An introduction to modern Arabic / by Farhat J. Ziadeh and R. Bayly Winder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziadeh, Farhat Jacob, author.

Winder, R. Bayly (Richard Bayly), 1920-1988, author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library ; 5500

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Grammar.

Arabic language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

Princeton legacy library edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1957]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book introduces the student to modern literary Arabic, particularly the style used in newspapers, without undue emphasis on the finder points of grammar found in advanced reference works. Various phrases of Middle Eastern life are presented in simple narrative texts which exemplify points analyzed in each chapter. The appendices indclude paradigms, a list of verbs and their prepositions, and vocabularies. Here are all the necessary tools for a well-organized attack on a comparatively difficult language.Published for the Department of Oriental Languages, Princeton University.Originally published in 1957.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. THE ALPHABET: TRANSLITERATION AND PRONUNCIATION. THE NUMERALS

CHAPTER II. VOWELS AND LETTERS IN CONNECTED FORM

CHAPTER III. ACCENT AND SHADDAH

CHAPTER IV. LONG VOWELS AND DIPHTHONGS

CHAPTER V. HAMZAH AND THREE TYPES OF LONG ALIF

CHAPTER VI. THE DEFINITE ARTICLE. SUN LETTERS. WAṢLAH. NÜNATION. ACCENT. MISCELLANEOUS

CHAPTER VII. THE ARABIC LANGUAGE IN GENERAL

CHAPTER VIII. NOMINAL SENTENCES: SUBJECT AND PREDICATE

CHAPTER IX. GENDER

CHAPTER X. THE CONSTRUCT PHRASE

CHAPTER XI. ADJECTIVES. COLLECTIVES

CHAPTER XII. PRONOUNS

CHAPTER XIII. PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS

CHAPTER XIV. COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE. COPULA. DIPTOTES

CHAPTER XV. VERBS. VERBAL SENTENCES. SUBJECT AND OBJECT OF VERB

CHAPTER XVI. RELATIVE PRONOUNS. إڨ ADVERBS. AND ITS "SISTERS"

CHAPTER XVII. THE DERIVED FORMS OF THE VERB

CHAPTER XVIII. WEAK VERBS IN THE PERFECT. S VB ORDINATE CONJUNCTIONS

CHAPTER XIX. MAṢDARS

CHAPTER XX. PARTICIPLES. ێڨ AND ITS SISTERS. APPOSITION

CHAPTER XXI. NOUNS OF INSTRUMENT. NOUNS OF PLACE AND TIME. EMPHATIC NOUNS. DIMINUTIVES. ABSTRACT NISBAHS

CHAPTER XXII. THE DUAL

CHAPTER XXIII. PERFECT VERBS IN THE PLURAL SOUND PLURAL NOUNS

CHAPTER XXIV. THE IMPERFECT. THE DOUBLED VERB

CHAPTER XXV. BROKEN PLURALS. OTHER DIPTOTES. OTHER FEMININE ENDINGS

CHAPTER XXVI. REVIEW

CHAPTER XXVII. WEAK VERBS IN THE IMPERFECT

CHAPTER XXVIII. PARTICIPLES AND MASDARS OF WEAK VERBS. ADVERB OF PURPOSE

CHAPTER XXIX. JUSSIVE. SUBJUNCTIVE. INTERROGATIVE

CHAPTER XXX. THE IMPERATIVE

CHAPTER XXXI. THE PASSIVE

CHAPTER XXXII. ACCUSATIVES IN GENERAL

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE NUMERALS

CHAPTER XXXIV. QUADRILITERAL VERBS. CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

CHAPTER XXXV. POTPOURRI

APPENDICES: I - II

ENGLISH-ARABIC VOCABULARY

ENGLISH INDEX

ARABIC INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691626642

0691626642

9780691198026

0691198020

OCLC:

1088905739