Basic Arabic [electronic resource] : a grammar and workbook / Waheed Samy and Leila Samy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Word boundaries in written Arabic -- 2. Meaning and grammatical categories encapsulated in a word -- 3. Arabic grammar paradigm -- 4. The Arabic language writing system -- 5. Function of diacritics -- 6. Agreement -- 7. Pronouns -- 8. Demonstratives -- 9. Case marking : noun words -- 10. Noun type words : syntactic function, case name, and case marking -- 11. Syntactic functions and their case markers -- 12. Noun types -- 13. The "human" vs "non-human" classification of nouns -- 14. The human category nouns -- 15. The non-human category nouns -- 16. Noun attributes : number, gender, case, definiteness -- 17. Numbers and counting -- 18. The sentence [Arabic] : the basics -- 19. The noun-adjective phrases -- 20. Adjectives : agreement with nouns -- 21. The 'idafa phrase -- 22. The 'idafa-adjective phrase -- 23. The definite article -- 24. Prepositions -- 25. Adverbials -- 26. To have -- 27. Questions -- 28. Negation -- 29. About the Arabic verb -- 30. Conjugating the perfect -- 31. Conjugating the imperfect -- 32. Subject and mood markers of the imperfect verb -- 33. Verb patterns -- 34. The perfect, form I -- 35. The perfect, form II -- 36. The perfect, form III -- 37. The perfect, form IV -- 38. The perfect, form V -- 39. The perfect, form VI -- 40. The perfect, form VII -- 41. The perfect, form VIII -- 42. The perfect, form IX -- 43. The perfect, form X -- 44. Noun-verb paradigm chart -- 45. Time -- 46. Verb-subject agreement -- 47. Constituents of verb-type words -- 48. Verb types (sound, hamzated, doubled, weak radicalled) -- 49. Adverbs marked by the accusative case -- 50. The passive voice -- 51. Inflecting the verb for the passive voice.