Tony McEnery is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is Editor of the journal Corpora. Andrew Hardie is Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University. Nagwa Younis is Head of the Department of English, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, Egypt

• Chapter 1: Introducing Arabic Corpus LinguisticsTony McEnery, Lancaster University, Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University and Nagwa Younis, Ain Shams UniversityChapter 2: Under the Hood of arabiCorpusDilworth B. Parkinson, Brigham Young UniversityChapter 3: Tunisian Arabic Corpus: Creating a written corpus of an "unwritten" language Karen McNeil, Brown UniversityChapter 4: Accessible corpus annotation for ArabicWesam Ibrahim, Tanta University and Andrew Hardie, Lancaster UniversityChapter 5: The Leeds Arabic Discourse Treebank: Guidelines for Annotating Discourse Connectives and RelationsAmal Alsaif, Al-Imam Mohammad Bin Saud University and Katja Markert, Hedielberg UniversityChapter 6: Using the Web to model Modern and Qurʾanic ArabicEric Atwell, The University of LeedsChapter 7: Semantic prosody as a tool for translating prepositions in the Holy Qurʾan: a corpus-based analysisNagwa Younis, Ain Shams UniversityChapter 8: A relational approach to modern literary Arabic conditional clausesManuel Sartori, Aix-Marseille UniversityChapter 9: Quantitative approaches to analysing COME constructions in Modern Standard ArabicDana Abdulrahim, University of BahrainChapter 10: Approaching text typology through cluster analysis in ArabicGhada Mohamed, University of Bahrain and Andrew Hardie, Lancaster UniversityAppendix: Arabic transliteration systems used in this book