Jonathan Owens is Professor of Arabic Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He has experience in all aspects of Arabic linguistics, including the Classical linguistic tradition and contemporary spoken varieties, with extensive academic and research experience in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the USA. His many publications include The Foundations of Grammar: An Introduction to Medieval Arabic Grammatical Theory, 1988, Neighborhood and Ancestry: Variation in the Spoken Arabic of Maiduguri, Nigeria, 1998, and A Linguistic History of Arabic, 2009.

• 1. A house of sound structure, of marvelous form and proportion: An IntroductionJonathan Owens 2. PhoneticsMohamed Embarki 3. PhonologySam Hellmuth 4. MorphologyRobert Ratcliffe 5. Arabic Linguistic Tradition I: NaHw and SarfRamzi Baalbaki 6. The Syntax of Arabic from a Generative PerspectiveElabbas Benmamoun and Lina Choueiri 7. The Philological Approach to Arabic GrammarLutz Edzard 8. The Arabic Linguistic Tradition II: Beyond GrammarPierre Larcher 9. Issues in Arabic Computational LinguisticsEverhard Ditters 10. SociolinguisticsEnam Al-Wer 11. Arabic Folk Linguistics: Between Mother-tongue and Native LanguageYasir Suleiman 12. Orality, Culture and LanguageClive Holes 13. Dialects and DialectologyPeter Behnstedt and Manfred Woidich, 14. Codeswitching and Codemixing Involving ArabicAbdelali Bentahila, Eirlys Davies, and Jonathan Owens 15. BorrowingMaarten Kossmann 16. PsycholinguisticsSami Boudelaa 17. Arabic Second Language AcquisitionKarin Ryding 18. The Arabic Writing SystemPeter Daniels 19. What is Arabic?Jan Retsö 20. HistoryJonathan Owens 21. The Arabic Literary Language: The NahDa (and Beyond)Daniel Newman 22. Creoles and PidginsMauro Tosco and Stefano Manfredi 23. Lexicography in the Classical EraSolomon Sara, Georgetown University 24. Modern LexicographyTim Buckwalter and Dilworth Parkinson

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