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Date: 03 Oct 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: New Book

Standard Arabic
An Elementary-Intermediate Course

Eckehard Schulz
Gúnther Krahl
Wolfgang Reuschel
Formerly University of Leipzig

This book presents a comprehensive foundation course for beginning
students of written and spoken Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), providing
an essential grounding for successful communication with speakers of
the many colloquial varieties. This long-established and successful
text has been completely revised with the needs of English-speaking
learners especially in mind, and will prove invaluable to students and
teachers alike.
* Step-by-step guide to understanding written and spoken texts
* Develops conversational ability as well as reading and writing skills
* Arabic-English Glossary containing 2600 entries
* Fresh texts and dialogues containing up-to-date data on the Middle
  East and North Africa
* Includes Arab folklore, customs, proverbs, and short essays on
  contemporary topics
* Grammatical terms also given in Arabic enabling students to attend
  language courses in Arab countries
* Provides a wide variety of exercises and drills to reinforce grammar
  points, vocabulary learning and communicative strategies
* Includes a key to the exercises
* Accompanying cassettes also available.

Contents:

Lesson 1.  The alphabet (pronunciation and writing);
Lesson 2.  Article; Gender; The equational sentence; Agreement in gender;
Lesson 3.  Number; The personal pronoun; The noun and the adjective;
           The adjective;
Lesson 4.  Radical, root, pattern; The broken plural; Declension and nunation;
           Stress; Prepositions;
Lesson 5.  The perfect tense; The verbal sentence; The objective clause;
           The Nisba-ending;
Lesson 6.  The genitive construction; Affixed pronouns; Definiteness(summary);
           The adverb;
Lesson 7.  The imperfect tense; Demonstrative pronouns; Diptotes;
Lesson 8.  Subjunctive and jussive; The imperative; Negation;
Lesson 9.  The dual; The numerals 1 and 2; 'How much/many';
           The names of the months;
Lesson 10. Cardinal numerals; The year;
Lesson 11. The perfect tense of verbs; Word order and the subject of
           the sentence;
Lesson 12. The imperfect tense of verbs; Subjunctive and jussive of verbs;
           The imperative of verbs; The verbs;
Lesson 13. Temporal auxiliary verbs;
Lesson 14. Forms II, III and IV of the verb; The attributive relative clause;
Lesson 15. Forms II, III and IV of verbs continued; The nominal relative
           clause;
Lesson 16. Ordinal numbers; Dates; The time; Numeral adverbs; Fractional
           numbers; Numeral adverbs of reiteration; Decimal numbers;
Lesson 17. Forms V and VI of the verb; Word order; Genitive constructions;
Lesson 18. Forms VII, VIII and X of the verb;
Lesson 19. The passive voice; About the construction of doubly transitive
           verbs; Some characteristic features of the derived forms;
Lesson 20. The collective; Names of nationalities; The feminine Nisba;
Lesson 21. The participle; Patterns of the participle; The usage of the
           participles; Shortened relative clauses; The participle as
           predicate; The False Idafa; Participles and adjectives as
           1st or 2nd term of the Idafa; Impersonal expressions;
Lesson 22. The infinitive; The use; The infinitive instead of a subordinate
           clause; Functional verbs; Functional verbs instead of passive
           constructions; Adverb and adverbial constructions; The usage;
           The cognate accusative;
Lesson 23. Subordinate clauses: a survey; Temporal clauses;
Lesson 24. Verbs R2=R3; Verbs with Hamza; The spelling of Hamza;
           Clauses of reason;
Lesson 25. The pattern; The elative as positive; The elative as comparative;
           The elative as superlative; Common relatives; Specification;
Lesson 26. Conditional sentences; The real conditional sentence; The unreal
           conditional sentence; The concessive clause;
Lesson 27. Exceptives; Other exceptive particles; Diminutives;
Lesson 28. The Hal-accusative; The Hal-clause; Survey of use of the
           accusative; Exclamations in the accusative.

2000/656 pp.
77313-X/Hb/List: $85.00  Disc.: $68.00
77465-9/Pb/List: $29.95  Disc.: $23.96
78739-4/Cassette/List: $29.95  Disc.: $23.96

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