Table of Contents

1. A house of sound structure, of marvelous form and proportion: An Introduction ; Jonathan Owens ; 2. Phonetics ; Mohamed Embarki ; 3. Phonology ; Sam Hellmuth ; 4. Morphology ; Robert Ratcliffe ; 5. Arabic Linguistic Tradition I: NaHw and Sarf ; Ramzi Baalbaki ; 6. The Syntax of Arabic from a Generative Perspective ; Elabbas Benmamoun and Lina Choueiri ; 7. The Philological Approach to Arabic Grammar ; Lutz Edzard ; 8. The Arabic Linguistic Tradition II: Beyond Grammar ; Pierre Larcher ; 9. Issues in Arabic Computational Linguistics ; Everhard Ditters ; 10. Sociolinguistics ; Enam Al-Wer ; 11. Arabic Folk Linguistics: Between Mother-tongue and Native Language ; Yasir Suleiman ; 12. Orality, Culture and Language ; Clive Holes ; 13. Dialects and Dialectology ; Peter Behnstedt and Manfred Woidich, ; 14. Codeswitching and Codemixing Involving Arabic ; Abdelali Bentahila, Eirlys Davies, and Jonathan Owens ; 15. Borrowing ; Maarten Kossmann ; 16. Psycholinguistics ; Sami Boudelaa ; 17. Arabic Second Language Acquisition ; Karin Ryding ; 18. The Arabic Writing System ; Peter Daniels ; 19. What is Arabic? ; Jan Retso ; 20. History ; Jonathan Owens ; 21. The Arabic Literary Language: The NahDa (and Beyond) ; Daniel Newman ; 22. Creoles and Pidgins ; Mauro Tosco and Stefano Manfredi ; 23. Lexicography in the Classical Era ; Solomon Sara, Georgetown University ; 24. Modern Lexicography ; Tim Buckwalter and Dilworth Parkinson

About the Author

Jonathan Owens is Professor of Arabic Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth