1. Preface; 2. 1. Overview; 3. Arabic linguistics: The current scene (by Eid, Mushira); 4. "Come forth with a Surah like it": Arabic as a measure of Arab society (by Ferguson, Charles A.); 5. 2. Grammatical prespectives; 6. Sound plural and broken plural assignment in classical Arabic (by Abd-Rabbo, Mohamad Z.); 7. The problem of subject-verb agreement in Arabic: towards a solution (by Mohammad, Mohammad A.); 8. Word order and proper government in classical Arabic (by Majdi, Basim); 9. Bound anaphora in Egyptian Arabic (by Osman, Mariam H.); 10. Time reference, tense, and formal aspect in Cairene Arabic (by Eisele, John C.); 11. 3. Textual analysis perspectives; 12. 'Orality' and discourse structure in modern standard Arabic (by Johnstone, Barbara); 13. Loss of nominal case endings in the modern Arabic dialects: evidence from Palestinian Christian middle Arabic texts (by Gruber-Miller, Ann M.); 14. 4. Psycholinguistic perspectives; 15. Bilingual linguistic memory (by Tel, Shadia A.); 16. Slips of the tongue in Arabic (by Safi-Stagni, Sabah); 17. Index of subjects