From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug  1 16:34:13 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:34:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Attitudes Response
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Date: 01 Aug 2000
From: Nimat Hafez Barazangi <nhb2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Attitudes Response

 I second the source provided by Mohammad T. Alhawary:

(Pienemann, M and M. Johnston.  1987.  "Factors influencing the development
>of language acquisition". In D. Nunan (ed.) Applying Second Language
>Acquisition Research.  Adelaide: Australia: National Curriculum Research
>Center).

Also, there are other similar sources in the References of my recent paper
in Al Arabiyya (v.32).

Although my article "Arabic Self-Learning..." does not deal directly with
attitudes on purely psychological level, it deals with the acquisition of
Arabic as a second language. It specifically tests the effect of learners'
prior learning patterns,their perceptions of language learning, and of
Arabic, in particualr.

Best wishes

Nimat

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug  1 16:37:20 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:37:20 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Rhyming Dictionary Query
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Date: 01 Aug 2000
From: dil at byu.edu
Subject: Rhyming Dictionary Query

An American Arabic learner and aspiring Arabic poet has asked me if rhyming
dictionaries exist for Arabic.  Since I have no idea, I'm asking you.  Do
Arab poets ever make use of lexicographic tools to help them find rhymes or
words with particular patterns to fit their meters?   What kinds of tools?
Dil Parkinson

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug  1 16:33:31 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:33:31 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Transliteration Software Response
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Date: 01 Aug 2000
From: jolandaguardi <jolandaguardi at iol.it>
Subject: Transliteration Software Response

<DIV><FONT face="Florentine Garamond SSi">I don't think such a software exust,
also because the academic world doesn't agree on the here so called
"scientific
transliteration". Anyway I know that in Bologna (Italy) a scholar group has
preparead a specific software to analyze text in arabic and to transliterate
them and maybe you can ask them. The programmer is Davide Righi and you can
write him at:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Florentine Garamond SSi"><A
href="mailto:daviderighi at hotmail.com">daviderighi at hotmail.com</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug  4 23:19:13 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:19:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Rhyming Dictionary responses
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Date: 04 Aug 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Rhyming Dictionary response

	Unless there has been recently an attempt to compile a rhyming
dictionary, to the best of my knowledge, there are no such classical
dictionaries.  Some Arab lexicographers, however, arranged their mammoth
dictionaries with the idea of "rhyme" on their minds, and with a view to
helping rhymesters.  This is precisely what al-Fayruuzaabaadhii and
Ibn-ManZuur did in *al-Qaamuus al-MuHiiT* & *Lisaan al- at Arab."  Entries
are arranged in accordance with their rhymes, thus, "rasama" (to draw /
paint) and "basama" (to smile) are looked up under letter "miim."  The
first letter, "r", in (r-s-m) is called "faSl" (section), the last, "m" is
called "baab" (chapter).

	Satisfactory as this might have sounded to the two lexicographers
and Arabic sensibility at the time, this system is rather cumbersome, and
indeed sadistic, esp. with roots of controversial vowel endings.  That is
probably why *Lisaan al- at Arab* has been re-arranged and re-issued in our
more accessible alphabetical order.
					M. Deeb

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Date: 04 Aug 2000
From: alhawar at american.edu
Subject: Rhyming Dictionary response

ahlan yaa Dil,

Of course there are tons of rhyming dictionaries.  The first such
dictionary is Al-SiHaaH, compiled by Al-Jawharii.  Others include Qaamuus
Al-MuHiiT by Al-Fayruuz Aabaadii, lisaan Al-9arab by Ibn ManDHuur, and
taaj al-9aruus by Al-zabiidii.
These are among THE major Arabic dictionary.

By the way, there is an edition of the lisaan Al-9arab that was arranged
by Maazin Al-mubaarak et. al. alphabetically according to the root
system.

best,
Mohammad T. Alhawary

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Date: 04 Aug 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Rhyming Dictionary response

As an audience, I think Arabic poetry will have to come out of the heart
and guts, and not from a rhyming dictionary.

Once, I saw an Arab poet work and write words on a handkerchief,
in Beirut.

I do not know if ZajaL is considered poetry, but could not imagine
ZaghLool Eddamour looking up in a dictionary, while Zein Sh3ayb
is out rhyming him "LIVE"! This folkloric (Lebanon) form of poetry
is born with the person, it cannot be mechanized.

Best Regards,

George N. Hallak
AramediA Group
761 Adams Street
Boston, MA 02122, USA

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug  8 16:19:43 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 09:19:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book on Comparative Morphology
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Date: 08 Aug 2000
From: Hassan Gadalla <hgadalla at acc.aun.eun.eg>
Subject: New Book on Comparative Morphology

Dear Friends,

I am pleased to announce that Lincom Europa has recently published my
book on Arabic Comparative Morphology. It is entitled "Comparative
Morphology of Standard and Egyptian Arabic". Its major concern is the
comparison of the morphological aspects of Standard Arabic (SA) and
Egyptian Arabic (EA). It is divided into five chapters. Chapter One
provides a phonological outline of SA and EA. It also analyses the
morphological basics and the morphosyntactic preliminaries of the two
varieties. Chapter Two is devoted to the morphology of triradical and
quadriradical verbs. In addition, the inflection of verbs for
aspect/mood and voice and a treatment of verbal affixes and verb
derivation are provided.
Chapter Three deals with the morphology of primary and deverbal nouns.
Moreover, the divergence between definite and indefinite nouns and the
inflection of nouns for case, gender and number are explained. The
formation of the diminutive is also illustrated. Chapter Four handles
the morphology of adjectival stems. Then, the difference between
definite and indefinite adjectives and the inflection of adjectives for
case, gender, number and degree are analyzed. Furthermore, participial
forms and relational adjectives are discussed. Chapter Five is related
to the morphology of closed-list classes, including pronouns,
prepositions, adverbs, as well as interrogative and responsive
particles. Finally, negative and possessive particles are exhibited.

For information on the price and how to order, please visit the
following web site:
http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/9724.htm

Best wishes for you all.
Hassan Gadalla
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Aug 14 19:00:11 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:00:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Translation website
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Date: 14 Aug 2000
From: Digitek <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Translation website

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DC, August 9 -- Sakhr Software and Digitek International announce free instant
Website translation to Arabic at the Tarjim.com Website. Tarjim.com translates
English language text on any Internet page into Arabic</SPAN><SPAN
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the world," said Fahd Al-Sharekh, Sakhr's Business Development Manager.<SPAN
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to Arabic translation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Sakhr
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year.</SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size:
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language Webpages on the Internet (estimated to be as much as 70% of the Web)
are now accessible to the Arabic-reading public.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Tarjim.com also Arabizes English
language search engines, such as Yahoo, Hotbot, Lycos, and others, giving
Arabic
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developing bilingual and bidirectional translation capabilities.<SPAN
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language knowledge on the Web in their own languages.<SPAN
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address (URL) in their Internet Explorer and wait for the page to appear in
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pages, product information, and even search engines are available
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starts
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Tarjim,
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Arabic, the Webpage translator gives a great preview of their Arabized
content.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Of course, companies
using
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post-editing of the translation to ensure the accuracy and efficacy of their
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Aug 14 18:56:24 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:56:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Form IV query
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Date: 14 Aug 2000
From: Mark Letourneau <SAGMLETOUR at aol.com>
Subject: Form IV query

Greetings. I am studying the syntax of derived Form VI verbs with understood
reciprocals in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and I would appreciate your help
with the following questions.

"Blocking" of  Form I by Form VI

Lebanese Arabic has sentences like the following (from Aoun, Benmamoun, and
Sportiche 1994:214):

(1)         Kariim w Marwaan biHibbo ba9Dun
            'Kariim and Marwaan love each other.'

Do such sentences exist in MSA?  For example, is (2) possible (or, better,
attested)?

(2)         Kariim(un) wa Marwaan(un) yuHibbuuna ba9Dahum ba9Dan
            'Kariim and Marwaan love each other.'

I am wondering whether sentences like (2) are "blocked" by Form VI verbs that
express the same meaning with an implicit reciprocal, for example, taHaabab:

(3)         yataHaababu Kariim(un) wa Marwaan(un)
            'Kariim and Marwaan love [each other].'

If Form VI verbs with implicit reciprocals as in (3) do block Form I verbs
with overt reciprocals as in (2), examples of any other Form VI verbs with
which this blocking takes place would be useful.

Grammaticality Judgments

My specific concern in this research is agreement between compound subject
NPs and Form VI verbs in VSO sentences.  I'd therefore like to know whether
the following sentences are grammatical or not (ignoring nunation). To
simplify coding responses, please list the numbers (and, if applicable, lower
case letters) of the sentences; then put a dash "---" after the number
(letter) if the sentence is grammatical and an asterisk "*" if it is
ungrammatical. The Form VI verbs below, together with their glosses, are all
drawn from Wehr-Cowan.

(4)         taqaaraba Kariim wa Marwaan wa AHmad kulluhum
            Kariim and Marwaan and Ahmad all approached [each other].'

(5)         tatamaathalu Kariima wa Marwaan al-ithnaani
            'Kariima and Marwaan both resemble [each other].'

(6)         taraa?aa Kariim wa Marwaan kullu waaHidin
            'Karim and Marwaan each saw [each other].'

(7)     a. taqaatala Kariim wa Marwaan sawaa?an
                 'Kariim and Marwaan fought [each other] together.'

        b. qatala ?alirhaabiyyu ?al9asuufa sawaa?an
                 'The terrorist killed the despot together.'

(8)     a. tajaadhaba Kariim wa Salwa fii nafsi ?al-waqTi
                 'Kariim and Salwa attracted [each other] at the same time.'

        b. jadhaba al[rajulu al-mar?ata fii nafsi ?al-waqTi
                 'The man attracted the woman at the same time.'

I surmise that (8b) has a reading in which fii nafsi al-waqTi is anaphoric to
a time mentioned in a previous sentence. The reading in which I am interested
is the nonanaphoric reading that parallels the one in (8a).

(9)     ?iltaqaa Kariim wa Marwaan
        'Kariim and Marwaan met [each other].'

(10)    man ?iltaqaa Kariim wa Marwaan?
        'Whom did Kariim and Marwaan meet [each other]?'

(11)    xarajat al-mudarrisatu wa al-Taalibu ?alladhaani yataqaabalaana
        The teacher (f.) and the student who met [each other] left.'

(12)    a. man fattasha Kariim wa Marwaan qabla maa pro qaarabaa(haa)?
            'Whom did Kariim and Marwaan investigate before they approached
(her)?'

In this sentence, Kariim wa Marwaan antecedes the understood subject pro, as
it does in (12b, c), and man antecedes -haa.

        b. man fattasha Kariim wa Marwaan qabla maa pro taqaarabaa [e]?
             'Whom did Kariim and Marwaan investigate before they approached
each other?'

In this sentence, Kariim wa Marwaan rather than man antecedes the understood
reciprocal, represented by [e].

        c. man fattasha Kariim wa Marwaan qabla maa pro taqaarabaa [e]?
           'Whom did Kariim and Marwaan investigate before they approached
each other?'

In this sentence, man rather than Kariim wa Marwaan antecedes the understood
reciprocal [e].

(13)    tuquubilat Kariiam wa Marwaan
        'Each other were met by Kariima and Marwaan.'
        'Kariima and Marwaan were met by each other.'

Please indicate whether (13) is possible under either gloss.

Thank you.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Aug 14 18:57:32 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:57:32 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Short Vowel query
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Date: 14 Aug 2000
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: Short Vowel query

I am chairing the M.A. thesis of a student looking at the effect of an MSA
preschool immersion program in Damascus.  We've got a few questions:

Is anyone aware of any solid research that substantiates the claim that the
lack of short vowels in Arabic is a serious impediment to learning to read?
I personally have a hard time imagining that this is any more demanding
than English spelling.  Likewise, is there any real evidence that reading
Arabic requires more of a "decoding" approach than, for example, English,
given Arabic's lack of short vowels and multiple shapes for letters?

Could anyone suggest studies or works that discuss the tendency of students
to enjoy memorizing poetry, or that speak positively of other aspects of
learning Arabic?

Thanks,

Kirk
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Aug 14 18:54:30 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:54:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Morph. family size query
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Date: 14 Aug 2000
From: Sami Boudelaa <sami.boudelaa at mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Morph. family size query

	Hi
	Does anyBODY out there know of a reference about morphological
family size
in Arabic? I am looking for statistical information about the number of
surface forms sharing the same root (including verbs in their citation
forms and derived nouns).
Thanks
Sami Boudelaa

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Aug 14 22:33:03 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:33:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Translation Website Clean Re-post
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Date: 14 Aug 2000
From: Digitek <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Translation Website Clean Re-post

DIGITEK INTERNATIONAL  
 

The Arabic Web:
Tarjim.com Arabizes English Language Search Engines and Websites

Washington DC, August 9 -- Sakhr Software and Digitek International
announce free instant Website translation to Arabic at the Tarjim.com
Website. Tarjim.com translates English language text on any Internet page
into Arabic.

"We have released the site as a public service to Arabic-speaking people
all over the world," said Fahd Al-Sharekh, Sakhr's Business Development
Manager.  At the moment, the site offers English to Arabic translation. 
Sakhr intends to launch the Arabic to English service by the end of this
year.

English language Webpages on the Internet (estimated to be as much as 70%
of the Web) are now accessible to the Arabic-reading public.  Tarjim.com
also Arabizes English language search engines, such as Yahoo, Hotbot,
Lycos, and others, giving Arabic users wider access to research tools.

Tarjim.com uses the latest version of Sakhr's machine translation
engines.   Sakhr has spent 18 years developing bilingual and bidirectional
translation capabilities.  Tarjim's level of accuracy is quite high for
machine translation engines, though like any automated translation the end
result still requires human post-editing.   Tarjim.

Arabic speakers can now read, research, search, and browse the entire
corpus of English language knowledge on the Web in their own languages. 
Web surfers just type in the Internet address (URL) in their Internet
Explorer and wait for the page to appear in Arabic.   News stories, home
pages, product information, and even search engines are available
on-the-fly in Arabic.

Tarjim (an Arabic word meaning "translate) is at
<http://www.tarjim.com>http://www.tarjim.com.   Users should access the
site through Internet Explorer after first enabling the Arabic script
feature (go to View, then Encoding, on the toolbar and select Arabic) for
the browser.  The Tarjim homepage allows users to improve accuracy by
selecting specialty dictionaries for sports, military, the arts,
transportation, and other topics.  Unfortunately, Webpage graphics are not
translatable, only text is.

To use the search facilities of Yahoo, Lycos, or Hotbot, an Arab Web surfer
starts by inputting the search page (e.g. www.yahoo.com or www.hotbot.com)
into Tarjim, which then translates the Yahoo or Hotbot page and displays it
in Microsoft Internet Explorer.  Switching to Arabic input (with
Alt-Shift), the user types in an Arabic search request.  On receiving the
request, the Tarjim server translates the search item into English,
collects the results from Yahoo or Hotbot, and translates the English
language results back into Arabic before displaying them in Arabic for the
Web surfer to see.  Users see none of the intermediate steps: just the
Arabic input and the Arabic output.

For corporations and government bodies thinking of localizing their Web
content into Arabic, the Webpage translator gives a great preview of their
Arabized content.  Of course, companies using Digitek and Sakhr's
translation and localization services receive professional post-editing of
the translation to ensure the accuracy and efficacy of their Arabic
Webpages.

Sakhr Software, of Cairo, Egypt, is the Middle East’s foremost developer of
Arabic language software.  It is a leading researcher in advanced language
and speech technologies and a developer of linguistic and database search
engines.  Digitek International, like Sakhr Software a member of the
Alalamiah Group, represents Sakhr Software in North America.  
 
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug 15 17:11:54 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:11:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article
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Date: 15 Aug 2000
From: moderator [reposted from LINGUIST]
Subject: SOAS Working Papers article

The SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 9 are now
available. 515 pages.  Please note that many of these
papers [including the one listed here] can be downloaded free of charge at
the new SOAS Linguistics
web-site:

  http://www.soas.ac.uk/Linguistics/wp.htm

DIALECTOLOGY
Ingham, B. "The Dialect of the 'Marsh Arabs' of Southern Mesopotamia"


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug 15 17:08:13 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:08:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Short Vowels response
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Date: 15 Aug 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Short Vowels response

Abu-Rabia, Salim. "Reading in Arabic Orthography: The effect of vowels
and and context on reading accuracy of poor and skilled native Arabic
readers." <UNDERLINE> Reading and Writing:
An Interdisciplinary Journal </UNDERLINE>. 9:65-78, 1997.  Holland, Kluwer
Academic Publishers.

Abu-Rabia, Salim. "Reading of Arabic Texts: Effects of text type, reader
type and vowelization."  <UNDERLINE> Reading and Writing: An
Interdisciplinary Journal </UNDERLINE>. 10:105-119, 1998.  Holland, Kluwer
Academic Publishers.

Dr. Abu-Rabia's email = redc551 at haifauvm

enjoy,
Andy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug 15 17:08:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:08:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:song lyrics query
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Date: 15 Aug 2000
From: N Coffin <coffinn at netscape.net>
Subject: song lyrics query

I'm working on a project involving colloquial songs, and am looking for
someone who is familiar with and can help me decipher a few tricky lines in
the following songs:

Rashid Taha, "Ya Rayah" (from his "Diwan" CD)

Abu Bakr Salim bal-Fagih, "`Ala Dau` al-Kawkab al-Sari" (He's a Yemeni singer;
I'm told that this song is well-known, but I've only got it on cassette, not
on CD)

I will be happy to send anyone who writes to me at ncoffin at princeton.edu a
(brief) Arabic transcription of the lyrics indicating the places where I need
help.

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Nancy Coffin

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 17 16:16:42 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:16:42 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Song Lyrics response
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Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: micho <sukkami at yahoo.com>
Subject: Song Lyrics response

Abu Bakr Salim bal-Fagih, "`Ala Dau` al-Kawkab
al-Sari" (He's a Yemeni singer;


i think this can mean : under the stars' (speedy or
strolling) lights. Note al sari can mean either speedy
or strolling....

the other one i have no clue.....


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 17 16:10:22 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:10:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Morph. family size response
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Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: Tim Buckwalter <tbuckwalter at tegic.com>
Subject: Morph. family size response

There is a "List of Root Frequencies" in Wolf-Dietrich Fromm's
"Häufigkeitswörterbuch der modernen arabischen Zeitungsprache" (1982). For
each root he provides the raw frequency of each lexical item based on that
root. The frequencies come from a small corpus of daily newspapers. For
example, the root m-th-l has:
35 maththala
 7 tamaththala
41 mithla
 3 mithlamaa
15 mathal
 5 mathalan
12 mithaal
10 tamthiil
31 mumaththil
15 mumaathil
 5 mutamaththil

Unfortunately, these statistics apply to the lemmatized results, not the
various surface forms that you're looking for (if i understood your question
correctly).

regards,
Tim Buckwalter
p.s. the book is possibly out of print; if you want to contact the author, i
just found his e-mail address here:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~islamwi/Mitarbeiter.htm

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 17 16:13:12 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:13:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Short Vowel responses
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Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: Roger Allen <rallen at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Short Vowel Query

Kirk:
  Muhammad Ma`muri (Maamouri) of Penn's International Literacy Center
(former head of the Bourghiba Institute in Tnis) has certainly lectured to
us here on the impact of the printing/non-printing of vowels on literacy in
the Arab world.
   As I recollect, he was advocating the use of computer printing as a
means of producing a larger Arabic character set (with vowels) that would
have a major impact on literacy.  In any case you can write to him at:
maamouri at literacy.upenn.edu

al the best as always and hoping to encounter
you in Orlando!

ROGER

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2)
Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: Umm Muadth <umumuadth at awtechnologies.com>
Subject: Short Vowel Query

I am very interested in the research being conducted on the preschool Arabic
immersion program.  Where could one obtain the research thesis upon
completion?

As for your questions, unfortunately I do not have empirical evidence,
merely anecdotal.

"Is anyone aware of any solid research that substantiates the claim that the
lack of short vowels in Arabic is a serious impediment to learning to read?"

I find such a hypothesis strange.  My ignorance is glaring but wouldn't the
vowel marking (dammah, kesra and fatha) on any given letter, exclusive of
the 'waw', 'yah', and 'alif' following each of the markings respectively, be
considered a 'short vowel' (i.e. 'asad')?

"Likewise, is there any real evidence that reading Arabic requires more of a
"decoding" approach than, for example, English, given Arabic's lack of short
vowels and multiple shapes for letters?"

If we consider that there are quite a few irregular words in the English
language, which are not 'decodable' per se, than we can see that both a
phonics approach, i.e. 'decoding', and memorization are necessary.  As for
Arabic, if you stick to the vowel markings than anyone can read virtually
anything.

Therefore, due to the fact that Arabic has less irregularities, phonetically
speaking, it would appear that statistically one would utilize decoding more
in Arabic than English.  This does have its benefits (less memorizing of
irregularities).

Umm Muadth

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 17 16:14:59 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:14:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:University of Arizona Job
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Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: MarlattE at u.arizona.edu
Subject: University of Arizona Job

Advertisement, Arabic Instructor

The Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Arizona seeks to
hire for the 2001-2002 academic year a lecturer in Arabic with excellent
skills relating to language instruction and pedagogy.  The Department also
expects to recruit for an assistant professor of Arabic, beginning in fall
2002, and the individual hired for the one-year lectureship may apply for
this position.  The successful candidate will have responsibility for
first-year Arabic instruction and may teach either colloquial Arabic or a
course in his/her area of academic specialization.  The ability to teach any
Arabic dialect other than Egyptian will be considered.  Candidates must have
a Ph.D. to apply.  Areas of research specialization may include linguistics,
sociolinguistics, language pedagogy, or literature and cultural studies.  To
apply, send a curriculum vitae, 3 letters of reference and cover letter
summarizing related interests and experience to:

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Review of materials will begin November 1, 2000 and continue until position
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 17 16:16:02 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:16:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Electronic Library Project
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Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: micho <sukkami at yahoo.com>
Subject: Arabic Electronic Library Project

All,

I am working on a neat project qalam.org. The
objective
is to create an electronic arabic library for arabic
books that are over 70 yrs old. Can you please share
thoughts and enlist your help on that subject!!

I mostly need serious volunteers that such project
will motivate them....

salam

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:04:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:04:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Song lyrics responses
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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Song lyrics response

  couldn't "al-saari" also mean "the one who travels (or comes out) at
night"????
andy

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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Rasheed El-Enany <R.El-Enany at exeter.ac.uk>
Subject: Song lyrics response

"`Ala Dau` al-Kawkab al-Sari" means 'under the light of the stars at night'.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:02:17 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:02:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Zagazig query
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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: jrader at Merriam-Webster.com
Subject: Zagazig query

A plea for help from a non-Arabist: I wonder if list members would
have any opinions on the pronunciation of <Zagazig>, a city in the
Nile Delta.  We have on record (though from where I can't tell)
pronunciations with the primary stress both on the first syllable and
on the second syllable.  The "Arabic" form, presumably a
transliteration of MSA, is Az-Zaqa:zi:q (I use the colon for a long
vowel), with secondary stress on the first and third syllables and
primary stress on the last.  Do any of these pronunciations reflect
the pronunciation of the name by Arabic speakers either inside or
outside of Egypt?  Thanks.
Jim Rader
Etymology Editor
Merriam-Webster, Inc.
47 Federal St., P.O. Box 281
Springfield MA 01102
http://www.merriamwebster.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:08:34 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:08:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:stripping HTML
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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Neal and Teresa Kaloupek <khaleej at omantel.net.om>
Subject: stripping HTML

[I think this message was meant mainly for me, but thought some of you
might benefit from the info. Dil]

A fairly easy way of removing the HTML (as in the message of 14 August with
the subject "Translation Website") in Windows is as follows:

1) Select the message from the first HTML tag through the last;
2) Copy it to the clipboard (either through Edit / Copy or with Ctrl-C);
3) Create a new temporary text document (I usually do it on my desktop);
4) Open the text document and paste the HTML text into it;
5) Save and close the document containing the HTML;
6) Rename the text document to have a suffix of .HTM instead of .TXT; [To do
this you may need to turn off hiding suffixes, or "file extensions"; go into
Windows Explorer and to "View" / "Folder Options..." and the "View" tab, and
uncheck the "Hide file extensions for known file types" checkbox.]
7) After the document has an .HTM extension you can open it in your web
browser and see it the way it was meant to be seen; from there if you'd like
you can copy and paste the text into a plain-text message.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:03:12 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:03:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:"tion" suffix query
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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Rizwanur Rahman <r.rahman at lycos.com>
Subject: tion" suffix query

dear sir,
assalamu alaikum

Despite being active in the field of translation and appliedd liguistics i
have always faces a problem of getting equivalent expressions of some
English terminologies endding with certain sufixes i.e. -tion, and -ity.
Some linguistics find the sulution off "-tion" in II form of af9aal mazeed
feeh. but it is not always correct and satisffactory.
I sall be very thankul if members of this forum provided a satisfacory an
universally applicable solution.

thanking you
Dr. Rizwanur Rahman
centre of arabic and african studies
jawaharlal nehru university
new delhi-110067 inia

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 24 23:59:26 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:59:26 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Electronic Library Project response
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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject: Arabic Electronic Library Project response

If Princeton has microfilmed as many old Arabic texts as they set out to do,
these can easily be converted to graphic files and compressed. Scanning old
fonts, on the other hand (even the ones that look simple generally are not),
is tricky.

Joseph Bell

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:01:02 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:01:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:JAIS New Address
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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject: JAIS New Address

Our section and thus also the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies have moved.

The new address is:

(Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies)
Section for Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Sydnesplass 12
N-5007 Bergen
Norway

Telephone numbers and e-mail addresses remain unchanged, although we may
soon get a different fax number.

Regards,
Joseph Bell

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:07:15 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:07:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Software Ads
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1) Subject: Almutarjim
2) Subject: Kalimat

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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Giovany <giovany at arabiclibrary.com>
Subject: Almutarjim

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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Kalimat

Layout Ltd. and AramediA Group announce the
release of Version 3.0 of its top-selling Arabization
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:11:34 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:11:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Electronic Archives Query
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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: bickettb at gunet.georgetown.edu
Subject: Electronic Archives Query

Do you know of any websites that are  electronic archives with hypertext =
links?  It can be teaching- or research-oriented. Preferably more than =
just a list of links to other sites. We are compiling a list of such sites =
to illustrate ways that humanist scholars are using technology.
Please forward this message to others that might be interested...
Thanks, Brenda

Brenda E. Bickett
Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Bibliographer
Lauinger Library
Georgetown University
Box 57-1174
Washington DC 20057-1174
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 15:57:09 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:57:09 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Zagazig response
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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Zagazig response


	The two pronunciations offered by Mr. Rader are accurate and do
exist simultaneously.  The difference between <Az-Zaqa:zi:q> & <Zagazig>
stems from the difference between MSA and Spoken Egyptian.  I would
suggest that both be noted in updated dictionaries as two viable
registers.
		M. Deeb

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 16:02:25 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:02:25 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article
Message-ID: <THU.31.AUG.2000.090225.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Article on Arabic in Theoretical Linguistics Vol. 25-2/3 (1999)

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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Article on Arabic in Theoretical Linguistics Vol. 25-2/3 (1999)

Theoretical Linguistics

Edited by Helmut Schnelle
ISSN 0301-4428
3 issues per volume (1 single and 1 double issue)


JAMAL AL-QINAI
Expectation vs. Implication in English-Arabic Translation

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 16:01:17 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:01:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Tayyib Salih Query
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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Tayyib Salih Query

Hi,
Is there anybody who can tell me:

1.  What is the year of the first Arabic issue of at-Tayyib Salih's:
1-1. Mawsim al-hijra ila ash-shima:l (Season of Migration to the North)
1-2. 3ars az-zayn (The Wedding of Zein).

2. What is the complete list of Salih's published works.

Thanks,
Srpko

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 16:00:04 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:00:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Business Arabic Query
Message-ID: <THU.31.AUG.2000.090004.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: Jamal Attar <jamattar at cyberia.net.lb>
Subject: Business Arabic Query

Dear members and  respected colleagues

I would very much appreciate your advise on the availability of a
college level book in Arabic that addresses "Business letter writing" in
the Arabic, or what is known as  teaching "Arabic" for college students
of "Business". Kindly mention name, author and bibliography of book/s.

Thanks for any feedback.


Respectfully,

Jamal el-'Attar, Ph.D

Arabic and Civilization Studies
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 15:59:20 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:59:20 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:ME Center Development Directory Job
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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: marym at ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Mary. Martin)
Subject: ME Center Development Directory Job

    ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR DEVELOPMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF
   	PENNSYLVANIA'S MIDDLE EAST CENTER

     The Associate Director for Development (ADD) for the Middle East Center
     will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Center, a federally funded
     (Title VI) National Resource Center, which is expanding the contemporary
     world affairs components of its teaching, research, and outreach
     efforts.  The ADD will lead a new program design and fundraising effort
     in the successful candidate's specific field of expertise.  (These might
     include economic development, mass media and society, human rights,
     migration, security studies, energy and geopolitics, health and society,
     or state building.)  At the same time, the ADD will assist the director
     in administering the Center's existing initiatives.  In both the new and
     existing programs, the ADD will be working closely with faculty and
     students (undergraduates and graduates) in expanding the
     research-oriented curriculum and developing collaborative relationships
     with other institutions; strengthening linkages with scholars from the
     Middle East; organizing conferences and other public programming; and
     negotiating with foundation officers, public agencies, and private
     donors.

     MA, Ph.D. preferred, in relevant discipline, combined with a strong
     Middle East Studies background. Knowledge of at least one of the
     languages of the region and overseas experience in the Middle East.
     Successful record of fundraising and grant writing.  Some travel likely.
     Qualified candidates will be able to teach in their areas of interest
     and will be eligible for research support and conference travel funded
     by the Center.

     Send letters of interest, curriculum vitae and a list of three referees,
     including your current supervisor, to Chair, Search Committee, Middle
     East Center, 839 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania,
     Philadelphia, PA  19104-6305, by September 15, 2000.

     AA/EOE

     For further information, please contact Robert Vitalis at 215 898 6497
     or The Middle East Center
     Phone: (215) 898-6335
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 16:20:12 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:20:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS 2001 Call for Papers
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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: Samira Farwaneh <s.farwaneh at m.cc.utah.edu>
Subject: ALS 2001 Call for Papers

PLEASE POST

Call For Papers


The Arabic Linguistics Society,
The University of Utah and
Brigham Young University

announce the

Fifteenth Annual Symposium on
Arabic Linguistics

to be held at

The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

March 2-3 2001

Papers are invited on topics that deal with the application of current
linguistic theories and analyses to Arabic. Research in the following areas
of Arabic linguistics is encouraged: grammatical analysis (phonology,
morphology,  syntax, semantics), sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics,
discourse analysis,  historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, etc.

Persons interested in presenting papers are requested to submit a one-page
abstract giving the title of the paper, a brief statement of the topic, and
a  summary clearly stating how the topic will be developed (the reasoning,
data, or experimental results to be presented). Authors are requested to
be>as specific  as possible in describing their topics. Abstracts should be
submitted by e-mail, where possible. The top lines of the message should
contain the authors name,  affiliation, address, phone number, e-mail
address, and the title of the paper.  The body of the abstract should then
follow after 4 blank lines. The heading  will be omitted before it is sent
to the members of the paper selection  committee. Please do not send
attachments. If submitted by mail,
both a disk copy and a hard copy are to be  included. Names are not to
appear on the abstract; instead, a 3x5 card with the  above information
should be enclosed. Twenty minutes will be allowed for each  presentation.

2000 ALS membership dues ($20 faculty, $15 students) and conference fees
($25 preregistered) are to be submitted with all abstracts and must be
received by the abstract deadline. Membership dues are non-refundable;
conference fees are refundable, if requested, only to those whose papers
are not accepted.

Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts
November 15 2000

Abstracts should be addressed to:
Tessa Hauglid
1346 South 2950 East
Spanish Fork UT 84660
Phone: 801-794-9387
E-Mail: tmh1 at mstar2.net

Other enquiries may be addressed to:
Samira Farwaneh
Voice: 801 581 4928
E-Mail: s.farwaneh at m.cc.utah.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 15:58:16 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:58:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Wants Compuer Lexicon
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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Wants Compuer Lexicon

Fellow List Members,

I received the following request from a client who is interested
in locating the following two items. He is also willing to pay
for them, not just find out, I was told:

>>
Dear George,

It was good to talk to you today.

I am interested in purchasing a good-quality Arabic lexicon in
computer readable form.  If the lexicon is part of an Arabic-English
dictionary, that would be fine also.  But, I would be interested in
the lexicon (i.e., list of words) whether it is part of a dictionary
or not.  The larger the lexicon, the better.

I am also interested in purchasing an Arabic morphological analyzer.

Any information regarding the above two items would be greatly
appreciated.

Regards,
John Makhoul
>>>

Please forward your responses to my direct address, or indirectly
via this Mailing List. Please, do not send to both, I am an avid reader
of this List. Thank you...

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug  1 16:34:13 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:34:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Attitudes Response
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Date: 01 Aug 2000
From: Nimat Hafez Barazangi <nhb2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Attitudes Response

 I second the source provided by Mohammad T. Alhawary:

(Pienemann, M and M. Johnston.  1987.  "Factors influencing the development
>of language acquisition". In D. Nunan (ed.) Applying Second Language
>Acquisition Research.  Adelaide: Australia: National Curriculum Research
>Center).

Also, there are other similar sources in the References of my recent paper
in Al Arabiyya (v.32).

Although my article "Arabic Self-Learning..." does not deal directly with
attitudes on purely psychological level, it deals with the acquisition of
Arabic as a second language. It specifically tests the effect of learners'
prior learning patterns,their perceptions of language learning, and of
Arabic, in particualr.

Best wishes

Nimat

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug  1 16:37:20 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:37:20 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Rhyming Dictionary Query
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Date: 01 Aug 2000
From: dil at byu.edu
Subject: Rhyming Dictionary Query

An American Arabic learner and aspiring Arabic poet has asked me if rhyming
dictionaries exist for Arabic.  Since I have no idea, I'm asking you.  Do
Arab poets ever make use of lexicographic tools to help them find rhymes or
words with particular patterns to fit their meters?   What kinds of tools?
Dil Parkinson

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug  1 16:33:31 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:33:31 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Transliteration Software Response
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Date: 01 Aug 2000
From: jolandaguardi <jolandaguardi at iol.it>
Subject: Transliteration Software Response

<DIV><FONT face="Florentine Garamond SSi">I don't think such a software exust,
also because the academic world doesn't agree on the here so called
"scientific
transliteration". Anyway I know that in Bologna (Italy) a scholar group has
preparead a specific software to analyze text in arabic and to transliterate
them and maybe you can ask them. The programmer is Davide Righi and you can
write him at:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Florentine Garamond SSi"><A
href="mailto:daviderighi at hotmail.com">daviderighi at hotmail.com</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug  4 23:19:13 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:19:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Rhyming Dictionary responses
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2) Subject: Rhyming Dictionary response
3) Subject: Rhyming Dictionary response

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Date: 04 Aug 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Rhyming Dictionary response

	Unless there has been recently an attempt to compile a rhyming
dictionary, to the best of my knowledge, there are no such classical
dictionaries.  Some Arab lexicographers, however, arranged their mammoth
dictionaries with the idea of "rhyme" on their minds, and with a view to
helping rhymesters.  This is precisely what al-Fayruuzaabaadhii and
Ibn-ManZuur did in *al-Qaamuus al-MuHiiT* & *Lisaan al- at Arab."  Entries
are arranged in accordance with their rhymes, thus, "rasama" (to draw /
paint) and "basama" (to smile) are looked up under letter "miim."  The
first letter, "r", in (r-s-m) is called "faSl" (section), the last, "m" is
called "baab" (chapter).

	Satisfactory as this might have sounded to the two lexicographers
and Arabic sensibility at the time, this system is rather cumbersome, and
indeed sadistic, esp. with roots of controversial vowel endings.  That is
probably why *Lisaan al- at Arab* has been re-arranged and re-issued in our
more accessible alphabetical order.
					M. Deeb

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Date: 04 Aug 2000
From: alhawar at american.edu
Subject: Rhyming Dictionary response

ahlan yaa Dil,

Of course there are tons of rhyming dictionaries. ?The first such
dictionary is Al-SiHaaH, compiled by Al-Jawharii. ?Others include Qaamuus
Al-MuHiiT by Al-Fayruuz Aabaadii, lisaan Al-9arab by Ibn ManDHuur, and
taaj al-9aruus by Al-zabiidii.
These are among THE major Arabic dictionary.

By the way, there is an edition of the lisaan Al-9arab that was arranged
by Maazin Al-mubaarak et. al. alphabetically according to the root
system.

best,
Mohammad T. Alhawary

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3)
Date: 04 Aug 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Rhyming Dictionary response

As an audience, I think Arabic poetry will have to come out of the heart
and guts, and not from a rhyming dictionary.

Once, I saw an Arab poet work and write words on a handkerchief,
in Beirut.

I do not know if ZajaL is considered poetry, but could not imagine
ZaghLool Eddamour looking up in a dictionary, while Zein Sh3ayb
is out rhyming him "LIVE"! This folkloric (Lebanon) form of poetry
is born with the person, it cannot be mechanized.

Best Regards,

George N. Hallak
AramediA Group
761 Adams Street
Boston, MA 02122, USA

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug  8 16:19:43 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 09:19:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book on Comparative Morphology
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Date: 08 Aug 2000
From: Hassan Gadalla <hgadalla at acc.aun.eun.eg>
Subject: New Book on Comparative Morphology

Dear Friends,

I am pleased to announce that Lincom Europa has recently published my
book on Arabic Comparative Morphology. It is entitled "Comparative
Morphology of Standard and Egyptian Arabic". Its major concern is the
comparison of the morphological aspects of Standard Arabic (SA) and
Egyptian Arabic (EA). It is divided into five chapters. Chapter One
provides a phonological outline of SA and EA. It also analyses the
morphological basics and the morphosyntactic preliminaries of the two
varieties. Chapter Two is devoted to the morphology of triradical and
quadriradical verbs. In addition, the inflection of verbs for
aspect/mood and voice and a treatment of verbal affixes and verb
derivation are provided.
Chapter Three deals with the morphology of primary and deverbal nouns.
Moreover, the divergence between definite and indefinite nouns and the
inflection of nouns for case, gender and number are explained. The
formation of the diminutive is also illustrated. Chapter Four handles
the morphology of adjectival stems. Then, the difference between
definite and indefinite adjectives and the inflection of adjectives for
case, gender, number and degree are analyzed. Furthermore, participial
forms and relational adjectives are discussed. Chapter Five is related
to the morphology of closed-list classes, including pronouns,
prepositions, adverbs, as well as interrogative and responsive
particles. Finally, negative and possessive particles are exhibited.

For information on the price and how to order, please visit the
following web site:
http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/9724.htm

Best wishes for you all.
Hassan Gadalla
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Aug 14 19:00:11 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:00:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Translation website
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Date: 14 Aug 2000
From: Digitek <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Translation website

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Aug 14 18:56:24 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:56:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Form IV query
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Date: 14 Aug 2000
From: Mark Letourneau <SAGMLETOUR at aol.com>
Subject: Form IV query

Greetings. I am studying the syntax of derived Form VI verbs with understood
reciprocals in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and I would appreciate your help
with the following questions.

"Blocking" of  Form I by Form VI

Lebanese Arabic has sentences like the following (from Aoun, Benmamoun, and
Sportiche 1994:214):

(1)         Kariim w Marwaan biHibbo ba9Dun
            'Kariim and Marwaan love each other.'

Do such sentences exist in MSA?  For example, is (2) possible (or, better,
attested)?

(2)         Kariim(un) wa Marwaan(un) yuHibbuuna ba9Dahum ba9Dan
            'Kariim and Marwaan love each other.'

I am wondering whether sentences like (2) are "blocked" by Form VI verbs that
express the same meaning with an implicit reciprocal, for example, taHaabab:

(3)         yataHaababu Kariim(un) wa Marwaan(un)
            'Kariim and Marwaan love [each other].'

If Form VI verbs with implicit reciprocals as in (3) do block Form I verbs
with overt reciprocals as in (2), examples of any other Form VI verbs with
which this blocking takes place would be useful.

Grammaticality Judgments

My specific concern in this research is agreement between compound subject
NPs and Form VI verbs in VSO sentences.  I'd therefore like to know whether
the following sentences are grammatical or not (ignoring nunation). To
simplify coding responses, please list the numbers (and, if applicable, lower
case letters) of the sentences; then put a dash "---" after the number
(letter) if the sentence is grammatical and an asterisk "*" if it is
ungrammatical. The Form VI verbs below, together with their glosses, are all
drawn from Wehr-Cowan.

(4)         taqaaraba Kariim wa Marwaan wa AHmad kulluhum
            Kariim and Marwaan and Ahmad all approached [each other].'

(5)         tatamaathalu Kariima wa Marwaan al-ithnaani
            'Kariima and Marwaan both resemble [each other].'

(6)         taraa?aa Kariim wa Marwaan kullu waaHidin
            'Karim and Marwaan each saw [each other].'

(7)     a. taqaatala Kariim wa Marwaan sawaa?an
                 'Kariim and Marwaan fought [each other] together.'

        b. qatala ?alirhaabiyyu ?al9asuufa sawaa?an
                 'The terrorist killed the despot together.'

(8)     a. tajaadhaba Kariim wa Salwa fii nafsi ?al-waqTi
                 'Kariim and Salwa attracted [each other] at the same time.'

        b. jadhaba al[rajulu al-mar?ata fii nafsi ?al-waqTi
                 'The man attracted the woman at the same time.'

I surmise that (8b) has a reading in which fii nafsi al-waqTi is anaphoric to
a time mentioned in a previous sentence. The reading in which I am interested
is the nonanaphoric reading that parallels the one in (8a).

(9)     ?iltaqaa Kariim wa Marwaan
        'Kariim and Marwaan met [each other].'

(10)    man ?iltaqaa Kariim wa Marwaan?
        'Whom did Kariim and Marwaan meet [each other]?'

(11)    xarajat al-mudarrisatu wa al-Taalibu ?alladhaani yataqaabalaana
        The teacher (f.) and the student who met [each other] left.'

(12)    a. man fattasha Kariim wa Marwaan qabla maa pro qaarabaa(haa)?
            'Whom did Kariim and Marwaan investigate before they approached
(her)?'

In this sentence, Kariim wa Marwaan antecedes the understood subject pro, as
it does in (12b, c), and man antecedes -haa.

        b. man fattasha Kariim wa Marwaan qabla maa pro taqaarabaa [e]?
             'Whom did Kariim and Marwaan investigate before they approached
each other?'

In this sentence, Kariim wa Marwaan rather than man antecedes the understood
reciprocal, represented by [e].

        c. man fattasha Kariim wa Marwaan qabla maa pro taqaarabaa [e]?
           'Whom did Kariim and Marwaan investigate before they approached
each other?'

In this sentence, man rather than Kariim wa Marwaan antecedes the understood
reciprocal [e].

(13)    tuquubilat Kariiam wa Marwaan
        'Each other were met by Kariima and Marwaan.'
        'Kariima and Marwaan were met by each other.'

Please indicate whether (13) is possible under either gloss.

Thank you.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Aug 14 18:57:32 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:57:32 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Short Vowel query
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Date: 14 Aug 2000
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: Short Vowel query

I am chairing the M.A. thesis of a student looking at the effect of an MSA
preschool immersion program in Damascus.  We've got a few questions:

Is anyone aware of any solid research that substantiates the claim that the
lack of short vowels in Arabic is a serious impediment to learning to read?
I personally have a hard time imagining that this is any more demanding
than English spelling.  Likewise, is there any real evidence that reading
Arabic requires more of a "decoding" approach than, for example, English,
given Arabic's lack of short vowels and multiple shapes for letters?

Could anyone suggest studies or works that discuss the tendency of students
to enjoy memorizing poetry, or that speak positively of other aspects of
learning Arabic?

Thanks,

Kirk
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Aug 14 18:54:30 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:54:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Morph. family size query
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Date: 14 Aug 2000
From: Sami Boudelaa <sami.boudelaa at mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Morph. family size query

	Hi
	Does anyBODY out there know of a reference about morphological
family size
in Arabic? I am looking for statistical information about the number of
surface forms sharing the same root (including verbs in their citation
forms and derived nouns).
Thanks
Sami Boudelaa

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Aug 14 22:33:03 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:33:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Translation Website Clean Re-post
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Date: 14 Aug 2000
From: Digitek <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Translation Website Clean Re-post

DIGITEK INTERNATIONAL ?
?

The Arabic Web:
Tarjim.com Arabizes English Language Search Engines and Websites

Washington DC, August 9 -- Sakhr Software and Digitek International
announce free instant Website translation to Arabic at the Tarjim.com
Website. Tarjim.com translates English language text on any Internet page
into Arabic.

"We have released the site as a public service to Arabic-speaking people
all over the world," said Fahd Al-Sharekh, Sakhr's Business Development
Manager.? At the moment, the site offers English to Arabic translation.?
Sakhr intends to launch the Arabic to English service by the end of this
year.

English language Webpages on the Internet (estimated to be as much as 70%
of the Web) are now accessible to the Arabic-reading public.? Tarjim.com
also Arabizes English language search engines, such as Yahoo, Hotbot,
Lycos, and others, giving Arabic users wider access to research tools.

Tarjim.com uses the latest version of Sakhr's machine translation
engines.?? Sakhr has spent 18 years developing bilingual and bidirectional
translation capabilities.? Tarjim's level of accuracy is quite high for
machine translation engines, though like any automated translation the end
result still requires human post-editing.?? Tarjim.

Arabic speakers can now read, research, search, and browse the entire
corpus of English language knowledge on the Web in their own languages.?
Web surfers just type in the Internet address (URL) in their Internet
Explorer and wait for the page to appear in Arabic.?? News stories, home
pages, product information, and even search engines are available
on-the-fly in Arabic.

Tarjim (an Arabic word meaning "translate) is at
<http://www.tarjim.com>http://www.tarjim.com.?? Users should access the
site through Internet Explorer after first enabling the Arabic script
feature (go to View, then Encoding, on the toolbar and select Arabic) for
the browser.? The Tarjim homepage allows users to improve accuracy by
selecting specialty dictionaries for sports, military, the arts,
transportation, and other topics.? Unfortunately, Webpage graphics are not
translatable, only text is.

To use the search facilities of Yahoo, Lycos, or Hotbot, an Arab Web surfer
starts by inputting the search page (e.g. www.yahoo.com or www.hotbot.com)
into Tarjim, which then translates the Yahoo or Hotbot page and displays it
in Microsoft Internet Explorer.? Switching to Arabic input (with
Alt-Shift), the user types in an Arabic search request.? On receiving the
request, the Tarjim server translates the search item into English,
collects the results from Yahoo or Hotbot, and translates the English
language results back into Arabic before displaying them in Arabic for the
Web surfer to see.? Users see none of the intermediate steps: just the
Arabic input and the Arabic output.

For corporations and government bodies thinking of localizing their Web
content into Arabic, the Webpage translator gives a great preview of their
Arabized content.? Of course, companies using Digitek and Sakhr's
translation and localization services receive professional post-editing of
the translation to ensure the accuracy and efficacy of their Arabic
Webpages.

Sakhr Software, of Cairo, Egypt, is the Middle East?s foremost developer of
Arabic language software.? It is a leading researcher in advanced language
and speech technologies and a developer of linguistic and database search
engines.? Digitek International, like Sakhr Software a member of the
Alalamiah Group, represents Sakhr Software in North America. ?
?
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug 15 17:11:54 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:11:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article
Message-ID: <TUE.15.AUG.2000.101154.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 15 Aug 2000
From: moderator [reposted from LINGUIST]
Subject: SOAS Working Papers article

The SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 9 are now
available. 515 pages.  Please note that many of these
papers [including the one listed here] can be downloaded free of charge at
the new SOAS Linguistics
web-site:

  http://www.soas.ac.uk/Linguistics/wp.htm

DIALECTOLOGY
Ingham, B. "The Dialect of the 'Marsh Arabs' of Southern Mesopotamia"


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug 15 17:08:13 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:08:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Short Vowels response
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Date: 15 Aug 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Short Vowels response

Abu-Rabia, Salim. "Reading in Arabic Orthography: The effect of vowels
and and context on reading accuracy of poor and skilled native Arabic
readers." <UNDERLINE> Reading and Writing:
An Interdisciplinary Journal </UNDERLINE>. 9:65-78, 1997.  Holland, Kluwer
Academic Publishers.

Abu-Rabia, Salim. "Reading of Arabic Texts: Effects of text type, reader
type and vowelization."  <UNDERLINE> Reading and Writing: An
Interdisciplinary Journal </UNDERLINE>. 10:105-119, 1998.  Holland, Kluwer
Academic Publishers.

Dr. Abu-Rabia's email = redc551 at haifauvm

enjoy,
Andy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Aug 15 17:08:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:08:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:song lyrics query
Message-ID: <TUE.15.AUG.2000.100855.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 15 Aug 2000
From: N Coffin <coffinn at netscape.net>
Subject: song lyrics query

I'm working on a project involving colloquial songs, and am looking for
someone who is familiar with and can help me decipher a few tricky lines in
the following songs:

Rashid Taha, "Ya Rayah" (from his "Diwan" CD)

Abu Bakr Salim bal-Fagih, "`Ala Dau` al-Kawkab al-Sari" (He's a Yemeni singer;
I'm told that this song is well-known, but I've only got it on cassette, not
on CD)

I will be happy to send anyone who writes to me at ncoffin at princeton.edu a
(brief) Arabic transcription of the lyrics indicating the places where I need
help.

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Nancy Coffin

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 17 16:16:42 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:16:42 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Song Lyrics response
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Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: micho <sukkami at yahoo.com>
Subject: Song Lyrics response

Abu Bakr Salim bal-Fagih, "`Ala Dau` al-Kawkab
al-Sari" (He's a Yemeni singer;


i think this can mean : under the stars' (speedy or
strolling) lights. Note al sari can mean either speedy
or strolling....

the other one i have no clue.....


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 17 16:10:22 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:10:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Morph. family size response
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Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: Tim Buckwalter <tbuckwalter at tegic.com>
Subject: Morph. family size response

There is a "List of Root Frequencies" in Wolf-Dietrich Fromm's
"H?ufigkeitsw?rterbuch der modernen arabischen Zeitungsprache" (1982). For
each root he provides the raw frequency of each lexical item based on that
root. The frequencies come from a small corpus of daily newspapers. For
example, the root m-th-l has:
35 maththala
 7 tamaththala
41 mithla
 3 mithlamaa
15 mathal
 5 mathalan
12 mithaal
10 tamthiil
31 mumaththil
15 mumaathil
 5 mutamaththil

Unfortunately, these statistics apply to the lemmatized results, not the
various surface forms that you're looking for (if i understood your question
correctly).

regards,
Tim Buckwalter
p.s. the book is possibly out of print; if you want to contact the author, i
just found his e-mail address here:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~islamwi/Mitarbeiter.htm

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 17 16:13:12 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:13:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Short Vowel responses
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2) Subject: Short Vowel response
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Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: Roger Allen <rallen at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Short Vowel Query

Kirk:
  Muhammad Ma`muri (Maamouri) of Penn's International Literacy Center
(former head of the Bourghiba Institute in Tnis) has certainly lectured to
us here on the impact of the printing/non-printing of vowels on literacy in
the Arab world.
   As I recollect, he was advocating the use of computer printing as a
means of producing a larger Arabic character set (with vowels) that would
have a major impact on literacy.  In any case you can write to him at:
maamouri at literacy.upenn.edu

al the best as always and hoping to encounter
you in Orlando!

ROGER

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2)
Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: Umm Muadth <umumuadth at awtechnologies.com>
Subject: Short Vowel Query

I am very interested in the research being conducted on the preschool Arabic
immersion program.  Where could one obtain the research thesis upon
completion?

As for your questions, unfortunately I do not have empirical evidence,
merely anecdotal.

"Is anyone aware of any solid research that substantiates the claim that the
lack of short vowels in Arabic is a serious impediment to learning to read?"

I find such a hypothesis strange.  My ignorance is glaring but wouldn't the
vowel marking (dammah, kesra and fatha) on any given letter, exclusive of
the 'waw', 'yah', and 'alif' following each of the markings respectively, be
considered a 'short vowel' (i.e. 'asad')?

"Likewise, is there any real evidence that reading Arabic requires more of a
"decoding" approach than, for example, English, given Arabic's lack of short
vowels and multiple shapes for letters?"

If we consider that there are quite a few irregular words in the English
language, which are not 'decodable' per se, than we can see that both a
phonics approach, i.e. 'decoding', and memorization are necessary.  As for
Arabic, if you stick to the vowel markings than anyone can read virtually
anything.

Therefore, due to the fact that Arabic has less irregularities, phonetically
speaking, it would appear that statistically one would utilize decoding more
in Arabic than English.  This does have its benefits (less memorizing of
irregularities).

Umm Muadth

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 17 16:14:59 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:14:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:University of Arizona Job
Message-ID: <THU.17.AUG.2000.091459.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1)
Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: MarlattE at u.arizona.edu
Subject: University of Arizona Job

Advertisement, Arabic Instructor

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hire for the 2001-2002 academic year a lecturer in Arabic with excellent
skills relating to language instruction and pedagogy.  The Department also
expects to recruit for an assistant professor of Arabic, beginning in fall
2002, and the individual hired for the one-year lectureship may apply for
this position.  The successful candidate will have responsibility for
first-year Arabic instruction and may teach either colloquial Arabic or a
course in his/her area of academic specialization.  The ability to teach any
Arabic dialect other than Egyptian will be considered.  Candidates must have
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Ph: (520) 621-8012

Review of materials will begin November 1, 2000 and continue until position
is filled.  The University of Arizona is an EEO/AA Employer-M/W/D/V.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 17 16:16:02 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:16:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Electronic Library Project
Message-ID: <THU.17.AUG.2000.091602.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1)
Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: micho <sukkami at yahoo.com>
Subject: Arabic Electronic Library Project

All,

I am working on a neat project qalam.org. The
objective
is to create an electronic arabic library for arabic
books that are over 70 yrs old. Can you please share
thoughts and enlist your help on that subject!!

I mostly need serious volunteers that such project
will motivate them....

salam

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:04:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:04:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Song lyrics responses
Message-ID: <THU.24.AUG.2000.170455.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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2) Subject: Song lyrics response

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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Song lyrics response

  couldn't "al-saari" also mean "the one who travels (or comes out) at
night"????
andy

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2)
Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Rasheed El-Enany <R.El-Enany at exeter.ac.uk>
Subject: Song lyrics response

"`Ala Dau` al-Kawkab al-Sari" means 'under the light of the stars at night'.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:02:17 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:02:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Zagazig query
Message-ID: <THU.24.AUG.2000.170217.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: jrader at Merriam-Webster.com
Subject: Zagazig query

A plea for help from a non-Arabist: I wonder if list members would
have any opinions on the pronunciation of <Zagazig>, a city in the
Nile Delta.  We have on record (though from where I can't tell)
pronunciations with the primary stress both on the first syllable and
on the second syllable.  The "Arabic" form, presumably a
transliteration of MSA, is Az-Zaqa:zi:q (I use the colon for a long
vowel), with secondary stress on the first and third syllables and
primary stress on the last.  Do any of these pronunciations reflect
the pronunciation of the name by Arabic speakers either inside or
outside of Egypt?  Thanks.
Jim Rader
Etymology Editor
Merriam-Webster, Inc.
47 Federal St., P.O. Box 281
Springfield MA 01102
http://www.merriamwebster.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:08:34 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:08:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:stripping HTML
Message-ID: <THU.24.AUG.2000.170834.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Neal and Teresa Kaloupek <khaleej at omantel.net.om>
Subject: stripping HTML

[I think this message was meant mainly for me, but thought some of you
might benefit from the info. Dil]

A fairly easy way of removing the HTML (as in the message of 14 August with
the subject "Translation Website") in Windows is as follows:

1) Select the message from the first HTML tag through the last;
2) Copy it to the clipboard (either through Edit / Copy or with Ctrl-C);
3) Create a new temporary text document (I usually do it on my desktop);
4) Open the text document and paste the HTML text into it;
5) Save and close the document containing the HTML;
6) Rename the text document to have a suffix of .HTM instead of .TXT; [To do
this you may need to turn off hiding suffixes, or "file extensions"; go into
Windows Explorer and to "View" / "Folder Options..." and the "View" tab, and
uncheck the "Hide file extensions for known file types" checkbox.]
7) After the document has an .HTM extension you can open it in your web
browser and see it the way it was meant to be seen; from there if you'd like
you can copy and paste the text into a plain-text message.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:03:12 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:03:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:"tion" suffix query
Message-ID: <THU.24.AUG.2000.170312.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Rizwanur Rahman <r.rahman at lycos.com>
Subject: tion" suffix query

dear sir,
assalamu alaikum

Despite being active in the field of translation and appliedd liguistics i
have always faces a problem of getting equivalent expressions of some
English terminologies endding with certain sufixes i.e. -tion, and -ity.
Some linguistics find the sulution off "-tion" in II form of af9aal mazeed
feeh. but it is not always correct and satisffactory.
I sall be very thankul if members of this forum provided a satisfacory an
universally applicable solution.

thanking you
Dr. Rizwanur Rahman
centre of arabic and african studies
jawaharlal nehru university
new delhi-110067 inia

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 24 23:59:26 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:59:26 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Electronic Library Project response
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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject: Arabic Electronic Library Project response

If Princeton has microfilmed as many old Arabic texts as they set out to do,
these can easily be converted to graphic files and compressed. Scanning old
fonts, on the other hand (even the ones that look simple generally are not),
is tricky.

Joseph Bell

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:01:02 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:01:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:JAIS New Address
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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject: JAIS New Address

Our section and thus also the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies have moved.

The new address is:

(Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies)
Section for Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Sydnesplass 12
N-5007 Bergen
Norway

Telephone numbers and e-mail addresses remain unchanged, although we may
soon get a different fax number.

Regards,
Joseph Bell

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:07:15 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:07:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Software Ads
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1) Subject: Almutarjim
2) Subject: Kalimat

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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Giovany <giovany at arabiclibrary.com>
Subject: Almutarjim

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2)
Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Kalimat

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Aug 25 00:11:34 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:11:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Electronic Archives Query
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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: bickettb at gunet.georgetown.edu
Subject: Electronic Archives Query

Do you know of any websites that are  electronic archives with hypertext =
links?  It can be teaching- or research-oriented. Preferably more than =
just a list of links to other sites. We are compiling a list of such sites =
to illustrate ways that humanist scholars are using technology.
Please forward this message to others that might be interested...
Thanks, Brenda

Brenda E. Bickett
Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Bibliographer
Lauinger Library
Georgetown University
Box 57-1174
Washington DC 20057-1174
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 15:57:09 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:57:09 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Zagazig response
Message-ID: <THU.31.AUG.2000.085709.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Zagazig response

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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Zagazig response


	The two pronunciations offered by Mr. Rader are accurate and do
exist simultaneously.  The difference between <Az-Zaqa:zi:q> & <Zagazig>
stems from the difference between MSA and Spoken Egyptian.  I would
suggest that both be noted in updated dictionaries as two viable
registers.
		M. Deeb

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 16:02:25 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:02:25 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Article
Message-ID: <THU.31.AUG.2000.090225.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Article on Arabic in Theoretical Linguistics Vol. 25-2/3 (1999)

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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Article on Arabic in Theoretical Linguistics Vol. 25-2/3 (1999)

Theoretical Linguistics

Edited by Helmut Schnelle
ISSN 0301-4428
3 issues per volume (1 single and 1 double issue)


JAMAL AL-QINAI
Expectation vs. Implication in English-Arabic Translation

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 16:01:17 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:01:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Tayyib Salih Query
Message-ID: <THU.31.AUG.2000.090117.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Tayyib Salih Query

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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Tayyib Salih Query

Hi,
Is there anybody who can tell me:

1.  What is the year of the first Arabic issue of at-Tayyib Salih's:
1-1. Mawsim al-hijra ila ash-shima:l (Season of Migration to the North)
1-2. 3ars az-zayn (The Wedding of Zein).

2. What is the complete list of Salih's published works.

Thanks,
Srpko

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 16:00:04 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:00:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Business Arabic Query
Message-ID: <THU.31.AUG.2000.090004.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Business Arabic Query

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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: Jamal Attar <jamattar at cyberia.net.lb>
Subject: Business Arabic Query

Dear members and  respected colleagues

I would very much appreciate your advise on the availability of a
college level book in Arabic that addresses "Business letter writing" in
the Arabic, or what is known as  teaching "Arabic" for college students
of "Business". Kindly mention name, author and bibliography of book/s.

Thanks for any feedback.


Respectfully,

Jamal el-'Attar, Ph.D

Arabic and Civilization Studies
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 15:59:20 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:59:20 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:ME Center Development Directory Job
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1) Subject: ME Center Development Directory Job

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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: marym at ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Mary. Martin)
Subject: ME Center Development Directory Job

    ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR DEVELOPMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF
   	PENNSYLVANIA'S MIDDLE EAST CENTER

     The Associate Director for Development (ADD) for the Middle East Center
     will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Center, a federally funded
     (Title VI) National Resource Center, which is expanding the contemporary
     world affairs components of its teaching, research, and outreach
     efforts.  The ADD will lead a new program design and fundraising effort
     in the successful candidate's specific field of expertise.  (These might
     include economic development, mass media and society, human rights,
     migration, security studies, energy and geopolitics, health and society,
     or state building.)  At the same time, the ADD will assist the director
     in administering the Center's existing initiatives.  In both the new and
     existing programs, the ADD will be working closely with faculty and
     students (undergraduates and graduates) in expanding the
     research-oriented curriculum and developing collaborative relationships
     with other institutions; strengthening linkages with scholars from the
     Middle East; organizing conferences and other public programming; and
     negotiating with foundation officers, public agencies, and private
     donors.

     MA, Ph.D. preferred, in relevant discipline, combined with a strong
     Middle East Studies background. Knowledge of at least one of the
     languages of the region and overseas experience in the Middle East.
     Successful record of fundraising and grant writing.  Some travel likely.
     Qualified candidates will be able to teach in their areas of interest
     and will be eligible for research support and conference travel funded
     by the Center.

     Send letters of interest, curriculum vitae and a list of three referees,
     including your current supervisor, to Chair, Search Committee, Middle
     East Center, 839 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania,
     Philadelphia, PA  19104-6305, by September 15, 2000.

     AA/EOE

     For further information, please contact Robert Vitalis at 215 898 6497
     or The Middle East Center
     Phone: (215) 898-6335
     Fax: (215) 573-2003
     E-mail: info at mec.sas.upenn.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 16:20:12 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:20:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS 2001 Call for Papers
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1) Subject: ALS 2001 Call for Papers

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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: Samira Farwaneh <s.farwaneh at m.cc.utah.edu>
Subject: ALS 2001 Call for Papers

PLEASE POST

Call For Papers


The Arabic Linguistics Society,
The University of Utah and
Brigham Young University

announce the

Fifteenth Annual Symposium on
Arabic Linguistics

to be held at

The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

March 2-3 2001

Papers are invited on topics that deal with the application of current
linguistic theories and analyses to Arabic. Research in the following areas
of Arabic linguistics is encouraged: grammatical analysis (phonology,
morphology,  syntax, semantics), sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics,
discourse analysis,  historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, etc.

Persons interested in presenting papers are requested to submit a one-page
abstract giving the title of the paper, a brief statement of the topic, and
a  summary clearly stating how the topic will be developed (the reasoning,
data, or experimental results to be presented). Authors are requested to
be>as specific  as possible in describing their topics. Abstracts should be
submitted by e-mail, where possible. The top lines of the message should
contain the authors name,  affiliation, address, phone number, e-mail
address, and the title of the paper.  The body of the abstract should then
follow after 4 blank lines. The heading  will be omitted before it is sent
to the members of the paper selection  committee. Please do not send
attachments. If submitted by mail,
both a disk copy and a hard copy are to be  included. Names are not to
appear on the abstract; instead, a 3x5 card with the  above information
should be enclosed. Twenty minutes will be allowed for each  presentation.

2000 ALS membership dues ($20 faculty, $15 students) and conference fees
($25 preregistered) are to be submitted with all abstracts and must be
received by the abstract deadline. Membership dues are non-refundable;
conference fees are refundable, if requested, only to those whose papers
are not accepted.

Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts
November 15 2000

Abstracts should be addressed to:
Tessa Hauglid
1346 South 2950 East
Spanish Fork UT 84660
Phone: 801-794-9387
E-Mail: tmh1 at mstar2.net

Other enquiries may be addressed to:
Samira Farwaneh
Voice: 801 581 4928
E-Mail: s.farwaneh at m.cc.utah.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Aug 31 15:58:16 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:58:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Wants Compuer Lexicon
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1) Subject: Wants Compuer Lexicon

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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Wants Compuer Lexicon

Fellow List Members,

I received the following request from a client who is interested
in locating the following two items. He is also willing to pay
for them, not just find out, I was told:

>>
Dear George,

It was good to talk to you today.

I am interested in purchasing a good-quality Arabic lexicon in
computer readable form.  If the lexicon is part of an Arabic-English
dictionary, that would be fine also.  But, I would be interested in
the lexicon (i.e., list of words) whether it is part of a dictionary
or not.  The larger the lexicon, the better.

I am also interested in purchasing an Arabic morphological analyzer.

Any information regarding the above two items would be greatly
appreciated.

Regards,
John Makhoul
>>>

Please forward your responses to my direct address, or indirectly
via this Mailing List. Please, do not send to both, I am an avid reader
of this List. Thank you...

Best Regards,

George N. Hallak
AramediA Group
761 Adams Street
Boston, MA 02122, USA

http://www.aramedia.com
mailto:info at aramedia.com
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