A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard ArabicA 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 Arabic in which the essentials of its phonology, morphology and syntax can be readily looked up and understood. Accompanied by extensive examples, it will prove an invaluable 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. |
Contents
Phonology and script | 10 |
an overview | 44 |
Basic Arabic sentence structures | 57 |
Arabic noun types | 74 |
Collective nouns mass nouns and unit nouns | 93 |
Complex nouns compound nouns and compound nominals | 99 |
gender humanness number definiteness and case | 119 |
Construct phrases and nouns in apposition | 205 |
Hamzated roots in Form IV | 517 |
Defective roots in Form IV | 518 |
Examples of Form IV verbs in context | 519 |
Form IV participles | 521 |
Form V triliteral verb | 530 |
Regular sound triliteral root | 531 |
Assimilated roots in Form V | 532 |
Doubly weak roots in Form V | 533 |
Noun specifiers and quantifiers | 228 |
Expressions of more most and majority | 234 |
Adverbs and adverbial expressions | 276 |
Personal pronouns | 298 |
Demonstrative pronouns | 315 |
Relative pronouns and relative clauses | 322 |
Numerals and numeral phrases | 329 |
Prepositions and prepositional phrases | 366 |
ظروف مكان وظروف زمان Zuruuf makaan waZuruuf zamaan | 386 |
Prepositions with clause objects | 400 |
Connectives and conjunctions | 407 |
the particle inna and her sisters | 422 |
Verb classes | 429 |
a summary | 438 |
The base form triliteral verb | 455 |
Form II | 491 |
Regular sound triliteral root 3 Geminate doubled root Form II | 492 |
Assimilated roots in Form II | 493 |
Doubly weak roots in Form II | 494 |
Form II verbal nouns 494 11 Form II participles | 496 |
Form III triliteral verb | 503 |
Geminate doubled root Form III | 504 |
Assimilated roots in Form III | 505 |
Doubly weak roots in Form III | 506 |
Form IV triliteral verb | 515 |
Regular sound triliteral root | 516 |
Form V participles | 534 |
Form VI triliteral verb | 543 |
Geminate doubled root Form VI | 544 |
Assimilated roots in Form VI | 545 |
Form VI verbal noun | 546 |
Form VI participles | 547 |
Form VII triliteral verb | 555 |
Regular sound triliteral root | 556 |
Assimilated roots in Form VII | 557 |
Form VII participles | 558 |
Form VIII triliteral verb | 565 |
Regular or sound roots | 568 |
Form IX triliteral verb | 579 |
Defective roots in Form X | 586 |
Forms XIXV triliteral verb | 596 |
Quadriliteral verbs | 599 |
indicative and subjunctive | 606 |
jussive and imperative | 616 |
Verbs of being becoming remaining seeming | 634 |
Verbs of seeming or appearing | 640 |
Passive and passivetype expressions | 657 |
Conditional and optative expressions | 671 |
How to use an Arabic dictionary | 677 |
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Common terms and phrases
accusative Active Active Active Active Active Passive active participle adjective adverbs alaa alif Arabic Assimilated root broken plural Chapter clause counted noun Damma declension Defective root defective verbs definite article diptote dual English example expressions fatHa Form VIII Geminate Geminate root gender genitive grammatical haadhaa haadhihi hamza helping vowel Hollow root iDaafa ilaa Imperfect Imperfect Imperfect Imperfect Indicative Subjunctive indefinite Indicative Subjunctive Jussive inflectional jussive mood kaan-a kasra long vowel marbuuTa marker meaning min-a mood morphological nisba nominative nunation particle passive participle Passive Perfect Imperfect past tense pattern Perfect Imperfect Indicative prefix preposition present tense pronoun suffix quadriliteral refer root consonant roots in Form short vowel singular sound feminine plural stem vowel Subjunctive Jussive Imperative tense stem term triliteral verbal noun waaw waaw or yaa word أن أنا أنت إلى عشر على عن في لا مئة ما من هذه هما هو هي