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Colloquial Arabic (Levantine)by Leslie McLoughlin
Routledge 1982; US$ 31.95Colloquial Arabic is easy to use and completely accomplishable. Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Arabic. more...
Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabicby Said Faiq
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 44.95Mainstream translation studies hitherto have tended to neglect Arabic. This volume evaluates the ways in which translating from Arabic has helped to form and deform cultural identities, approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives: politics, economics, ethics and poetics. more...
A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabicby Karin C. Ryding
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 44.00A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic is a comprehensive handbook on the structure of Arabic. Keeping technical terminology to a minimum, it provides a detailed yet accessible overview of the language in which the essential aspects of its phonology, morphology and syntax can be readily looked up and understood. more...
Studies in the linguistic structure of classical Arabicby L. Kinberg; K. Versteegh; N. Kinberg
BRILL 2001; US$ 149.00The articles in this volume combine modern linguistic insights with the theories of Arab grammarians. The result is a series of studies on such aspects of the structure of Arabic as conditional sentences, adverbial clauses, and the particles "laqin" and "qad". more...
A comparative lexical study of Qur?aŻnic Arabicby M.R. Zammit
BRILL 2002; US$ 289.00This work does not aim to be an etymological dictionary of Qur'anic Arabic, nor does it attempt to suggest some new genetic classification of the Semitic languages. Rather, it offers insights into the internal lexical relationships attested in a number of Semitic varieties within Qur'anic Arabic. more...
Approaches to Arabic dialectsby Martine Haak; Rudolf de Jong; Kees Versteegh
BRILL 2003; US$ 197.00The topics include quadriliteral verbs in the Arabic dialects of eastern Arabia, technicalities and terminology of raiding and warfare as revealed by Bedouin oral narratives, variation and change in Arabic urban vernaculars, ideophones in Nigerian Arabic, unmarked feminine nouns in modern Arabic dialects, the possibility of gender linked sound chan more...
Language and Change in the Arab Middle Eastby Ami Ayalon
Oxford University Press 1987; US$ 95.00In this study of the rise of modern Arabic, the author analyses language to document the sudden and profound transformation undergone by Middle Eastern societies under the impact of 19th century European expansion and influence. more...
Arabische Dialektgeographieby Peter Behnstedt; Manfred Woidich
BRILL 2005; US$ 133.00This volume is the first comprehensive and systematic description of the dialect geography of the Arabic language which discusses on the basis of 112 maps topics such as types and interpretation of maps, areal norms and their significance for Arabic and the delimitation of dialect borders. more...
Arabic Rhetoricby Hussein Abdul-Raof
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 44.95Explores the history, disciplines, order and pragmatic functions of Arabic speech acts. This book offers an understanding of Arabic rhetoric and employs examples from modern standard Arabic. It also provides a glossary of over 448 rhetorical expressions listed in English with their translations. more...
Structure and Function of the Arabic Verbby Maher Bahloul
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 168.00This volume is a corpus-based study that unveils the morpho-syntax and the semantics of the Arabic verb. more...









