This book, first published in 1970, provides a description of the standard Arabic language used today as the universal means of written communication throughout the Arab world and in formal spoken communication (vernaculars differ both from each other and from the standard language). The principal emphasis is on syntax and morphology of which there exists no comprehensive account. Phonology and lexicon are treated briefly and there is a chapter on the script.
1. Introduction and Historical Background
2. Phonology
3. The Script
4.
The Word
5. Entity Terms: I
6. Amplification of Substantives
7. Syntactic
Markers of Nouns
8. Entity Terms: II
9. Theme and Predicate
10. The Verb
11.
Amplification of the Predicate
12. Clause Conversion
13. Functionals
14.
Conditional Structures
15. Word Order
16. Lexicon and Style
A.F.L. Beeston
