1. Foreword; 2. Introduction; 3. I. Variation in Arabic; 4. The use of variation: A study of the political speeches of Gamal Abd al-Nasir (by Holes, Clive); 5. Knowing standard Arabic: testing Egyptians' MSA abilities (by Parkinson, Dilworth B.); 6. Stability and language variation in Arabic: Cairene and Kuwaiti dialects (by Elgibali, Alaa); 7. The meaning of deflected/strict agreement variation in Cairene Arabic (by Belnap, R. Kirk); 8. Emphasis spread in two Arabic dialects (by Younes, Munther A.); 9. II. Phonological perspectives; 10. Arabic pharyngealization and phonological features (by Davis, Stuart); 11. Gemination and antigemination in Iraqi (by Majdi, Basim); 12. III. Syntactic perspectives; 13. Arabic genitives: A problematic structure for the binding theory (by Kaplan, Tamar); 14. The copula in modern standard Arabic (SA) (by Bahloul, Maher); 15. The position of subjects in modern Standard Arabic (by Plunkett, Bernadette); 16. Case-marking and binding of subject clitics in Arabic complement clauses (by LeTourneau, Mark S.); 17. IV. Historical perspectives; 18. On the development of the Energic suffixes (by Testen, David); 19. Early Arabic siin and siin in light of the proto-semitic fricative-lateral hypothesis (by Churchyard, Henry); 20. Index of subjects