Basic Emirati Arabic

Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Cognitive Sciences, United Arab Emirates University. He specializes in the syntax of Emirati Arabic and the psycholinguistics of Arabic and Southeast Asian languages.Dimitrios Ntelitheos is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Speech Language Pathology Department at United Arab Emirates University. His research and published work focus on Malagasy, Greek, and Emirati Arabic morphological and syntactic structure and its acquisition by children.Meera Al Kaabi is an Associate Professor at the Cognitive Science Department of UAEU and a visiting scholar at NYUAD. She works in neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language disorders, and Arabic morphology. She also has a professional background in academic administration and policy development.

• Preface1 Introduction2 Consonants3 Vowels4 Writing system5 Word formation6 Nouns7 Pronouns8 Form I verbs9 Form II verbs10 Form III verbs11 Form V verbs12 Form VI verbs13 Form VII verbs14 Form VIII verbs15 Form IX verbs16 Form X verbs17 Intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive verbs18 Verb nouns19 Adjectives20 Adverbs21 Prepositions22 Quantifiers23 Numerals24 Modality25 Negation26 Noun phrases27 Construct states28 Verb phrases29 Complex verb constructions30 The imperfective aspect31 The perfective aspect32 The grammatical aspect33 Relative clauses34 Questions35 Subordination36 CoordinationKey to exercisesIndex