From Code-Switching to Borrowing: A Case Study of Moroccan Arabic

The Library of Arabic Linguistics, which includes this monograph, is gradually establishing itself as a major series for research on various aspects of the Arabic language and, to a lesser extent, on what I prefer to call the 'Arabic linguistic tradition'. So far, the majority of the monographs in this series have tended to cover topics in the first area, applying the insights of modern linguistics which is a totally Western invention. Let us hope that more space in the future will be devoted to producing equally authoritative studies of the Arabic linguistic tradition, without forcibly fitting it into the framework of this or that modern linguistic theory, but also without ignoring whatever points of similarity may exist between this tradition and modern linguistics.