ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I will discuss the second detailed case study of pre-Islamic Arabic dialectal features, which is the position of case in every dialect that medieval grammarians mentioned in both grammars and commonplace books. In addition to case distribution, I will also show that there are data indicating that the case system was in a state of development, and this development was towards decay. I will discuss the data and locate it geographically and ascribe it to contact-induced issues. To do this the chapter will use data from non-syntactic phonological and morphological discussions, such as waqf and ’iskān data.
