From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb  1 21:35:07 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:35:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AIMS Summer Program in Tangier
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Date: 01 Feb 2000
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: AIMS Summer Program in Tangier

Tangier, Morocco
Intermediate Arabic Studies Program

July 3 - August 23, 2000

The American Institute for Maghrib Studies is offering a special language
and area studies program based in Tangier, Morocco. This intensive program
comprises six weeks of language study and one week of travel in Morocco.
There will be two tracks of Modern Standard Arabic, depending on the
student's experience and performance on a placement test, as well as the
fundamentals of the Moroccan Colloquial Arabic dialect (a required,
integral part of the course). At the minimum, students should be familiar
with most of the contents of Volume I, Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya
up to chapter eight, or Volume I, Elementary Modern Standard Arabic. The
program will use the Al-Kitaab series supplemented with materials prepared
or collected by faculty.

The one-week cultural tour includes visits to Fez, Meknes, Marrakech,
Casablanca, and Rabat. There are also special lectures and programs in
Arabic, English and French dealing with various aspects of North African
history, culture, and society. Activities from previous years include a
guided tour and lecture on the role of Fez in Moroccan History and Art;
lectures about the Moroccan political scene; the challenges of Arab film
makers; the history of Tetouan; women's musical performances at the shrine
of Moulay Abdesslam; expatriate writing on North Africa.  Students also
attended concerts of Andalousian and Sufi music, receptions, parties,
weddings, and Sufi ceremonies, and previewed a Moroccan film.  Miniclasses
focusing on various aspects of the culture and society will be taught in
Arabic, such as cooking, poetry, music, films, sports, and pilgrimage
sites.

In previous years, a number of students participating in the Tangier Summer
Intensive Arabic Program came from French departments.  These were students
focusing on Francophone literature who realized that at least some
knowledge of Arabic coupled with firsthand familiarity with North African
culture is essential to inform their research. AIMS has thus expanded the
cultural component of the Tangier program and added elements that will be
of particular interest to students interested in North African culture. For
example, there will be lectures in French by visiting Moroccan and other
scholars for students with a French background.  Arabic classroom
discussion will focus on topics of interest to all students participating
in the program.

The program will focus on developing sound conversational and reading
skills in Modern Standard Arabic. However, at the same time, all students
will be in a position to better experience the full range of Moroccan
cultural life, including experiencing French-Arabic code-switching in its
native environment.  This will be a good opportunity for students who are
interested in experiencing North African culture and Moroccan Arabic.

Six college credits (the equivalent of one semester) can be earned by
successful completion of the program.

Program cost is $2,000 for tuition; $200 application and processing fee
(refundable if not admitted); $200 fee to Tangier American Legation Museum;
about $2,500 for room and board, fees and incidentals while in Tangier;
plus international airfare. Total $4,900 plus airfare.

Full and partial fellowship assistance is available. In the past, 95% of
students have received fellowship aid.  Other fellowships, including FLAS,
can be used. Fellows must be U.S. nationals or permanent residents.

The application deadline for this program is April 15, 2000.  Late
applications may be considered on space available basis.

For more information, contact the AIMS Executive Director, Becky Schulthies
at the following:

 Becky Schulthies
 AIMS Executive Director
 734 SWKT
 Brigham Young University
 Provo, UT  84602
 (801) 378-2071
 bls6 at email.byu.edu

or see:

http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/mena/aims/

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb  1 21:33:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:33:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Tunisian Arabic judgements query
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Date: 01 Feb 2000
From: "Frederick M. Hoyt" <fmh2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Tunisian Arabic judgements query

Dear List Members,

I am wondering if there are any native speakers of Tunisian Arabic on this
list who might be willing to provide some native speaker judgements.

I am a graduate student in linguistics at Cornell University, in the
process of completing my MA in the syntax and semantics of existential
constructions in colloquial Arabic. My main topic concerns Palestinian
Arabic, but Palestinian and Tunisian seem to have certain, very interesting
differences in the interpretation of the existential construction.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any people from Tunisia here at
Cornell.

What I have in mind is to present you (by e-mail) with several pairs of
sample sentences along with an explanation of the topic, and ask you
whether you certain examples acceptable in Tunisian, and how you might
interpret them.

Thank you very much, and best wishes to all,

Fred Hoyt
Cornell Department of Linguistics
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb  1 21:48:39 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:48:39 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Synonym query
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1) Subject: Synonym query

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Date: 01 Feb 2000
From: Dilworth B. Parkinson <dil at byu.eu>
Subject: Synonym query

Hi,
I know there are a few medieval synonym books, although I can't think of
their names right now.  However, I have not seen any modern ones, the
equivalent of Roget's Thesaurus in English. It seems that something like
this must exist for the modern language.  Has anyone seen anything like
this.  If so, do you have a reference, or do your remember where (and
hopefully in what bookstore) you saw it?
Thanks for your help.
Dil Parkinson
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb  9 00:12:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:12:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Synonym responses
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1) Subject: Synonym thanks
2) Subject: Synonym response
3) Subject: Synonym response
4) Subject: Synonym response
5) Subject: Synonym response
6) Subject: Synonym response
7) Subject: Synonym response

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Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: Synonym thanks

Thanks to all those who responded to my query for names and sources of
modern Arabic synonym books.  It looks like there is quite a bit out there.
I have posted them below.
Dil

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Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: M Meinke <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Synonym response

The Sakhr basic dictionary, Al-Qamoos, includes antonyms, synonyms, and
examples of usage.  You can access the dictionary from either of the
Sakhr websites:  www.sakhr.com (Arabic interface) or www.sakhrsoft.com
(English).

In addition, the lexicon site at lexicons.sakhr.com has now added
Lissan Al-Arab and the Al-Ghani modern Arabic lexicon to the existing
Al-Muheet, Muheet Al-Muhaeet, Al-Mu'ajam Al-Waseet lexical sources.
Lissan Al-Arab includes the classical lexicons of Tahzib Al-Lugha,
Al-Mohkam, Al-Sahhah, al-Hwashi, and Al-Nihaiya.

All of these are accessible for free through the websites.

DIGITEK INTERNATIONAL

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3)
Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: Pilar Lirola Delgado <pilar.lirola at uca.es>
Subject: Synonym response

        Hi, I know a reference:
        H. Galib Kanz al-lugha el´arabeyyah. (A Thesaurus of Arabic Synonyms
and Antonyms). Beirut: Librarie du Liban, 1973.
        Pilar Lirola
        Universidad de Cádiz.

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4)
Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: Sami Boudelaa <sami.boudelaa at mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Synonym response

Dr D. Parkinson

	You might want to have a look at the following:

	Ath-th'aaliby: "Fiqhal-Lugha Wa Sirr al-'Arabiyya: A
dictionary of meanings. Librairie du Liban Publishers.

Good Luck

Sami

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Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: Ahmed Kraima <AAK at gml.lib.uwm.edu>
Subject: Synonym response

Yes there is one. It is called " A Mini Dictionary of Arabic Synonyms
by Wagdy Rizk Ghali published by Librarie du Liban Publishers, 1996.
It is a very compact volume but could be helpful. I picked up a copy
two years ago in London at
Al Saqi Books
26 Westbourne Grove, London  W2 5RH
Tel: 0171-229 8543
Fax: 0171-229 7492
e-mail: alsaqibooks at compuserve.com

Please note that information is over two years old and I am not sure
if they are still in business. Good luck

Ahmed A Kraima

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Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: Ernest N. McCarus" <enm at umich.edu>
Subject: Synonym response

Al-Maknaz al-`Arabiyy al-Mu`aaSir, by Dr. M.E. Sieny, N.M. Abdul-Aziz and
M.A. Soliman, with the English title "Modern Arabic Thesaurus.
Arabic-Arabic" was published in 1993 by the Librairie du Liban, Beirut.  It
is an alphabetical listing of words extracted from other, standard
dictionaries and accompanied by a string of synonyms.  150 pages.

Ernest McCarus

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7)
Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Synonym response

	Here is this title for now:

	Nakhla, Rafaa'iil.  *Qamuus 'l-Mutaraadifaat wa 'l-Mutajaanisaat*.
			    Beirut, 1957.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb  9 00:13:51 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:13:51 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT: Chemistry and Medicine mscpt query
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Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: "Samia S. Montasser" <sam231 at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
Subject: Chemistry and Medicine mscpt query

Dear colleagues,
I received this message from Germany and would appreciate it if you can
help with the information requested. Many thanks.
Please send your responses directly to the following address:

From: Dr. Laila Zaki <zaki at biophys.mpg.de>

I started some research work about the history of science
specially the effect of the arabic and islamic culture on the Europian
culture in chemistry and medicine like Gaber Ibn Hayan and others do you
have any Idea where I can  find some old arabic books or old hand written
manuscript.
The alternative is to go to Cairo to look for that.
Thanks for your help.
Dr. Laila Zaki.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 15 16:43:40 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:43:40 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Browser that works with Arabic
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1) Subject: Browser that works with Arabic

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Date: 15 Feb 2000
From: "Rahawi, Mohammed" <RahawiM at state.gov>
Subject: Browser that works with Arabic

There is a new Web browser from Germany called iCab. It is fast and
relatively full
     featured, yet small (2-MB of disk space and just 3-MB of RAM needed),
proving that you
     don't have to be a hog to drive on the information superhighway. I
works beautifully with Arabic text. I tried it with ISO, Mac & windows
formats. It worked with all of them. It is still in a
     preview version (expires end of April). When released they plan to sell
it for about $30.
     Get it now before they're crushed by you-know-who.
Regards,
Mohammed Rahawi

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 15 16:46:53 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:46:53 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN: New Sakhr Online Resource -- Arabic Heritage
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Date: 15 Feb 2000
From: sakhrus at erols.com
Subject: New Sakhr Online Resource -- Arabic Heritage

Sakhr's new resource pages of poetry, art, and history are now online at
 http://www.sakhr.com/thkafa/.  Users will need Internet Explorer 5.0 or
Sindbad + Netscape to access the Arabic texts.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 15 16:52:05 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:52:05 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Dubbed Movie Query
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Date: 15 Feb 2000
From: donald.cox at mildenhall.af.mil
Subject: Dubbed Movie Query

[I received this query personally and don't know the answer.  If you have
the information he needs could you respond directly to Sgt Cox?  Thanks.
Dil]

I'm in a bit of a predicament and am hoping that you can either help me
directly or steer me toward someone who can.  I'm the command language
program manager at a large Air Force base in England, where I'm responsible
for overseeing language training for approximately 200 people in almost a
dozen languages.  For some time, I've been concerned about the content of
many of the videos in our foreign language collection (particularly some of
our European 'classics') and would like to provide some alternatives in the
form of Walt Disney movies that have either been dubbed or subtitled in the
Arabic (Modern Standard) and Hebrew languages.  Searches on the Internet
have proven fruitless, and I'm hoping that members of your staff might know
of sources for such materials.

Sincerely,

TSgt Don Cox

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Feb 18 21:38:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:38:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SOAS Easter Courses 2000
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1) Subject: SOAS Easter Courses 2000

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Date: 18 Feb 2000
From: Sherin Abdel Halim <sa15 at soas.ac.uk>
Subject: SOAS Easter Courses 2000

Join us at SOAS in central London this Easter.

This is a timetable of our Easter 2000 language classes of one and two week
courses in Modern Standard Arabic and one and two week courses in
Colloquial Egyptian.

DATES and FEES for Easter 2000:

Course:	1-week Survival
Time:	9.30am - 4pm
Start:	03-April
Finish:	07-April
Apply by:	24-March
Fee:	£250

Course: 	1-week Survival
Time:	9.30am - 4pm
Start:	10-April
Finish:	14-April
Apply by: 	31-March
Fee:	£250

Course:	2-week Intensive
Time:	9.30am - 4pm
Start:	03-April
Finish:	14-April
Apply by:	24-March
Fee:	£500

Please note that classes will take place subject to numbers of enrolments.

For information on our complete range of day/evening/intensive and
specially tailored courses in Arabic you can check our website at
http://www.soas.ac.uk/Centres/LanguageCentre.

Information is now available re: Summer courses.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Feb 18 21:39:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:39:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Sakhr Resource response
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Date: 18 Feb 2000
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Sakhr Resource response

>Sakhr's new resource pages of poetry, art, and history are now online at
> http://www.sakhr.com/thkafa/.  Users will need Internet Explorer 5.0 or
>Sindbad + Netscape to access the Arabic texts.
>
Sakhr's site to me seems very  'cool' for students.
I will certainly indicate this to my students.
One remark: Arabic windows with normal (even Dutch) Netscape (of course)
works fine too. No need for Sindbad in that case.

Jan

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Feb 18 21:37:19 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:37:19 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:More on iCAB
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1) Subject: More on iCAB
2) Subject:  iCAB response

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Date: 18 Feb 2000
From: Albrecht Hofheinz <Hofheinz at wiko-berlin.de>
Subject: More on iCAB

Further to Mohammed Rahawi's posting on iCab:

1) It's browser for the Macintosh, running on both 68xxx and PowerPC machines.

2) The URL is:

http://www.icab.de/

And yes, do check it out and post your feedback to the developers
(they are very responsive!).

Regards,
Albrecht Hofheinz

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Date: 18 Feb 2000
From: M Meinke <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject:  iCAB response

The website at http://www.icab.de/info.html only claims to work for
Macintosh.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Feb 18 21:43:00 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:43:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New publications
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1) Subject: Owens: Arabic as a Minority Language
2) Subject: Articles from IJSL

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Date: 18 Feb 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Arabic as a Minority Language

Arabic as a Minority Language
Edited by Jonathan Owens
2000. 23 x 15,5 cm.  472 pages.
Cloth. DM 248,-/ EUR 126,80 /öS 1810,- /sFr 221,- /approx. US$ 155.00
ISBN 3-11-016578-3
(Contributions to the Sociology of Language 83)

The present book will be the first to center on the status of Arabic as
a minority language. In the first instance it will focus attention on
the existence of many varieties of Arabic outside of the Arabic world.
It will further contribute to the growing literature on minority
languages, placing a special emphasis on the relationship between
minority status and language form.

Contents:

Introduction, Jonathan Owens

Historical Perspectives
The Arabic Language Among the Mozarabs of Toledo during the 12th and
13th Centuries, Ignacio Ferrando

Arabic as a Tool for Expressing Jewish and Romani Ethnic Identity. A
Prolegomena to a Typology of Arabic in Non-Arabic Communities, Paul
Wexler

The Arabic Linguistic and Cultural Tradition in Daghestan: an Historical
Overview, Anna Zelkina

Arabic Ethnic Minorities
Modelling Intrasentential Codeswitching: a Comparative Study of
Algerian/French in Algeria and Moroccan/Dutch in the Netherlands, Louis
Boumans and Dominique Caubet

The Arabic Speech of Bactria (Afghanistan), Charles Kieffer
Arabic as a Minority Language in Israel, Rafael Talmon

Making a Fish of a Friend. Waris: the Secret Language of Arab Koranic
School Students in Borno, Jonathan Owens and Jidda Hassan

Loanwords in Nigerian Arabic: a Quantitative Approach, Jonathan Owens

Cross-Ethnic and Non-Arab Perspectives
The Arabic Dialects in the Turkish Province of Hatay and the Aramaic
Dialects in the Syrian Mountains of Qalamun: Two Minority Languages
Compared, Werner Arnold

Loanwords in Algerian Berber, Fadila Brahimi

Moroccan: a Language in Emergence, Utz Maas

Language Legitimization: Arabic in Multiethnic Contexts, Fadila Brahimi
and Jonathan Owens

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Date: 18 Feb 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Articles from IJSL

International Journal of the Sociology of Language
General Editor: Joshua A. Fishman
ISSN: 0165-2516

1999, Issue 140
Linguistic Symbolism, Political and Individual
Edited by Florian Coulmas

MAHMUD HUSEIN SALIH and YOUSEF T. BADER
     Personal names of Jordanian Arab Christians: a sociocultural study

FAWWAZ AL-ABED AL-HAQ
     A sociolinguistic study of Hebrew in Jordan: implications for
language planning

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 23 19:50:52 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:50:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Discordant Nisba Query
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Date: 23 Feb 2000
From: dwilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Discordant Nisba Query

Hello

I am winding up a study of a type of “discordant” agreement that appears in
Cairene Arabic in which some adjectives are not inflected for gender.

Mitchell cites these, as does Spitta, both mentioning nisba adjectives having
to do with the material compostition or ethnic/national origin of things.

Think, for instance, of /‘ahwa turki/ (where /’ahwa turkiyya/ might be
expected).

Sallam has also done a survey in which he asks speakers from various dialect
areas to assess the statement

Saabuuna naabulsi
Saabuuna naabulsiyya

I would like to ask if people on this list can give me an assessment of
whether things like /Saabuuna naabulsi/ or /‘ahwa turki/ occur in the Arabic
colloquials with which they are familiar?

While we are at it, if such things do occur, do they appear to be more common
in the utterance-final position?  Are there other examples of utterance-final
reductions?

Mitchell, T. F. 1976.  Colloquial Arabic.  Third Addition.  Kent:  Hodder and
Stotton.

Sallam, A.M. 1979. Concordial Relations within the noun phrase in Educated
Spoken Arabic, ESA. Archivum Linguisticum 10:20-56.

Spitta, Wilhelm.  1880.  Grammatik des arabischen Vulgardialektes von
Aegypten.  Leipzig:  J.C. Hinrichs.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 23 19:49:00 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:49:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Windows 2000 Query
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Date: 23 Feb 2000
From: "J.E.S.Leake" <J.E.S.Leake at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Windows 2000 Query

Has anyone on the list had any exposure yet to Windows 2000 and its
Arabic-handling facilities?  If so, how seamless is it?  Do Arabic fonts
come with it?  If not, where can one obtain Unicode Arabic/Persian
fonts?  Apologies if this question has been asked already - if it has on
another list, could you tell me which list?

John Leake

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 23 19:52:02 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:52:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Akhbar al-Nisa' Query
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Date: 23 Feb 2000
From: "Clarissa C. Burt" <burt at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Akhbar al-Nisa' Query

Dear colleagues,

        I need help especially from librarians, who can help me
determine if _'Akhbar al-Nisa'_ by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751 H) has
been translated into English?

        The Arabic version I have is edited by Dr. Nizaz Rida.  Beirut:
Dar Maktabat al-Hayat, 1982.

With my thanks!
Clarissa C. Burt
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 23 19:50:00 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:50:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Quran Studies Query
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Date: 23 Feb 2000
From: mohamed shawky <saghdah at hotmail.com>
Subject: Quran Studies Query

Dear sir/madam
Hello,I'm Mohamed shawky mohamed;a demonstrator in English Dept.,Sadat
Academy,Egypt I'm very pleased to write to you.I'm doing a study on the Holy
Quran,and to be more specific, on the styles used in the holy
Quran,espesially the  imperative  and subjunctive moods of the verbs from a
stylistic point of view used in the QURAN to reveal its moral teachings.I
searched in many sites on the net about some related reseaches and topics
but Icouldn't find anything.So,I was wondering if you gratefully send me any
useful data  or papers related to my subject , also any addresses or names
of any specilised staff would be greatly appreaciated.I'm looking forward to
hearing from you soon.Thank you.

Name   : mohamed shawky mohamed ahmed
Address:level 4,Governmetal Building B,Sadat Academy,Assiut,Egypt
Post code:7211

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 23 19:48:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:48:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN: IE5 and Arabic
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Date: 23 Feb 2000
From: djust at netvision.net.il
Subject: IE5 and Arabic

Just for everyone's information:

IE5 handles real HTML (i.e., not graphic) Arabic just fine, even on
non-Arabic Windows.  It's the first browser I ever used which managed
to do this. It causes problems on some systems, but it's free, and
they say that it's at least a lot smaller and less resource-hungry
than IE4. It might be worth a try, before you spend money on a
purchased browser.

Thanks.
David.


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 23 19:59:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:59:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:JOB:Freelance linguists/native speakers
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Date: 23 Feb 2000
From: Andrea Bloom <abloom at dlc.com>
Subject: JOB:Freelance linguists/native speakers

We are seeking professional linguists on a freelance basis who are
native speakers of the following languages: KOREAN, RUSSIAN, ARABIC,
HEBREW, PORTUGUESE (European), SCANDANAVIAN LANGUAGES, CHINESE
(Singapore), CANTONESE.  This is for projects for brand names,
taglines, and other marketing material a large translation company. We
prefer evaluators who are located in their native countries, but if
you're not, please contact us anyway. The projects entail completing a
questionnaire about proposed names etc, using your expertise about your
native language and culture. It is helpful if you like to think
creatively and are interested in all aspects of language. We pay on a
per job/hourly basis. If you are interested, please email me your
resume, and contact me with any questions: abloom at dlc.com. We will
require a sample questionnaire to be filled out, so that we can assess
the quality of your work.

If you would like more information about our company, please go to our
website: http://www.intl.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb 28 23:39:42 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:39:42 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tangier Program Addition
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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: Tangier Program Addition

The announcement that went out on Feb. 1 has been revised.  Probably the
most important correction is that the cost is much lower: $3,650 (plus
airfare).  Again, full and partial fellowship assistance is available. In
the past, 95% of students have received fellowship aid. For more
information see:

http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/mena/aims/TSALPannouncement.htm

or contact:

 Becky Schulthies
 734 SWKT
 Brigham Young University
 Provo, UT  84602
 (801) 378-2071
 bls6 at email.byu.edu

It may also be of interest to know that there will probably be two levels
of instruction, roughly 3rd and 5th semester.  Please encourage promising
first- and second-year Arabic students to apply.

Best,

Kirk Belnap,
Program Director

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 29 00:12:35 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:12:35 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:IE5 and Arabic
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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Jihad Daoud <jihad at mir.campus.luth.se>
Subject: IE5 and Arabic

Hi,
I have a friend of tried IE5 for me, using non-Arabic Windows version.
Showing text seems to work OK, scripts and stuff like that doesn't work,
you can not write Arabic text either, i.e. no search possibilities.

See screen shots at:
http://mir.campus.luth.se/Arabic/IE5/

People who does not run Windows, can try
http://www.langbox.com/arabic/arawebparse.html
if your web browser support dynamic fonts (can be tested at
www.truedoc.com, funny fonts == it works)
--
Jihad Daoud

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 29 00:13:57 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:13:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Discordant Agreement Responses
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2) Subject: Discordant Agreement Responses

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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Discordant Agreement Responses

Iraqis would not say /gahwa (or qahwa) turki/, neither Sa:buuna Halebi, but
they use in that manner, for instance, the word /bla:di/ = genuin, i.e. from
the country where something is originaly produced :

adawa:t bla:di, or quTa3 bla:di (= genuin spare parts).

Whether such things occur in the final position only I cannot say at the
moment, but it is most probable.

Srpko Lestaric

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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Discordant Agreement Responses

Hi,

   I was taught that 'ahwa did NOT take feminine agreement, and correctly
or not, I have modeled the "discordant" agr as being a function of 'ahwa
and not anything to with the adjective.

   The other one that I have heard everybody (including Dave Wilmsen)
comment on is taani, especially in Egyptian beingg frozen in masculine
form.

for what it is worth,
Andy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 29 00:11:36 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:11:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Windows 2000 Responses
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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Brian Bishop <bdb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: Windows 2000 Response

I have been running a Beta version of Windows 2000 in combination with
Office 2000 for nearly six months and have been quite impressed with its
Arabic language facilities.  I have been able to use Word 2000 and Excel
2000 to edit Arabic language documents with a minimum of difficulty.
Windows 2000 includes the necessary fonts to be able to type in Arabic,
as well as keyboard layouts and other necessities.  Switching from
Arabic to English and vice versa is quite seamless.  In my experience,
Windows 2000 and Office 2000 are quite adept at managing Arabic language
computing and thankfully obviate the need to buy expensive Arabic
language editions of the software.  I should qualify that, however, by
saying that I believe localized versions and spell checkers must still
be purchased separately, as far as I know.

Brian Bishop
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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Windows 2000 Response

The Windows 2000 that is being released at this time is the NT
version.  It does handle Arabic and various other languages.
I don't use it because I have no need for NT at this time.

The upgrade to the (regular) Win98 with Arabic, which is what
I am using at this time, is scheduled for a later release.
I believe it will be called Millennium.

There's a list called Itisalat, which deals with computational
issues.  To subscribe to it send a "subscribe itisalat" command to
one of the following, I'm sorry I don't remember which:

listserv at listproc.georgetown.edu
or
listproc at listproc.georgetown.edu

Waheed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 29 00:15:12 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:15:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf (Qatar) Materials Query
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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: toronton at burgoyne.com
Subject: Gulf (Qatar) Materials Query

I'm looking for a good English to Arabic dictionary of the Gulf dialect
(Qatar especially).  If you have any recommendations, please e-mail me
personally at toronton at burgoyne.com.  Also, if you have any recommendations
on other beginning learning materials for Gulf Arabic, please inform me.
Thank you very much.

Nathan Toronto
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 29 00:21:45 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:21:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Afroasiatic Linguistics Conference
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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: "Jacqueline Lecarme" <jl at cra.cnrs.fr> (reposted from LINGUIST)
Subject: Afroasiatic Linguistics Conference

     FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES (CAL5)

          -----------------------------------------------------

                             June 28-30, 2000
                               Paris, FRANCE

                          --------------------

Invited Speakers:

Alec Marantz, MIT
Mohand Guerssel, UQAM
Richard Hayward, SOAS

		     CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (REMINDER)

The `Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle' URA 1028 CNRS-Universite de
Paris 7 is hosting the Fifth International Conference on Afroasiatic
Languages (CAL5). The aim of the Conference is to promote research in
theoretical linguistics in relation to Afroasiatic languages. The
editorial committee hopes to undertake the publication of a collection
of papers based on the presentations at the colloquium, a sequel to the
volumes entitled 'Studies in Afro-Asiatic Grammar' (Holland Academic
Graphics, 1996) and `Studies in Afro-Asiatic Grammar 2' (John Benjamins,
in press).

Abstracts are invited for thirty minutes talks in all areas of syntax,
morphology and phonology. Abstracts should be no less than one page and
may not exceed two pages (500-1000 words). All abstracts will be
anonymously reviewed. Please send three anonymous copy of the abstract
and one copy with the name of author(s) and institution(s). Include a
card containing the following information: name of author(s), title of
the paper, address and affiliation, phone number, fax and e-mail
address. Since we intend to post the abstracts on the conference
website, we strongly encourage submission by e-mail.

Abstracts must be received by March 1, 2000.

Send all material to:

Fifth Conference on Afro-asiatic Languages
Selection Committee
c/o J. Lecarme
CNRS-CRA
250, rue A. Einstein
06560 Sophia Antipolis
FRANCE
Tel:(+33)(0)4 93 95 41 75
Fax:(+33)(0)4 93 65 29 05
E-mail: lecarme at cra.cnrs.fr

Expected notification date: 15 April 2000

Organizers:
Jean Lowenstamm <lowen at ccr.jussieu.fr>
Jacqueline Lecarme <lecarme at cra.cnrs.fr>

For further details and updated information, please see:
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/CAL5.html

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb  1 21:35:07 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:35:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AIMS Summer Program in Tangier
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Date: 01 Feb 2000
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: AIMS Summer Program in Tangier

Tangier, Morocco
Intermediate Arabic Studies Program

July 3 - August 23, 2000

The American Institute for Maghrib Studies is offering a special language
and area studies program based in Tangier, Morocco. This intensive program
comprises six weeks of language study and one week of travel in Morocco.
There will be two tracks of Modern Standard Arabic, depending on the
student's experience and performance on a placement test, as well as the
fundamentals of the Moroccan Colloquial Arabic dialect (a required,
integral part of the course). At the minimum, students should be familiar
with most of the contents of Volume I, Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya
up to chapter eight, or Volume I, Elementary Modern Standard Arabic. The
program will use the Al-Kitaab series supplemented with materials prepared
or collected by faculty.

The one-week cultural tour includes visits to Fez, Meknes, Marrakech,
Casablanca, and Rabat. There are also special lectures and programs in
Arabic, English and French dealing with various aspects of North African
history, culture, and society. Activities from previous years include a
guided tour and lecture on the role of Fez in Moroccan History and Art;
lectures about the Moroccan political scene; the challenges of Arab film
makers; the history of Tetouan; women's musical performances at the shrine
of Moulay Abdesslam; expatriate writing on North Africa.  Students also
attended concerts of Andalousian and Sufi music, receptions, parties,
weddings, and Sufi ceremonies, and previewed a Moroccan film.  Miniclasses
focusing on various aspects of the culture and society will be taught in
Arabic, such as cooking, poetry, music, films, sports, and pilgrimage
sites.

In previous years, a number of students participating in the Tangier Summer
Intensive Arabic Program came from French departments.  These were students
focusing on Francophone literature who realized that at least some
knowledge of Arabic coupled with firsthand familiarity with North African
culture is essential to inform their research. AIMS has thus expanded the
cultural component of the Tangier program and added elements that will be
of particular interest to students interested in North African culture. For
example, there will be lectures in French by visiting Moroccan and other
scholars for students with a French background.  Arabic classroom
discussion will focus on topics of interest to all students participating
in the program.

The program will focus on developing sound conversational and reading
skills in Modern Standard Arabic. However, at the same time, all students
will be in a position to better experience the full range of Moroccan
cultural life, including experiencing French-Arabic code-switching in its
native environment.  This will be a good opportunity for students who are
interested in experiencing North African culture and Moroccan Arabic.

Six college credits (the equivalent of one semester) can be earned by
successful completion of the program.

Program cost is $2,000 for tuition; $200 application and processing fee
(refundable if not admitted); $200 fee to Tangier American Legation Museum;
about $2,500 for room and board, fees and incidentals while in Tangier;
plus international airfare. Total $4,900 plus airfare.

Full and partial fellowship assistance is available. In the past, 95% of
students have received fellowship aid.  Other fellowships, including FLAS,
can be used. Fellows must be U.S. nationals or permanent residents.

The application deadline for this program is April 15, 2000.  Late
applications may be considered on space available basis.

For more information, contact the AIMS Executive Director, Becky Schulthies
at the following:

 Becky Schulthies
 AIMS Executive Director
 734 SWKT
 Brigham Young University
 Provo, UT  84602
 (801) 378-2071
 bls6 at email.byu.edu

or see:

http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/mena/aims/

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb  1 21:33:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:33:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Tunisian Arabic judgements query
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Date: 01 Feb 2000
From: "Frederick M. Hoyt" <fmh2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Tunisian Arabic judgements query

Dear List Members,

I am wondering if there are any native speakers of Tunisian Arabic on this
list who might be willing to provide some native speaker judgements.

I am a graduate student in linguistics at Cornell University, in the
process of completing my MA in the syntax and semantics of existential
constructions in colloquial Arabic. My main topic concerns Palestinian
Arabic, but Palestinian and Tunisian seem to have certain, very interesting
differences in the interpretation of the existential construction.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any people from Tunisia here at
Cornell.

What I have in mind is to present you (by e-mail) with several pairs of
sample sentences along with an explanation of the topic, and ask you
whether you certain examples acceptable in Tunisian, and how you might
interpret them.

Thank you very much, and best wishes to all,

Fred Hoyt
Cornell Department of Linguistics
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb  1 21:48:39 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:48:39 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Synonym query
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Date: 01 Feb 2000
From: Dilworth B. Parkinson <dil at byu.eu>
Subject: Synonym query

Hi,
I know there are a few medieval synonym books, although I can't think of
their names right now.  However, I have not seen any modern ones, the
equivalent of Roget's Thesaurus in English. It seems that something like
this must exist for the modern language.  Has anyone seen anything like
this.  If so, do you have a reference, or do your remember where (and
hopefully in what bookstore) you saw it?
Thanks for your help.
Dil Parkinson
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb  9 00:12:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:12:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Synonym responses
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1) Subject: Synonym thanks
2) Subject: Synonym response
3) Subject: Synonym response
4) Subject: Synonym response
5) Subject: Synonym response
6) Subject: Synonym response
7) Subject: Synonym response

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Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: Synonym thanks

Thanks to all those who responded to my query for names and sources of
modern Arabic synonym books.  It looks like there is quite a bit out there.
I have posted them below.
Dil

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2)
Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: M Meinke <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject: Synonym response

The Sakhr basic dictionary, Al-Qamoos, includes antonyms, synonyms, and
examples of usage.  You can access the dictionary from either of the
Sakhr websites:  www.sakhr.com (Arabic interface) or www.sakhrsoft.com
(English).

In addition, the lexicon site at lexicons.sakhr.com has now added
Lissan Al-Arab and the Al-Ghani modern Arabic lexicon to the existing
Al-Muheet, Muheet Al-Muhaeet, Al-Mu'ajam Al-Waseet lexical sources.
Lissan Al-Arab includes the classical lexicons of Tahzib Al-Lugha,
Al-Mohkam, Al-Sahhah, al-Hwashi, and Al-Nihaiya.

All of these are accessible for free through the websites.

DIGITEK INTERNATIONAL

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3)
Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: Pilar Lirola Delgado <pilar.lirola at uca.es>
Subject: Synonym response

        Hi, I know a reference:
        H. Galib Kanz al-lugha el?arabeyyah. (A Thesaurus of Arabic Synonyms
and Antonyms). Beirut: Librarie du Liban, 1973.
        Pilar Lirola
        Universidad de C?diz.

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4)
Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: Sami Boudelaa <sami.boudelaa at mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Synonym response

Dr D. Parkinson

	You might want to have a look at the following:

	Ath-th'aaliby: "Fiqhal-Lugha Wa Sirr al-'Arabiyya: A
dictionary of meanings. Librairie du Liban Publishers.

Good Luck

Sami

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Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: Ahmed Kraima <AAK at gml.lib.uwm.edu>
Subject: Synonym response

Yes there is one. It is called " A Mini Dictionary of Arabic Synonyms
by Wagdy Rizk Ghali published by Librarie du Liban Publishers, 1996.
It is a very compact volume but could be helpful. I picked up a copy
two years ago in London at
Al Saqi Books
26 Westbourne Grove, London  W2 5RH
Tel: 0171-229 8543
Fax: 0171-229 7492
e-mail: alsaqibooks at compuserve.com

Please note that information is over two years old and I am not sure
if they are still in business. Good luck

Ahmed A Kraima

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Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: Ernest N. McCarus" <enm at umich.edu>
Subject: Synonym response

Al-Maknaz al-`Arabiyy al-Mu`aaSir, by Dr. M.E. Sieny, N.M. Abdul-Aziz and
M.A. Soliman, with the English title "Modern Arabic Thesaurus.
Arabic-Arabic" was published in 1993 by the Librairie du Liban, Beirut.  It
is an alphabetical listing of words extracted from other, standard
dictionaries and accompanied by a string of synonyms.  150 pages.

Ernest McCarus

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7)
Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Synonym response

	Here is this title for now:

	Nakhla, Rafaa'iil.  *Qamuus 'l-Mutaraadifaat wa 'l-Mutajaanisaat*.
			    Beirut, 1957.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb  9 00:13:51 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:13:51 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT: Chemistry and Medicine mscpt query
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Date: 08 Feb 2000
From: "Samia S. Montasser" <sam231 at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
Subject: Chemistry and Medicine mscpt query

Dear colleagues,
I received this message from Germany and would appreciate it if you can
help with the information requested. Many thanks.
Please send your responses directly to the following address:

From: Dr. Laila Zaki <zaki at biophys.mpg.de>

I started some research work about the history of science
specially the effect of the arabic and islamic culture on the Europian
culture in chemistry and medicine like Gaber Ibn Hayan and others do you
have any Idea where I can  find some old arabic books or old hand written
manuscript.
The alternative is to go to Cairo to look for that.
Thanks for your help.
Dr. Laila Zaki.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 15 16:43:40 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:43:40 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Browser that works with Arabic
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Date: 15 Feb 2000
From: "Rahawi, Mohammed" <RahawiM at state.gov>
Subject: Browser that works with Arabic

There is a new Web browser from Germany called iCab. It is fast and
relatively full
     featured, yet small (2-MB of disk space and just 3-MB of RAM needed),
proving that you
     don't have to be a hog to drive on the information superhighway. I
works beautifully with Arabic text. I tried it with ISO, Mac & windows
formats. It worked with all of them. It is still in a
     preview version (expires end of April). When released they plan to sell
it for about $30.
     Get it now before they're crushed by you-know-who.
Regards,
Mohammed Rahawi

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 15 16:46:53 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:46:53 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN: New Sakhr Online Resource -- Arabic Heritage
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Date: 15 Feb 2000
From: sakhrus at erols.com
Subject: New Sakhr Online Resource -- Arabic Heritage

Sakhr's new resource pages of poetry, art, and history are now online at
 http://www.sakhr.com/thkafa/.  Users will need Internet Explorer 5.0 or
Sindbad + Netscape to access the Arabic texts.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 15 16:52:05 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:52:05 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Dubbed Movie Query
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1)
Date: 15 Feb 2000
From: donald.cox at mildenhall.af.mil
Subject: Dubbed Movie Query

[I received this query personally and don't know the answer.  If you have
the information he needs could you respond directly to Sgt Cox?  Thanks.
Dil]

I'm in a bit of a predicament and am hoping that you can either help me
directly or steer me toward someone who can.  I'm the command language
program manager at a large Air Force base in England, where I'm responsible
for overseeing language training for approximately 200 people in almost a
dozen languages.  For some time, I've been concerned about the content of
many of the videos in our foreign language collection (particularly some of
our European 'classics') and would like to provide some alternatives in the
form of Walt Disney movies that have either been dubbed or subtitled in the
Arabic (Modern Standard) and Hebrew languages.  Searches on the Internet
have proven fruitless, and I'm hoping that members of your staff might know
of sources for such materials.

Sincerely,

TSgt Don Cox

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Feb 18 21:38:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:38:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SOAS Easter Courses 2000
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1) Subject: SOAS Easter Courses 2000

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Date: 18 Feb 2000
From: Sherin Abdel Halim <sa15 at soas.ac.uk>
Subject: SOAS Easter Courses 2000

Join us at SOAS in central London this Easter.

This is a timetable of our Easter 2000 language classes of one and two week
courses in Modern Standard Arabic and one and two week courses in
Colloquial Egyptian.

DATES and FEES for Easter 2000:

Course:	1-week Survival
Time:	9.30am - 4pm
Start:	03-April
Finish:	07-April
Apply by:	24-March
Fee:	?250

Course: 	1-week Survival
Time:	9.30am - 4pm
Start:	10-April
Finish:	14-April
Apply by: 	31-March
Fee:	?250

Course:	2-week Intensive
Time:	9.30am - 4pm
Start:	03-April
Finish:	14-April
Apply by:	24-March
Fee:	?500

Please note that classes will take place subject to numbers of enrolments.

For information on our complete range of day/evening/intensive and
specially tailored courses in Arabic you can check our website at
http://www.soas.ac.uk/Centres/LanguageCentre.

Information is now available re: Summer courses.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Feb 18 21:39:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:39:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Sakhr Resource response
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1)
Date: 18 Feb 2000
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Sakhr Resource response

>Sakhr's new resource pages of poetry, art, and history are now online at
> http://www.sakhr.com/thkafa/.  Users will need Internet Explorer 5.0 or
>Sindbad + Netscape to access the Arabic texts.
>
Sakhr's site to me seems very  'cool' for students.
I will certainly indicate this to my students.
One remark: Arabic windows with normal (even Dutch) Netscape (of course)
works fine too. No need for Sindbad in that case.

Jan

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Feb 18 21:37:19 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:37:19 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:More on iCAB
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1) Subject: More on iCAB
2) Subject:  iCAB response

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1)
Date: 18 Feb 2000
From: Albrecht Hofheinz <Hofheinz at wiko-berlin.de>
Subject: More on iCAB

Further to Mohammed Rahawi's posting on iCab:

1) It's browser for the Macintosh, running on both 68xxx and PowerPC machines.

2) The URL is:

http://www.icab.de/

And yes, do check it out and post your feedback to the developers
(they are very responsive!).

Regards,
Albrecht Hofheinz

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2)
Date: 18 Feb 2000
From: M Meinke <sakhrus at erols.com>
Subject:  iCAB response

The website at http://www.icab.de/info.html only claims to work for
Macintosh.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Feb 18 21:43:00 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:43:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New publications
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1) Subject: Owens: Arabic as a Minority Language
2) Subject: Articles from IJSL

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1)
Date: 18 Feb 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Arabic as a Minority Language

Arabic as a Minority Language
Edited by Jonathan Owens
2000. 23 x 15,5 cm.  472 pages.
Cloth. DM 248,-/ EUR 126,80 /?S 1810,- /sFr 221,- /approx. US$ 155.00
ISBN 3-11-016578-3
(Contributions to the Sociology of Language 83)

The present book will be the first to center on the status of Arabic as
a minority language. In the first instance it will focus attention on
the existence of many varieties of Arabic outside of the Arabic world.
It will further contribute to the growing literature on minority
languages, placing a special emphasis on the relationship between
minority status and language form.

Contents:

Introduction, Jonathan Owens

Historical Perspectives
The Arabic Language Among the Mozarabs of Toledo during the 12th and
13th Centuries, Ignacio Ferrando

Arabic as a Tool for Expressing Jewish and Romani Ethnic Identity. A
Prolegomena to a Typology of Arabic in Non-Arabic Communities, Paul
Wexler

The Arabic Linguistic and Cultural Tradition in Daghestan: an Historical
Overview, Anna Zelkina

Arabic Ethnic Minorities
Modelling Intrasentential Codeswitching: a Comparative Study of
Algerian/French in Algeria and Moroccan/Dutch in the Netherlands, Louis
Boumans and Dominique Caubet

The Arabic Speech of Bactria (Afghanistan), Charles Kieffer
Arabic as a Minority Language in Israel, Rafael Talmon

Making a Fish of a Friend. Waris: the Secret Language of Arab Koranic
School Students in Borno, Jonathan Owens and Jidda Hassan

Loanwords in Nigerian Arabic: a Quantitative Approach, Jonathan Owens

Cross-Ethnic and Non-Arab Perspectives
The Arabic Dialects in the Turkish Province of Hatay and the Aramaic
Dialects in the Syrian Mountains of Qalamun: Two Minority Languages
Compared, Werner Arnold

Loanwords in Algerian Berber, Fadila Brahimi

Moroccan: a Language in Emergence, Utz Maas

Language Legitimization: Arabic in Multiethnic Contexts, Fadila Brahimi
and Jonathan Owens

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2)
Date: 18 Feb 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Articles from IJSL

International Journal of the Sociology of Language
General Editor: Joshua A. Fishman
ISSN: 0165-2516

1999, Issue 140
Linguistic Symbolism, Political and Individual
Edited by Florian Coulmas

MAHMUD HUSEIN SALIH and YOUSEF T. BADER
     Personal names of Jordanian Arab Christians: a sociocultural study

FAWWAZ AL-ABED AL-HAQ
     A sociolinguistic study of Hebrew in Jordan: implications for
language planning

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 23 19:50:52 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:50:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Discordant Nisba Query
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Date: 23 Feb 2000
From: dwilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Discordant Nisba Query

Hello

I am winding up a study of a type of ?discordant? agreement that appears in
Cairene Arabic in which some adjectives are not inflected for gender.

Mitchell cites these, as does Spitta, both mentioning nisba adjectives having
to do with the material compostition or ethnic/national origin of things.

Think, for instance, of /?ahwa turki/ (where /?ahwa turkiyya/ might be
expected).

Sallam has also done a survey in which he asks speakers from various dialect
areas to assess the statement

Saabuuna naabulsi
Saabuuna naabulsiyya

I would like to ask if people on this list can give me an assessment of
whether things like /Saabuuna naabulsi/ or /?ahwa turki/ occur in the Arabic
colloquials with which they are familiar?

While we are at it, if such things do occur, do they appear to be more common
in the utterance-final position?  Are there other examples of utterance-final
reductions?

Mitchell, T. F. 1976.  Colloquial Arabic.  Third Addition.  Kent:  Hodder and
Stotton.

Sallam, A.M. 1979. Concordial Relations within the noun phrase in Educated
Spoken Arabic, ESA. Archivum Linguisticum 10:20-56.

Spitta, Wilhelm.  1880.  Grammatik des arabischen Vulgardialektes von
Aegypten.  Leipzig:  J.C. Hinrichs.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 23 19:49:00 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:49:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Windows 2000 Query
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Date: 23 Feb 2000
From: "J.E.S.Leake" <J.E.S.Leake at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Windows 2000 Query

Has anyone on the list had any exposure yet to Windows 2000 and its
Arabic-handling facilities?  If so, how seamless is it?  Do Arabic fonts
come with it?  If not, where can one obtain Unicode Arabic/Persian
fonts?  Apologies if this question has been asked already - if it has on
another list, could you tell me which list?

John Leake

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 23 19:52:02 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:52:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Akhbar al-Nisa' Query
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Date: 23 Feb 2000
From: "Clarissa C. Burt" <burt at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Akhbar al-Nisa' Query

Dear colleagues,

        I need help especially from librarians, who can help me
determine if _'Akhbar al-Nisa'_ by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751 H) has
been translated into English?

        The Arabic version I have is edited by Dr. Nizaz Rida.  Beirut:
Dar Maktabat al-Hayat, 1982.

With my thanks!
Clarissa C. Burt
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 23 19:50:00 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:50:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Quran Studies Query
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Date: 23 Feb 2000
From: mohamed shawky <saghdah at hotmail.com>
Subject: Quran Studies Query

Dear sir/madam
Hello,I'm Mohamed shawky mohamed;a demonstrator in English Dept.,Sadat
Academy,Egypt I'm very pleased to write to you.I'm doing a study on the Holy
Quran,and to be more specific, on the styles used in the holy
Quran,espesially the  imperative  and subjunctive moods of the verbs from a
stylistic point of view used in the QURAN to reveal its moral teachings.I
searched in many sites on the net about some related reseaches and topics
but Icouldn't find anything.So,I was wondering if you gratefully send me any
useful data  or papers related to my subject , also any addresses or names
of any specilised staff would be greatly appreaciated.I'm looking forward to
hearing from you soon.Thank you.

Name   : mohamed shawky mohamed ahmed
Address:level 4,Governmetal Building B,Sadat Academy,Assiut,Egypt
Post code:7211

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 23 19:48:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:48:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN: IE5 and Arabic
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1)
Date: 23 Feb 2000
From: djust at netvision.net.il
Subject: IE5 and Arabic

Just for everyone's information:

IE5 handles real HTML (i.e., not graphic) Arabic just fine, even on
non-Arabic Windows.  It's the first browser I ever used which managed
to do this. It causes problems on some systems, but it's free, and
they say that it's at least a lot smaller and less resource-hungry
than IE4. It might be worth a try, before you spend money on a
purchased browser.

Thanks.
David.


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Feb 23 19:59:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:59:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:JOB:Freelance linguists/native speakers
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Date: 23 Feb 2000
From: Andrea Bloom <abloom at dlc.com>
Subject: JOB:Freelance linguists/native speakers

We are seeking professional linguists on a freelance basis who are
native speakers of the following languages: KOREAN, RUSSIAN, ARABIC,
HEBREW, PORTUGUESE (European), SCANDANAVIAN LANGUAGES, CHINESE
(Singapore), CANTONESE.  This is for projects for brand names,
taglines, and other marketing material a large translation company. We
prefer evaluators who are located in their native countries, but if
you're not, please contact us anyway. The projects entail completing a
questionnaire about proposed names etc, using your expertise about your
native language and culture. It is helpful if you like to think
creatively and are interested in all aspects of language. We pay on a
per job/hourly basis. If you are interested, please email me your
resume, and contact me with any questions: abloom at dlc.com. We will
require a sample questionnaire to be filled out, so that we can assess
the quality of your work.

If you would like more information about our company, please go to our
website: http://www.intl.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Feb 28 23:39:42 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:39:42 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tangier Program Addition
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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: Tangier Program Addition

The announcement that went out on Feb. 1 has been revised.  Probably the
most important correction is that the cost is much lower: $3,650 (plus
airfare).  Again, full and partial fellowship assistance is available. In
the past, 95% of students have received fellowship aid. For more
information see:

http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/mena/aims/TSALPannouncement.htm

or contact:

 Becky Schulthies
 734 SWKT
 Brigham Young University
 Provo, UT  84602
 (801) 378-2071
 bls6 at email.byu.edu

It may also be of interest to know that there will probably be two levels
of instruction, roughly 3rd and 5th semester.  Please encourage promising
first- and second-year Arabic students to apply.

Best,

Kirk Belnap,
Program Director

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 29 00:12:35 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:12:35 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:IE5 and Arabic
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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Jihad Daoud <jihad at mir.campus.luth.se>
Subject: IE5 and Arabic

Hi,
I have a friend of tried IE5 for me, using non-Arabic Windows version.
Showing text seems to work OK, scripts and stuff like that doesn't work,
you can not write Arabic text either, i.e. no search possibilities.

See screen shots at:
http://mir.campus.luth.se/Arabic/IE5/

People who does not run Windows, can try
http://www.langbox.com/arabic/arawebparse.html
if your web browser support dynamic fonts (can be tested at
www.truedoc.com, funny fonts == it works)
--
Jihad Daoud

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 29 00:13:57 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:13:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Discordant Agreement Responses
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1) Subject: Discordant Agreement Responses
2) Subject: Discordant Agreement Responses

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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Discordant Agreement Responses

Iraqis would not say /gahwa (or qahwa) turki/, neither Sa:buuna Halebi, but
they use in that manner, for instance, the word /bla:di/ = genuin, i.e. from
the country where something is originaly produced :

adawa:t bla:di, or quTa3 bla:di (= genuin spare parts).

Whether such things occur in the final position only I cannot say at the
moment, but it is most probable.

Srpko Lestaric

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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Discordant Agreement Responses

Hi,

   I was taught that 'ahwa did NOT take feminine agreement, and correctly
or not, I have modeled the "discordant" agr as being a function of 'ahwa
and not anything to with the adjective.

   The other one that I have heard everybody (including Dave Wilmsen)
comment on is taani, especially in Egyptian beingg frozen in masculine
form.

for what it is worth,
Andy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 29 00:11:36 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:11:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Windows 2000 Responses
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2) Subject: Windows 2000 Response

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1)
Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Brian Bishop <bdb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: Windows 2000 Response

I have been running a Beta version of Windows 2000 in combination with
Office 2000 for nearly six months and have been quite impressed with its
Arabic language facilities.  I have been able to use Word 2000 and Excel
2000 to edit Arabic language documents with a minimum of difficulty.
Windows 2000 includes the necessary fonts to be able to type in Arabic,
as well as keyboard layouts and other necessities.  Switching from
Arabic to English and vice versa is quite seamless.  In my experience,
Windows 2000 and Office 2000 are quite adept at managing Arabic language
computing and thankfully obviate the need to buy expensive Arabic
language editions of the software.  I should qualify that, however, by
saying that I believe localized versions and spell checkers must still
be purchased separately, as far as I know.

Brian Bishop
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2)
Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Windows 2000 Response

The Windows 2000 that is being released at this time is the NT
version.  It does handle Arabic and various other languages.
I don't use it because I have no need for NT at this time.

The upgrade to the (regular) Win98 with Arabic, which is what
I am using at this time, is scheduled for a later release.
I believe it will be called Millennium.

There's a list called Itisalat, which deals with computational
issues.  To subscribe to it send a "subscribe itisalat" command to
one of the following, I'm sorry I don't remember which:

listserv at listproc.georgetown.edu
or
listproc at listproc.georgetown.edu

Waheed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 29 00:15:12 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:15:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf (Qatar) Materials Query
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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: toronton at burgoyne.com
Subject: Gulf (Qatar) Materials Query

I'm looking for a good English to Arabic dictionary of the Gulf dialect
(Qatar especially).  If you have any recommendations, please e-mail me
personally at toronton at burgoyne.com.  Also, if you have any recommendations
on other beginning learning materials for Gulf Arabic, please inform me.
Thank you very much.

Nathan Toronto
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Feb 29 00:21:45 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:21:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Afroasiatic Linguistics Conference
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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: "Jacqueline Lecarme" <jl at cra.cnrs.fr> (reposted from LINGUIST)
Subject: Afroasiatic Linguistics Conference

     FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES (CAL5)

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                             June 28-30, 2000
                               Paris, FRANCE

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Invited Speakers:

Alec Marantz, MIT
Mohand Guerssel, UQAM
Richard Hayward, SOAS

		     CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (REMINDER)

The `Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle' URA 1028 CNRS-Universite de
Paris 7 is hosting the Fifth International Conference on Afroasiatic
Languages (CAL5). The aim of the Conference is to promote research in
theoretical linguistics in relation to Afroasiatic languages. The
editorial committee hopes to undertake the publication of a collection
of papers based on the presentations at the colloquium, a sequel to the
volumes entitled 'Studies in Afro-Asiatic Grammar' (Holland Academic
Graphics, 1996) and `Studies in Afro-Asiatic Grammar 2' (John Benjamins,
in press).

Abstracts are invited for thirty minutes talks in all areas of syntax,
morphology and phonology. Abstracts should be no less than one page and
may not exceed two pages (500-1000 words). All abstracts will be
anonymously reviewed. Please send three anonymous copy of the abstract
and one copy with the name of author(s) and institution(s). Include a
card containing the following information: name of author(s), title of
the paper, address and affiliation, phone number, fax and e-mail
address. Since we intend to post the abstracts on the conference
website, we strongly encourage submission by e-mail.

Abstracts must be received by March 1, 2000.

Send all material to:

Fifth Conference on Afro-asiatic Languages
Selection Committee
c/o J. Lecarme
CNRS-CRA
250, rue A. Einstein
06560 Sophia Antipolis
FRANCE
Tel:(+33)(0)4 93 95 41 75
Fax:(+33)(0)4 93 65 29 05
E-mail: lecarme at cra.cnrs.fr

Expected notification date: 15 April 2000

Organizers:
Jean Lowenstamm <lowen at ccr.jussieu.fr>
Jacqueline Lecarme <lecarme at cra.cnrs.fr>

For further details and updated information, please see:
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/CAL5.html

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