Adverbial Nouns in CNN and BBC Online Arabic News

It is rare to find a book or study that aims to investigate the adverbial use of Arabic in real life. Hence, this book comes to guide researchers on adverbial nouns (or / huru fu az-zamani/ and / harfu al-makani/) by authentically identifying their meanings, usages, and types. Particularly, it analyses and describes two of the most frequently used words in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), namely /ba'da/ (after, after [that]) and /qabla/ (before, ago) in two prominent Arabic news websites: CNN and BBC. Three linguistic qualities are addressed in the practical part of this book: semantic values and cohesive functions, syntactic features, and idiomatic usages. This book can positively impact AFL teachers and learners, as well as Arabic lexicographers and grammarians.

Autorentext

Ayman Eddakrouri is a linguist who has a keen interest in all issues related to Linguistic Analysis, Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, Natural Language Processing, and Corpus Linguistics. He conducted two MAs, one in Applied Linguistics from the American University in Cairo, and the other in Information Science from Cairo University, Egypt.