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.

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