Emirati Arabic

A Comprehensive Grammar
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-22080-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 784 g

Reihe: Routledge Comprehensive Grammars

Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering and studying in detail the specific dialect of Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates. It covers all major areas of Emirati Arabic grammar, describing in detail its phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic systems. Each grammatical point is illustrated with numerous examples drawn from native Emirati Arabic speakers and is thoroughly discussed providing both accessible and linguistically informed grammatical description.

This book is a useful reference for students of Gulf Arabic and/or Modern Standard Arabic or other Arabic dialects with an interest in the dialect spoken in the UAE, researchers interested in Arabic language and linguistics as well as graduate students and scholars interested in Arabic studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsz-Cheung Leung, Tommi

Ntelitheos, Dimitrios

Al Kaabi, Meera

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents



Acknowledgments

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations



1 Introduction

1.1 Emirati Arabic

1.2 Triglossia in the UAE

1.3. The Descriptive Approach to Emirati Arabic

1.4 Transcription

1.5. Glossing

1.6. Abbreviations

Further Reading

2 Sounds of Emirati Arabic

2.1 Consonants

2.2 Vowels

Further Reading

3 Phonological Processes

3.1 Feature-Level Processes

3.2 Segment-Level Processes

3.3 Suprasegmental Processes and Phonotactics

Further Reading

4 Morphology and Word Formation

4.1 Non-Linear Morphological Processes

4.2 Affixation

4.3 Reduplication

4.4 Compounding

4.5 Loanwords

4.6 Acronyms, Abbreviations and Blending

4.7 Back Formation

4.8 Conversion

Further Reading

5 Syntactic Categories and Parts of Speech

5.1 Nouns

5.2 Verbs

5.3. Adjectives

5.4 Adverbs and Adverbial Expressions

5.5 Prepositions

5.6. Quantification: Numerals and Quantifiers

5.7 Complementizers

5.8 Pronouns

Further Reading

6 The Noun Phrase

6.1 Definiteness

6.2 Possession

6.3 Appositives

6.4 Nominal modifiers

6.5 Agreement in the Noun Phrase

6.6 Demonstratives

6.7 Word Order in the Noun Phrase

Further Reading

7 The Verb Phrase

7.1 The Copular Structure

7.2 State Verbs

7.3 Experiencer Verbs

7.4 Unergative Verbs

7.5 Unaccusative Verbs

7.6 Ditransitive Verbs

7.7 Existential and Possessive Predicates

7.8 Raising Predicates

7.9 Control Verbs

7.10 Reflexive Verbs

7.11 Complex Predicates

7.12 Causative Verbs

7.13 Passive Verbs

Über Autor(innen)

Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung is Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University. His research specializes in syntax, phonology, typology, and psycholinguistics.

Dimitrios Ntelitheos is Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University. His research interests include the investigation of morphological and syntactic structures from a theoretical perspective, as well as their cross-linguistic realization and their development in child language.

Meera Al Kaabi is Assistant Professor and Chair in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University and a visiting academic at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research interests include neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language disorders, morphology, and Semitic languages.