Arabic in contact, now and then / Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco -- The Arabic component in Domari / Bruno Herin -- Syntactic outcomes of contact in Sason Arabic / Faruk Akkus and Elabbas Benmamoun -- Arabic-Berber-Songhay contact and the grammaticalisation of "thing" / Lameen Souag -- Arabic and Berber in contact: Arabic in a minority situation i al Hoceima region / Dominique Caubet -- Arabic on the Dahlak Islands (Eritrea) / Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle -- Hassaniyya Arabic in contact with Berber: the case of quadriliteral verbs / Catherine Taine-Cheikh -- Loan verbs in Egyptian Arabic: perspectives and evidence from social media / Ashraf F. Hassan -- Phonetical and morphological remarks on the adaptation of Italian loanwords in Libyan Arabic / Luca d'Anna -- An assessment of the Arabic lexical contribution to contemporary spoken Koalib / Nicolas Quint -- Why linguistics needs an historically oriented Arabic linguistics / Jonathan Owens -- Temporal adverbs of contrast in the basic variety of Arabic / Kees Versteegh -- On the relationship between Arabic foreigner talk and pidgin Arabic / Andrei Avram -- Mountains do not meet, but men do: music and sociocultural networks among Arabic Creole-speaking communities across East Africa / Shuichiro Nakao -- Determiner phrase: how specific is it in Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching? / Karima Ziamari -- From Arabia to Persia and back: code-switching among the al Ali tribe in the UAE and Iran / Dénes Gazsi -- Arabic borrowing of the Hebrew word menahel "manager": articulations and ideologies / Nancy Hawker -- Contact-induced change from a speakers' perspective: a study of language attitudes in Siwa / Valentina Serreli.