	Demonstrative pronouns	315
14	relative pronouns and relative clauses	322
15	Numerals and numeral phrases	329
16	Prepositions and prepositional phrases	366
17	Questions and question words	401
18	Connectives and conjunctions	407
19	Subordinating conjunctions : the particle [actual symbol not reproducible]inna and her sisters	422
20	Verb classes	429
21	Verb inflection : a summary	438
22	Form I : the base form triliteral verb	455
23	Form II	491
24	Form III triliteral verb	503
25	Form IV triliteral verb	515
26	Form V triliteral verb	530
27	Form VI triliteral verb	543
28	Form VII triliteral verb	555
29	Form VIII triliteral verb	565
30	Form IX triliteral verb	579
31	Form X triliteral verb	584
32	Forms XI-XV triliteral verb	596
33	Quadriliteral verbs	599
34	Moods of the verb I : indicative and subjunctive	606
35	Moods of the verb II : jussive and imperative	616
36	Verbs of being, becoming, remaining, seeming (kaan-a wa-[actual symbol not reproducible]axawaat-u-haa)	634
37	Negation and exception	641
38	Passive and passive-type expressions	657
39	Conditional and optative expressions	671