Table of contents
Forewordvii
Introductionviii
I. Arabic in relation to other languages
On the Importance of Arabic to General Linguistic Theory3
Verbless Sentences in Arabic and Hebrew31
Arabic Loanwords in Acehnese93
A Contrastive Study of Middle and Unaccusative Constructions in Arabic and English119
II. Grammatical Perspectives
Epenthesis in Makkan Arabic: Unsyllabified consonants vs. degenerate syllables137
Computer Analysis of Arabic Morphology: A two-level approach with detours155
III. Socio- and Psycholinguistic Perspectives
Women, Men, and Linguistic Variation in the Arab World199
Code-Switching and Linguistic Accommodation in Arabic231
Index271
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