Description: A state-of-the-art survey of Arabic linguistics, covering both traditional and modern topics and pioneering studies of new Arabic media.
Brief description: Karin Christina Ryding is Professor Emerita of Arabic linguistics in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. In 2008, she was granted the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, and the Distinguished Service Award from the Georgetown Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. Recent publications include Arabic: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge 2014).
Review Quotes: 'Edited by two distinguished scholars of Arabic, this Handbook is a welcome, critical introduction to one of the largest and most important languages of the world. It finds a balance between treating core linguistic matters - including theoretical and descriptive grammar, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and computational and corpus linguistics - and exploring emerging domains such as Arabic in the social media and Applied Linguistics. With its breadth and individual expertise, it promises to be a standard reference work for years to come.' Jonathan Owens, Professor of Arabic Linguistics, Bayreuth University