Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
	1.1 Emirati Arabic
	1.2 Triglossia in the UAE
	1.3 The descriptive approach to Emirati Arabic
	1.4 Transcription
	1.5 Glossing
	1.6 Abbreviations
	Further reading
Chapter 2 The sounds of Emirati Arabic
	2.1 Consonants
	2.2 Vowels
	Further reading
Chapter 3 Phonological processes
	3.1 Feature-level processes
	3.2 Segment-level processes
	3.3 Suprasegmental processes and phonotactics
	Further reading
Chapter 4 Morphology and word formation
	4.1 Non-linear morphological processes
	4.2 Affixation
	4.3 Reduplication
	4.4 Compounding
	4.5 Loanwords
	4.6 Acronyms, abbreviations, and blending
	4.7 Back formation
	4.8 Conversion
	Further reading
Chapter 5 Syntactic categories and parts of speech
	5.1 Nouns
	5.2 Verbs
	5.3 Adjectives
	5.4 Adverbs and adverbial expressions
	5.5 Prepositions
	5.6 Quantification: numerals and quantifiers
	5.7 Complementizers
	5.8 Pronouns
	Further reading
Chapter 6 The noun phrase
	6.1 Definiteness
	6.2 Possession
	6.3 Appositives
	6.4 Nominal modifiers
	6.5 Agreement in the noun phrase
	6.6 Demonstratives
	6.7 Word order in the noun phrase
	Further reading
Chapter 7 The verb phrase
	7.1 The copular structure
	7.2 State verbs
	7.3 Experiencer verbs
	7.4 Unergative verbs
	7.5 Unaccusative verbs
	7.6 Ditransitive verbs
	7.7 Existential and possessive predicates
	7.8 Raising predicates
	7.9 Control verbs
	7.10 Reflexive verbs
	7.11 Complex predicates
	7.12 Causative verbs
	7.13 Passive verbs
	7.14 Complement-taking verbs
	Further reading
Chapter 8 Aspect
	8.1 The perfective aspect
	8.2 The imperfective aspect
	8.3 Participles
	8.4 Lexical aspect
	8.5 Grammatical aspect
	Further reading
Chapter 9 Mood and modality
	9.1 Deontic modality
	9.2 Epistemic modality
	9.3 Dynamic modality
	9.4 Modal adverbs
	9.5 Verbs expressing modality
	9.6 Evidential modality
	9.7 Imperatives
	9.8 Counterfactuals
	9.9 Hortatives
	9.10 Optatives
	Further reading
Chapter 10 Negation
	10.1 Verbal negation
	10.2 Non-verbalpredicate negation
	10.3 The negative particle لا laa ‘no’
	10.4 The negative prefix - لا laa-‘not’ and - غي ر ɣeer-‘non-’
	10.5 Negative imperatives
	10.6 Negative coordination
	10.7 Negation in ellipsis
	10.8 Negative polarity items
	10.9 Negative concord
	Further reading
Chapter 11 Word order
	11.1 Subject-verb (SV) and verb-subject (VS)
	11.2 Subject-verb-object (SVO)
	11.3 Double-object constructions
	11.4 Word order permutation
	Further reading
Chapter 12 Relative clauses
	12.1 Restrictive relative clauses
	12.2 Nonrestrictive relative clauses
	12.3 Free relative clauses
	12.4 Noun complement clauses
	Further reading
Chapter 13 Questions
	13.1 Yes-no questions
	13.2 Wh-questions
	13.3 Echo questions
	13.4 Embedded questions
	13.5 Rhetorical questions
	13.6 Exclamatives
	Further reading
Chapter 14 Subordination
	14.1 Temporal clauses
	14.2 Reason clauses
	14.3 Purpose clauses
	14.4 Conditional clauses
	14.5 Concessive clauses
	14.6 Other subordinators
	14.7 Parentheticals
	Further reading
Chapter 15 Coordination
	15.1 Conjunction و w-/wa ‘and’
	15.2 Agreement in coordination
	15.3 Fixed expressions formed by و w-/wa
	15.4 Pragmatic uses of و w-/wa
	15.5 Informal use of و w-/wa
	15.6 بس bas ‘but’
	15.7 Disjunction والا wəlla ‘or’
	أو 15.8 ʔaw ‘or’
	ف- 15.9 fa-‘and then/so’
	15.10 Contrastive coordinator أما ʔamma ‘as for’
	15.11 Comparative coordinator عن ʕan ‘than’
	15.12 Negative coordinator مب mub ‘not’
	15.13 Correlatives in coordination
	15.14 Paratactic coordination
	Further reading
Chapter 16 Ellipsis
	16.1 Gapping
	16.2 Stripping
	16.3 NP ellipsis
	16.4 VP ellipsis
	16.5 PP ellipsis
	16.6 Clausal ellipsis
	16.7 Comparative deletion
	16.8 Sluicing
	Further reading
Chapter 17 Interjections
	17.1 Primary interjections
	17.2 Borrowed interjections
	17.3 Secondary interjections
	Further reading
Chapter 18 Speech conventions
	18.1 Politeness
	18.2 Terms of address
	18.3 General honorific terms
	18.4 Trendy language
	Further reading
Glossary of terms
References
Index