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1 online resource (521 pages) |
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Routledge Comprehensive Grammars Ser |
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Routledge Comprehensive Grammars Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 2 The sounds of Emirati Arabic -- 2.1 Consonants -- 2.2 Vowels -- Further reading -- Chapter 3 Phonological processes -- 3.1 Feature-level processes -- 3.2 Segment-level processes -- 3.3 Suprasegmental processes and phonotactics |
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Further reading -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 6 The noun phrase -- 6.1 Definiteness |
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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 -- Chapter 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 -- 7.14 Complement-taking verbs -- Further reading |
| Subject |
Arabic language -- Grammar.
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Arabic language -- Grammar
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ntelitheos, Dimitrios
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Al Kaabi, Meera
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| ISBN |
9781000317565 |
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1000317560 |
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