Description
Book SynopsisEmirati 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.
Table of ContentsTable 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
7.14 Complement-taking Verbs
Further Reading
8 Aspect
8.1 The Perfective Aspect
8.2 The Imperfective Aspect
8.3 Participles
8.4 Lexical Aspect
8.5 Grammatical Aspect
Further Reading
9 Mood and Modality
9.1 Deontic Modality
9.2 Epistemic Modality
9.3 Dynamic Modality
9.4 Modal Adverbs
9.5 Verbs Expressing Modality
9.6 Evidential Modality
9.7 Imperatives
9.8 Counterfactuals
9.9 Hortatives
9.10 Optatives
Further Reading
10 Negation
10.1 Verbal Negation
10.2 Non-Verbal Predicate Negation
10.3 The Negative Particle لا laa ‘no’
10.4 The Negative Prefix -لا laa- ‘not’ and -غير ɣeer- ‘non-’
10.5 Negative Imperatives
10.6 Negative Coordination
10.7 Negation in Ellipsis
10.8 Negative Polarity Items
10.9 Negative Concord
Further reading
11 Word Order
11.1 Subject-Verb (SV) and Verb-Subject (VS)
11.2 Subject-Verb-Object (SVO)
11.3 Double Object Constructions
11.4 Word Order Permutation
Further reading
12 Relative Clauses
12.1 Restrictive Relative Clauses
12.2 Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
12.3 Free Relative Clauses
12.4 Noun Complement Clauses
Further Reading
13 Questions
13.1 Yes-No Questions
13.2 Wh-Questions
13.3 Echo Questions
13.4 Embedded Questions
13.5 Rhetorical Questions
13.6 Exclamatives
Further Reading
14 Subordination
14.1 Temporal Clauses
14.2 Reason Clauses
14.3 Purpose Clauses
14.4 Conditional Clauses
14.5 Concessive Clauses
14.6 Other Subordinators
14.7 Parentheticals
Further Reading
15 Coordination
15.1 Conjunction و w-/wa ‘and’
15.2 Agreement in Coordination
15.3 Fixed Expressions Formed by و w-/wa
15.4 Pragmatic Uses of و w-/wa
15.5 Informal Use of و w-/wa
15.6 بس bas ‘but’
15.7 Disjunction ولا wela ‘or’
15.8 أو ʔaw ‘or’
15.9 ف fa- ‘and then/so’
15.10 Contrastive Coordinator أما ʔamma ‘as for’
15.11 Comparative Coordinator عن ʕan ‘than’
15.12 Negative Coordinator مب mub ‘not’
15.13 Correlatives in Coordination
15.14 Paratactic Coordination
Further Reading
16 Ellipsis
16.1 Gapping
16.2 Stripping
16.3 NP Ellipsis
16.4 VP Ellipsis
16.5 PP Ellipsis
16.6 Clausal Ellipsis
16.7 Comparative Deletion
16.8 Sluicing
Further Reading
17 Interjections
17.1 Primary Interjections
17.2 Borrowed Interjections
17.3 Secondary Interjections
Further Reading
18 Speech Conventions
18.1 Politeness
18.2 Terms of Address
18.3 General Honorific Terms
18.4 Trendy Language
Further Reading
Glossary of Terms
References
Index
