Arabic Grammar in Context

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-415-71596-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

Reihe: Languages in Context

Arabic Grammar in Context offers a unique and exciting approach to learning grammar. It presents grammar as a necessary and essential tool for understanding Arabic and for developing comprehension and production skills.

Features include:

- authentic texts from a rich variety of sources, literary and non-literary, used as the starting point for the illustration and explanation of key areas of Arabic grammar

- clear and authoritative demonstration of the relevance of grammar for understanding and interpreting Arabic

- a wide range of appropriate exercises designed to consolidate learning

- fully vocalized exercises and texts

- a glossary of vocabulary and expressions provided at the end of the book

- audio readings of the texts available online for additional listening practice.

Suitable for class use and independent study, Arabic Grammar in Context is ideal for intermediate to advanced learners of Arabic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alhawary, Mohammad

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Definiteness

2. The noun-adjective and idafa phrases

3. The perfective/past tense

4. The imperfective/present tense

5. The future tense

6. Personal, object, and possessive pronouns

7. Word order

8. The nominal sentence: Types 1-2

9. The nominal sentence: Types 3-5

10. kaana and its sisters

11. ?inna and its sisters

12. kaada and its sisters

13. Demonstrative pronouns

14. Relative pronouns

15. Prepositions

16. Adverbs and adverbial phrases

17. The imperative

18. The passive

19. Quantifiers

20. The conditionals

21. The exceptive

22. The vocative

23. Exclamation

24. Apposition

25. The number phrase

26. Residual case and mood endings

27. Conjunctions

28. Review Texts

Über Autor(innen)

Mohammad T. Alhawary is Professor of Arabic Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Michigan. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Arabic language and Arabic theoretical and applied linguistics.