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Authored Books

Breitbarth, Anne, Lucas, Christopher and Willis, David (2020) The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume II: Patterns and Processes. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Series, v.40)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Lucas, Christopher and Manfredi, Stefano, eds. (2020) Arabic and contact-induced change. Berlin: Language Science Press. (Contact and Multilingualism)

Lucas, Christopher and Krug, Manfred, eds. (2018) Special Issue - The noun phrase in Maltese and Maltese English. Berlin: De Gruyter. (STUF - Language Typology and Universals [Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung])

Hemmings, Charlotte and Lee, Vivian, eds. (2015) SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 17. London: SOAS University of London.

Willis, David, Lucas, Christopher and Breitbarth, Anne, eds. (2013) The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume I: Case Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

Breitbarth, Anne, Lucas, Christopher, Watts, Sheila and Willis, David, eds. (2010) Continuity and Change in Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Linguistik aktuell, Bd. 159)

Book Chapters

Lucas, Christopher and Spagnol, Michael (2022) 'Nunation from Arabic to Maltese.' In: Turek, Przemyslaw and Nintemann, Julia, (eds.), Maltese: Contemporary Changes and Historical Innovations. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 47-80. (Studia Typologica [STTYP], vol. 30)

Lucas, Christopher (2020) 'Contact and the expression of negation.' In: Lucas, Christopher and Manfredi, Stefano, (eds.), Arabic and contact-induced change. Berlin: Language Science Press, pp. 643-667. (Contact and Multilingualism)

Lucas, Christopher and Manfredi, Stefano (2020) 'Introduction.' In: Lucas, Christopher and Manfredi, Stefano, (eds.), Arabic and contact-induced change. Berlin: Language Science Press, pp. 1-33. (Contact and Multilingualism)

Lucas, Christopher and Čéplö, Slavomír (2020) 'Maltese.' In: Lucas, Christopher and Manfredi, Stefano, (eds.), Arabic and contact-induced change. Berlin: Language Science Press, pp. 265-302. (Contact and Multilingualism)

Lucas, Christopher and Spagnol, Michael (2018) 'Conditions on /t/-insertion in Maltese numeral phrases: a reassessment.' In: Gatt, Albert and Paggio, Patrizia, (eds.), The Languages of Malta. Berlin: Language Science Press, pp. 117-141. (Studies in Diversity Linguistics)

Lucas, Christopher and Spagnol, Michael (2016) 'Connecting /t/ in Maltese numerals.' In: Puech, Gilbert and Saade, Benjamin, (eds.), Shifts and Patterns in Maltese. Berlin, Boston: DeGruyter, pp. 269-290.

Lucas, Christopher (2014) 'Contact-induced language change.' In: Bowern, Claire and Evans, Bethwyn, (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics. London: Routledge, pp. 519-536.

Lucas, Christopher (2014) 'Indefinites and negative concord in Maltese: towards a dynamic account.' In: Borg, Albert, Caruana, Sandro and Vella, Alexandra, (eds.), Perspectives on Maltese Linguistics. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 225-248.

Breitbarth, Anne, Lucas, Christopher and Willis, David (2013) 'Incipient Jespersen's Cycle: the (non-)grammaticalization of new negative markers.' In: Fleischer, Jürg and Simon, Horst, (eds.), Sprachvandelvergleich - Comparing Diachronies. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 141-162. (Linguistische Arbeiten)

Lucas, Christopher (2013) 'Negation in the History of Arabic and Afro-Asiatic.' In: Willis, David, Lucas, Christopher and Breitbarth, Anne, (eds.), The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean, Volume I: Case Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 399-452. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

Lucas, Christopher (2011) 'Definiteness, Procedural Encoding and the Limits of Accommodation.' In: Escandell-Vidal, Victoria, Leonetti, Manuel and Ahern, Aoife, (eds.), Procedural Meaning: Problems and Perspectives. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, pp. 157-182. (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 25)

Lucas, Christopher (2011) 'Form-function mismatches in (formally) definite English noun phrases: Towards a diachronic account.' In: Sleeman, Petra and Perridon, Harry, (eds.), The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, Variation and Change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 159-174. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today)

Marten, Lutz (2010) 'The great siSwati locative shift.' In: Breitbarth, Anne, Lucas, Christopher, Watts, Sheila and Willis, David, (eds.), Continuity and Change in Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 249-267.

Journal Article

Lucas, Christopher and Alluhaybi, Mohammed (2022) 'The typology of negation across varieties of Arabic.' STUF - Language Typology and Universals - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 75 (4). pp. 613-641.

Lucas, Christopher (2018) 'On Wilmsen on the development of postverbal negation in dialectal Arabic.' Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, 67. pp. 44-71.

Krug, Manfred and Lucas, Christopher (2018) 'Definite article (omission) in British, Maltese, and other Englishes.' STUF - Language Typology and Universals - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 71 (2). pp. 261-301.

Arnold, Doug and Lucas, Christopher (2017) 'One of Those Constructions that Really Needs a Proper Analysis.' Proceedings of the Joint 2016 Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar, 2016. pp. 43-63.

Lucas, Christopher (2015) 'On Wilmsen on the development of postverbal negation in dialectal Arabic.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 17. pp. 77-95.

Lucas, Christopher (2012) 'Contact-induced grammatical change: towards an explicit account.' Diachronica, 29 (3). pp. 275-300.

Lucas, Christopher and Willis, David (2012) 'Never again: the multiple grammaticalization of never as a marker of negation in English.' English Language and Linguistics, 16 (3). pp. 459-485.

Lucas, Christopher and Lash, Elliott (2010) 'Contact as catalyst: The case for Coptic influence in the development of Arabic negation.' Journal of Linguistics, 46 (2). pp. 379-413.

Lucas, Christopher (2010) 'Negative -š in Palestinian (and Cairene) Arabic: Present and possible past.' Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 2 (1). pp. 165-201.

Lucas, Christopher (2007) 'Jespersen's Cycle in Arabic and Berber.' Transactions of the Philological Society, 105 (3). pp. 398-431.

Translations

Amamou, Hayet and Lucas, Christopher, trans. (2023) Djaït on early Islamic history – Arab-Islamic primary sources and the writings of Orientalists. In: Louhichi, Soumaya (ed.), Studies of Djaït’s Work on Early Islam (Islam im Diskurs, vol. 9) . Berlin: EB-Verlag. pp. 17-52.

Hammami, Nader and Lucas, Christopher, trans. (2023) Hichem Djaït on the Quran as a source for early Islamic history. In: Louhichi, Soumaya (ed.), Studies of Djaït’s Work on Early Islam (Islam im Diskurs, vol. 9) . Berlin: EB-Verlag. pp. 69-90.

Louhichi, Soumaya and Lucas, Christopher, trans. (2023) Introduction. In: Louhichi, Soumaya (ed.), Studies of Djaït’s Work on Early Islam (Islam im Diskurs, vol. 9) . Berlin: EB-Verlag. pp. 7-16.

Louhichi, Soumaya and Lucas, Christopher, trans. (2023) On Djaït and modern prophetic biography. In: Louhichi, Soumaya (ed.), Studies of Djaït’s Work on Early Islam (Islam im Diskurs, vol. 9) . Berlin: EB-Verlag. pp. 129-156.

Alaoui, Mustapha and Lucas, Christopher, trans. (2023) On the confusion of faith, science, and humanism in Hichem Djaït’s Fī s-sīra an-nabawiyya. In: Louhichi, Soumaya (ed.), Studies of Djaït’s Work on Early Islam (Islam im Diskurs, vol. 9) . Berlin: EB-Verlag. pp. 107-128.

Sakly, Mondher and Lucas, Christopher, trans. (2023) On the terminology relating to tribal elites in early Islam – Competition and social status. In: Louhichi, Soumaya (ed.), Studies of Djaït’s Work on Early Islam (Islam im Diskurs, vol. 9) . Berlin: EB-Verlag. pp. 221-246.

Said, Mohamed and Lucas, Christopher, trans. (2023) An analysis of Djaït’s research into written sources for the history of Africa before the fifteenth century CE. In: Louhichi, Soumaya (ed.), Studies of Djaït’s Work on Early Islam (Islam im Diskurs, vol. 9) . Berlin: EB-Verlag. pp. 157-192.