Arabic grammar as illustrated in elementary Modern Standard Arabic: A descriptive and critical study

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Arif K. Abukhudairi

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This paper intends to review Arabic Grammar as presented in Elementary Modern Standard Arabic by Peter Abboud and others. In the paper, I try to answer this question: can a grammarian study a grammar of a foreign language using the descriptive framework and terminology of his own language? It is necessary to note here that I do not claim that a grammarian cannot write on a grammar of a foreign language, because even in Arabic itself, the first and the best grammar book was written by a Persian.

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Abukhudairi, A. K. (2017). Arabic grammar as illustrated in elementary Modern Standard Arabic: A descriptive and critical study. Journal of Modern Languages, 6(1), 97–105. Retrieved from https://jml.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3926
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