A Learner's Grammar of Levantine Arabic

Introduction
How to Use This Book

Part 1: Sounds
Unit 1: The Sounds of Levantine Arabic
Unit 2: Stress and the Helping Vowel
Unit 3: Regional Variation
Unit 4: Sound Changes
Unit 5: Introduction to Roots and Patterns
Unit 6: Weak Roots

Part 2: Word Types
Unit 7: Derived Nouns
Unit 8: The Feminine Suffix -a/e
Unit 9: Nouns with -i
Unit 10: Gender of Nouns
Unit 11: Singular, Plural, Count and Mass Nouns
Unit 12: Plural Formation
Unit 13: Definiteness
Unit 14: Demonstratives
Unit 15: The 2iDaafe
Unit 16: Adjectives
Unit 17: More on Adjectives
Unit 18: Pronouns
Unit 19: The -l- Suffix
Unit 20: Adverbs
Unit 21: Presentatives
Unit 22: Prepositions
Unit 23: Verb Derivation
Unit 24: Some Unexpected Verb Types
Unit 25: The Perfective
Unit 26: The Imperfective: Simple Verbs
Unit 27: The Imperfective: Derived Verbs
Unit 28: The Imperative
Unit 29: The Active Participle
Unit 30: The Passive Participle
Unit 31: maSdars

Part 3: Tense
Unit 32: Introduction to Tense
Unit 33: The Perfective
Unit 34: The Imperfective
Unit 35: Continuous Constructions
Unit 36: Future Constructions
Unit 37: Participles
Unit 38: Framing Constructions: kaan
Unit 39: Framing Constructions Indicating a Change of State
Unit 40: Framing Constructions Indicating Duration
Unit 41: Miscellaneous Framing Structures
Unit 42: Context Framing

Part 4: Mood
Unit 43: Commands and Instructions
Unit 44: Suggestions, Requests, Wishes, Exclamations, and Oaths
Unit 45: Modal Framing Structures
Unit 46: Miscellaneous Modal Structures

Part 5: Sentence Structure
Unit 47: Verbal Sentence
Unit 48: Topic Sentence
Unit 49: "To Be" Sentences and Existential ("There Is") Sentences
Unit 50: Agreement
Unit 51: Subjects
Unit 52: Direct and Prepositional Objects
Unit 53: Indirect Objects with -la- and 3ala
Unit 54: Secondary Objects
Unit 55: Reflexive and Reciprocal Constructions
Unit 56: Causative Constructions ("Make" and "Let")
Unit 57: Passive and Impersonal Constructions
Unit 58: Introduction to Subordination
Unit 59: Object Subordination
Unit 60: Nonobject Subordination
Unit 61: Special Zero-Imperfectives
Unit 62: Double-Verb Construction
Unit 63: Basic Relative Clauses
Unit 64: More Complicated Relative Clauses
Unit 65: The 7aal
Unit 66: Changes to Word Order and Emphasis

Part 6: Conjunction Constructions
Unit 67: Coordinating Conjunctions
Unit 68: Subordinating Conjunctions

Part 7: Conditional Structures
Unit 69: Open Conditionals
Unit 70: Hypothetical Conditionals
Unit 71: Other Conditional Constructions

Part 8: Questions
Unit 72: Closed Questions
Unit 73: Open Questions: Core Questions
Unit 74: Open Questions: Noncore Questions
Unit 75: Subordinated Questions

Part 9: Negation
Unit 76: Basic Negation
Unit 77: Other Common Negatives
Unit 78: Other Negative Structures

Part 10: Comparatives
Unit 79: Comparisons
Unit 80: Superlative Constructions
Part 11: Location and Destination

Unit 81 Location and Destination
Part 12: Numbers and Quantity Expressions

Unit 82: Numbers
Unit 83: Ordinal Numbers and Fractions
Unit 84: Quantifiers and Other Quantity Expressions

Appendices
Appendix A: Verb Tables
Appendix B: Prepositions
Appendix C: Conjunctions
Appendix D: Politeness, Impoliteness, and Terms of Address
Index