Preface -- Bibliography: Bruce Ingham -- About bedouin tents and other tents, or "tent terminology as an example of semantic shift" / Peter Behnstedt and Manfred Woidich -- Tense and aspect in Semitic: a case study based on the Arabic of the Omani sarqiyya and the Mehri of Dhofar / Domenyk Eades and Janet C.E. Watson -- From phonological variation to grammatical change: depalatalisation of /c/ in Salti / Bruno Herin and Enam Al-Wer -- Representation of women's language in Negev Bedouin men's texts / Roni Henkin -- An Arabic text from 'ur, Oman / Clive Holes -- Grammaticalizations based on the verb kana in Arabic dialects / Otto Jastrow -- Texts in Sinai bedouin dialects / Rudolf de Jong -- Lexical notes on the dialect of Mayadin (Eastern Syria) in the late 1970s, with Jean Cantineau's fieldnotes of 1935 / Jérôme Lentin -- Modern Arabic dialectology: what are kaskasa and kaskasa, really? / Jonathan Owens -- Interesting facts on ancient mounds' three texts in the bedouin Arabic dialect of the Harran-Urfa-Region (Southeastern Turkey) / Stephan Procházka -- Antigemination as morphosemantic integrity in Arabic dialects / Kirsty Rowan.