Lafkioui Mena (ed.) African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology

De Gruyter Mouton, 2013. — 310 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs). — ISBN10: 3110292327, 13 978-3110292329.The volume presents the state of the art in research on African varieties of Arabic. Leading scholars from around the world address topics dealing with language contact, the development of Arabic-based pidgins and creoles, synchronic language variation and diachronic language reconstruction.