Frontmatter -- Contents -- Addresses of contributors -- Introduction -- Grammar studies in African Arabic dialectology -- Native and non-native varieties of Arabic in an emerging urban centre of western Sudan. Evidence from Kadugli -- Reinventing negation patterns in Moroccan Arabic -- The prosody of Juba Arabic: split prosody, morphophonology and slang -- Grammaticalized uses of the verb ṛa(a) in Arabic: a Maghrebian specificity? -- Some new information about Bongor Arabic -- Lexicological studies in African Arabic dialectology -- Strata on loanwords from Arabic and other Semitic languages in Northern Somali -- Sub-Saharan lexical influence in North African Arabic and Berber -- Lexical aspects of Maghrebi Arabic -- Arab-Berber contacts in the Middle Ages and ancient Arabic dialects: new evidence from an old Ibāḍite religious text -- Index