This book focuses on the lexical borrowing between English and Arabic, and offers historical background regarding the contact between these two languages. It sh

This volume provides a detailed analysis of language contact in North Africa and explores the historical presence of the languages used in the region, including

A Linguistic History of Arabic presents a reconstruction of proto-Arabic by the methods of historical-comparative linguistics. It challenges the traditional con

First published in 1987. The reasons behind the establishment of this Series on Arabic linguistics are manifold. First: Arabic linguistics is developing into an