{"product_id":"emirati-arabic-9780367220808","title":"Emirati Arabic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmirati 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1 Introduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.1 Emirati Arabic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.2 Triglossia in the UAE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.3. The Descriptive Approach to Emirati Arabic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.4 Transcription\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.5. Glossing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.6. Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Sounds of Emirati Arabic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.1 Consonants\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.2 Vowels\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Phonological Processes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.1 Feature-Level Processes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.2 Segment-Level Processes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.3 Suprasegmental Processes and Phonotactics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Morphology and Word Formation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.1 Non-Linear Morphological Processes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.2 Affixation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.3 Reduplication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.4 Compounding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.5 Loanwords\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.6 Acronyms, Abbreviations and Blending\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.7 Back Formation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.8 Conversion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Syntactic Categories and Parts of Speech\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.1 Nouns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.2 Verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.3. Adjectives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.4 Adverbs and Adverbial Expressions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.5 Prepositions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.6. Quantification: Numerals and Quantifiers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.7 Complementizers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.8 Pronouns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 The Noun Phrase\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.1 Definiteness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.2 Possession\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.3 Appositives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.4 Nominal modifiers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.5 Agreement in the Noun Phrase\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.6 Demonstratives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.7 Word Order in the Noun Phrase\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 The Verb Phrase\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.1 The Copular Structure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.2 State Verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.3 Experiencer Verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.4 Unergative Verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.5 Unaccusative Verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.6 Ditransitive Verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.7 Existential and Possessive Predicates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.8 Raising Predicates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.9 Control Verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.10 Reflexive Verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.11 Complex Predicates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.12 Causative Verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.13 Passive Verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.14 Complement-taking Verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Aspect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.1 The Perfective Aspect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.2 The Imperfective Aspect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.3 Participles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.4 Lexical Aspect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.5 Grammatical Aspect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Mood and Modality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.1 Deontic Modality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.2 Epistemic Modality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.3 Dynamic Modality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.4 Modal Adverbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.5 Verbs Expressing Modality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.6 Evidential Modality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.7 Imperatives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.8 Counterfactuals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.9 Hortatives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.10 Optatives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Negation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.1 Verbal Negation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.2 Non-Verbal Predicate Negation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.3 The Negative Particle لا laa ‘no’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.4 The Negative Prefix -لا laa- ‘not’ and -غير ɣeer- ‘non-’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.5 Negative Imperatives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.6 Negative Coordination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.7 Negation in Ellipsis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.8 Negative Polarity Items\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.9 Negative Concord\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Word Order\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11.1 Subject-Verb (SV) and Verb-Subject (VS)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11.2 Subject-Verb-Object (SVO)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11.3 Double Object Constructions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11.4 Word Order Permutation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Relative Clauses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12.1 Restrictive Relative Clauses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12.2 Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12.3 Free Relative Clauses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12.4 Noun Complement Clauses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 Questions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13.1 Yes-No Questions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13.2 Wh-Questions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13.3 Echo Questions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13.4 Embedded Questions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13.5 Rhetorical Questions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13.6 Exclamatives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 Subordination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14.1 Temporal Clauses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14.2 Reason Clauses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14.3 Purpose Clauses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14.4 Conditional Clauses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14.5 Concessive Clauses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14.6 Other Subordinators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14.7 Parentheticals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 Coordination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.1 Conjunction و w-\/wa ‘and’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.2 Agreement in Coordination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.3 Fixed Expressions Formed by و w-\/wa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.4 Pragmatic Uses of و w-\/wa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.5 Informal Use of و w-\/wa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.6 بس bas ‘but’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.7 Disjunction ولا wela ‘or’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.8 أو ʔaw ‘or’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.9 ف fa- ‘and then\/so’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.10 Contrastive Coordinator أما ʔamma ‘as for’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.11 Comparative Coordinator عن ʕan ‘than’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.12 Negative Coordinator مب mub ‘not’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.13 Correlatives in Coordination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.14 Paratactic Coordination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16 Ellipsis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16.1 Gapping\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16.2 Stripping\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16.3 NP Ellipsis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16.4 VP Ellipsis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16.5 PP Ellipsis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16.6 Clausal Ellipsis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16.7 Comparative Deletion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16.8 Sluicing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17 Interjections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17.1 Primary Interjections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17.2 Borrowed Interjections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17.3 Secondary Interjections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18 Speech Conventions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18.1 Politeness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18.2 Terms of Address\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18.3 General Honorific Terms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18.4 Trendy Language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlossary of Terms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017851666775,"sku":"9780367220808","price":80.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367220808.jpg?v=1750774885","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/emirati-arabic-9780367220808","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}