The Fundamentals Of Lebanese Grammar

The Fundamentals of Lebanese Grammar provides a comprehensive guide to the grammar of the spoken language of Lebanon.

The Fundamentals of Lebanese Grammar provides a comprehensive guide to the grammar of the spoken language of Lebanon.

It presents the fundamentals and complexities of the Lebanese variety of Arabic in a practical and organized way. This guide also utilizes side-by-side transliterations in both the Arabic script and the Latin alphabet in the way that they are used by native speakers. The explanations of the grammar concepts are presented in English and are made to be easily understandable for everyone, regardless of prior linguistic knowledge. Special features of this text include endnotes on culture, expressions, and an entire chapter dedicated to regional varieties of Lebanese.

This book is an essential tool for all learners of the Lebanese variety of Arabic, and it is a useful resource for every stage of the language learning process, from beginner to advanced.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

2. Introduction
4. Writing System
6. Adjectives
8. Nouns
10. Sentence Structure
12. Adverbs
14. Pronouns
16. Prepositions
18. The Genitive Construct
20. Ken and its Sisters
22. The Verb System
24. Simple Past Tense
26. Present Indicative Tense
28. Future Tense
30. Modal and Auxiliary Verbs
32. Continuous Tense
34. Active Participles
36. Perfect Tenses
38. Passive Participles and Passive Voice
40. Gerunds
42. Conditionals
44. Imperfect Tense and Subjunctive Voice
46. Imperative Voice
48. Quantifiers
50. Numbers
52. Accusative of Circumstance
54. Exclusion and Exception
56. Exclamation
58. Conjunctions
60. Vocatives and Discourse Markers
62. Diminutive
64. Regional Variation

Index

Richard A. Kline was born and raised in California. Growing up, he was fascinated by language, and spent much of his time learning different languages while attending the University of California, Berkeley and the American University of Beirut.