Arabic Language Handbook

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Georgetown University Press, 1967 - 124 pages

The demand for information on learning Arabic has grown spectacularly as English-speaking people have come to realize how much there is yet to know about other parts of the world. It is fitting that this Arabic Language Handbook, complementing Georgetown University Press's exceptional Arabic language textbooks, is the first in a new series: Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics. Sparked by the new demand, this reprint of a genuinely "gold-standard" language volume provides a streamlined reference on the structure of the Arabic language and issues in Arabic linguistics, from dialectics to literature. Originally published in 1967, the essential information on the structure of the language remains accurate, and it continues to be the most concise reference summary for researchers, linguists, students, area specialists, and others interested in Arabic.

 

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Contents

AN OUTLINE OF ARABIC STRUCTURE
1
THE HISTORY OF CLASSICAL ARABIC
51
THE LINGUISTIC PRACTICE OF THE ARABS
75
233
103
25
110
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Mary Catherine Bateson
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Common terms and phrases

Abū adjectives affixes Arab world Arabia Arabic alphabet Arabic grammar Arabic Language Arabic literature areas Armenian Baghdad Bedouin Beirut broken plurals C₂ Cambridge century Classical Arabic clause Colloquial Arabic consonantal consonants context contrast derived forms derived verbs developed Dictionary diglossia dual Eastern Egypt Egyptian Arabic English especially European languages feminine ending final short vowels form of Arabic genitive Georgetown University Press groups guage imperfect indefinite indicate inflection interdentals Iraq Islam letter literary loanwords long vowel masculine Modern Arabic Modern Standard Arabic Muḥammad Muslim nomadic dialects normally North Africa nunation participles particles Persian phonemes phonology phrases poetry poets pre-Islamic prefix prestige dialect primary verbs pronouns prose Proto-Semitic quadriliteral Qur'an Reference Grammar root script sedentary dialects Semitic languages semivowel sing singular speakers spoken structure suffixes syllable tend tion tradition translations triliteral types verbal nouns vocabulary vowel patterns Western word writing written

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About the author (1967)

Mary Catherine Bateson is a writer and cultural anthropologist. Bateson has written and co-authored many books and articles, and lectures across the country and abroad. She has taught at Harvard, Northeastern University, Amherst College, Spelman College and abroad in the Philippines and in Iran. In 2004 she retired from her position as Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University and is now Professor Emerita. She serves on multiple advisory boards including the National Center on Atmospheric Research and the NSF, dealing with climate change. Mary Catherine Bateson's books in print include Composing a Life, Our Own Metaphor, and Peripheral Visions, as well as a memoir, With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Her latest is Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (Knopf September 2010). Bateson divides her time between New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Bibliographic information

TitleArabic Language Handbook
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
Georgetown classics in Arabic language and linguistics
Volume 3 of Language handbook series
AuthorMary Catherine Bateson
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherGeorgetown University Press, 1967
ISBN0878403868, 9780878403868
Length124 pages
  
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