ABSTRACT
Variation as defined by Schneider is a series of the intra-lingual changes induced by macro social factors. In this sense, variation studies the impact of social variables on the linguistic choices made by the different interlocutors involved in a variety of social situations. Studies on Arabic language variation and change are very scarce. This chapter aims at looking into two types of variation in Arabic: syntactic and morpho-syntactic. It gives brief definitions of the two types of variation, followed by the methodology of gathering and analyzing data, then presentation of the data under study. The chapter proceeds to deal with the case of the verb iltaqa and its syntactic behavior with respect to transitivity whether directly or indirectly via a preposition while the second case reexamines the syntactic structures of conditional clauses. The chapter closes with a discussion, pedagogical implications and a conclusion.
