A Grammar of Arabic

A Grammar of Arabic models a new framework for studying varieties of Arabic comparatively, highlighting the patterns of variation and consistency and showing how different styles, from primarily spoken and casual to primarily written and formal, are linguistically interrelated.

Kristen Brustad retired as Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author of Syntax of Spoken Arabic and co-author of the Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum al- Arabiyya series.

Introduction 1. Phonology and orthography 2. Roots, Patterns and Lexical Innovation 3. Inflection of Nominals and Verbs 4. Nouns in Context 5. Verbs in context 6. Basic sentence structures 7. Interrogatives, conditionals, negation, and exception 8. Sentence Complements 9. Mapping Out Physical and Discursive Location 10. Linguistic Tools of Rhetoric