1. Foreword; 2. Introduction; 3. I. Syntactic Perspectives; 4. Layers in the Distribution of Arabic Adverbs and Adjectives and Their Licensing (by Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader); 5. The Unoptionality of Resumptive Pronouns: The Case of Moroccan Arabic (by Elomari, Abdessalam); 6. Gapping and VP Deletion in Moroccan Arabic (by Kortobi, Ibtissam); 7. Implicit Reciprocals in Standard Arabic (by LeTourneau, Mark S.); 8. II. Phonological Perspectives; 9. Gradient Uvularization Spread in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic (by Zawaydeh, Bushra Adnan); 10. Optimized Postvelar Harmony in Palestinian Arabic (by Shahin, Kimary N.); 11. III. Perspectives on Variation; 12. Reported Speech in Arabic Journalistic Discourse (by Fakhri, Ahmed); 13. Gender in Linguistic Variation: The Variable (q) in Damascus Arabic (by Daher, Jamil); 14. Literary Arabic and Early Hijazi: Contrasts in the Marking of Definiteness (by Testen, David); 15. Index of Subjects