Arabic-L:LING:New Book on MSA Variation

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Date: 23 Jun 2004
From:Mark.VanMol at ilt.kuleuven.ac.be
Subject:New Book on MSA Variation

The Faculty of Arts of the University of Leuven (Belgium) and the
institute for Living Languages

are pleased to announce the publication of

Variation in Modern Standard Arabic in Radio News Broadcasts,
A Synchronic Descriptive Investigation into the Use of Complementary
Particles
by  
Mark Van Mol

Summary

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.
For this study a corpus-linguistic approach was chosen, requiring the
compilation of a text corpus of radio news bulletins from
linguistically very different countries, such as Algeria, Egypt and
Saudi Arabia.

The completely transcribed corpus of approximately 320,000 words was
tagged primarily on the word level, using the traditional, mixed
grammar as a reference point. Various computer applications were then
developed to explore the corpus. The emphasis in this study was on the
synchronic description of the use of complementary particles with
reference to contemporary Standard Arabic grammar. In general, the
investigation attests to great uniformity among the three countries on
the syntactic level, but it also reveals that with particles of a
similar function an important shift in function has occurred as
compared to the descriptions of these particles in classical Arabic
grammar.

Further information

Series :         Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta
Series number :        117
Year:         2003
ISBN:         90-429-1158-1
Pages:        X-323 p.
Price (Euro) :         60 EURO
order address:        
http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=7397

For more information please visit also our website at:

http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/ilt/arabic/index_en.htm

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