The project will provide with a new theoretical approach that will overcome the traditional description of the Arabic linguistic system in terms of diglossia and will interpret Arabic as a linguistic complex.
This new approach may allow Arabic to be analyzed in the same way as other languages have been for some decades within the corpus linguistics tradition, namely as a language whose lexicon (and whose grammar) can be described in a variety-neutral way on the basis of the analysis of a representative corpus of the language that is defined according to a series of external, objective criteria (such as timespan, genres, areas).