Arabic : an essential grammar / Faruk Abu-Chacra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abu-Chacra, Faruk.

Series:

Essential grammar

Routledge essential grammars

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Arabic language.

Genre:

Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

ix, 355 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

Arabic: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and practical reference guide to the most important aspects of the language. Suitable for beginners, as well as intermediate students, this book offers a strong foundation for learning the fundamental grammar and structure of Arabic. The complexities of the language are set out in short, readable sections, and exercises and examples are provided throughout. The book is ideal for independent learners as well as for classroom study. Features of this book include: -- coverage of the Arabic script and alphabeta chapter on Arabic handwritinga guide to pronunciation full examples throughout.

Contents:

1 Arabic script, transliteration and alphabet table 1

2 Pronunciation of consonants 5

3 Punctuation and handwriting 9

4 Vowels 13

5 Sukun, saddah, noun cases and nunation as indefinite form 17

6 Long vowels, 'alif maqsurah, dagger or miniature 'alif, word stress and syllable structure 21

7 Hamzah (hamzatu l-qat'i) and the maddah sign 26

8 Definite article...[Characters not reproducible] 'al..., nominal sentences, verbal sentences, word order and adjectives 31

9 Sun and moon letters, hamzatu l-wasli (waslah) 39

10 Gender 46

11 Conjunctions, prepositions and the particle [Characters not reproducible] hatta 51

12 'Idafah construction (genitive attribute) and the five nouns 61

13 Number: dual and plural 70

14 Perfect tense verbs, root and radicals, triliteral verbs and word order 78

15 Separate personal pronouns and suffix pronouns 87

16 Demonstrative, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns 98

17 Imperfect tense verb in the indicative and word order 106

18 Derived verb forms (stems), roots and radicals, transitive and intransitive verbs 115

19 Passive verbs 128

20 Rules for writing the hamzah (hamzatu l-qat'i) 135

21 Broken plurals and collective nouns 144

22 Triptotes and diptotes 151

23 Participles, verbal nouns (masdar), nouns of place, time and instrument 160

24 Interrogative particles and pronouns, vocative particles 169

25 Adjectival patterns, relative adjectives (nisbah), comparatives and superlatives, diminutives 181

26 'Inna [Characters not reproducible] and its sisters, kana [Characters not reproducible] and its sisters 193

27 Relative pronouns and relative clauses 201

28 Moods: subjunctive, jussive (apocopatus) and imperative 209

29 Doubled verbs (mediae geminatae) and quadriliteral verbs 218

30 Verbs with hamzah 224

31 Verbs with a weak initial radical 231

32 Verbs with a weak middle radical 237

33 Verbs with a weak final radical, doubly weak verbs and weak verbs with hamzah 246

34 Cardinal numbers 256

35 Ordinal numbers, fractions, expressions of time and calendars 269

36 Exception 282

37 Verbs of wonder, the negative copula [Characters not reproducible] laysa, verbs with special uses and some special uses of the preposition [Characters not reproducible] bi... 289

38 Adverbs and adverbials, absolute or inner object, hal (circumstantial clause) and tamyiz (accusative of specification) 299

39 Conditional sentences 309

Appendix 1 Tables of verb forms 319

Appendix 2 Verb conjugation paradigms 328.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0415415721

9780415415729

0415415713

9780415415712

0203088816

9780203088814

OCLC:

70676561