Presents the core vocabulary of everyday life in Morocco - from the kitchen to the mosque, from the hardware store to the natural world of plants and animals. This title contains myriad examples of usage, including formulaic phrases and idiomatic expressions.
Structures, Functions, and Varieties, Revised Edition
Traces the development of the Arabic language from Classical Arabic through the symbiotic use of Modern Standard Arabic or MSA. This title explains the structural characteristics - phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and lexical and stylistic developments. It also shows how native speakers use both types of Arabic for different purposes.
Reflecting Iraqi Arabic as spoken by Muslims in Baghdad, this title covers the phonology, morphology (word formation of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and numerals, achieved by adding prefixes and suffixes to roots), and syntax, teaching the reader how to make the sounds, form words, and construct sentences.
A comprehensive introduction to Iraqi Arabic for beginners (with Iraqi-English and English-Iraqi glossaries). It contains chapters of phonology to explain the sounds, and to cover grammar and vocabulary.
A reference on the structure of the Arabic language and issues in Arabic linguistics, from dialectics to literature. It is suitable for researchers, linguists, students, area specialists, and others interested in Arabic.
Straddling the domains of cultural and political nationalism, this title examines the Arab past; the clash between Arab and Turkish cultural nationalism in the 19th and early 20th century; and readings of canonical treatises on the topic of Arab cultural nationalism, the major ideological trends linking language to territorial nationalism.
A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, and Kuwaiti Dialects
A comparative study of the syntax of Arabic dialects, based on natural language data recorded in Morocco, Egypt, Syria, and Kuwait. It provides a nuanced description of spoken Arabic syntax, widens the theoretical base of Arabic linguistics, and gives both scholars and students of Arabic tools for greater cross-dialect comprehension.
Al-Khalil was distinguished in his own time as a lexicographer, phonologist, grammarian, educator and musicologist. This is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the contributions to Arabic intellectual history of al-Khalil ibn Ahmad, (d AH 175/AD 791).
Focuses on determining what the enduring issues in linguistics are, what concepts have changed, and why. This title traces the history of linguistics from ancient Greek works on grammar and rhetoric through the medieval roots of traditional grammar and its assumption that there is a norm for correct speech.
Offers an exploration of the indissoluble link between war and sexuality based on over the years of interviews by the well-known Lebanese expatriate teacher, critic, and writer. This book refers to sexuality as the physical and psychological relations of men and women, and examines Middle Eastern customs involved in defining such relationships.
This comparative approach to the works of two key contemporary Egyptian writers identifies existentialism as a major force in their work. The examination of the images and metaphors that recur in their writings shows strong affinities with the works of Hemingway and Camus.