Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar

By Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung, Dimitrios Ntelitheos, Meera Al Kaabi

Book Overview

Emirati 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367220806
• ISBN13: 9780367220808
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"