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.

Preface

1 Introduction

2 Consonants

3 Vowels

4 Writing system

5 Word formation

6 Nouns

7 Pronouns

8 Form I verbs

9 Form II verbs

10 Form III verbs

11 Form V verbs

12 Form VI verbs

13 Form VII verbs

14 Form VIII verbs

15 Form IX verbs

16 Form X verbs

17 Intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive verbs

18 Verb nouns

19 Adjectives

20 Adverbs

21 Prepositions

22 Quantifiers

23 Numerals

24 Modality

25 Negation

26 Noun phrases

27 Construct states

28 Verb phrases

29 Complex verb constructions

30 The imperfective aspect

31 The perfective aspect

32 The grammatical aspect

33 Relative clauses

34 Questions

35 Subordination

36 Coordination

Key to exercises

Index