Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Data Sources and Theoretical Assumptions -- 2 Acquisition of Arabic: State of the Art -- 3 A Brief Sketch of Emirati Arabic Grammar -- 4 Language Growth in Child EA -- 5 Definiteness in Child EA -- 6 Possessive Structures in EA -- 7 Verb Inflection -- 8 Negation -- 9 Word Order -- 10 Concluding Remarks and Future Directions -- References -- Index