A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic

1. Introduction to Arabic 2. Modern Standard Arabic phonology and script 3. Arabic word structure: an overview 4. Basic Arabic sentence structures 5. Arabic noun types 6. Participles: active and passive 7. Noun inflections: gender, humanness, number, definiteness, and case 8. Construct phrases and nouns in apposition 9. Noun specifiers and quantifiers 10. Adjectives: form and function 11. Adverbs and adverbial expressions 12. Personal pronouns 13. Demonstrative pronouns and their functions 14. Relative pronouns and relative clauses 15. Arabic numerals and numeral phrases 16. Prepositions and prepositional phrases 17. Questions and question words 18. Connectives and conjunctions 19. Subordinating conjunctions: the particle 'inna and her sisters 20. The classes of Arabic verbs 21. Verb inflection: a summary 22. Form I the base form of the trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns and participles 23. Form II trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles 24. Form III trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles 25. Form IV trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles 26. Form V trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles 27. Form VI trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles 28. Form VII trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles 29. Form VIII trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles 30. Form IX trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles 31. Form X trillateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles 32. Forms XI-XV trillateral verb 33. Quadrilateral verbs: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles 34. Moods of the verb I: indicative and subjunctive 35. Moods of the verb II: jussive and imperative 36. Verbs of being, becoming, remaining, seeming 37. Negation and exception 38. Passive and passive-type expressions 39. Conditional and opative expressions.