Gives critical expression to Arabic, a language which covers large populations and geographical areas, has a long written tradition, and has been the locus of major intellectual fervor and debate.

• 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 Retsö


• 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

Jonathan Owens is Professor of Arabic Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He has experience in all aspects of Arabic linguistics, including the Classical linguistic tradition and contemporary spoken varieties, with extensive academic and research experience in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the USA. His many publications include The Foundations of Grammar: An Introduction to Medieval Arabic Grammatical Theory, 1988, Neighborhood and Ancestry: Variation in the Spoken Arabic of Maiduguri, Nigeria, 1998, and A Linguistic History of Arabic, 2009.