Basic Emirati Arabic

ISBN-13: 9781032335704 / Miękka / 2024 / 200 str.

Meera Al Kaabi

Opis

Basic Emirati Arabic: A Grammar and Workbook is an elementary-level grammar of the variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates.

Spis treści

Preface

1          Introduction

2          Consonants

3          Vowels

4          Writing system

5          Word formation

6          Nouns

7          Pronouns

8          Form I verbs

9          Form II verbs

10        Form III verbs

11        Form V verbs

12        Form VI verbs

13        Form VII verbs

14        Form VIII verbs

15        Form IX verbs

16        Form X verbs

17        Intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive verbs

18        Verb nouns

19        Adjectives

20        Adverbs

21        Prepositions

22        Quantifiers

23        Numerals

24        Modality

25        Negation

26        Noun phrases

27        Construct states

28        Verb phrases

29        Complex verb constructions

30        The imperfective aspect

31        The perfective aspect

32        The grammatical aspect

33        Relative clauses

34        Questions

35        Subordination

36        Coordination

Key to exercises

Index

O autorze

Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Cognitive Sciences, United Arab Emirates University. He specializes in the syntax of Emirati Arabic and the psycholinguistics of Arabic and Southeast Asian languages.

 

Dimitrios Ntelitheos is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Speech Language Pathology Department at United Arab Emirates University. His research and published work focus on Malagasy, Greek, and Emirati Arabic morphological and syntactic structure and its acquisition by children.

 

Meera Al Kaabi is Associate Professor at the Cognitive Science Department of UAEU and a visiting scholar at NYUAD. She works in neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language disorders, and Arabic morphology. She also has a professional background in academic administration and policy development.