The Georgetown Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic: Arabic-English, English-Arabic by Moh

Description: The Georgetown Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic by Mohamed Maamouri Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Suitable for students, teachers, and scholars of Arabic, this title focuses on conversation, emphasizing the colloquial speech of educated residents of Baghdad. It draws from the LDCs lexical database of colloquial Iraqi and includes more than a thirty percent increase in terms for contemporary speech than found in the original dictionaries. Publisher Description The Georgetown Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic is a modernized, up-to-date dialectal Arabic language resource that promotes successful daily communication with native Arabic speakers. Students, teachers, and scholars of Arabic will welcome this dramatically overhauled edition of one of the only Arabic dialect dictionaries of its kind-establishing a new standard in Arabic reference. The dictionary represents a new generation of Arabic language reference materials designed to help English speakers gain proficiency in colloquial Arabic. Thoroughly updated, expanded, and enhanced, this dictionary supersedes the seminal Iraqi dictionaries originally published by Georgetown University Press in the 1960s and then reissued in the early 2000s. Created in cooperation with Georgetown University Press and the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) of the University of Pennsylvania, this new dictionary draws from the LDCs extensive lexical database of colloquial Iraqi, and includes more than a thirty percent increase in terms for contemporary speech than found in the original dictionaries.This comprehensive reference focuses on conversation, emphasizing the colloquial speech of educated residents of Baghdad. The dictionary assumes familiarity with the Arabic alphabet, the standard organization of Arabic dictionaries along the triconsonantal root system, and the formation of Arabic verb forms. * Approximately 17,500 Iraqi Arabic entries * Approximately 10,750 English-to-Iraqi entries * An increase of more than 30 percent in terms that reflect current vocabulary and usage * Provides conventional Arabic script for main entries, and organized by root, as standard for Arabic dictionaries * Employs International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for all terms to demonstrate correct pronunciation * Offers extensive example sentences to illustrate how the Iraqi words are used * Indicates relevant parts of speech for each Iraqi entry and subentry Author Biography Mohamed Maamouri is a senior research administrator at the Linguistic Data Consortium at The University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Arabic Treebank Group and the development of Arabic resources and projects. He specializes primarily in Arabic linguistics, reading, language development, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Details ISBN 1589019156 ISBN-13 9781589019157 Title The Georgetown Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic Author Mohamed Maamouri Format Hardcover Year 2013 Pages 640 Publisher Georgetown University Press GE_Item_ID:136600067; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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