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Variation in modern standard Arabic in radio news broadcasts : a synchronic descriptive investigation into the use of complementary particles

"This study is an empirical investigation into horizontal regional variation in the Modern Standard Arabic of radio news bulletins. After first determining the position of Modern Standard Arabic within the Arabic language setting, which has been described in terms of, among other things, diglossia, triglossia and quadriglossia, the consequences which these descriptions have on the methodological level are analyzed

Print Book, English, 2003
Peeters and Departement Oostere Studies, Leuven, 2003