This volume brings together the eight papers presented by a panel on Arabic linguistics organized on the occasion of the 14th Italian Meeting of Afroasiatic Linguistics held in Turin in 2011. They address multiple aspects of classical and colloquial Arabic: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology and lexicography, but also semantics and pragmatics, as well as logic and argumentation. The title chosen by the editor, Manuela E.B. Giolfo, recalls that Arabic was the object of a rich indigenous tradition of linguistic analysis long before becoming, from the nineteenth century onwards, an object...