This book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. Dealing not only with modern standard Arabic, the book also considers classical and colloquial forms.

Arabic Corpus Linguistics Edited by Tony McEnery, Andrew Hardie and Nagwa Ibrahim Abdel-Fattah Younis Headline: An overview of current research on the Arabic language in corpus linguistics. This book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus-based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. Dealing not only with Modern Standard Arabic, this book also considers Classical and Colloquial forms. With a range of international contributors presenting their experience of working with Arabic from a particular perspective, the book includes chapters on corpus building, the tools needed to explore the Arabic language, the use of corpora to explore the grammar of Arabic, and looking at the study of discourse in Arabic. Key Features: Takes a perspective-based approach to the practice of corpus-based research, covering corpus building and the use of corpus-query software tools to explore the Arabic language. Presents detailed case studies of the application of methods to studies in Arabic grammar and Arabic discourse semantics. Tony McEnery is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University Andrew Hardie is Reader in Linguistics at Lancaster University Nagwa Younis is Head of the Department of English, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, Egypt