Ronak Husni, Aziza Zaher

Working with Arabic Prepositions

Structures and Functions

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Produktbeschreibung

Working with Arabic Prepositions: Structures and Functions is a reference book focusing on Arabic prepositions, their structure and usage. The system of Arabic prepositions is complex, and the textbook aims to assist students at the lower intermediate to advanced level understand it in an accessible way.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 375g
• ISBN-13: 9781138297616
• ISBN-10: 1138297615
• Artikelnr.: 58850344

Autorenporträt

Ronak Husni has taught Arabic language, modern and classical literature, gender studies, translation and cultural studies in a number of universities in the UK, including St. Andrews, Durham and Heriot-Watt University over the course of twenty-four years. Her main area of research is classical and modern Arabic literature, applied translation studies, gender studies and Arabic as a foreign language. Her study and translation of the Tunisian reformer Al-Qasim al-Haddad's seminal book Muslim Women in Law and Society won her the 2007 World Award of the President of the Republic of Tunisia for Islamic Studies. She is currently a professor of Arabic and Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah. Aziza Zaher has taught Arabic language and translation for more than twenty years in a number of higher education institutions in Egypt and the UK. Her research interests are teaching Arabic as a foreign language, systemic functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis. She is currently Assistant Professor of Arabic at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University, and she received Durham University's Excellence in Learning and Teaching Award in 2018.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction.............................................................................................. Chapter 1: The Basics of Arabic Prepositions...................................................... Definition of Arabic Prepositions.................................................................. Importance of prepositions........................................................................ Functions of Prepositions.......................................................................... Classifications of prepositions..................................................................... Constructions involving prepositions............................................................ Case Marking of Prepositional Phrases......................................................... Semi Prepositions................................................................................. The importance of prepositions for foreign-language learning.............................. Chapter 2: One-Letter Prepositions.................................................................
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................................................................................... Chapter 3: Two-Letter Prepositions .............................................................
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............................................................................................... Chapter 6: Locative adverbs .................................................................... Adverbs of time ..................................................................... ....... Adverbs of Place ............................................................................. Chapter 7: Analysis of Examples of Errors by Students....................................... Introduction ...................................................................................... Examples of Errors by Students: .............................................................. Glossary of Common Verbs with Prepositions................................................. Answer Key ...................................................................................... Bibliography ......................................................................................