From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  6 19:01:09 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:01:09 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS Final Program
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1) Subject: ALS Final Program

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Date: 01 Feb 2000
From: Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: ALS Final Program

This is the final program for ALS this week.

Fourteenth Annual Symposium On Arabic Linguistics

March 10-11, 2000

sponsored by

The Arabic Linguistics Society

together with

The Center For Middle
Eastern Studies,
Department Of Linguistics, and
Department Of Near Eastern Studies,
The University Of California, Berkeley

FRIDAY, MARCH 10
Morning Session

8:00-8:30	Registration

8:30-9:00	COGNITIVE PROCESSING AND REPRESENTATION OF MORPHOLOGICAL
STRUCTURE IN MODERN STANDARD ARABIC: BEYOND THE THREE-CONSONANTAL ROOT
Sami Boudelaa & William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

9:00-9:30	INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY: THE ARABIC PLURAL SYSTEM
Asma Siddiki, Kim Plunkett & Paul Harris, Oxford University

9:30-10:00	THE PLURAL SYSTEM OF MOROCCAN ARABIC IN DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE
Robert R. Ratcliffe, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

10:00-10:15	BREAK
10:15-10:45	DOUBLED VERBS AND SYNCOPE RESISTANCE IN IRAQI ARABIC: NOT
ANTIGEMINATION
Sharon Rose, University of California, San Diego

10:45-11:45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Joseph Aoun, University of Southern California

Afternoon Session

1:15-1:45	FIXED PROSODY IN THE ARABIC VERB
Adam Ussishkin, University of California, Santa Cruz

1:45-2:15	DISYLLABICITY AND IRREGULAR VERBS IN ARABIC
Bhavani Saravanan, University of Utah

2:15-2:45	ON THE USE OF WORD PATTERN MORPHEMES IN MODERN STANDARD ARABIC
Sami Boudelaa & William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

2:45-3:00	BREAK
3:00-3:30	THE CATEGORY OF EXISTENTIAL FIH: SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC
ARGUMENTS
Frederick M. Hoyt, Cornell University

3:30-4:00	BORROWING DISCOURSE PATTERNS: FRENCH RHETORIC IN ARABIC
LEGAL TEXTS
Ahmed Fakhri, West Virginia University



6:30 DINNER (PYOW) AT POMEGRANATE RESTAURANT


SATURDAY, MARCH 11
Morning Session

8:30-9:00	DOUBLED VERBS REVISITED
Adamantios I. Gafos, New York University & Haskins Laboratories

9:00-9:30	A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF ARABIC-ENGLISH BILINGUAL
children
Ghada Khattab, University of Leeds

9:30-10:00	AN EXPLORATION OF ARABIC LANGUAGE VARIATION IN GAMAL ABDEL
NASSERS SPEECHES TO THE EGYPTIAN NATION
Valerie Smith, University of Utah

10:-10:15	BREAK
10:15-10-45	LEXICAL & SYNTACTICAL ISSUES IN PARSING WRITTEN ARABIC
Nabil Ali & Tamer Heseen, SAKHR Software Company, Cairo

10:45-11:15	CLASSICAL ARABIC QAD: A NEW APPROACH
Ruediger Arnzen, Ruhr University Bochum

11:15-11:45	HEBREW SPEAKERS' ACQUISITION OF ARABIC SYNTAX
Naomi Bolotin, University of Kansas




Afternoon Session

1:30-2:00	SENTENCE PROCESSING STRATEGIES: AN APPLICATION OF THE
COMPETITION MODEL
Adel Abu Radwan, Georgetown University

2:00-2:30	THE HEAD PARAMETER IN CLASSICAL ARABIC
Ali Farghaly, Eastern Michigan University

2:30-3:00	THE STRUCTURE OF RESTRICTIVE RELATIVES: THREE ARGUMENTS FOR
AN EXTERNAL DETERMINER
Lina Choueiri, University of Southern California

3:00-4:00	RECEPTION



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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:46:35 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:46:35 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:Palestinian Dialects Query
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: "Frederick M. Hoyt" <fmh2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Palestinian Dialects Query

Recently, I posted a message to this list requesting assistance from native
speakers of Tunisian Arabic. I received a number of very helpful replies,
for which I am very grateful, and for which I would again like to thank the
contributors.

Now, in addition, I would like to make a similar request to native speakers
of Palestinian Arabic.

I would be particularly interested in hearing from native speakers of the
dialect(s) spoken in rural areas of the northern West Bank (from Bir
Zeit/Ramallah to Jenin). However, I would certainly be grateful for
assistance from any speaker of a Palestinian dialect who would care to
reply.

The dialects I am referring to (Rural Palestinian Arabic; c.f. Younes 1993,
1994, Herzallah 1990) are distinguished by, among other things, features
such as the use of "baka" or "baaki" as a verb "to-be" instead of "kaan,"
the palatalized 'kaaf', active use of the feminine plural agreement marker,
and in some areas (e.g. Bir Zeit) fronting of vowels in various contexts,
such as pronoun clitics (so, for example '-çim' instead of '-kum' or '-he'
instead of '-hu.'

The questions I have involve the interpretation of agreement marking in
existential constructions, given a simple conversational background.

Thank you and best wishes,

Fred Hoyt
Cornell University
fmh2 at cornell.edu


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:42:38 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:42:38 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf (Qatar) Materials Responses
Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.124238.0800.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Gulf (Qatar) Materials Response
2) Subject: Gulf (Qatar) Materials Response

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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: Bethany Zaborowski <zaborowb at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Gulf (Qatar) Materials Response

Hi, Dr. Hamdi Qafisheh of the U of Arizona published a good Gulf
dictionary a couple of years ago.
B. Zaborowski
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Gulf (Qatar) Materials Response

152. Holes, Clive: Gulf Arabic, New York: Routledge, 1990.
247. Qafisheh, Hamdi A.: A Short Reference Grammar of Gulf Arabic, Tucson:
The University of Arizona Press, 1977.
248. Qafisheh, Hamdi A.: Advanced Gulf Arabic and Glossary, Publication
Pending, 1992.
251. Qafisheh, Hamdi A.: A Basic Course in Gulf Arabic, Tucson: University
of Arizona Press, 1975.
252. Qafisheh, Hamdi A.: Gulf Arabic: Intermediate Level, Tucson: The
Univer-sity of Arizona Press, 1979.

Srpko Lestaric


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:44:30 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:44:30 -0800
Subject: ARABIC-L: arabic URL request
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From:  djust at netvision.net.il
Subject: arabic URL request

Could somebody please post the URL of a page with ASCII-coded Arabic
and some Javascripts on it, so we could test Mr. Jihad's problem on
our systems?

Thanks.
David.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:34:44 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:34:44 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Discordant Agreement Responses
Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.123444.0800.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Discordant Agreement Response

Concerning Egypt, the adjective for  'ahwa would be ' turki ';
and concerning the genuineness of spare parts, for example,
the term would not be 'baladi', as that could give the impression
that the parts were immitation.  To say genuine, for genuine
parts, the adjective would be  'asli  (or mustawrad).  To
say 'local', the adjective would be 'maHalli'.
To say an article is not genuine, the adjectives would be
'maghshuush', or 'maDruub', perhaps even - in jest - 'baladi'.

Waheed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:49:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:49:29 -0800
Subject: ARABIC-L: dislexia query
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: James Dickins <James.Dickins at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Dislexia Query

Does anyone know of work which has been done on dyslexia in Arabic?
We  would be very grateful for any possible leads.
 Thanks,
Janet Watson and James Dickins


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:54:30 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:54:30 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:Duke Video Contest
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: Rkia Cornell <rcornell at duke.edu>
Subject: Duke Video Contest

I am pleased to inform you that we will be hosting our Fifth Annual Arabic
Speech Contest at Duke on Saturday, April 8.  In the past, we have invited
students from the neighboring institutions to apply and join their friends
at Duke in this major event.   This year, however, we are opening the
contest to a wider audience to include students from all across the
country.  Those interested will enter the contest by submitting their
speeches on video.

We will need to have your applications by April 3, sent to the Asian and
African Languages and Literature  Office, together with your video and the
complete text of your speech in Arabic, and a summary in English (see the
included documents for guidelines and mailing address).

We look forward to your participation in this exciting event.

Rkia Cornell
Arabic Speech Contest Coordinator
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:51:42 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:51:42 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:Research Assistantships
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From:  Rüdiger Klein <aoskl01 at uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Research Assistantships

CEBHEM / Orientalisches Seminar
Tuebingen University, Germany
invites applications for two doctoral research fellowships (3 years each)
to be held at the recently established “Centre for the Economic and
Business History of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East
(CEBHEM)”. Appointments will start from 01.10.2000. Remuneration will be
approx. DM 2.000 p.month net (plus generous travel and equipment
allowances).

Eligibility: ideal candidates would be outstanding graduates (minimum
requirement: M.A. to be awarded in Summer 2000) from the fields of Middle
Eastern and/or Mediterranean Studies, History, Anthropology, Sociology,
Geography or Economics, provided they have an interest in archival
research. Languages required: Arabic, Ottoman-Turkish, French, Italian (for
one position also Greek or Armenian).

Research will focus, technically, on archival studies in the region and,
conceptually, on processes of incorporation of the Eastern Mediterranean
and the Middle East in the world exchange during the 18th-early 20th
centuries, more specifically on "Incorporation, minorities and diasporas"
and "Entrepreneurs and the Ottoman state". Transdisciplinary approaches in
dealing with these topics are strongly encouraged. It is recommended that
supervision be conducted jointly by Orientalisches Seminar and the
candidate's home institution. Students may apply for permission to write
their thesis in a language other than German.

For further details concerning the application procedure have a look at our
<a
href="<http:/www.uni-tuebingen.de/CEBHEM>http:/www.uni-tuebingen.de/CEBHEM"><htt
p:/www.uni-tuebingen.de/CEBHEM>http:/www.uni-tuebingen.de/CEBHEM</a> or
write an e-mail directly to CEBHEM’s coordinator (<a
href="<mailto:aoskl01 at uni-tuebingen.de>mailto:aoskl01 at uni-tuebingen.de">ruediger
.klein at uni-tuebingen.de</a>). The complete documentation must be received
by 15.06.2000. In summer 2000 up to three candidates for each of the
positions will be invited for an interview. The definitive decision will be
communicated by 30.07.2000 at the latest.
 




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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 23:09:22 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:09:22 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Code Switching query
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: mostari hind <hmostari at yahoo.com>
Subject: Code Switching query

   	Hello,
               I am a researcher in multilingualism
,code switching and language choice.Through out my
work, I would like to know to what extent do speakers
( students of english) switch or mix between the first
language arabic, second language french and English
the target language.
 Please send me articles or adesses of sites which may
help me in my research .contact ma at :
    e-mail : hmostari at yahoo.com
    address:
     07 rue sakiet sidi youcef sidi belabbes 220000
     Algeria
       THANKS

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 23:11:36 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:11:36 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:new books
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1) Subject: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XII
1) Subject: RURAL PALESTINIAN ARABIC

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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XII

John Benjamins Publishing announces the availability of a new work in
Arabic Linguistics:

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XII.
Papers from the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics,
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1998.
Elabbas BENMAMOUN (ed.)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 190
US & Canada: 1 55619 967 8 / USD 75.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3696 8 / NLG 150.00 (Hardcover)

The papers in this volume deal with various topics in Arabic
Linguistics.  Most of the papers focus on new issues and introduce new
empirical generalizations that haven't been studied before within the
context of Arabic linguistics. The syntax and morphosyntax papers
explore issues ranging from the nature of extraction strategies to
various types of Construct State representations and the proper
analysis of the distribution of the nominal, adjectival and verbal
mophological features.  The computational linguistics papers focus on
the challenge posed by the non-concatenative nature of Arabic
morphology. The authors illustrate how their programs can handle
Arabic morphology. The papers in morpho-phonology and historical
linguistics deal with the development of the Arabic complementizer
system and the empirical and theoretical problems that arise in the
context of hypocoristic formation in Arabic.  The sociolinguistics
papers take up the issues of sociolinguistic variation as they pertain
to the phenomenon of diglossia and regional uses of the Standard
variety of Arabic.

Contributions by: Joseph Aoun; Kenneth R. Beesley; Lina Choueiri;
Jamil Daher; Stuart Davis; Peter Hallman; Zeinab Ibrahim; George Anton
Kiraz; Mohammad Mohammad; Dilworth B. Parkinson; David Testen; Bushra
Adnan Zawaydeha.

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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: RURAL PALESTINIAN ARABIC

RURAL PALESTINIAN ARABIC, 2ND EDITION
KIMARY N. SHAHIN
Birzeit University

This sketch describes a rural (fellahi) dialect of colloquial
Palestinian Arabic, that of the pre-1948 Palestine village of Abu
Shusha.  It is used by a dwindling number of speakers on the West Bank
and Gaza strip, and in locations around the Arab world and elsewhere.
Abu Shusha Palestinian is endangered.  This is due to the original
dispersion of its speakers and resulting interdialect contact, the
increasing age of its speakers, and pressure from Standard Arabic (as,
in general, on all non-urban varieties of the language) for speakers
to conform to more urban and educated speech.  Like all Arabic
colloquials, it is unwritten.

The phonemic, morphological, and syntactic systems are described.  A
sample text is presented with interlinear gloss and translation. Two
features are highlighted. The first is the vowel system, which has
many more important systematic distinctions than traditionally assumed
for Arabic. The second is the discourse, specifically, structures and
strategies as found in the sample text.

The documentation of the sketch will help in furthering work on
comparative Arabic dialectology.  This second edition improves on the
first in documentation and analysis.  New material includes verb types
(strong vs. weak) and bibliographic update.

ISBN 3 89586 960 0.
Languages of the World/Materials 28.
50 pp. USD 32.50 / DM 49.30 /  £ 19.90.
2nd edition: 03/2000

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 23:08:08 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:08:08 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Discourse Analysis query
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: Heba Aboul-Enein <haboulenein at hotmail.com>
Subject: Discourse Analysis query

Dear Sir/madam:

      Greetings.

     I am an Egyptian doctor, specialized in critical discourse analysis
(English and Arabic legal discourses). One of my colleagues is currently
preparing her MA in word-formation processes in English and Arabic,,
particularly  coinage, borrowing, blending and acronyms in the last 30
years. She has not decided yet  on her  field of study (the language of
trade, astronomy or medicine). I'd appreciate it, if you would help us with
a few suggestions on the topic.

Sincerely,
Dr Heba Aboul-Enein.
Ain Shams University,
Cairo, Egypt.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 23:18:16 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:18:16 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dyslexia response
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1) Subject: Dyslexia response

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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: "Ernest N. McCarus" <enm at umich.edu>
Subject: Dyslexia response


Sabah Safi-Stagni has done a great deal of work on slips of the tongue in
Arabic and might possible know of works on dyslexia in Arabic.

Ernest McCarus

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:10:08 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:10:08 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Discordant Agreement Discussion
Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.171008.0800.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Discordant Agreement Discussion

When it comes to spare parts, I should know, since
my family owns a Shell Oil service station in Boston.
There are few types of spare parts available: used or "junk",
OEM or original equipment by the manufacturer of the
make and model, "after market" is the same or near quality
spare parts manufactured by other than the car manufacturer.

The after market is infested with "rebuilt" or "remanufactured"
parts such as water pumps, alternators and starters. Even if
the molding of the original manufacturer brand name is on the
part, it may be an "after market" or rebuilt. O yes, the after market
is cheaper than OEM.

Baladi, MahhaLi, Wattani, Sina3ah MahhaLLiyeh is always cheaper
than Mustawrad (imported) or AssLi (OEM). Those slangs may not
be all that accurate, but the locals understand each other, anyway.

Best Regards,

George N. Hallak
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:00:46 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:00:46 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SUNY Program
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Mark Ashwill <ashwill at ACSU.Buffalo.EDU>
Subject: SUNY Program

Just a reminder that the deadline for our summer 2000 program is 1
April.  There are still a few places left.  Please contact me with any
questions.

For information, an online application, and a virtual tour, please go
to:  http://wings.buffalo.edu/studyabroad/proglist.html#sum

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:12:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:12:29 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Moroccan Lit Program Query
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Jessica Megan Powell <jpowell at Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Moroccan Lit Program Query

Hi.  Khalil Barhoum recommended that I write to you, as I'm trying to find
out if there are any universities in Morocco which have a Moroccan and/or
Arabic literature department. I'm particularly interested in Northern
Morocco, as there is, I imagine, an interesting intersection of the
Spanish, French, and Arabic languages.  Do you know of anyone who could
help me in my search?

Thanks

Jessica Powell
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:07:08 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:07:08 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf Materials Responses
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Gulf Materials Response

Greetings to all / yaa halla biljemaa3.

Today is Thursday, March 9, 2000.

Following are main points from my earlier response to the inquirer.

Re your post on the Arabic_L.

If you could send me some background, I can furnish some reference citations
on descriptive and introductory materials on the Emirati dialect.

A few follow below, with comments.

The Emirati dialect has probably the closest-available related materials
around (minus some ancient and horribly-transliterated items prepared locally
by some of the oil and natural gas companies operating in Qatar since the
1970s).

Here are some items that first come to mind:

o  Hamdi Qafisheh's paperback textbooks (four) on Gulf Arabic (GA), some with
accompanying audiocassete tapes. Available from the University of Arizona
Press (Mixed reviews by other readers and usefulness, but authentic Emirati
voices are on the tapes.)

o  Hamdi Qafisheh's recent "Dictionary of Gulf Arabic," published by the NTC
Press.

(A piece of work afflicted by an awkward transliteration and other
compilation methods used. Available from amazon.com, but a dubious investment
of money and brain cells, in my opinion as a Gulf Arabic dialectologist.)

His earlier dictionary / lexicon of GA, published in Lebanon, is reportedly
easier, while smaller.

o  Clive Hole's "Spoken Arabic of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf (textbook and
with one audiocassette tape). Available from amazon.com

o  Clive Hole's book "Gulf Arabic."  A sound and descriptive work; written
for a linguist, so of limited usefulness for general self-study.

o  There is a new (due for release in April 200, I think) paperback (two
authors) forthcoming from UK entitled something like "Learn the Arabic of the
Gulf." It's been mentioned recently to me, but I have not seen it. Details
are forthcoming. Apparently similar to the Berlitz series of traveler's
phrasebooks.

o  Bruce Ingham's jewel of a slim paperbook entitled "The Simple Guide to
Customs and Etiquette in Arabia and the Gulf States," contains a number of
suitable politeness exchanges and deference expressions for the most-likely
social and formal occasions.

o  Sir Donald Hawley has several good books out on the "Customs and
Courtesies of the Arabian Gulf," with emphasis on Oman, since he was HM's
ambassador there in the early1970s.

--  While both editions of Hawley's work are now out of print, they are well
worth your finding and borrowing via interlibrary loan. I am away from my
office, so I can't retrieve the ISBNs and publisher data right now.

There also are a few good (albeit pedantic and plodding) works in the Russian
and the German on Gulf Arabic dialects.

If you have any special questions about Qatari, I can ask some Qatari
graduate students at universities where I teach.

Hope this helps you in your search.

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

E-mail: < mutarjm at aol.com >


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2)
Date: 13 Mar 2000
From:  John Leake <J.E.S.Leake at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Gulf Materials Response

A few more Gulf Arabic materials.  In addition to The Clive Holes 'Gulf
Arabic' mentioned before, the classic work is Johnstone's "Eastern
Arabic Dialect Studies" which describes the Gulf dialects as a whole and
separately in some detail, including Qatari.  However, it is over thirty
years old.  Clive Holes wrote a teaching grammar of Gulf Arabic,
"Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia", in 1984, which I
used.  I found it very useful indeed.  The dialect is a pan-Gulf dialect
tending towards the Bahraini dialect (but 'educated', distinguishing Dad
from Za', etc.).  The new Teach Yourself I've only glances at, but it
seems good.  It has the undoubted advantage of being up to date.  Hamdi
Qafisheh's teaching books are, if I remember correctly, particuarly
based on the Abu Dhabi dialect of Emirati.  His dictionaries are,
however, more widely sourced.  The Holes and the Smart books both have
cassettes available - remember to order the Smart 'Teach Yourself' book
_with_ cassette as unlike the Holes 'Colloquial' book, I don't think the
cassette is available on its own.

Holes, C.  1984.  _Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia._
Routledge and Keegan Paul, London.

Johnstone, T.M.  1967.  _Eastern Arabian Dialect Studies._  Oxford
University Press, Oxford

Smart, J.R.  1999.  _Teach Yourself Gulf Arabic._  Teach Yourself Books,
London/NTC Publishing Group, US

Qafisheh, Hamdi A.  1998.  _NTC's Gulf Arabic-English Dictionary._  NTC
Publishing Group, U.S.
  Comprehensive(ish) vocabulary.  Words in _dialect_ root order.

Qafisheh, Hamdi A.  19??  _Glossary of Gulf Arabic_  Librairie du Liban,
Beirut
  Older than the above and not as complete, but Arabic words in order of
transliterated word, not roots.  Accessable by students not learning
arabic script.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:17:43 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:17:43 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Diglossia, Classicism, & Colloquialism Query
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Benjamin Troutman <troutmab at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Diglossia, Classicism, & Colloquialism Query

Bakalla (1983) and Al-Ani & Parkinson (1996) are gems for arabic
linguistic bibliographical work.  An obvious difference, though, between
the two, besides the years they cover, is that A & P lack an index.  Or do
they?  At least, the one copy in the Georgetown library doesn't have
one.  And the reason i point this out is that i'm beginning to read works
on diglossia, classicism and colloquialism.  Bakalla's index is very
helpful, and of course, I looked for the same authors in A & P for more
work done from '79-'95, but I'm sure there are more studies out there by
different authors.  please help!

besides Abdel-Malek, Abirached, Abou, Abou-Seida, Ambros, Anghelescu,
Blanc, Corriente, Eid, Faure, Ferguson,Gabrieli, El-Hassan, Jankovic,
Kaye, Marcais, McKay, Nakhlah, Nydell, Schmidt, Schub, Sieny, Al-Toma,
Weaver, Shahin, and Turki, who else?

thank you for this request,

Benjamin Troutman
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:26:50 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:26:50 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Khunatha Bannuna Query
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Wail Hassan <w-hassan at wiu.edu>
Subject: Khunatha Bannuna Query

Does anyone know when the Moroccan novelist Khunatha Bannuna published her
*Al-nar wal ikhtiyaar*? I have found two dates in the scholarship I have
been able to consult, but neither seems plausible: 1966 (impossible) and
1980. Please respond off-list to w-hassan at wiu.edu. Thanks!

Wail Hassan
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:28:13 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:28:13 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:BYU Summer Program
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: BYU Summer Program

The Center for Language Studies at Brigham Young University (BYU) will
offer first-year intensive Arabic during its Summer Term, June 19 through
August 10, 2000.  At BYU, we take an innovative approach to learning
Arabic.  The emphasis is on exposing students to Arabic as it is used on a
daily basis in the Arab world.  From the first day of class, students begin
learning to speak Egyptian Arabic (the most widely understood Arabic
dialect and one closely related to neighboring dialects such as urban
Palestinian).  Students pursue learning the alphabet outside of class using
computers in the language lab.  After mastering the alphabet, they begin to
learn to read Modern Standard Arabic.  Regular one-on-one conversations
with a tutor are an integral part of the approach.  By the end of the
program students will have acquired the conversation skills that will
enable them to enjoy getting around the Arab world in Arabic, and they will
have a solid foundation that will enable them to go on to become fluent
readers (the program will cover at least lesson 16 of Al-Kitaab fii
Ta at allum al- at Arabiyya, vol. 1).  For information on registration and costs
see:

http://humanities.byu.edu/CLS/home.html

If you are interested in the Arabic program but are not familiar with
Brigham Young University, you should take time to familiarize yourself with
the institution.  BYU is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints.  One need not be LDS (Mormon) to attend, but all
students at BYU are expected to live according to its Honor Code.  The
Honor Code and other information about the institution can be found at:

http://www.byu.edu/about/

Please address Arabic-specific questions to:

Brian Bishop
4070 JKHB
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
801/378-6401
fax: 801/378-5866
bdb at email.byu.edu
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:25:39 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:25:39 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dislexia Response
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Humphrey Taman Davies <hdavies at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Dislexia Response

I have recently been looking into this in Egypt, and am told (by the director
of a school specializing in children with various learning disorders) that
there are absolutely no materials on dyslexia in Arabic available or even
known to exist here.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:24:02 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:24:02 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Proto-Indo-European & Proto-Semitic Query
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Fatima Badry Zalami <badry at aus.ac.ae>
Subject: :Proto-Indo-European & Proto-Semitic Query

Is there any connection between Proto Semitic and Proto Indo European
languages?
 Can you direct me to research/ sources to answer this question?
Thank you
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:21:58 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:21:58 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Qaaf to Jiim Query
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Benjamin Troutman <troutmab at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Qaaf to Jiim Query

Does anyone know why the "qaaf" pushes forward into a "jeem" in certain
instances in the Gulf?  It doesn't seem predictable, or is it?  Authors
have said, preceeding or following [-back] vowels or when a consonant
lies between one of these vowels and the notorious
uvular-turned-affricate.  But in environments that check off all these
requirements, we also see the "qaaf" go to the usual voiced velar
[g].  What's the deal here?  Historical influences?  Media?  Biology?  If
anyone may have leads, please let me know.

benjamin troutman
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:15:00 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:15:00 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Future Tense Query
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Juan Manuel Munoz Reinon <reynon.munoz at chello.be>
Subject: Future Tense Query

I am writing an article on the formation of the future tenses in different
languages. Can anyone inform me about the formation of the future in arabic?

Thanks

Reynon
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 20:27:54 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:27:54 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Duke Speech Contest
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Date: 14 Mar 2000
From: "Rkia E. Cornell" <rcornell at duke.edu>
Subject: Duke Speech Contest

To Whom It May Concern:

I am pleased to inform you that we will be hosting our Fifth Annual
Arabic  Speech Contest at Duke on Saturday, April 8.  In the past, we
have invited students from the neighboring institutions to apply and join
their friends at Duke in this major event.   This year, however, we are
opening the contest to a wider audience to include students from all
across the country.  Those interested will enter the contest by
submitting their speeches on video.

I will need to have your applications by April 3rd, sent to the Asian and
African Languages and Literature Office, together with your video and the
complete text of your speech in Arabic,  and a summary in English (see
the included application form, address,  and guidelines below).

We look forward to your participation  in this exciting event.

Rkia Cornell
Arabic Speech Contest Coordinator

ARABIC SPEECH CONTEST
Duke University
April 8, 2000


APPLICATION FORM


Name  __________________________________________________________________

Present Address  	______________________________________________________

			______________________________________________________

Email Address	______________________________________________________

Name of the Institution where you are a student
______________________________

Name of your most recent Arabic instructor  	______________________________

	-  his or her phone number
_______________________

Level of competition for which you intend to apply	(I, II or III)
__________________

Title of Speech in Arabic
	________________________________________________

Title of Speech in English
	________________________________________________


This completed application form, along with a summary of your speech in
English and the complete text in Arabic, should be  mailed to Prof. Rkia
E. Cornell at the following address:
Arabic Speech Contest
2101 Campus Drive, Box 90414
Durham, NC   27708-0414

Tel: (919) 684-4309
 Fax: (919) 681-7871


The deadline for applications is April 3, 2000 -- no late applications
will be accepted



GUIDELINES FOR ARABIC SPEECH CONTEST
Duke University
April 8, 2000


1)	Subject:	Open to any topic of the student's choosing

2)	Entry levels:

Level I:	Students who have completed or are in the process of
completing one year of                            Arabic instruction, or
its equivalent.

Level II:	Students who have completed or are in the process of
completing two years of                            Arabic instruction, or
its equivalent.

Level III:	Students who have completed or are in the process of
completing three years of                            Arabic instruction,
or its equivalent.

3)	Time limit for speeches:	Level I:	3-5 minutes
					Level II:	5- 7 minutes
					Level III:	7-9 minutes

4)	Judging criteria and point allocation:

		Content and richness of vocabulary
30 points
		Grammar and appropriateness of
expression	            30 points
		Pronunciation and fluidity of expression
20 points
		Delivery
20 points
							Total:
100 points

5) 	Eligibility:	The contest is open to both undergraduate and
graduate students.
Native Arabic speakers (whose first language is Arabic) or people who
have studied more than three years of Arabic are not eligible to compete
in it.  All speeches should be delivered in Modern Standard Arabic.


6) How to enter:  Fill out an application form, and submit it along with
a video of
yourself delivering your speech in Arabic, in addition to the complete
text of your speech in Arabic.  Entries must be submitted to Prof. Rkia
Cornell  by April 3.  From the entries, up to five finalists will be
selected at each level.  The videos of the five finalists will be shown
on Saturday, April 8 and will be judged along with the other contestants
by a panel of judges.  We plan to award the following prizes at each level:

		1st prize:	$100.00
		2nd prize:	$  75.00
		3rd prize:	$  50.00

Those contestants who are not awarded cash prizes will nevertheless
receive a T-shirt for their participation.

Final results will be announced on April 8th, and video participants will
be informed by mail of their results.
Department of Asian and African Languages
Duke University

GdOhQI GdSfhjI Gd`NGeSI
d`eHGQI GdNWGHI

The Fourth Annual
Arabic Speech Contest


will be held on


Saturday, April 8, 2000
2:00 p.m.  - 5:00 p.m.
119 West Duke Parlor
Duke East Campus

Program includes:  Speech contest on 3 levels
Presentation of Prizes  -  Reception and a play by students


Open to the Public


Sponsors include:  The College of Arts and Sciences of
Duke University, the Comparative Islamic Studies Committee,  and NAJD,
THE DUKE Arabic CLUB.
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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:29:59 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Future Tense Response
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Date: 14 Mar 2000
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Future Tense Response

In the most general manner, the future is referred to by preceding the
imperfective verb with either the prefix 'sa'  or the word 'sawfa'.

Another way to refer to the future is use a conditional particle,
such as '?idha' and follow it by a perfective verb.

Waheed Samy
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 20:31:36 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:31:36 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Doctoral Fellowships
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Date: 14 Mar 2000
From: Corinna Fischer <aop-info at uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Doctoral Fellowships

CEBHEM / Orientalisches Seminar
Tuebingen University, Germany
invites applications for two doctoral research fellowships (3 years
each) to be held at the recently established ìCentre for the Economic
and Business History of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East
(CEBHEM)î. Appointments will start from 01.10.2000. Remuneration will be
approx. DM 2.000 p.month net (plus generous travel and equipment
allowances).

Eligibility: ideal candidates would be outstanding graduates (minimum
requirement: M.A. to be awarded in Summer 2000) from the fields of
Middle Eastern and/or Mediterranean Studies, History, Anthropology,
Sociology, Geography or Economics, provided they have an interest in
archival research. Languages required: Arabic, Ottoman-Turkish, French,
Italian (for one position also Greek or Armenian).

Research will focus, technically, on archival studies in the region and,
conceptually, on processes of incorporation of the Eastern Mediterranean
and the Middle East in the world exchange during the 18th-early 20th
centuries, more specifically on "Incorporation, minorities and
diasporas" and "Entrepreneurs and the Ottoman state". Transdisciplinary
approaches in dealing with these topics are strongly encouraged. It is
recommended that supervision be conducted jointly by Orientalisches
Seminar and the candidate's home institution. Students may apply for
permission to write their thesis in a language other than German.

For further details concerning the application procedure have a look at
our http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/CEBHEM or write an e-mail directly to
CEBHEMís coordinator (ruediger.klein at uni-tuebingen.de). The complete
documentation must be received by 15.06.2000. In summer 2000 up to three
candidates for each of the positions will be invited for an interview.
The definitive decision will be communicated by 30.07.2000 at the
latest.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 20:33:48 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:33:48 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Moroccan Lit Program Response
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1) Subject: Moroccan Lit Program Response

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Date: 14 Mar 2000
From: "Hammoud, Salah, Civ, DFF" <Salah.Hammoud at usafa.af.mil>
Subject: Moroccan Lit Program Response

Mohamed V University in Rabat (Kulliyyat al-Aadaab=College of Humanities) is
likely to have the most extensive course offering in Arabic/Moroccan Lit.,
and perhaps followed very closely by Mohamed Ben Abdallah University in Fes.
Both schools have highly respected faculty members who include leading
Moroccan writers.
There is also the relatively new university in Tetouan (Northern Morocco).
If contacted, they may be able to share syllabi and areas of specialization.

Salah
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 23:30:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:30:55 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Slips of tongue
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Date: 14 Mar 2000
From: Ernest N. McCarus" <enm at umich.edu>
Subject: Slips of tongue

[This is a corrected version of a previous posting (includes the e-mail
address)]

Sabah Safi-Stagni has done a great deal of work on slips of the tongue in
Arabic and might possible know of works on dyslexia in Arabi; her e-mail
address is

GCF3011 at KAAU

Ernest McCarus

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:29:04 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:29:04 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Translation Query
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: fadwa_fadhil at yahoo.com
Subject: Translation Query

Dear Sir,
 I'm looking for a translator (Arabic to English) who
can give me an opinion about some Arabic works (novels
& short stories) for an Arabic writer,who's very well
  known to the Arabic readers. His works are closer to
the western style and mentality than the Arabic ones,
as I think.
I got your address from Ms Kristen Brustad of AATA.
So, if you don't mind to send you some of his work to
read and tell me later if it is possible to translate
them, and if yes, would you please recommend me a
translator you know, and what are the procedures that
I should go
through.
 Looking forward to hear from you.
 Thank you.
Fadwa Alwan

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:31:45 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:31:45 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Khunatha Bannunu Response
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Aida Bamia <abamia at aall.ufl.edu>
Subject: Khunatha Bannunu Response

The date I have for As-sura was-sawt is 1969.
A. Bamia

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:32:15 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:32:15 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING: Diglossia, Classicism,
 & Colloquialism - New AUC Book
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1) Subject: Diglossia, Classicism, & Colloquialism - New AUC Book

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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Diglossia, Classicism, & Colloquialism - New AUC Book

Greetings / tahaiya tayiba wa b3ad...

The American U. of Cairo Press recently published a book (may be more of a
compendium) about Arabic diglossia and colloquials.

A recent article on Arabic diglossia by Alan K. Kaye at California State
U., Fullerton (currently a visiting associate professor at King Saud U. in
Riyadh until this summer) cited that AUC publication. (I think Charles
Ferguson's original article on diglossia is included in the book's
contents.)

HTH.

Khair, in sha'Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:36:45 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:36:45 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Georgtown Summer Arabic Program
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Brian McGrath <MCGRATHB at gunet.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Georgtown Summer Arabic Program

GEORGETOWN ARABIC LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
SUMMER 2000


PROGRAM: The Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics Department, and the
Summer School, will offer its annual Arabic Language Institute during the
Summer
of 2000.  Courses to be offered are:

1)         Intensive First Level Modern Standard Arabic I
            (6 cr.) (June 5- July 7)

2)	Intensive First Level Modern Standard Arabic II
            (6 cr.) (July 10-August 11)

3)	Intensive Second Level Modern Standard Arabic I
            (6 cr.) (June 5-July 7)

4)	Intensive Second Level Modern Standard Arabic II
            (6 cr.) (July 10-August 11)

5)	Intensive Advanced Arabic I (6 cr.) (June 5- July 7)

6)	Intensive Advanced Arabic II (6 cr.)
            (July 10- August 11)

All of the above are undergraduate courses.  Students may enroll for one or
both
sessions of any sequence.  The Summer Arabic Language Institute at
Georgetown is
very intensive.  Students in all courses will normally spend from six to seven
hours per day, five days a week between classwork and homework preparation.  An
additional course load during the summer is not recommended.

Session I:	June 5 -  July 7
Session II: 	July 10 - August 11

Tuition is $470.00 per credit for the undergraduate courses, plus a $50.00 lab
fee per session.

ADMISSION:  The program is open to graduate and undergraduate students, and to
persons who  are not academically affiliated but need a knowledge of Arabic for
professional and other valid reasons.  Courses are not open to native speakers
of Arabic.  The courses are offered for undergraduate credit only.  For
application forms, please contact:

Brian McGrath,
Assistant Director
Summer 2000 Arabic Language Institute
Department of Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics

Georgetown University
P. O. Box 571046
Washington, DC 20057-1046

Phone: 202-687-5743
Fax: 202-687-2408
E-mail: mcgrathb at gunet.georgetown.edu
Arabic Dept. Website: http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/arabic

Deadline for receipt of application forms and supporting documents is March 31,
2000.  Late applications will be accepted on a space available basis.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:38:39 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:38:39 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Zayed University Admin Job
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1) Subject: Zayed University Admin Job

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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: Zayed University Admin Job

DIRECTOR, ARABIC LANGUAGE CENTER

Zayed University
United Arab Emirates

Zayed University is a new National university of the United Arab Emirates.
Currently operating on campuses in the cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Zayed
University enjoys the full support of the United Arab Emirates government as
it builds itself to top international standards.  The University was founded
in September 1998 upon the admission of the first freshman class of 1,100
nonresidential women students; a second freshman class was admitted for fall
1999.  The mandate is to prepare Nationals, women and men alike, for
leadership roles in the future economic growth of the country.  English is
the primary medium of instruction and administration and Arabic plays a
critical role.

The two founding campuses of Zayed University eventually will comprise a
student body of about 5,000 undergraduate students studying in six colleges
(the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Sciences, Communication and
Media Sciences, Education, Family Sciences and Information Systems).  The
University will offer an active program of continuing adult and professional
education and graduate programs are planned.  Information technology supports
all aspects of the instructional program; all students own a laptop computer
and campus facilities are fully networked.  Physical facilities are generally
sufficient to meet current needs.  New campuses to be designed and
constructed within the next several years are planned for both locations.

The University invites applications for the position of founding Director of
the Arabic Language Center.  The Center will be located administratively in
the College of Arts and Sciences and will provide academic and administrative
functions for all Colleges of the University.  The Director will develop and
manage the innovative programs of the Center and supervise its staff.  The
purposes of the Center are:
1.  To serve as a major student and faculty support facility, providing
instruction and advice to students for improvement of their written and oral
Arabic language skills;
2.  To monitor the systematic development of students' Arabic language
competency in all aspects of their University studies in order to insure that
University standards for use of the Arabic language are met by individual
students at entry, intermediate and graduation levels; and
3.  To provide service to the University administration in preparing Arabic
language versions of selected documents and communications.

Salary is competitive by international standards.  Living conditions in the
UAE are superb.  The position is available immediately.  Applications will be
accepted until the position is filled.

Successful candidates will have (1) an earned doctorate in a relevant field;
(2) administrative experience, preferably related to language education; (3)
extensive contacts among the international community of scholar/teachers in
relevant fields and (4) a creative and flexible personality with the ability
to work well as a member of a team. Preference will be given to candidates
who are native speakers of Arabic with excellent command of English and
significant experience in western universities.

Applications must include (1) a letter of application addressing relevant
experience and qualifications; (2) a current curriculum vitae; and (3) the
names, addresses and telephone/FAX numbers of four references.  All inquiries
will be held in strict confidence; references will not be contacted without
the candidate's permission.  Potential candidates should submit inquiries and
applications by mail or e-mail to:

Professor R. Kirk Belnap
Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages
4072 JKHB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT  84602
(801) 378-6531
FAX: (801) 378-5866
rkb at email.byu.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:39:21 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:39:21 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Harvard Job
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1) Subject: Harvard Job

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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: William Granara <granara at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Harvard Job

		PRECEPTOR IN MODERN ARABIC LANGUAGE
			Harvard University

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations seeks
applications for a preceptor in Modern Arabic beginning in
September 2000. The position is renewable on a yearly basis, not to
exceed eight (8) years.
		---This is not a tenure track position.---

The successful applicant should be familiar with the issues of teaching
Arabic as a foreign language, have experience in teaching MSA from
elementary to advanced levels, have native or near native proficiency in
Arabic, and must be able to conduct advanced classes in Arabic.
Specialization in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture or Arabic
Linguistics and Pedagogy is highly desirable.

Letters of application (accompanied by a CV and the names and addresses of
at least two referees) should be sent no later than May 1, 2000 to:

	Prof. William Granara
	Center for Middle Eastern Studies
	1737 Cambridge Street
	Cambridge, MA 02138

***Harvard University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer
and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual or
affectational preference, age, religion, national or ethnic origin.***



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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:41:24 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:41:24 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:In Memoriam:Dr. Ed De Moor
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1) Subject: In Memoriam:Dr. Ed De Moor

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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Gert Borg <G.Borg at let.kun.nl>
Subject: In Memoriam:Dr. Ed De Moor

L.S.

I regret to inform the members of the list, that my friend and former
colleague, Dr. Ed de Moor, has died suddenly on Sunday morning, March 19th.

With his inspiring enthusiasm as a teacher and as a scholar he made an
important contribution to the spreading of knowledge of Modern Arabic
Literature.

Ed has been our colleague at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
at Nijmegen University for over 25 years and was still working in the same
building as the director of the Institute for Christianity in Eastern
Europe and the Middle East. This enabled us to continue our pleasant
cooperation for the last few years.

The staff members of the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies wish his
wife, Anneke, and the other members of the family strength in the difficult
days ahead.

Ed was the kind of man who made a difference.

Gert Borg

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:40:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:40:28 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Corpus Linguistics Query
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1) Subject: Arabic Corpus Linguistics Query

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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Amin Almuhanna <MCUIGAA2 at fs1.ccl.umist.ac.uk>
Subject: Arabic Corpus Linguistics Query

Hi,
	I am looking for any recent work written on Arabic corpus
linguistics (books, articles, papers, etc.). If you have any
recommendations, please e-mail me personally at:
 mcuigaa2 at fs1.ccl.umist.ac.uk
		Thank you,
				Amin Almuhanna

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:37:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:37:29 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Bayreuth University Job
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1) Subject: Bayreuth University Job

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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Jonathan Owens <Jonathan.Owens at uni-bayreuth.de>
Subject: Bayreuth University Job
The Language Center of Bayreuth University announces an opening for a
Lecturer in:
Arabic
beginning on 1 September, 2000

Qualifications: Arabic native language (dialect plus Standard Arabic),
University
degree. A degree in Linguistics or Linguistics-related specialty,
experience in teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language and knowledge of
German is preferred.

Duties: Arabic language courses and courses on
Arabic culture. The candidate will be expected to have or acquire a
basic knowledge of computer and multi-media competence. Teaching load
is 16 hours per week within a total 40 hour work week. Salary is
determined by the BAT IIa scale (national employees scale). The
contract is for two years with the possibility of a three year
extension.

Bayreuth University seeks to increase the percentage of
female employees and therefore specifically encourages women to apply.
Given equal qualification, handicapped applicants will be given
preference.

Applications with resume, copies of academic
qualifications, evidence of teaching experience (if any), references,
and picture should be sent to:

The Director, Language Center
Dr. Udo Jung
Bayreuth University
D-95440, Bayreuth
Germany

by May 31, 2000.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:42:07 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:42:07 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NCOLCTL 2000 Conference
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1) Subject: NCOLCTL 2000 Conference

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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Scott_G_McGINNIS at umail.umd.edu (sm167)
Subject: NCOLCTL 2000 Conference

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ORGANIZATIONS OF LESS COMMONLY TAUGHT LANGUAGES (NCOLCTL)
Third Annual Conference, May 6-8, 2000, Washington, DC
Less Commonly Taught Languages in the Working World: Needs & Responses

The conference program and registration form are now available at the
NCOLCTL Councilnet website. You can link directly to both of them, including
versions in pdf format, through the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC)
website address of www.nflc.org/conferences.

For additional information, contact Scott McGinnis, NCOLCTL Executive
Director at smcginnis at nflc.org or 202-667-8100 x15.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:42:57 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:42:57 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Arabic Literature Seminar
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1) Subject: Arabic Literature Seminar

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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Hussein.N.Kadhim at Dartmouth.EDU (Hussein N. Kadhim)
Subject: Arabic Literature Seminar

THE ARABIC LITERATURE SEMINAR 2001
"Arabic Literature and the Post-colonial"

This CFP is also posted at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kadhim/als.html

The Arabic Literature Study Group (ALSG), will sponsor a Seminar on "Arabic
Literature and the Post-colonial" at the annual convention of the American
Comparative Literature Association, April 20-22, 2001, in Boulder,
Colorado. The Seminar will be conducted over a 3-day period and will include
12 to 14 presentations. Selected papers will be published in a special
Issue of the Journal of Arabic Literature. PARTICIPATION IN THE SEMINAR IS OPEN
TO ALSG MEMBERS AND NONMEMBERS ALIKE.


CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The field of post-colonial studies has given rise to a wide range of
theoretical formulations, concepts, and debates. This remarkable output,
however, has been largely concerned with literatures written in English
and other European languages. The fact that, over the last two centuries,
much of the Arab "space" was colonized by one Western power or another,
and that Arabic discourses of the period manifested a relentless
oppositionality vis-a-vis the colonizer may point to the potential
relevance of post-colonial theory to the Arabic context.

Proposals are invited for papers that broadly attempt to bring the critical
and theoretical insights made possible by post-colonial studies to bear on
Arabic literary contexts.

Prospective participants might consider:

- The (in)applicability of post-colonial theory to Arabic literature
- Decolonization, language, space, and history
- Hegemonic centers/subaltern margins
- Journeys, exile, return
- Loss and Memory
- Recovered histories, time, place, and space
- Representation and resistance
- Dispossession and dislocation
- Identities and representations
- Nation and nationalism(s)
- Metaphors and icons of nation
- Post- Arab Nationalism
- The East-West encounter/Encountering the other(s)
- Tradition and revolution
- (Re)constructing the Arabic canon(s)
- Gender and postcoloniality
- Postmodernism and postcolonialism
- Globalization, Transculturation, and Neocolonialism

Papers might approach such questions on a broad theoretical basis or
through the critical consideration of particular Arabic texts. Proposals
for individual papers (including a 250-word abstract and a summary CV or
biographical paragraph), should be emailed to the seminar organizer or sent
to the address below by October 1, 2000.

Hussein Kadhim
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures
6191 Bartlett Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Email: Hussein.Kadhim at Dartmouth.Edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:43:53 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:43:53 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Machine Translation Conference
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk
Subject: Machine Translation Conference

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MT AND MULTILINGUAL NLP

MT 2000:
MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS
IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Exeter, United Kingdom
20-22 November 2000


The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group (NLTSG) of the
British Computer Society (BCS) and the University of Exeter announce
an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter (UK)
on 20-22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful
conference "Machine Translation: 10 Years On" held in 1994 in Cranfield.

Against the backdrop of increasingly multilingual society, MT2000 will
look at the main challenges to MT and multilingual NLP at the dawn of
the new millennium. The focus of this year's conference is not only
recent machine translation research and products, but latest
multilingual developments in general. The organisers aim to attract a
wide range of contributions from researchers, users, educationalists
and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering.

The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will
be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. A selection
of papers will be published in book form soon after the conference.
There will also be an exhibition area and an opportunity to hold poster
sessions.


* Topics

We invite papers covering multilingual aspects of any NLP
task/application. The following list of possible topics is not
exhaustive and is intended to indicate areas of probable interest:

Machine translation (developments, techniques, applications)
Translation aids
Controlled Languages
Terminology
Lexicography
Computer-assisted language learning
Corpora (construction, annotation, exploitation)
Evaluation
Part-of-speech tagging
Parsing
Information retrieval
Information extraction
Automatic abstracting
Word-sense disambiguation
Lexical knowledge acquisition
Anaphora resolution
Text categorisation
Dialogues systems
Web-based NLP applications
NL generation
Speech processing


* Invited speakers

Martin Kay (Xerox Parc)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)


* Programme Committee

Christian Boitet (Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble)
Francis Bond (NTT, Kyoto)
Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice)
Laurie Gerber (Systran Software Inc.)
Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble)
Changning Huang (Microsoft, China)
John Hutchins (University of Anglia)
Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Labs)
Gareth Jones (University of Exeter)
Martin Kay (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto)
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton)
Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal)
Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht)
Tara O'Leary (SDLX, Maidenhead )
Derek Lewis (University of Exeter), Co-Chair
Gabriel Lopez (New Lisbon University)
Bente Maegard (Center of Language Technology, Copenhagen)
Chris Manning (Stanford University)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Co-Chair
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton)
Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Stephen Pulman (University of Cambridge)
Lucia Rino (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University Barcelona)
Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex, Brighton)
Isabelle Trancoso (INEC, Lisbon)
Arturo Trujillo (Vocalis plc, Cambridge)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
Agnes Tutin (Stendahl University Grenoble)
Karin Vespoor (Intelligenesis, New York)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)


* Submission Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should
be written in English and should not exceed 7 single-column
pages (preferred font: Times New Roman 12) including figures,
tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature
the title of the paper, the author's name(s), the author's surface and
email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Electronic
submissions (attached postscript files, pdf, rtf or Word files) are
encouraged.

The address for e-mail paper submissions is: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk
In addition, the abstracts of the papers should be separately emailed
to Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk).

The papers will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines on how to produce
the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the
Proceedings.


* Schedule

Paper Submission Due: 1 June 2000
Notification of Acceptance: 1 August
Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September
Conference: 20-22 November 2000


* Venue

The conference venue will be the Crossmeads Conference Centre at the
University of Exeter. Exeter is an historic city in the heart of Devon
in the South West of England. The campus is celebrated as one of the
most beautiful in the United Kingdom. Exeter's international airport is
a few miles away. There are good rail and coach links to London,
Birmingham and other UK cities.


* Exhibitions

The conference will host exhibitions of software products and books
related to multilingual NLP. Companies/organisations interested in
exhibiting their products should contact Derek Lewis (see below).


* Call for participation

A call for participation, including the conference program and
attendance fees, will be posted in August.


* Further information

Further information can be obtained from

Derek Lewis
Queen's Building
University of Exeter
Exeter
United Kingdom
EX4 4QH
Telephone/fax: ++44 (0)1392 264296 / 264306
E-mail: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk

or from

David Wigg, NLTSG
Telephone: +44 (0) 1732 455446
E-mail: wiggjd at bcs.org.uk

Conference web site:
http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/index.htm
Exeter University web-site: http://www.exeter.ac.uk

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:44:50 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:44:50 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Blending(?) Query
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Heba Aboul-Enein <haboulenein at hotmail.com>
Subject: Blending(?) Query

Greetings.

Does anyone know about belnding in Arabic?

Heba Aboul-Enein

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:29:46 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:29:46 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Chamito-semitic Conference Program
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Moha Ennaji <estry at fesnet.net.ma>
Subject: Chamito-semitic Conference Program

La Morphologie et la Syntaxe des Langues Chamito-sémitiques
The Morphology and Syntax of Chamito-semitic Languages
			20-21 March 2000, FES, MOROCCO

Programme



Lundi 20 mars
Après-midi

15:00-15:30 Ouverture

Président: Ahmed Makhoukh
15:30-16:10  Abdellah Chekayri (AlAkhaway University, Ifrane)
		"The Appearance vs. Absence of Glides
in Classical Arabic Assimilate Verbs"

16:10-16:50      Loraine  Obler & Mira Goral (City University of New York,
USA)
		"The Psychological Reality of the Semitic Root"

16:50-17:30    Mohamed Elmedlaoui (Mohamed I University, Oujda)
                	"COMP Structure and Movement in Tashelhit Berber"

17:30-18:10     Moha Ennaji (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fès)
		"The Structure of Clitic Constructions in Berber"

Mardi 21 Mars
Matin

 Président: Mohammed Elmedlaoui

08:30-09:10 	Ahmed Makhoukh (Université Moulay Ismael, Meknès)
                "Control Structures in Standard Arabic"

9:10-9:50      Mohamed Moubtassime  (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University,
Fès)
                      "On Definiteness in Standard Arabic."

9:50 -10:00    Pause
 Président:       Abdelkader Gonegai
10:00-10:40   Ahmed Chergui Saber (Université Cadi Ayad, Marrakech)

10:40-11:20       Souad Slaoui  (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fès)
                      "On Moroccan Arabic Clause Structure."

11:20-12:00     Mohamed Badawi (Universitaet Konstanz, Allemagne)
"A Propos des Aspects Sémantiques du Majhul en Arabe"

12:00-12:40   Mohamed Taki (Université Cadi Ayad, Béni-Mellal)
		Une approche du comportement des racines défectueuses en arabe

Après-midi

Président: Mohammed Moubtassime

15:00-15:40   Choukri Iraqi (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fès)
		"Tense and Aspect in Sibawayh's Al-Kitab" (in Arabic)
15:40-16:20    Abdellatif Chouta (Université  Hassan II, Casablanca)
"Types of Events and Aspectual Change in Arabic" (in Arabic)

16:20-16:30  Pause

 Présidente:  Souad Slaoui

16:30 -17:10  Jalil El-Idrissi (Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fès)
                       "Les nominalisations adjectivales"

17:10 - 17:50 Abdelkader Gonegai (Université  Hassan II, Casablanca)
           "But et Cause en Arabe Standard: Analyse Minimaliste "

17:50-17:30 Sabrina Benjaballah (Universitaet Wine BergasseII, Autriche)
          "The internal structure of the determiner in Beja"

17:30 Clôture

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:33:52 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:33:52 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Shimaore Query
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Melissa Barkat <Melissa.Barkat at ish-lyon.cnrs.fr>
Subject: Shimaore Query

Dear Arabic-'Lers,


The Shimaore, language spoken in the Island of Mayotte (Comores) is a bantu
language which has been strongly influenced by Arabic.
In this language, a particular phenomenon of nasalaization is observed : in
all the terms that have been borrowed to Arabic where a "ayn" (i.e. voiced
pharyngeal frivative) is attested, the following vowel is clearly nazalized.

Is anyone conscious of a similar phenomenon in any dialect of Arabic that
would have influenced the Shimaore language ??


Thanks a lot for your help.


Chers Collègues,

"Le shimaore, langue de l'ile de Mayotte (Comores), est une langue bantoue
qui a ete tres fortement influencee par l'arabe, et dans laquelle on
observe un curieux phenomene de nasalisation: dans tous les termes
d'origine arabe qui comportent la pharyngale sonore (ayn), la voyelle qui
suit immediatement cette consonne se prononce nasale. Un phenomene
similaire aurait-il ete signale dans des parlers arabes susceptibles
d'avoir influence le comorien?"

Merci de votre aide.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 22:34:52 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:34:52 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf Materials Response
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Date: 01 Feb 2000
From: John Leake <J.E.S.Leake at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Gulf Materials Response

A post-script on Gulf Arabic materials: I see in the 'Forthcoming Books'
catalogue from Brill that Clive Holes is about to have a glossary of
'uneducated' Bahraini Arabic published by them.  Price, as ever with
Brill, is about $150, and the publishing date is, I think, April.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 22 21:21:14 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:21:14 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book on Palestinian Border Villages
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Date: 22 Mar 2000
From: [reposted from LINGUIST]
Subject: New Book on Palestinian Border Villages

Politics and Sociolinguistic Reflexes. Palestinian border villages.
Muhammed Hasan AMARA (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Studies in Bilingualism 19
US & Canada: 1 55619 950 3 / USD 79.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 4128 7 / NLG 158.00 (Hardcover)

This sociolinguistic study describes and analyzes an Israeli
Palestinian border village in the Little Triangle and another village
artificially divided between Israel and the West Bank, tracing the
political transformations that they have undergone, and the
accompanying social and cultural changes. These political, social and
cultural forces have resulted in distinctive sociolinguistic patterns.

The primary explanation offered for the persisting linguistic frontier
found in rural Palestinian communities is the continuing social,
political, economic and cultural differences between Palestinian
villages in Israel, and Palestinian villages in the West Bank. In the
geopolitical and economic history of the villages, these distinctions
have been maintained by the dissimilar treatment received by the two
communities and their inhabitants under Israeli government
policy. Exacerbated by the Palestinian Intifada, the relations of the
Palestinian divided communities to each other and to the rest of the
world have produced noticeable differences in economic, educational
and cultural development. The sociolinguistic facts revealed in the
language situation in the villages are study shown to be correlated
with political and demographic differences.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 22 21:15:38 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:15:38 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Syntax of Iraqi Arabic Query
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Date: 22 Mar 2000
From: mohammed damir <mdamir1 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Syntax of Iraqi Arabic Query

I am Mohammed Damir, Professor Assistant of Arabic
linguistics (Faculty of KÈnitra, Morocco), I am
working on Arabic dialects. I would be very thankfull
if you could send me some materials concerning the
syntax of Iraqi Arabic.
Best wishes
Mohammed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 22 21:19:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:19:23 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Semitic Languages Professorship at Uppsala
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Date: 22 Mar 2000
From: "Knut S. Vikor" <knut.vikor at smi.uib.no> [reposted from Arabic-Info]
Subject: Semitic Languages Professorship at Uppsala

FULL PROFESSORSHIP IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES
At the Department of Asian and African Languages, Uppsala
University, Sweden.

Subject area: The subject area of the professorship is
Semitic Languages.

To be eligible for this professorship applicants are
required to possess a
professorial level of competence in Semitic Languages.
Applicants must be
able to document research credentials in at least two
Semitic languages.

In making the appointment, special weight shall be given to
both scholarship
and teaching skills, with documented scholarly achievements
in Arabic
counting as a substantial qualification.  Furthermore,
teaching skills in
regard to the most important Semitic languages offered at
the Department
will be seen as a special qualification.

Gender equality: Uppsala University strives to promote
gender equality in
the form of a more even gender balance.  Since the majority
of full
professors are men, the University encourages women to apply
for this chair.

Information: Information regarding the professorship will be
given by the
Deputy Head of Department, Professor Bo Utas, tel +46 18 471
1088, e-mail
mailto:Bo.Utas at afro.uu.se.  A detailed announcement with
instructions for
application can be requested from Ingrid Henriksson, tel +46
18 471 1889,
fax +46 18 471 1981, e-mail
mailto:Ingrid.Henriksson at uadm.uu.se.
The announcement is also available on the Uppsala University
home page,
http://www.personalavd.uu.se/ledigaplatser.html.

Application should be made to the Rector of Uppsala
University and sent to
the Registrar, UFV-PA 2000/1313, P.O. Box 256, SE-751 05
Uppsala, fax +46 18
471 2000, by April 10, 2000.  If application is submitted
via fax, it must
be followed by original documents as soon as possible.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 22 21:17:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:17:55 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIGN:Corpora and NLP Session at ACIDCA2000
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1) Subject: Corpora and NLP Session at ACIDCA2000 (several Arabic-related
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Date: 22 Mar 2000
From: Lamia Hadrich Belguith <l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn>
Subject: Corpora and NLP Session at ACIDCA2000

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                   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                  "Corpora and NLP" SESSION  of
             ACIDCA'2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
              <http://www.chez.com/acidca2000>

             Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000

*****************************************************************

                        Organised by:
                 University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS)
        Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)


                            Supported by:
                    Minstry of Higher Education
		Ministry of Tourism, Leisure and Handicrafts
                    Ministry of Communications
       State Secretary of Scientific Research and Technology
                   Sfax Ville and Monastir Ville
         Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
               European Language Resources Assocition


			     Sponsored by :
			     Groupe Affes
			       POULINA
			       IDERYET
			      Mac UNIVERS
		              POINT/POINT
		        IMPRIMERIE RELIURE D'ART
		                OMEGA
 	                     ACADEMIC PRESS


Session Program:


Wednesday 22, March 2000

9:00 am - 9:30 am, Opening

9:30 am - 10:30 am, Plenary Lecture 1
"From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words From
Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions",
by L.A. Zadeh (USA)

10:30 am - 12:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit

12:30 am - 2:30 pm, Lunch

2:30 - 3:30 pm, Session NLP-1 : Morphosyntactic Analysis
Chairs: Pieter Seuren (The Netherlands), Lamia H. Belguith (Tunisia)

1. "Morphosyntactic Specifiers to be Associated to Arabic Lexical
Entries-Methodological and Theoretical Aspects", by Joseph Dichy
(France)
2. "An Efficient Arabic Morphological Analysis Technique
for Information Retrieval Systems", by Imed A. Al sughaiyer
and Ibrahim A. Al kharashi (Saudi Arabia )
3. "Chunking, marking and searching a morphosyntactically
annotated corpus for French", by Lionel ClÈment and Alexandra Kinyon
(France)

3:30 - 4:00 pm, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit

4:00 - 5:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP- KL1 :
"Handling texts and corpuses in Ariane-G5, a complete environment
for multilingual MT", by Christian Boitet (France).

Chairs: Ruslan Mitkov (UK) and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia)

5:00 - 6:00 pm, Session NLP-2 : Exploitation of Corpora
1. "Exploring Annotated Arabic Corpora, Preliminary Results",
by Mark Van Mol (Belgium)
2. "On the Complexity of Queries for Structurally Annotated
Linguistic Data", by Laura Kallmeyer (Germany)
3. "How to Improve Descriptive Texts Generation thanks to Corpus
 Analyses", by Laurence Balicco and StÈphanie Pouchot (France)


6:00 - 7:00 pm, Free Activity

7:00 pm, Monastir City Reception

Thursday 23, March 2000

8:00 - 9:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP- KL2 :
"Automatic Extraction of information from textual data", by J.-P.
Descles (France)

9:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-3-A: Text analysis  and syntax
Chairs:  Jean-Guy Meunier (Canada) and Seham El Kareh (Egypt)

1. "Text Analysis as a Prerequisite for building Adequate
Text Knowledge Bases", by Udo Hahn and Martin Romacker (Germany)
2. "Basic Structures of Modern Standard Arabic Syntax in
terms of Functions and Categories", by Everhard Ditters (The
Netherlands)
3. "Towards a more Efficient Linguistic Recovery of
 Handwriting Recognition", by Chafik Aloulou,
 Lamia Hadrich Belguith and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia)

9:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-3-B: Anaphora resolution
Chairs: Dan Tufis (Romania) & Key-Sun Choi (Korea)

1. "Dialogue Structure as a Preference in Anaphora Resolution
Systems", by Patricio Martinez-Barco (Spain).
2. "Semantic Compatibility Techniques for Anaphora Resolution",
 by Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Jesus Peral and Armando Suarez (Spain)
3. ""VASISTH" an Anaphora Resolution System for Indian Languages",
by Sobha L, B. N. Patnaik (India)

10:00 - 10:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit

10:30 - 11:30 am, Session NLP-4-A (enlver la lettre "A"):
Term extraction and automatic abstracting
Chairs: Udo Hahn (Germany), Maria Teresa Pazienza (Italy)

1. "Automatic Text Extraction Based on Classification of
Extract's Population", by Maher Jaoua and
Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia)
2. "A Hybrid Technique for Automatic Term Extraction",
by Byron Georgantopoulos and Stelios Piperidis (Greece)
3. "An extraction method for text summarisation",
by Guillermo Moncecchi and Juan JosÈ Prada (Uruguay).

11:30 am - 12:30 am, Plenary Lecture 2
"Categorial and Mathematical classification in Natural
Language Processing", by J.G. Meunier (Canada)
12:30 am - 2:30 pm, Lunch

2:30 - 3:30 pm, Session NLP-5 : Tagging
Chairs: Joseph Dichy (France), Hanene Ben Abdallah (Tunisia)
1. "Evaluating POS tagging under sub-optimal conditions. Or: Does
meticulousness pay ?", by Sandra K¸bler and Andreas Wagner (Germany)
2. "An Arabic Interactive Multi-feature POS Tagger", by Seham El-Kareh
and Sameh Al Ansary (Egypt)
3. "High Accuracy Tagging with Large Tagsets", by Dan Tufis (Romania)

3:30 - 4:00 pm, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit

4:00 - 5:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP-KL3:
"An Extended Boolean Algebra for PPC3", by Pieter A.M Seuren (The
Netherlands)

Chairs:  Christian Boitet (France),  Jean-Pierre Descles (France)

5:00 - 6:20 pm, Session NLP-6 : Text segmentation and Lexis

1. "A hybrid method for clause splitting in unrestricted English texts",
by Costantin
Orasan (UK)
2. "Sub-Technical Lexis in English : A Case Study Using Corpus
Linguistics", by M. Bahloul and G. Greenall (USA)
3. "Normalisation of Association Measures for Multiword Lexical Unit
Extraction", by GaÎl Dias, JosÈ Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Portugal) and
Sylvie GuillorÈ (France).
4. "Word Alignment for Different Language Family Based on Linguistic
Knowledge", by Jin-Xia Huang (China) and Key-Sun Choi (Korea)

6:20 - 8:00 pm, Free Activity

8:00 pm, Conference Dinner

Friday 24, March 2000

8:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-7 : NLP Tools
Chairs: Everhard Ditters (The Netherlands), Fumiyo Fukumoto (Japan)

1. "IBI: A NLP Approach to Question Answering Systems",
by Jose L. Vicedo and Antonio Ferrandez (Spain)
2. "Automatic Annotation of HTML Documents to Improve the Web
Research Pertinence", Omar Mazhoud and Lamia Hadrich Belguith (Tunisia)
3. "Correlating Newswire Articles with TV News Story using
Features of TV News", by Yoshimi Suzuki and Yoshihiro Sekiguchi (Japan)
4. "Softening Fuzzy Knowledge Representation Tool with the
 Learning of New Words in Natural Language ", by Mohamed-Nazih Omri
(Tunisia)
5. "A Logic Programming Approach to Word Expert Engineering", by
Torbj–rn
Lager  (Sweden)

10:00 - 10:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit

10:30 - 11:30 am, Session NLP-8 :
Chairs: Ruslan Mitkov (UK), Belguith lamia(Tunisia)

1. "Resolving Overt Pronouns in Japanese using Hierarchical
VP Structures" by Fumiyo Fukumoto, Hiroyasu Yamada (Japan) and Ruslan
Mitkov (UK)
2. "Identification and Classification of Italian Complex
Proper Names", by Maria Teresa Pazienza and Michele Vindigni (Italy)
3. "Definite Description Resolution in Spanish" by Rafael Munoz and
Antonio Ferrandez (Spain)

11:30 - 12:30 am, Round Table & Closing

12:30 am- 2:30 pm, Lunch




**********************************


Honorary Chairs
---------------

Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT)-Tunisia

Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley


General Chairs
--------------

Adel Alimi,
National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS)

Lamia Belguith Hadrich,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)

Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)


Programme Committee
-------------------

Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair

Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom)
Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)
Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble)
Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble)
Khalid Choukri (ELRA, Paris)
Fathi Debili (IRMC, Tunis)
Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris)
Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon)
Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen)
Fumiyo Fukumoto (University of Yamanashi)
Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble)
Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York)
Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technology, Copenhagen)
Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal)
Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of Edinburgh)
Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris)
Manolo Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain)
Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma, Tor Vergata)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille)
Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
Keh-Yih Su  (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei)
Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)
Agnes Tutin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill)
Jacques Virbel (IRIT, France)
Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki)

Additional Reviewers
--------------------
Amit Bagga (USA)
Costantin Orasan (UK)
Catalina Barbu (UK)
Hanene Ben Abdallah (Tunisia)
Kalina Bontcheva (UK)
Lamia Labed (Tunisia)
Richard Evans (UK)
Rim Faiz (Tunisia)
Wahiba ben Abdessalem (Tunisia)
Ahmed Hadj Kacem (Tunisia)


Local Organising Committee
--------------------------

Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) - Chairs
H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax),
Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS, Sfax),
Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG, Gabes),
Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax),
Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax),
Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax),
Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis),
Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)
Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)

International Organising Committee
----------------------------------

Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray
(University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs
Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan),
Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan),
Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France),
Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University),
Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA)
Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA)
Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France)
Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain)



For any Information
-------------------

Please contact :

Lamia Belguith
e-mail: l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn
Mobile  :  (216) 9 411 060
Fax     :  (216) 4 279 139

Web site of the conference : <http://www.chez.com/acidca2000>

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 22 23:47:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:47:55 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Professorship at Uppsala, Sweden
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1)
Date: 23 Mar 2000
From:  "Knut S. Vikor" <knut.vikor at smi.uib.no>
Subject: Professorship at Uppsala, Sweden

FULL PROFESSORSHIP IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES
At the Department of Asian and African Languages, Uppsala
University, Sweden.

Subject area: The subject area of the professorship is
Semitic Languages.

To be eligible for this professorship applicants are
required to possess a
professorial level of competence in Semitic Languages.
Applicants must be
able to document research credentials in at least two
Semitic languages.

In making the appointment, special weight shall be given to
both scholarship
and teaching skills, with documented scholarly achievements
in Arabic
counting as a substantial qualification.  Furthermore,
teaching skills in
regard to the most important Semitic languages offered at
the Department
will be seen as a special qualification.

Gender equality: Uppsala University strives to promote
gender equality in
the form of a more even gender balance.  Since the majority
of full
professors are men, the University encourages women to apply
for this chair.

Information: Information regarding the professorship will be
given by the
Deputy Head of Department, Professor Bo Utas, tel +46 18 471
1088, e-mail
mailto:Bo.Utas at afro.uu.se.  A detailed announcement with
instructions for
application can be requested from Ingrid Henriksson, tel +46
18 471 1889,
fax +46 18 471 1981, e-mail
mailto:Ingrid.Henriksson at uadm.uu.se.
The announcement is also available on the Uppsala University
home page,
http://www.personalavd.uu.se/ledigaplatser.html.

Application should be made to the Rector of Uppsala
University and sent to
the Registrar, UFV-PA 2000/1313, P.O. Box 256, SE-751 05
Uppsala, fax +46 18
471 2000, by April 10, 2000.  If application is submitted
via fax, it must
be followed by original documents as soon as possible.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 24 22:59:44 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:59:44 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MT Conference
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1)
Date:24 Mar 2000
From:  rwsh at dircon.co.uk
Subject: MT Conference


INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MT AND MULTILINGUAL NLP

MT 2000:
MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS
IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Exeter, United Kingdom
20-22 November 2000


The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group (NLTSG) of the
British Computer Society (BCS) and the University of Exeter announce
an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter (UK)
on 20-22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful
conference "Machine Translation: 10 Years On" held in 1994 in Cranfield.

Against the backdrop of increasingly multilingual society, MT2000 will
look at the main challenges to MT and multilingual NLP at the dawn of
the new millennium. The focus of this year's conference is not only
recent machine translation research and products, but latest
multilingual developments in general. The organisers aim to attract a
wide range of contributions from researchers, users, educationalists
and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering.

The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will
be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. A selection
of papers will be published in book form soon after the conference.
There will also be an exhibition area and an opportunity to hold poster
sessions.


* Topics

We invite papers covering multilingual aspects of any NLP
task/application. The following list of possible topics is not
exhaustive and is intended to indicate areas of probable interest:

Machine translation (developments, techniques, applications)
Translation aids
Controlled Languages
Terminology
Lexicography
Computer-assisted language learning
Corpora (construction, annotation, exploitation)
Evaluation
Part-of-speech tagging
Parsing
Information retrieval
Information extraction
Automatic abstracting
Word-sense disambiguation
Lexical knowledge acquisition
Anaphora resolution
Text categorisation
Dialogues systems
Web-based NLP applications
NL generation
Speech processing


* Invited speakers

Martin Kay (Xerox Parc)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)


* Programme Committee

Christian Boitet (Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble)
Francis Bond (NTT, Kyoto)
Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice)
Laurie Gerber (Systran Software Inc.)
Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble)
Changning Huang (Microsoft, China)
John Hutchins (University of Anglia)
Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Labs)
Gareth Jones (University of Exeter)
Martin Kay (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto)
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton)
Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal)
Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht)
Tara O'Leary (SDLX, Maidenhead )
Derek Lewis (University of Exeter), Co-Chair
Gabriel Lopez (New Lisbon University)
Bente Maegard (Center of Language Technology, Copenhagen)
Chris Manning (Stanford University)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Co-Chair
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton)
Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Stephen Pulman (University of Cambridge)
Lucia Rino (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University Barcelona)
Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex, Brighton)
Isabelle Trancoso (INEC, Lisbon)
Arturo Trujillo (Vocalis plc, Cambridge)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
Agnes Tutin (Stendahl University Grenoble)
Karin Vespoor (Intelligenesis, New York)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)


* Submission Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should
be written in English and should not exceed 7 single-column
pages (preferred font: Times New Roman 12) including figures,
tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature
the title of the paper, the author's name(s), the author's surface and
email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Electronic
submissions (attached postscript files, pdf, rtf or Word files) are
encouraged.

The address for e-mail paper submissions is: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk
In addition, the abstracts of the papers should be separately emailed
to Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk).

The papers will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines on how to produce
the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the
Proceedings.


* Schedule

Paper Submission Due: 1 June 2000
Notification of Acceptance: 1 August
Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September
Conference: 20-22 November 2000


* Venue

The conference venue will be the Crossmeads Conference Centre at the
University of Exeter. Exeter is an historic city in the heart of Devon
in the South West of England. The campus is celebrated as one of the
most beautiful in the United Kingdom. Exeter's international airport is
a few miles away. There are good rail and coach links to London,
Birmingham and other UK cities.


* Exhibitions

The conference will host exhibitions of software products and books
related to multilingual NLP. Companies/organisations interested in
exhibiting their products should contact Derek Lewis (see below).


* Call for participation

A call for participation, including the conference program and
attendance fees, will be posted in August.


* Further information

Further information can be obtained from

Derek Lewis
Queen's Building
University of Exeter
Exeter
United Kingdom
EX4 4QH
Telephone/fax: ++44 (0)1392 264296 / 264306
E-mail: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk

or from

David Wigg, NLTSG
Telephone: +44 (0) 1732 455446
E-mail: wiggjd at bcs.org.uk

Conference web site:
http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/index.htm
Exeter University web-site: http://www.exeter.ac.uk
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 24 22:57:47 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:57:47 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Gulf Arabic Syllabification
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1)
Date:24 Mar 2000
From: "Frederick M. Hoyt" <fmh2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Gulf Arabic Syllabification

Greetings,

I am posting this on behalf of one of my graduate student colleagues, who
is concerned with syllabification in Gulf Arabic (Qafisheh 1977, Holes
1990). Are there any of native speakers of this dialect on this list (these
dialects?) who could take a look at the questions?

Thank you and best wishes,

Fred Hoyt
Cornell University

____________________

QUERY: SYLLABLE STRUCTURE OF GULF ARABIC

	I am working on the syllable structure of Gulf Arabic, and I am
uncertain about the status of some onset clusters. (My sources --mainly
Qafisheh 1977 and Holes 1990-- are silent on the matter.) Could you help me
out by telling me which parse of the syllables below is appropriate, and
whether these consonant clusters are common/genuine to Gulf Arabic (as
opposed to being constrained to loan words)? I'm particularly interested in
the intuitions of native speakers of Gulf Arabic, but any feedback as to
the appropriate syllable division in this or other Arabic varieties is more
than welcome.

1. Are [dr] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (madrasa "school")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ma.dra.sa		or 	b. mad.ra.sa

2. Are [tr] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (yitrayyaq "to have breakfast?")?

	    i.e. is it	a. yi.tray.yaq		or	b. yit.ray.yaq

3. Are [br] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (9ibra "lesson" or "example")?

	    i.e. is it	a. 9i.bra		or	b. 9ib.ra

4. Are [theta-r] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (ka0ra "abundance")? (Note: Because of font incompatibility, I'm
using [0] as a theta, corresponding to English 'th'.)

	    i.e. is it	a. ka.0ra		or	b. ka0.ra

5. Are [kr] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (mikrufuun "microphone")?

	    i.e. is it	a. mi.kru.fuun		or	b. mik.ru.fuun

6. Are [gr] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (tagriib "approximation")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ta.griib		or	b. tag.riib

7. Are [fr] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (yifra "hole")?

	    i.e. is it	a. yi.fra		or	b. yif.ra

8. Are [bl] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (gaabluu "they met him")?

	    i.e. is it	a. gaa.bloo		or	b. gaab.loo

9. Are [fl] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (?aflas "poorer")?

 	   i.e. is it	a. ?a.flas		or	b. ?af.las

10. Are [gl] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (?aghla "richer")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ?a.ghla		or	b. ?agh.la

11. Are [by] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (liibya "Libya")?

	    i.e. is it	a. lii.bya		or	b. liib.ya

12. Are [ry] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (maryamoo "little Miriam")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ma.rya.moo		or	b. mar.ya.moo

13. Are [zy] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (tilivizyuun "television")?

 	   i.e. is it	a. ti.li.vi.zyuun	or	b. ti.li.viz.yuun

14. Are [ly] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (balyon "billion")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ba.lyon		or	b. bal.yon

15. Are [dy] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (baadiya "semi-desert")?

	    i.e. is it	a. baa.dya		or	b. baad.ya

16. Are [gw] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (tagwiim "estimation")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ta.gwiim		or	b. tag.wiim

17. Are [Sw] sequences (where S stands for a palatal fricative
corresponding to English 'sh') syllabified together, or are they in
separate syllables (raSwa "better")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ra.Swa		or	b. raS.wa

18. Are [kw] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (Sakwa "complaint")? (Note: S represents a palatal fricative
corresponding to English 'sh'.)

	    i.e. is it	a. Sa.kwa		or	b. Sak.wa

19. One last question: Do borrowings like sibreey (< English spray),
sikraab (< English scrap) have alternants without the epenthetic [i], i.e.
sbreey, skraab?



Thank you very much for your help.




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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 27 23:39:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:39:28 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Gulf Arabic Syllabification Response
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Date: 27 Mar 2000
From:  sf4684 at u.cc.utah.edu
Subject: Gulf Arabic Syllabification Response

The majority of Arabic dialects including Gulf Arabic syllabify an
intervocalic biconsonantal cluster (VCCV) by assigning a coda position to
the first consonant (VC.CV). This is because a simple coda is favoured over
a complex onset. The question arises when  such clusters occur in
word-initial position., e.g., briig 'jug' or Tbuul 'drums'. Based on my
readings, all Gulf dialects tolerate word-initial clusters of some sort,
except Iraqi which mandates epenthesis in such cases, e.g., 'ibriig and
'iTbuul.

Samira Farwaneh
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 27 23:37:49 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:37:49 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AUB Summer Program
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Date: 27 Mar 2000
From: Jennifer Ladkani <jll3202 at garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
Subject: AUB Sumer Program

The Center for Arab and Middle East Studies at the American University
of Beirut, Lebanon announces a Summer Program in the Arabic language
June 5-July 14, 2000. The program features three courses: Introductory
Arabic, Intermediate Arabic, and Colloquial Arabic.  All courses provide
a total immersion format combining intensive classroom instruction in
Arabic with field trips, caf=E9 sessions, Arabic speaking clubs, and
visits to markets, art galleries and theaters. The program also features
an excellent language laboratory and individualized tutoring sessions.
Both the beginning and the intermediate classes meet for twenty hours
per week for the six-week duration of the course. Each course is the
equivalent to one year (two semesters/8 credit hours/120 contact hours)
of language study at US universities. The course in Colloquial Arabic
meets for 2.5 hours per week throughout the six-week period and is the
equivalent of a one credit course (15 contact hours in the US).
The Al-Kitab series will be used as the main textbooks of instruction
for both the beginning and intermediate courses.
The total fees for the program are $3,200 and  include tuition, housing
(student dormitories), health insurance, Internet access, and usage of
the university sports facilities. Fees also cover cultural trips around
the city. Fees do not include air travel.
Individuals interested in the Summer Arabic Program should apply by
April 30th for the following summer. Applicants should include an
academic or professional letter of reference with their application. For
further information, please contact:

rh14 at aub.edu.lb or zschleno at mailer.fsu.edu
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 28 17:44:40 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:44:40 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NACAL 29 2001 Toronto
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1)
Date: 28 Mar 2000
From: Robin Thelwall <eubule at telusplanet.net>
Subject: LING:NACAL 29 2001 Toronto

[List Members: This message was sent to me personally, but I thought some
of you might be willing to help NACAL get their e-mail lists up to date.
Respond directly to Robin.--Dil]

Dear NACAL members,
I was given your email address by a fellow member, so a brief
confirmatory reply would be appreciated to ensure our address file is up
to date.

The venue for NACAL 29, 2001, is Toronto and provisional dates are:
Wednesday 28 March - Friday 30 March.  The AOS meeting is scheduled for
Friday 30  March - Monday 2 April at the Toronto Colony Hotel, 89
Chestnut St.  I will be confirming the NACAL hotel soon.

Meanwhile I would be grateful if you could check the list below for any
members whose email addresses you may have, and let me know.  This will
considerably speed up our conference correspondence as well as save us
on postage.  Needless to say, any corrections to names will be welcome.

yours sincerely,

Robin Thelwall, Convenor NACAL 29
2121 1st Ave NW
Calgary, AB T2N 0B6
Canada
Tel: 403 283 4494
FAx: 403 283 5584
email: eubule at telusplanet.net

List of remaining names for whom I have no email (please also notify any
you know who don't/won't use email).
Peter Abboud
Sherin Abdel-Halim (SOAS)
Daniel Aberra, Addis Ababa
Tzvi Abusch
Rutie Adler
Azeb Amha, Leiden
Lloyd Anderson
Salman Al-Ani
David Appleyard, SOAS
M. Arister
Mark Aronoff
Richard Averbeck
Al-Said Al-Badawi, Cairo
Chulhyun Bae
Nicholas Bailey
John Baker, Houston
John Baker, Houston
Sergio Baldi, Naples
Giorgio Banti, Rome
Zev Bar-Lev
Barry Beitzel
Anna Bélova, Moscow
Elizabeth Bergman
Adele Berlin
Martin Bernal
Hatte Blejer
Ariel Bloch
Walter Bodine
Oded Borowski
Daniel Boyarin
Michael Brame
Eileen Broselow
Vit Bubenik, Canada
Giorgio Buccellati
Don Burquest
Ed Burrucker
Bernard Caron, Paris
Duane Christiansen
David Cohen, Paris
Michael Coogan
Jerrold Cooper
Alan Corré
Ronald Cosper,  Halifax, Canada
Robin Cover
Joseph L. Daniels
A. J. Drewes, Leiden
Georg Echterweiss
Ragia Effat, Cairo
Barry Eichler
Mushira Eid
Jim Eisenbraun
Ami Elad-Bouskila, Jerusalem
Deborah Ellens
Rolf Endresen, Oslo
Tom Finley
Wolfdietrich Fischer, Erlangen
Eric Forster
Ken Frieden
Lillian Carol Friou
Dmitri Frolov, Moscow
William J. Fulco, S.J.
Maria Angeles Gallego
Stephen Garfinkel
Jane Garry
Talmy Givon
Allen Gleason
Lewis Glinert
David Golomb
Beverley Goodman
Cyrus Gordon
John Greppin
Dr. Catherine Griefenow-Mewis, Germany
Douglas Gropp
Heinz Grotzfeld, Muenster
Alan Harris
Mohammed Hassen
John Hayes
Lewis Heller
Harry Hoffner, Jr.
Gary Holland
Dr. Dymitr Ibriszimov, Germany
Ephraim Isaac
Otto Jastrow, Germany
Bo Johnson, Lund
C.  Douglas Johnson
Thomas L. Kane
Joshua Katz
Christa Kessler
Jacob Klein, Israel
Jared Klein
Frederick Knobloch
Robert Kraft
Charles Krahmalkov
James L. Kugel
Thomas Lambdin
Marcello Lamberti, Trieste
Aryeh Levin, Jerusalem
Baruch A. Levine
B. Barry Levy, Montreal
Maria-Rosa Lloret, Barcelona
Robert Longacre
Tremper Longman III
Antonio Loprieno
Peter Machinist
Victor Mall
Joseph Malone
Nih Mandelblit
P. Kyle McCarter
Fiona McLaughlin
Michael McOmber
H. Craig Melchert
Edmund S. Meltzer
George Mendenhall
David Michaels
Alexander Militarev
Catherine Miller
Cynthia Miller
Harvey Minkoff
John Mitchell
M. A. Mohammad, U of Florida
Ann Mulkern
Norbert Nebes
Scott Noegel
F.S. North
M. P. O’Connor
Edward Odisho
Jonathan Owens
Estiphan Panoussi, Gothenberg
Dennis Pardee
Nina Pawlak, Warsaw
John Perry
Maria Persson, Lund
Gerard Philippson, Paris
Moshe Piamenta, Jerusalem
Albert Pietersma, Toronto
Victor Porkhomovsky, Moscow
Mary Ann Pouls
Raghda El-Essawi, Cairo
Rechad Mostafa, Paris
Gary Rendsberg
Erica Reiner
E.J. Revell, Toronto
Theodore Romanoff
Franz Rosenthal
Martha Roth
Johanna Rubba
Aaron Rubin
Gonzalo Rubio
Stephen Ryan
Richard Saley
John San
Harold P. Scanlin
Russell Schuh
Stanislav Segert
Dr. Shlomit Shrayboim Shivtiel, Israel
Moises Silva
Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Paris
Mat Simonds
Ned Rosenbaum
Cameron Sinclair
Michael Sokoloff, Israel
Roberto Sottile, Palermo
Brian Spooner
David Stampe
Robin Stearns
Richard Steiner
Jaroslav Stetkevych
Olga Stolbova, Moscow
H. Stroomer, Leiden
Shemaryahu Talmon
Anbessa Teferra
Todd Thompson
Yoichi Tsuge, Japan
Siegbert Uhlig, Hamburg
Eugene Ulrich
James Vanderkam
Pascal Vernus, Paris
Kees Versteegh
Dr. William Watt-Popinjay
John W. Wevers, Toronto
Kemp Williams
Moges Yigezu, Addis Ababa
Aklilu Yilma, Addis Ababa
Bayé Yimam, Addis Ababa
Ronald Youngblood
Ziony Zevit


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 28 17:38:34 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:38:34 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dialect Confidence Query
Message-ID: <TUE.28.MAR.2000.093834.0800.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 28 Mar 2000
From: Benjamin Troutman <troutmab at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Dialect Confidence Query

I am interested in "dialect confidence".  Could anyone suggest a
bibliography on this subject regarding Arabic?

all the best,

Benjamin Troutman

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 28 17:39:19 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:39:19 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jordan University Summer Program Query
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Date: 28 Mar 2000
From: Lisa Buckmaster <saxxgod at hotmail.com>
Subject: Jordan University Summer Program Query

Since I am an undergraduate student at one of the thousands of schools in
the US that does not offer any Arabic courses whatsoever, I have had to
resort to participating in summer Arabic courses. For this summer, I am
considering courses taught at Jordan University in Amman, but I'm having
trouble finding any information about this program. Has anyone taken courses
at JU or know anyone who does? I just have some basic questions on material
covered, amount of English spoken in class and their general impression of
the program.

Thanks,
Lisa J. Buckmaster
saxxgod at hotmail.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 28 17:41:10 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:41:10 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Acquisition Query
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Date: 28 Mar 2000
From:  SHAWKY at aucegypt.edu
Subject: Arabic Acquisition Query

RE: New Book on Palestinian Border Villages

dear Sirs,

"therefore they liked classromm situation  and the instructor , however
dislike Arabic language and did not want to learn."

 I am in of People working in that sociolinguistic field to answere a
questionnaire about Arabic language acquisition. If the topic interests you
please get in touch with me I would appreciate it vvery much.

Nehad shawky-MATAFL-American Univeersity in Cairo

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 31 17:35:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:35:23 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:JAIS Keyboard Info
Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAR.2000.093523.0800.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 31 Mar 2000
From: Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject: JAIS Keyboard Info
JOURNAL OF ARABIC AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
http://www.uib.no/jais
http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais

The version of the keyboard mapping program Keys (2.1) which can be
downloaded free from our Web sites is 16-bit, meant for Windows 3.x,
although it works without problem on Windows 95 (at least on the Arabic
enabled version). We have had problems using it with Windows NT 4 (with
Arabic support), and we do not know how it performs with Windows 98. A
32-bit _shareware_ version can be downloaded for trial from the author Peter
Szaszvari's software page at

http://www.szp-software.com/

We have tested the new version of Keys with 32-bit Windows (NT) and have
prepared a corresponding version of the .INI file for the JAIS1font
(entitled Keys32.ini) which can now be downloaded from our Web sites.

Regards,

Joseph Bell and Petr Zemanek

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 31 17:34:19 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:34:19 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jordan Program responses
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1) Subject: Jordan Program responses
1) Subject: Jordan Program responses

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Date: 31 Mar 2000
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Jordan Program response

Greetings.

You might contact Professor Mohammed Sawaie in the Department of Asian and
Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia (UVa) in
Charlottesville. His contact data follow below.

He is the UVa contact for the bilateral summertime Arabic program (intensive
and refresher, rather than an initial acquisition course) that UVa conducts
with Yarmouk University in Irbid.

     Name:                      Mohammed Sawaie
     Department:              Asian & Middle East Lang & Cul
     Messenger Mail:        Cabell Hall, Room B038
     Office Phone:            (804) 924-7917
                                     (804) 982-2304
     Fax Phone:                (804) 924-6977

     Registered E-Mail Addr:  ms at Virginia.edu
                                          ms at unix.mail.virginia.edu

I do not know about similar programs at Jordan University in Amman. Professor
Sawaie is perhaps the most knowledgable person in the U.S. to ask about such
programs offered in Jordan

Let me know if you are interested in a refresher/familiarization  course in
the Gulf Arabic dialect (Emirati), and I can suggest two possible sources at
universities in the UAE.

HTH.

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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2)
Date: 31 Mar 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Jordan Program response

Try AUB, American University of Beirut. They have a summer course
for about $3000.00 plus your ticket, includes field trips and stuff.

George N. Hallak

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2)
Date: 31 Mar 2000
From: Dilworth Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: Jordan Program response

We have had several students go to Amman and study at the Arabic Language
Institute at the University of Jordan.  As with all such programs I would
say that their experience was mixed, some benefitting more than others, but
they appear to have a coherent program that takes students through various
levels of Arabic and tries to produce fluency, particularly in fusha.  It
has the advantage of being relatively inexpensive compared to other
programs.
Dil
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 31 17:22:58 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:22:58 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING: What is NACAL?
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Date: 31 Mar 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: What is NACAL? (and the answer)

What is NACAL????
andy

NACAL is (I believe) the North American Conference on Afro-Asiatic
Linguistics, although that may not be exactly right.  It meets generally
with or just before the American Oriental Society, and last time I attended
had presentations on everything from Berber to Chadic languages to Arabic
and other semitic languages.  If anyone wants to add more detail, please do.
Dil

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 31 17:19:50 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:19:50 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:What is 'dialect confidence'?
Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAR.2000.091950.0800.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 31 Mar 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: What is 'dialect confidence'? (RE: 28 Mar 2000 message from
Benjamin Troutman)

Hi,
  What is "dialect confidence"?
andy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar  6 19:01:09 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:01:09 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS Final Program
Message-ID: <MON.6.MAR.2000.110109.0800.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 01 Feb 2000
From: Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: ALS Final Program

This is the final program for ALS this week.

Fourteenth Annual Symposium On Arabic Linguistics

March 10-11, 2000

sponsored by

The Arabic Linguistics Society

together with

The Center For Middle
Eastern Studies,
Department Of Linguistics, and
Department Of Near Eastern Studies,
The University Of California, Berkeley

FRIDAY, MARCH 10
Morning Session

8:00-8:30	Registration

8:30-9:00	COGNITIVE PROCESSING AND REPRESENTATION OF MORPHOLOGICAL
STRUCTURE IN MODERN STANDARD ARABIC: BEYOND THE THREE-CONSONANTAL ROOT
Sami Boudelaa & William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

9:00-9:30	INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY: THE ARABIC PLURAL SYSTEM
Asma Siddiki, Kim Plunkett & Paul Harris, Oxford University

9:30-10:00	THE PLURAL SYSTEM OF MOROCCAN ARABIC IN DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE
Robert R. Ratcliffe, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

10:00-10:15	BREAK
10:15-10:45	DOUBLED VERBS AND SYNCOPE RESISTANCE IN IRAQI ARABIC: NOT
ANTIGEMINATION
Sharon Rose, University of California, San Diego

10:45-11:45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Joseph Aoun, University of Southern California

Afternoon Session

1:15-1:45	FIXED PROSODY IN THE ARABIC VERB
Adam Ussishkin, University of California, Santa Cruz

1:45-2:15	DISYLLABICITY AND IRREGULAR VERBS IN ARABIC
Bhavani Saravanan, University of Utah

2:15-2:45	ON THE USE OF WORD PATTERN MORPHEMES IN MODERN STANDARD ARABIC
Sami Boudelaa & William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

2:45-3:00	BREAK
3:00-3:30	THE CATEGORY OF EXISTENTIAL FIH: SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC
ARGUMENTS
Frederick M. Hoyt, Cornell University

3:30-4:00	BORROWING DISCOURSE PATTERNS: FRENCH RHETORIC IN ARABIC
LEGAL TEXTS
Ahmed Fakhri, West Virginia University



6:30 DINNER (PYOW) AT POMEGRANATE RESTAURANT


SATURDAY, MARCH 11
Morning Session

8:30-9:00	DOUBLED VERBS REVISITED
Adamantios I. Gafos, New York University & Haskins Laboratories

9:00-9:30	A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF ARABIC-ENGLISH BILINGUAL
children
Ghada Khattab, University of Leeds

9:30-10:00	AN EXPLORATION OF ARABIC LANGUAGE VARIATION IN GAMAL ABDEL
NASSERS SPEECHES TO THE EGYPTIAN NATION
Valerie Smith, University of Utah

10:-10:15	BREAK
10:15-10-45	LEXICAL & SYNTACTICAL ISSUES IN PARSING WRITTEN ARABIC
Nabil Ali & Tamer Heseen, SAKHR Software Company, Cairo

10:45-11:15	CLASSICAL ARABIC QAD: A NEW APPROACH
Ruediger Arnzen, Ruhr University Bochum

11:15-11:45	HEBREW SPEAKERS' ACQUISITION OF ARABIC SYNTAX
Naomi Bolotin, University of Kansas




Afternoon Session

1:30-2:00	SENTENCE PROCESSING STRATEGIES: AN APPLICATION OF THE
COMPETITION MODEL
Adel Abu Radwan, Georgetown University

2:00-2:30	THE HEAD PARAMETER IN CLASSICAL ARABIC
Ali Farghaly, Eastern Michigan University

2:30-3:00	THE STRUCTURE OF RESTRICTIVE RELATIVES: THREE ARGUMENTS FOR
AN EXTERNAL DETERMINER
Lina Choueiri, University of Southern California

3:00-4:00	RECEPTION



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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:46:35 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:46:35 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:Palestinian Dialects Query
Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.124635.0800.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: "Frederick M. Hoyt" <fmh2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Palestinian Dialects Query

Recently, I posted a message to this list requesting assistance from native
speakers of Tunisian Arabic. I received a number of very helpful replies,
for which I am very grateful, and for which I would again like to thank the
contributors.

Now, in addition, I would like to make a similar request to native speakers
of Palestinian Arabic.

I would be particularly interested in hearing from native speakers of the
dialect(s) spoken in rural areas of the northern West Bank (from Bir
Zeit/Ramallah to Jenin). However, I would certainly be grateful for
assistance from any speaker of a Palestinian dialect who would care to
reply.

The dialects I am referring to (Rural Palestinian Arabic; c.f. Younes 1993,
1994, Herzallah 1990) are distinguished by, among other things, features
such as the use of "baka" or "baaki" as a verb "to-be" instead of "kaan,"
the palatalized 'kaaf', active use of the feminine plural agreement marker,
and in some areas (e.g. Bir Zeit) fronting of vowels in various contexts,
such as pronoun clitics (so, for example '-?im' instead of '-kum' or '-he'
instead of '-hu.'

The questions I have involve the interpretation of agreement marking in
existential constructions, given a simple conversational background.

Thank you and best wishes,

Fred Hoyt
Cornell University
fmh2 at cornell.edu


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:42:38 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:42:38 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf (Qatar) Materials Responses
Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.124238.0800.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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2) Subject: Gulf (Qatar) Materials Response

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1)
Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: Bethany Zaborowski <zaborowb at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Gulf (Qatar) Materials Response

Hi, Dr. Hamdi Qafisheh of the U of Arizona published a good Gulf
dictionary a couple of years ago.
B. Zaborowski
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2)
Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Gulf (Qatar) Materials Response

152. Holes, Clive: Gulf Arabic, New York: Routledge, 1990.
247. Qafisheh, Hamdi A.: A Short Reference Grammar of Gulf Arabic, Tucson:
The University of Arizona Press, 1977.
248. Qafisheh, Hamdi A.: Advanced Gulf Arabic and Glossary, Publication
Pending, 1992.
251. Qafisheh, Hamdi A.: A Basic Course in Gulf Arabic, Tucson: University
of Arizona Press, 1975.
252. Qafisheh, Hamdi A.: Gulf Arabic: Intermediate Level, Tucson: The
Univer-sity of Arizona Press, 1979.

Srpko Lestaric


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:44:30 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:44:30 -0800
Subject: ARABIC-L: arabic URL request
Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.124430.0800.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From:  djust at netvision.net.il
Subject: arabic URL request

Could somebody please post the URL of a page with ASCII-coded Arabic
and some Javascripts on it, so we could test Mr. Jihad's problem on
our systems?

Thanks.
David.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:34:44 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:34:44 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Discordant Agreement Responses
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Discordant Agreement Response

Concerning Egypt, the adjective for  'ahwa would be ' turki ';
and concerning the genuineness of spare parts, for example,
the term would not be 'baladi', as that could give the impression
that the parts were immitation.  To say genuine, for genuine
parts, the adjective would be  'asli  (or mustawrad).  To
say 'local', the adjective would be 'maHalli'.
To say an article is not genuine, the adjectives would be
'maghshuush', or 'maDruub', perhaps even - in jest - 'baladi'.

Waheed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:49:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:49:29 -0800
Subject: ARABIC-L: dislexia query
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: James Dickins <James.Dickins at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Dislexia Query

Does anyone know of work which has been done on dyslexia in Arabic?
We  would be very grateful for any possible leads.
 Thanks,
Janet Watson and James Dickins


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:54:30 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:54:30 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:Duke Video Contest
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: Rkia Cornell <rcornell at duke.edu>
Subject: Duke Video Contest

I am pleased to inform you that we will be hosting our Fifth Annual Arabic
Speech Contest at Duke on Saturday, April 8.  In the past, we have invited
students from the neighboring institutions to apply and join their friends
at Duke in this major event.   This year, however, we are opening the
contest to a wider audience to include students from all across the
country.  Those interested will enter the contest by submitting their
speeches on video.

We will need to have your applications by April 3, sent to the Asian and
African Languages and Literature  Office, together with your video and the
complete text of your speech in Arabic, and a summary in English (see the
included documents for guidelines and mailing address).

We look forward to your participation in this exciting event.

Rkia Cornell
Arabic Speech Contest Coordinator
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 20:51:42 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:51:42 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:Research Assistantships
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From:  R?diger Klein <aoskl01 at uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Research Assistantships

CEBHEM / Orientalisches Seminar
Tuebingen University, Germany
invites applications for two doctoral research fellowships (3 years each)
to be held at the recently established ?Centre for the Economic and
Business History of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East
(CEBHEM)?. Appointments will start from 01.10.2000. Remuneration will be
approx. DM 2.000 p.month net (plus generous travel and equipment
allowances).

Eligibility: ideal candidates would be outstanding graduates (minimum
requirement: M.A. to be awarded in Summer 2000) from the fields of Middle
Eastern and/or Mediterranean Studies, History, Anthropology, Sociology,
Geography or Economics, provided they have an interest in archival
research. Languages required: Arabic, Ottoman-Turkish, French, Italian (for
one position also Greek or Armenian).

Research will focus, technically, on archival studies in the region and,
conceptually, on processes of incorporation of the Eastern Mediterranean
and the Middle East in the world exchange during the 18th-early 20th
centuries, more specifically on "Incorporation, minorities and diasporas"
and "Entrepreneurs and the Ottoman state". Transdisciplinary approaches in
dealing with these topics are strongly encouraged. It is recommended that
supervision be conducted jointly by Orientalisches Seminar and the
candidate's home institution. Students may apply for permission to write
their thesis in a language other than German.

For further details concerning the application procedure have a look at our
<a
href="<http:/www.uni-tuebingen.de/CEBHEM>http:/www.uni-tuebingen.de/CEBHEM"><htt
p:/www.uni-tuebingen.de/CEBHEM>http:/www.uni-tuebingen.de/CEBHEM</a> or
write an e-mail directly to CEBHEM?s coordinator (<a
href="<mailto:aoskl01 at uni-tuebingen.de>mailto:aoskl01 at uni-tuebingen.de">ruediger
.klein at uni-tuebingen.de</a>). The complete documentation must be received
by 15.06.2000. In summer 2000 up to three candidates for each of the
positions will be invited for an interview. The definitive decision will be
communicated by 30.07.2000 at the latest.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 23:09:22 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:09:22 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Code Switching query
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: mostari hind <hmostari at yahoo.com>
Subject: Code Switching query

   	Hello,
               I am a researcher in multilingualism
,code switching and language choice.Through out my
work, I would like to know to what extent do speakers
( students of english) switch or mix between the first
language arabic, second language french and English
the target language.
 Please send me articles or adesses of sites which may
help me in my research .contact ma at :
    e-mail : hmostari at yahoo.com
    address:
     07 rue sakiet sidi youcef sidi belabbes 220000
     Algeria
       THANKS

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 23:11:36 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:11:36 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:new books
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1) Subject: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XII
1) Subject: RURAL PALESTINIAN ARABIC

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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XII

John Benjamins Publishing announces the availability of a new work in
Arabic Linguistics:

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XII.
Papers from the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics,
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1998.
Elabbas BENMAMOUN (ed.)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 190
US & Canada: 1 55619 967 8 / USD 75.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3696 8 / NLG 150.00 (Hardcover)

The papers in this volume deal with various topics in Arabic
Linguistics.  Most of the papers focus on new issues and introduce new
empirical generalizations that haven't been studied before within the
context of Arabic linguistics. The syntax and morphosyntax papers
explore issues ranging from the nature of extraction strategies to
various types of Construct State representations and the proper
analysis of the distribution of the nominal, adjectival and verbal
mophological features.  The computational linguistics papers focus on
the challenge posed by the non-concatenative nature of Arabic
morphology. The authors illustrate how their programs can handle
Arabic morphology. The papers in morpho-phonology and historical
linguistics deal with the development of the Arabic complementizer
system and the empirical and theoretical problems that arise in the
context of hypocoristic formation in Arabic.  The sociolinguistics
papers take up the issues of sociolinguistic variation as they pertain
to the phenomenon of diglossia and regional uses of the Standard
variety of Arabic.

Contributions by: Joseph Aoun; Kenneth R. Beesley; Lina Choueiri;
Jamil Daher; Stuart Davis; Peter Hallman; Zeinab Ibrahim; George Anton
Kiraz; Mohammad Mohammad; Dilworth B. Parkinson; David Testen; Bushra
Adnan Zawaydeha.

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2)
Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: RURAL PALESTINIAN ARABIC

RURAL PALESTINIAN ARABIC, 2ND EDITION
KIMARY N. SHAHIN
Birzeit University

This sketch describes a rural (fellahi) dialect of colloquial
Palestinian Arabic, that of the pre-1948 Palestine village of Abu
Shusha.  It is used by a dwindling number of speakers on the West Bank
and Gaza strip, and in locations around the Arab world and elsewhere.
Abu Shusha Palestinian is endangered.  This is due to the original
dispersion of its speakers and resulting interdialect contact, the
increasing age of its speakers, and pressure from Standard Arabic (as,
in general, on all non-urban varieties of the language) for speakers
to conform to more urban and educated speech.  Like all Arabic
colloquials, it is unwritten.

The phonemic, morphological, and syntactic systems are described.  A
sample text is presented with interlinear gloss and translation. Two
features are highlighted. The first is the vowel system, which has
many more important systematic distinctions than traditionally assumed
for Arabic. The second is the discourse, specifically, structures and
strategies as found in the sample text.

The documentation of the sketch will help in furthering work on
comparative Arabic dialectology.  This second edition improves on the
first in documentation and analysis.  New material includes verb types
(strong vs. weak) and bibliographic update.

ISBN 3 89586 960 0.
Languages of the World/Materials 28.
50 pp. USD 32.50 / DM 49.30 /  ? 19.90.
2nd edition: 03/2000

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 23:08:08 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:08:08 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Discourse Analysis query
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: Heba Aboul-Enein <haboulenein at hotmail.com>
Subject: Discourse Analysis query

Dear Sir/madam:

      Greetings.

     I am an Egyptian doctor, specialized in critical discourse analysis
(English and Arabic legal discourses). One of my colleagues is currently
preparing her MA in word-formation processes in English and Arabic,,
particularly  coinage, borrowing, blending and acronyms in the last 30
years. She has not decided yet  on her  field of study (the language of
trade, astronomy or medicine). I'd appreciate it, if you would help us with
a few suggestions on the topic.

Sincerely,
Dr Heba Aboul-Enein.
Ain Shams University,
Cairo, Egypt.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Mar  9 23:18:16 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:18:16 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dyslexia response
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Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: "Ernest N. McCarus" <enm at umich.edu>
Subject: Dyslexia response


Sabah Safi-Stagni has done a great deal of work on slips of the tongue in
Arabic and might possible know of works on dyslexia in Arabic.

Ernest McCarus

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:10:08 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:10:08 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Discordant Agreement Discussion
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1)
Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Discordant Agreement Discussion

When it comes to spare parts, I should know, since
my family owns a Shell Oil service station in Boston.
There are few types of spare parts available: used or "junk",
OEM or original equipment by the manufacturer of the
make and model, "after market" is the same or near quality
spare parts manufactured by other than the car manufacturer.

The after market is infested with "rebuilt" or "remanufactured"
parts such as water pumps, alternators and starters. Even if
the molding of the original manufacturer brand name is on the
part, it may be an "after market" or rebuilt. O yes, the after market
is cheaper than OEM.

Baladi, MahhaLi, Wattani, Sina3ah MahhaLLiyeh is always cheaper
than Mustawrad (imported) or AssLi (OEM). Those slangs may not
be all that accurate, but the locals understand each other, anyway.

Best Regards,

George N. Hallak
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:00:46 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:00:46 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SUNY Program
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Mark Ashwill <ashwill at ACSU.Buffalo.EDU>
Subject: SUNY Program

Just a reminder that the deadline for our summer 2000 program is 1
April.  There are still a few places left.  Please contact me with any
questions.

For information, an online application, and a virtual tour, please go
to:  http://wings.buffalo.edu/studyabroad/proglist.html#sum

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:12:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:12:29 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Moroccan Lit Program Query
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1) Subject: Moroccan Lit Program Query

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1)
Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Jessica Megan Powell <jpowell at Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Moroccan Lit Program Query

Hi.  Khalil Barhoum recommended that I write to you, as I'm trying to find
out if there are any universities in Morocco which have a Moroccan and/or
Arabic literature department. I'm particularly interested in Northern
Morocco, as there is, I imagine, an interesting intersection of the
Spanish, French, and Arabic languages.  Do you know of anyone who could
help me in my search?

Thanks

Jessica Powell
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:07:08 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:07:08 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf Materials Responses
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1) Subject: Gulf Materials Reponse
2) Subject: Gulf Materials Response

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1)
Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Gulf Materials Response

Greetings to all / yaa halla biljemaa3.

Today is Thursday, March 9, 2000.

Following are main points from my earlier response to the inquirer.

Re your post on the Arabic_L.

If you could send me some background, I can furnish some reference citations
on descriptive and introductory materials on the Emirati dialect.

A few follow below, with comments.

The Emirati dialect has probably the closest-available related materials
around (minus some ancient and horribly-transliterated items prepared locally
by some of the oil and natural gas companies operating in Qatar since the
1970s).

Here are some items that first come to mind:

o  Hamdi Qafisheh's paperback textbooks (four) on Gulf Arabic (GA), some with
accompanying audiocassete tapes. Available from the University of Arizona
Press (Mixed reviews by other readers and usefulness, but authentic Emirati
voices are on the tapes.)

o  Hamdi Qafisheh's recent "Dictionary of Gulf Arabic," published by the NTC
Press.

(A piece of work afflicted by an awkward transliteration and other
compilation methods used. Available from amazon.com, but a dubious investment
of money and brain cells, in my opinion as a Gulf Arabic dialectologist.)

His earlier dictionary / lexicon of GA, published in Lebanon, is reportedly
easier, while smaller.

o  Clive Hole's "Spoken Arabic of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf (textbook and
with one audiocassette tape). Available from amazon.com

o  Clive Hole's book "Gulf Arabic."  A sound and descriptive work; written
for a linguist, so of limited usefulness for general self-study.

o  There is a new (due for release in April 200, I think) paperback (two
authors) forthcoming from UK entitled something like "Learn the Arabic of the
Gulf." It's been mentioned recently to me, but I have not seen it. Details
are forthcoming. Apparently similar to the Berlitz series of traveler's
phrasebooks.

o  Bruce Ingham's jewel of a slim paperbook entitled "The Simple Guide to
Customs and Etiquette in Arabia and the Gulf States," contains a number of
suitable politeness exchanges and deference expressions for the most-likely
social and formal occasions.

o  Sir Donald Hawley has several good books out on the "Customs and
Courtesies of the Arabian Gulf," with emphasis on Oman, since he was HM's
ambassador there in the early1970s.

--  While both editions of Hawley's work are now out of print, they are well
worth your finding and borrowing via interlibrary loan. I am away from my
office, so I can't retrieve the ISBNs and publisher data right now.

There also are a few good (albeit pedantic and plodding) works in the Russian
and the German on Gulf Arabic dialects.

If you have any special questions about Qatari, I can ask some Qatari
graduate students at universities where I teach.

Hope this helps you in your search.

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

E-mail: < mutarjm at aol.com >


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2)
Date: 13 Mar 2000
From:  John Leake <J.E.S.Leake at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Gulf Materials Response

A few more Gulf Arabic materials.  In addition to The Clive Holes 'Gulf
Arabic' mentioned before, the classic work is Johnstone's "Eastern
Arabic Dialect Studies" which describes the Gulf dialects as a whole and
separately in some detail, including Qatari.  However, it is over thirty
years old.  Clive Holes wrote a teaching grammar of Gulf Arabic,
"Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia", in 1984, which I
used.  I found it very useful indeed.  The dialect is a pan-Gulf dialect
tending towards the Bahraini dialect (but 'educated', distinguishing Dad
from Za', etc.).  The new Teach Yourself I've only glances at, but it
seems good.  It has the undoubted advantage of being up to date.  Hamdi
Qafisheh's teaching books are, if I remember correctly, particuarly
based on the Abu Dhabi dialect of Emirati.  His dictionaries are,
however, more widely sourced.  The Holes and the Smart books both have
cassettes available - remember to order the Smart 'Teach Yourself' book
_with_ cassette as unlike the Holes 'Colloquial' book, I don't think the
cassette is available on its own.

Holes, C.  1984.  _Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia._
Routledge and Keegan Paul, London.

Johnstone, T.M.  1967.  _Eastern Arabian Dialect Studies._  Oxford
University Press, Oxford

Smart, J.R.  1999.  _Teach Yourself Gulf Arabic._  Teach Yourself Books,
London/NTC Publishing Group, US

Qafisheh, Hamdi A.  1998.  _NTC's Gulf Arabic-English Dictionary._  NTC
Publishing Group, U.S.
  Comprehensive(ish) vocabulary.  Words in _dialect_ root order.

Qafisheh, Hamdi A.  19??  _Glossary of Gulf Arabic_  Librairie du Liban,
Beirut
  Older than the above and not as complete, but Arabic words in order of
transliterated word, not roots.  Accessable by students not learning
arabic script.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:17:43 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:17:43 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Diglossia, Classicism, & Colloquialism Query
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1) Subject: Diglossia, Classicism, & Colloquialism Query

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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Benjamin Troutman <troutmab at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Diglossia, Classicism, & Colloquialism Query

Bakalla (1983) and Al-Ani & Parkinson (1996) are gems for arabic
linguistic bibliographical work.  An obvious difference, though, between
the two, besides the years they cover, is that A & P lack an index.  Or do
they?  At least, the one copy in the Georgetown library doesn't have
one.  And the reason i point this out is that i'm beginning to read works
on diglossia, classicism and colloquialism.  Bakalla's index is very
helpful, and of course, I looked for the same authors in A & P for more
work done from '79-'95, but I'm sure there are more studies out there by
different authors.  please help!

besides Abdel-Malek, Abirached, Abou, Abou-Seida, Ambros, Anghelescu,
Blanc, Corriente, Eid, Faure, Ferguson,Gabrieli, El-Hassan, Jankovic,
Kaye, Marcais, McKay, Nakhlah, Nydell, Schmidt, Schub, Sieny, Al-Toma,
Weaver, Shahin, and Turki, who else?

thank you for this request,

Benjamin Troutman
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:26:50 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:26:50 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Khunatha Bannuna Query
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Wail Hassan <w-hassan at wiu.edu>
Subject: Khunatha Bannuna Query

Does anyone know when the Moroccan novelist Khunatha Bannuna published her
*Al-nar wal ikhtiyaar*? I have found two dates in the scholarship I have
been able to consult, but neither seems plausible: 1966 (impossible) and
1980. Please respond off-list to w-hassan at wiu.edu. Thanks!

Wail Hassan
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:28:13 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:28:13 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:BYU Summer Program
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: BYU Summer Program

The Center for Language Studies at Brigham Young University (BYU) will
offer first-year intensive Arabic during its Summer Term, June 19 through
August 10, 2000.  At BYU, we take an innovative approach to learning
Arabic.  The emphasis is on exposing students to Arabic as it is used on a
daily basis in the Arab world.  From the first day of class, students begin
learning to speak Egyptian Arabic (the most widely understood Arabic
dialect and one closely related to neighboring dialects such as urban
Palestinian).  Students pursue learning the alphabet outside of class using
computers in the language lab.  After mastering the alphabet, they begin to
learn to read Modern Standard Arabic.  Regular one-on-one conversations
with a tutor are an integral part of the approach.  By the end of the
program students will have acquired the conversation skills that will
enable them to enjoy getting around the Arab world in Arabic, and they will
have a solid foundation that will enable them to go on to become fluent
readers (the program will cover at least lesson 16 of Al-Kitaab fii
Ta at allum al- at Arabiyya, vol. 1).  For information on registration and costs
see:

http://humanities.byu.edu/CLS/home.html

If you are interested in the Arabic program but are not familiar with
Brigham Young University, you should take time to familiarize yourself with
the institution.  BYU is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints.  One need not be LDS (Mormon) to attend, but all
students at BYU are expected to live according to its Honor Code.  The
Honor Code and other information about the institution can be found at:

http://www.byu.edu/about/

Please address Arabic-specific questions to:

Brian Bishop
4070 JKHB
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
801/378-6401
fax: 801/378-5866
bdb at email.byu.edu
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:25:39 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:25:39 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dislexia Response
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1) Subject: Dislexia Response

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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Humphrey Taman Davies <hdavies at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Dislexia Response

I have recently been looking into this in Egypt, and am told (by the director
of a school specializing in children with various learning disorders) that
there are absolutely no materials on dyslexia in Arabic available or even
known to exist here.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:24:02 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:24:02 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Proto-Indo-European & Proto-Semitic Query
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Fatima Badry Zalami <badry at aus.ac.ae>
Subject: :Proto-Indo-European & Proto-Semitic Query

Is there any connection between Proto Semitic and Proto Indo European
languages?
 Can you direct me to research/ sources to answer this question?
Thank you
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:21:58 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:21:58 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Qaaf to Jiim Query
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Benjamin Troutman <troutmab at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Qaaf to Jiim Query

Does anyone know why the "qaaf" pushes forward into a "jeem" in certain
instances in the Gulf?  It doesn't seem predictable, or is it?  Authors
have said, preceeding or following [-back] vowels or when a consonant
lies between one of these vowels and the notorious
uvular-turned-affricate.  But in environments that check off all these
requirements, we also see the "qaaf" go to the usual voiced velar
[g].  What's the deal here?  Historical influences?  Media?  Biology?  If
anyone may have leads, please let me know.

benjamin troutman
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:15:00 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:15:00 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Future Tense Query
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Date: 13 Mar 2000
From: Juan Manuel Munoz Reinon <reynon.munoz at chello.be>
Subject: Future Tense Query

I am writing an article on the formation of the future tenses in different
languages. Can anyone inform me about the formation of the future in arabic?

Thanks

Reynon
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 20:27:54 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:27:54 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Duke Speech Contest
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Date: 14 Mar 2000
From: "Rkia E. Cornell" <rcornell at duke.edu>
Subject: Duke Speech Contest

To Whom It May Concern:

I am pleased to inform you that we will be hosting our Fifth Annual
Arabic  Speech Contest at Duke on Saturday, April 8.  In the past, we
have invited students from the neighboring institutions to apply and join
their friends at Duke in this major event.   This year, however, we are
opening the contest to a wider audience to include students from all
across the country.  Those interested will enter the contest by
submitting their speeches on video.

I will need to have your applications by April 3rd, sent to the Asian and
African Languages and Literature Office, together with your video and the
complete text of your speech in Arabic,  and a summary in English (see
the included application form, address,  and guidelines below).

We look forward to your participation  in this exciting event.

Rkia Cornell
Arabic Speech Contest Coordinator

ARABIC SPEECH CONTEST
Duke University
April 8, 2000


APPLICATION FORM


Name  __________________________________________________________________

Present Address  	______________________________________________________

			______________________________________________________

Email Address	______________________________________________________

Name of the Institution where you are a student
______________________________

Name of your most recent Arabic instructor  	______________________________

	-  his or her phone number
_______________________

Level of competition for which you intend to apply	(I, II or III)
__________________

Title of Speech in Arabic
	________________________________________________

Title of Speech in English
	________________________________________________


This completed application form, along with a summary of your speech in
English and the complete text in Arabic, should be  mailed to Prof. Rkia
E. Cornell at the following address:
Arabic Speech Contest
2101 Campus Drive, Box 90414
Durham, NC   27708-0414

Tel: (919) 684-4309
 Fax: (919) 681-7871


The deadline for applications is April 3, 2000 -- no late applications
will be accepted



GUIDELINES FOR ARABIC SPEECH CONTEST
Duke University
April 8, 2000


1)	Subject:	Open to any topic of the student's choosing

2)	Entry levels:

Level I:	Students who have completed or are in the process of
completing one year of                            Arabic instruction, or
its equivalent.

Level II:	Students who have completed or are in the process of
completing two years of                            Arabic instruction, or
its equivalent.

Level III:	Students who have completed or are in the process of
completing three years of                            Arabic instruction,
or its equivalent.

3)	Time limit for speeches:	Level I:	3-5 minutes
					Level II:	5- 7 minutes
					Level III:	7-9 minutes

4)	Judging criteria and point allocation:

		Content and richness of vocabulary
30 points
		Grammar and appropriateness of
expression	            30 points
		Pronunciation and fluidity of expression
20 points
		Delivery
20 points
							Total:
100 points

5) 	Eligibility:	The contest is open to both undergraduate and
graduate students.
Native Arabic speakers (whose first language is Arabic) or people who
have studied more than three years of Arabic are not eligible to compete
in it.  All speeches should be delivered in Modern Standard Arabic.


6) How to enter:  Fill out an application form, and submit it along with
a video of
yourself delivering your speech in Arabic, in addition to the complete
text of your speech in Arabic.  Entries must be submitted to Prof. Rkia
Cornell  by April 3.  From the entries, up to five finalists will be
selected at each level.  The videos of the five finalists will be shown
on Saturday, April 8 and will be judged along with the other contestants
by a panel of judges.  We plan to award the following prizes at each level:

		1st prize:	$100.00
		2nd prize:	$  75.00
		3rd prize:	$  50.00

Those contestants who are not awarded cash prizes will nevertheless
receive a T-shirt for their participation.

Final results will be announced on April 8th, and video participants will
be informed by mail of their results.
Department of Asian and African Languages
Duke University

GdOhQI GdSfhjI Gd`NGeSI
d`eHGQI GdNWGHI

The Fourth Annual
Arabic Speech Contest


will be held on


Saturday, April 8, 2000
2:00 p.m.  - 5:00 p.m.
119 West Duke Parlor
Duke East Campus

Program includes:  Speech contest on 3 levels
Presentation of Prizes  -  Reception and a play by students


Open to the Public


Sponsors include:  The College of Arts and Sciences of
Duke University, the Comparative Islamic Studies Committee,  and NAJD,
THE DUKE Arabic CLUB.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 20:29:59 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:29:59 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Future Tense Response
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Date: 14 Mar 2000
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Future Tense Response

In the most general manner, the future is referred to by preceding the
imperfective verb with either the prefix 'sa'  or the word 'sawfa'.

Another way to refer to the future is use a conditional particle,
such as '?idha' and follow it by a perfective verb.

Waheed Samy
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 20:31:36 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:31:36 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Doctoral Fellowships
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Date: 14 Mar 2000
From: Corinna Fischer <aop-info at uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Doctoral Fellowships

CEBHEM / Orientalisches Seminar
Tuebingen University, Germany
invites applications for two doctoral research fellowships (3 years
each) to be held at the recently established ?Centre for the Economic
and Business History of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East
(CEBHEM)?. Appointments will start from 01.10.2000. Remuneration will be
approx. DM 2.000 p.month net (plus generous travel and equipment
allowances).

Eligibility: ideal candidates would be outstanding graduates (minimum
requirement: M.A. to be awarded in Summer 2000) from the fields of
Middle Eastern and/or Mediterranean Studies, History, Anthropology,
Sociology, Geography or Economics, provided they have an interest in
archival research. Languages required: Arabic, Ottoman-Turkish, French,
Italian (for one position also Greek or Armenian).

Research will focus, technically, on archival studies in the region and,
conceptually, on processes of incorporation of the Eastern Mediterranean
and the Middle East in the world exchange during the 18th-early 20th
centuries, more specifically on "Incorporation, minorities and
diasporas" and "Entrepreneurs and the Ottoman state". Transdisciplinary
approaches in dealing with these topics are strongly encouraged. It is
recommended that supervision be conducted jointly by Orientalisches
Seminar and the candidate's home institution. Students may apply for
permission to write their thesis in a language other than German.

For further details concerning the application procedure have a look at
our http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/CEBHEM or write an e-mail directly to
CEBHEM?s coordinator (ruediger.klein at uni-tuebingen.de). The complete
documentation must be received by 15.06.2000. In summer 2000 up to three
candidates for each of the positions will be invited for an interview.
The definitive decision will be communicated by 30.07.2000 at the
latest.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 20:33:48 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:33:48 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Moroccan Lit Program Response
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1) Subject: Moroccan Lit Program Response

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Date: 14 Mar 2000
From: "Hammoud, Salah, Civ, DFF" <Salah.Hammoud at usafa.af.mil>
Subject: Moroccan Lit Program Response

Mohamed V University in Rabat (Kulliyyat al-Aadaab=College of Humanities) is
likely to have the most extensive course offering in Arabic/Moroccan Lit.,
and perhaps followed very closely by Mohamed Ben Abdallah University in Fes.
Both schools have highly respected faculty members who include leading
Moroccan writers.
There is also the relatively new university in Tetouan (Northern Morocco).
If contacted, they may be able to share syllabi and areas of specialization.

Salah
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 14 23:30:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:30:55 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Slips of tongue
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Date: 14 Mar 2000
From: Ernest N. McCarus" <enm at umich.edu>
Subject: Slips of tongue

[This is a corrected version of a previous posting (includes the e-mail
address)]

Sabah Safi-Stagni has done a great deal of work on slips of the tongue in
Arabic and might possible know of works on dyslexia in Arabi; her e-mail
address is

GCF3011 at KAAU

Ernest McCarus

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:29:04 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:29:04 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Translation Query
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: fadwa_fadhil at yahoo.com
Subject: Translation Query

Dear Sir,
 I'm looking for a translator (Arabic to English) who
can give me an opinion about some Arabic works (novels
& short stories) for an Arabic writer,who's very well
  known to the Arabic readers. His works are closer to
the western style and mentality than the Arabic ones,
as I think.
I got your address from Ms Kristen Brustad of AATA.
So, if you don't mind to send you some of his work to
read and tell me later if it is possible to translate
them, and if yes, would you please recommend me a
translator you know, and what are the procedures that
I should go
through.
 Looking forward to hear from you.
 Thank you.
Fadwa Alwan

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:31:45 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:31:45 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Khunatha Bannunu Response
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Aida Bamia <abamia at aall.ufl.edu>
Subject: Khunatha Bannunu Response

The date I have for As-sura was-sawt is 1969.
A. Bamia

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:32:15 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:32:15 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING: Diglossia, Classicism,
 & Colloquialism - New AUC Book
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1) Subject: Diglossia, Classicism, & Colloquialism - New AUC Book

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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Diglossia, Classicism, & Colloquialism - New AUC Book

Greetings / tahaiya tayiba wa b3ad...

The American U. of Cairo Press recently published a book (may be more of a
compendium) about Arabic diglossia and colloquials.

A recent article on Arabic diglossia by Alan K. Kaye at California State
U., Fullerton (currently a visiting associate professor at King Saud U. in
Riyadh until this summer) cited that AUC publication. (I think Charles
Ferguson's original article on diglossia is included in the book's
contents.)

HTH.

Khair, in sha'Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:36:45 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:36:45 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Georgtown Summer Arabic Program
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Brian McGrath <MCGRATHB at gunet.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Georgtown Summer Arabic Program

GEORGETOWN ARABIC LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
SUMMER 2000


PROGRAM: The Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics Department, and the
Summer School, will offer its annual Arabic Language Institute during the
Summer
of 2000.  Courses to be offered are:

1)         Intensive First Level Modern Standard Arabic I
            (6 cr.) (June 5- July 7)

2)	Intensive First Level Modern Standard Arabic II
            (6 cr.) (July 10-August 11)

3)	Intensive Second Level Modern Standard Arabic I
            (6 cr.) (June 5-July 7)

4)	Intensive Second Level Modern Standard Arabic II
            (6 cr.) (July 10-August 11)

5)	Intensive Advanced Arabic I (6 cr.) (June 5- July 7)

6)	Intensive Advanced Arabic II (6 cr.)
            (July 10- August 11)

All of the above are undergraduate courses.  Students may enroll for one or
both
sessions of any sequence.  The Summer Arabic Language Institute at
Georgetown is
very intensive.  Students in all courses will normally spend from six to seven
hours per day, five days a week between classwork and homework preparation.  An
additional course load during the summer is not recommended.

Session I:	June 5 -  July 7
Session II: 	July 10 - August 11

Tuition is $470.00 per credit for the undergraduate courses, plus a $50.00 lab
fee per session.

ADMISSION:  The program is open to graduate and undergraduate students, and to
persons who  are not academically affiliated but need a knowledge of Arabic for
professional and other valid reasons.  Courses are not open to native speakers
of Arabic.  The courses are offered for undergraduate credit only.  For
application forms, please contact:

Brian McGrath,
Assistant Director
Summer 2000 Arabic Language Institute
Department of Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics

Georgetown University
P. O. Box 571046
Washington, DC 20057-1046

Phone: 202-687-5743
Fax: 202-687-2408
E-mail: mcgrathb at gunet.georgetown.edu
Arabic Dept. Website: http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/arabic

Deadline for receipt of application forms and supporting documents is March 31,
2000.  Late applications will be accepted on a space available basis.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:38:39 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:38:39 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Zayed University Admin Job
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: Zayed University Admin Job

DIRECTOR, ARABIC LANGUAGE CENTER

Zayed University
United Arab Emirates

Zayed University is a new National university of the United Arab Emirates.
Currently operating on campuses in the cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Zayed
University enjoys the full support of the United Arab Emirates government as
it builds itself to top international standards.  The University was founded
in September 1998 upon the admission of the first freshman class of 1,100
nonresidential women students; a second freshman class was admitted for fall
1999.  The mandate is to prepare Nationals, women and men alike, for
leadership roles in the future economic growth of the country.  English is
the primary medium of instruction and administration and Arabic plays a
critical role.

The two founding campuses of Zayed University eventually will comprise a
student body of about 5,000 undergraduate students studying in six colleges
(the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Sciences, Communication and
Media Sciences, Education, Family Sciences and Information Systems).  The
University will offer an active program of continuing adult and professional
education and graduate programs are planned.  Information technology supports
all aspects of the instructional program; all students own a laptop computer
and campus facilities are fully networked.  Physical facilities are generally
sufficient to meet current needs.  New campuses to be designed and
constructed within the next several years are planned for both locations.

The University invites applications for the position of founding Director of
the Arabic Language Center.  The Center will be located administratively in
the College of Arts and Sciences and will provide academic and administrative
functions for all Colleges of the University.  The Director will develop and
manage the innovative programs of the Center and supervise its staff.  The
purposes of the Center are:
1.  To serve as a major student and faculty support facility, providing
instruction and advice to students for improvement of their written and oral
Arabic language skills;
2.  To monitor the systematic development of students' Arabic language
competency in all aspects of their University studies in order to insure that
University standards for use of the Arabic language are met by individual
students at entry, intermediate and graduation levels; and
3.  To provide service to the University administration in preparing Arabic
language versions of selected documents and communications.

Salary is competitive by international standards.  Living conditions in the
UAE are superb.  The position is available immediately.  Applications will be
accepted until the position is filled.

Successful candidates will have (1) an earned doctorate in a relevant field;
(2) administrative experience, preferably related to language education; (3)
extensive contacts among the international community of scholar/teachers in
relevant fields and (4) a creative and flexible personality with the ability
to work well as a member of a team. Preference will be given to candidates
who are native speakers of Arabic with excellent command of English and
significant experience in western universities.

Applications must include (1) a letter of application addressing relevant
experience and qualifications; (2) a current curriculum vitae; and (3) the
names, addresses and telephone/FAX numbers of four references.  All inquiries
will be held in strict confidence; references will not be contacted without
the candidate's permission.  Potential candidates should submit inquiries and
applications by mail or e-mail to:

Professor R. Kirk Belnap
Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages
4072 JKHB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT  84602
(801) 378-6531
FAX: (801) 378-5866
rkb at email.byu.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:39:21 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:39:21 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Harvard Job
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: William Granara <granara at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Harvard Job

		PRECEPTOR IN MODERN ARABIC LANGUAGE
			Harvard University

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations seeks
applications for a preceptor in Modern Arabic beginning in
September 2000. The position is renewable on a yearly basis, not to
exceed eight (8) years.
		---This is not a tenure track position.---

The successful applicant should be familiar with the issues of teaching
Arabic as a foreign language, have experience in teaching MSA from
elementary to advanced levels, have native or near native proficiency in
Arabic, and must be able to conduct advanced classes in Arabic.
Specialization in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture or Arabic
Linguistics and Pedagogy is highly desirable.

Letters of application (accompanied by a CV and the names and addresses of
at least two referees) should be sent no later than May 1, 2000 to:

	Prof. William Granara
	Center for Middle Eastern Studies
	1737 Cambridge Street
	Cambridge, MA 02138

***Harvard University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer
and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual or
affectational preference, age, religion, national or ethnic origin.***



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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:41:24 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:41:24 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:In Memoriam:Dr. Ed De Moor
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1) Subject: In Memoriam:Dr. Ed De Moor

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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Gert Borg <G.Borg at let.kun.nl>
Subject: In Memoriam:Dr. Ed De Moor

L.S.

I regret to inform the members of the list, that my friend and former
colleague, Dr. Ed de Moor, has died suddenly on Sunday morning, March 19th.

With his inspiring enthusiasm as a teacher and as a scholar he made an
important contribution to the spreading of knowledge of Modern Arabic
Literature.

Ed has been our colleague at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
at Nijmegen University for over 25 years and was still working in the same
building as the director of the Institute for Christianity in Eastern
Europe and the Middle East. This enabled us to continue our pleasant
cooperation for the last few years.

The staff members of the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies wish his
wife, Anneke, and the other members of the family strength in the difficult
days ahead.

Ed was the kind of man who made a difference.

Gert Borg

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:40:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:40:28 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Corpus Linguistics Query
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Amin Almuhanna <MCUIGAA2 at fs1.ccl.umist.ac.uk>
Subject: Arabic Corpus Linguistics Query

Hi,
	I am looking for any recent work written on Arabic corpus
linguistics (books, articles, papers, etc.). If you have any
recommendations, please e-mail me personally at:
 mcuigaa2 at fs1.ccl.umist.ac.uk
		Thank you,
				Amin Almuhanna

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:37:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:37:29 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Bayreuth University Job
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Jonathan Owens <Jonathan.Owens at uni-bayreuth.de>
Subject: Bayreuth University Job
The Language Center of Bayreuth University announces an opening for a
Lecturer in:
Arabic
beginning on 1 September, 2000

Qualifications: Arabic native language (dialect plus Standard Arabic),
University
degree. A degree in Linguistics or Linguistics-related specialty,
experience in teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language and knowledge of
German is preferred.

Duties: Arabic language courses and courses on
Arabic culture. The candidate will be expected to have or acquire a
basic knowledge of computer and multi-media competence. Teaching load
is 16 hours per week within a total 40 hour work week. Salary is
determined by the BAT IIa scale (national employees scale). The
contract is for two years with the possibility of a three year
extension.

Bayreuth University seeks to increase the percentage of
female employees and therefore specifically encourages women to apply.
Given equal qualification, handicapped applicants will be given
preference.

Applications with resume, copies of academic
qualifications, evidence of teaching experience (if any), references,
and picture should be sent to:

The Director, Language Center
Dr. Udo Jung
Bayreuth University
D-95440, Bayreuth
Germany

by May 31, 2000.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:42:07 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:42:07 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NCOLCTL 2000 Conference
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Scott_G_McGINNIS at umail.umd.edu (sm167)
Subject: NCOLCTL 2000 Conference

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ORGANIZATIONS OF LESS COMMONLY TAUGHT LANGUAGES (NCOLCTL)
Third Annual Conference, May 6-8, 2000, Washington, DC
Less Commonly Taught Languages in the Working World: Needs & Responses

The conference program and registration form are now available at the
NCOLCTL Councilnet website. You can link directly to both of them, including
versions in pdf format, through the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC)
website address of www.nflc.org/conferences.

For additional information, contact Scott McGinnis, NCOLCTL Executive
Director at smcginnis at nflc.org or 202-667-8100 x15.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:42:57 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:42:57 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Arabic Literature Seminar
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Hussein.N.Kadhim at Dartmouth.EDU (Hussein N. Kadhim)
Subject: Arabic Literature Seminar

THE ARABIC LITERATURE SEMINAR 2001
"Arabic Literature and the Post-colonial"

This CFP is also posted at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kadhim/als.html

The Arabic Literature Study Group (ALSG), will sponsor a Seminar on "Arabic
Literature and the Post-colonial" at the annual convention of the American
Comparative Literature Association, April 20-22, 2001, in Boulder,
Colorado. The Seminar will be conducted over a 3-day period and will include
12 to 14 presentations. Selected papers will be published in a special
Issue of the Journal of Arabic Literature. PARTICIPATION IN THE SEMINAR IS OPEN
TO ALSG MEMBERS AND NONMEMBERS ALIKE.


CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The field of post-colonial studies has given rise to a wide range of
theoretical formulations, concepts, and debates. This remarkable output,
however, has been largely concerned with literatures written in English
and other European languages. The fact that, over the last two centuries,
much of the Arab "space" was colonized by one Western power or another,
and that Arabic discourses of the period manifested a relentless
oppositionality vis-a-vis the colonizer may point to the potential
relevance of post-colonial theory to the Arabic context.

Proposals are invited for papers that broadly attempt to bring the critical
and theoretical insights made possible by post-colonial studies to bear on
Arabic literary contexts.

Prospective participants might consider:

- The (in)applicability of post-colonial theory to Arabic literature
- Decolonization, language, space, and history
- Hegemonic centers/subaltern margins
- Journeys, exile, return
- Loss and Memory
- Recovered histories, time, place, and space
- Representation and resistance
- Dispossession and dislocation
- Identities and representations
- Nation and nationalism(s)
- Metaphors and icons of nation
- Post- Arab Nationalism
- The East-West encounter/Encountering the other(s)
- Tradition and revolution
- (Re)constructing the Arabic canon(s)
- Gender and postcoloniality
- Postmodernism and postcolonialism
- Globalization, Transculturation, and Neocolonialism

Papers might approach such questions on a broad theoretical basis or
through the critical consideration of particular Arabic texts. Proposals
for individual papers (including a 250-word abstract and a summary CV or
biographical paragraph), should be emailed to the seminar organizer or sent
to the address below by October 1, 2000.

Hussein Kadhim
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures
6191 Bartlett Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Email: Hussein.Kadhim at Dartmouth.Edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:43:53 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:43:53 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Machine Translation Conference
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk
Subject: Machine Translation Conference

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MT AND MULTILINGUAL NLP

MT 2000:
MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS
IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Exeter, United Kingdom
20-22 November 2000


The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group (NLTSG) of the
British Computer Society (BCS) and the University of Exeter announce
an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter (UK)
on 20-22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful
conference "Machine Translation: 10 Years On" held in 1994 in Cranfield.

Against the backdrop of increasingly multilingual society, MT2000 will
look at the main challenges to MT and multilingual NLP at the dawn of
the new millennium. The focus of this year's conference is not only
recent machine translation research and products, but latest
multilingual developments in general. The organisers aim to attract a
wide range of contributions from researchers, users, educationalists
and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering.

The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will
be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. A selection
of papers will be published in book form soon after the conference.
There will also be an exhibition area and an opportunity to hold poster
sessions.


* Topics

We invite papers covering multilingual aspects of any NLP
task/application. The following list of possible topics is not
exhaustive and is intended to indicate areas of probable interest:

Machine translation (developments, techniques, applications)
Translation aids
Controlled Languages
Terminology
Lexicography
Computer-assisted language learning
Corpora (construction, annotation, exploitation)
Evaluation
Part-of-speech tagging
Parsing
Information retrieval
Information extraction
Automatic abstracting
Word-sense disambiguation
Lexical knowledge acquisition
Anaphora resolution
Text categorisation
Dialogues systems
Web-based NLP applications
NL generation
Speech processing


* Invited speakers

Martin Kay (Xerox Parc)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)


* Programme Committee

Christian Boitet (Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble)
Francis Bond (NTT, Kyoto)
Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice)
Laurie Gerber (Systran Software Inc.)
Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble)
Changning Huang (Microsoft, China)
John Hutchins (University of Anglia)
Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Labs)
Gareth Jones (University of Exeter)
Martin Kay (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto)
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton)
Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal)
Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht)
Tara O'Leary (SDLX, Maidenhead )
Derek Lewis (University of Exeter), Co-Chair
Gabriel Lopez (New Lisbon University)
Bente Maegard (Center of Language Technology, Copenhagen)
Chris Manning (Stanford University)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Co-Chair
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton)
Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Stephen Pulman (University of Cambridge)
Lucia Rino (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University Barcelona)
Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex, Brighton)
Isabelle Trancoso (INEC, Lisbon)
Arturo Trujillo (Vocalis plc, Cambridge)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
Agnes Tutin (Stendahl University Grenoble)
Karin Vespoor (Intelligenesis, New York)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)


* Submission Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should
be written in English and should not exceed 7 single-column
pages (preferred font: Times New Roman 12) including figures,
tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature
the title of the paper, the author's name(s), the author's surface and
email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Electronic
submissions (attached postscript files, pdf, rtf or Word files) are
encouraged.

The address for e-mail paper submissions is: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk
In addition, the abstracts of the papers should be separately emailed
to Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk).

The papers will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines on how to produce
the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the
Proceedings.


* Schedule

Paper Submission Due: 1 June 2000
Notification of Acceptance: 1 August
Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September
Conference: 20-22 November 2000


* Venue

The conference venue will be the Crossmeads Conference Centre at the
University of Exeter. Exeter is an historic city in the heart of Devon
in the South West of England. The campus is celebrated as one of the
most beautiful in the United Kingdom. Exeter's international airport is
a few miles away. There are good rail and coach links to London,
Birmingham and other UK cities.


* Exhibitions

The conference will host exhibitions of software products and books
related to multilingual NLP. Companies/organisations interested in
exhibiting their products should contact Derek Lewis (see below).


* Call for participation

A call for participation, including the conference program and
attendance fees, will be posted in August.


* Further information

Further information can be obtained from

Derek Lewis
Queen's Building
University of Exeter
Exeter
United Kingdom
EX4 4QH
Telephone/fax: ++44 (0)1392 264296 / 264306
E-mail: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk

or from

David Wigg, NLTSG
Telephone: +44 (0) 1732 455446
E-mail: wiggjd at bcs.org.uk

Conference web site:
http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/index.htm
Exeter University web-site: http://www.exeter.ac.uk

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:44:50 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:44:50 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Blending(?) Query
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Heba Aboul-Enein <haboulenein at hotmail.com>
Subject: Blending(?) Query

Greetings.

Does anyone know about belnding in Arabic?

Heba Aboul-Enein

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:29:46 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:29:46 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Chamito-semitic Conference Program
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Moha Ennaji <estry at fesnet.net.ma>
Subject: Chamito-semitic Conference Program

La Morphologie et la Syntaxe des Langues Chamito-s?mitiques
The Morphology and Syntax of Chamito-semitic Languages
			20-21 March 2000, FES, MOROCCO

Programme



Lundi 20 mars
Apr?s-midi

15:00-15:30 Ouverture

Pr?sident: Ahmed Makhoukh
15:30-16:10  Abdellah Chekayri (AlAkhaway University, Ifrane)
		"The Appearance vs. Absence of Glides
in Classical Arabic Assimilate Verbs"

16:10-16:50      Loraine  Obler & Mira Goral (City University of New York,
USA)
		"The Psychological Reality of the Semitic Root"

16:50-17:30    Mohamed Elmedlaoui (Mohamed I University, Oujda)
                	"COMP Structure and Movement in Tashelhit Berber"

17:30-18:10     Moha Ennaji (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, F?s)
		"The Structure of Clitic Constructions in Berber"

Mardi 21 Mars
Matin

 Pr?sident: Mohammed Elmedlaoui

08:30-09:10 	Ahmed Makhoukh (Universit? Moulay Ismael, Mekn?s)
                "Control Structures in Standard Arabic"

9:10-9:50      Mohamed Moubtassime  (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University,
F?s)
                      "On Definiteness in Standard Arabic."

9:50 -10:00    Pause
 Pr?sident:       Abdelkader Gonegai
10:00-10:40   Ahmed Chergui Saber (Universit? Cadi Ayad, Marrakech)

10:40-11:20       Souad Slaoui  (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, F?s)
                      "On Moroccan Arabic Clause Structure."

11:20-12:00     Mohamed Badawi (Universitaet Konstanz, Allemagne)
"A Propos des Aspects S?mantiques du Majhul en Arabe"

12:00-12:40   Mohamed Taki (Universit? Cadi Ayad, B?ni-Mellal)
		Une approche du comportement des racines d?fectueuses en arabe

Apr?s-midi

Pr?sident: Mohammed Moubtassime

15:00-15:40   Choukri Iraqi (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, F?s)
		"Tense and Aspect in Sibawayh's Al-Kitab" (in Arabic)
15:40-16:20    Abdellatif Chouta (Universit?  Hassan II, Casablanca)
"Types of Events and Aspectual Change in Arabic" (in Arabic)

16:20-16:30  Pause

 Pr?sidente:  Souad Slaoui

16:30 -17:10  Jalil El-Idrissi (Universit? Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, F?s)
                       "Les nominalisations adjectivales"

17:10 - 17:50 Abdelkader Gonegai (Universit?  Hassan II, Casablanca)
           "But et Cause en Arabe Standard: Analyse Minimaliste "

17:50-17:30 Sabrina Benjaballah (Universitaet Wine BergasseII, Autriche)
          "The internal structure of the determiner in Beja"

17:30 Cl?ture

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 18:33:52 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:33:52 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Shimaore Query
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Date: 20 Mar 2000
From: Melissa Barkat <Melissa.Barkat at ish-lyon.cnrs.fr>
Subject: Shimaore Query

Dear Arabic-'Lers,


The Shimaore, language spoken in the Island of Mayotte (Comores) is a bantu
language which has been strongly influenced by Arabic.
In this language, a particular phenomenon of nasalaization is observed : in
all the terms that have been borrowed to Arabic where a "ayn" (i.e. voiced
pharyngeal frivative) is attested, the following vowel is clearly nazalized.

Is anyone conscious of a similar phenomenon in any dialect of Arabic that
would have influenced the Shimaore language ??


Thanks a lot for your help.


Chers Coll?gues,

"Le shimaore, langue de l'ile de Mayotte (Comores), est une langue bantoue
qui a ete tres fortement influencee par l'arabe, et dans laquelle on
observe un curieux phenomene de nasalisation: dans tous les termes
d'origine arabe qui comportent la pharyngale sonore (ayn), la voyelle qui
suit immediatement cette consonne se prononce nasale. Un phenomene
similaire aurait-il ete signale dans des parlers arabes susceptibles
d'avoir influence le comorien?"

Merci de votre aide.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 20 22:34:52 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:34:52 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gulf Materials Response
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Date: 01 Feb 2000
From: John Leake <J.E.S.Leake at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Gulf Materials Response

A post-script on Gulf Arabic materials: I see in the 'Forthcoming Books'
catalogue from Brill that Clive Holes is about to have a glossary of
'uneducated' Bahraini Arabic published by them.  Price, as ever with
Brill, is about $150, and the publishing date is, I think, April.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 22 21:21:14 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:21:14 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book on Palestinian Border Villages
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Date: 22 Mar 2000
From: [reposted from LINGUIST]
Subject: New Book on Palestinian Border Villages

Politics and Sociolinguistic Reflexes. Palestinian border villages.
Muhammed Hasan AMARA (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Studies in Bilingualism 19
US & Canada: 1 55619 950 3 / USD 79.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 4128 7 / NLG 158.00 (Hardcover)

This sociolinguistic study describes and analyzes an Israeli
Palestinian border village in the Little Triangle and another village
artificially divided between Israel and the West Bank, tracing the
political transformations that they have undergone, and the
accompanying social and cultural changes. These political, social and
cultural forces have resulted in distinctive sociolinguistic patterns.

The primary explanation offered for the persisting linguistic frontier
found in rural Palestinian communities is the continuing social,
political, economic and cultural differences between Palestinian
villages in Israel, and Palestinian villages in the West Bank. In the
geopolitical and economic history of the villages, these distinctions
have been maintained by the dissimilar treatment received by the two
communities and their inhabitants under Israeli government
policy. Exacerbated by the Palestinian Intifada, the relations of the
Palestinian divided communities to each other and to the rest of the
world have produced noticeable differences in economic, educational
and cultural development. The sociolinguistic facts revealed in the
language situation in the villages are study shown to be correlated
with political and demographic differences.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:15:38 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Syntax of Iraqi Arabic Query
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1)
Date: 22 Mar 2000
From: mohammed damir <mdamir1 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Syntax of Iraqi Arabic Query

I am Mohammed Damir, Professor Assistant of Arabic
linguistics (Faculty of K?nitra, Morocco), I am
working on Arabic dialects. I would be very thankfull
if you could send me some materials concerning the
syntax of Iraqi Arabic.
Best wishes
Mohammed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 22 21:19:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:19:23 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Semitic Languages Professorship at Uppsala
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Date: 22 Mar 2000
From: "Knut S. Vikor" <knut.vikor at smi.uib.no> [reposted from Arabic-Info]
Subject: Semitic Languages Professorship at Uppsala

FULL PROFESSORSHIP IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES
At the Department of Asian and African Languages, Uppsala
University, Sweden.

Subject area: The subject area of the professorship is
Semitic Languages.

To be eligible for this professorship applicants are
required to possess a
professorial level of competence in Semitic Languages.
Applicants must be
able to document research credentials in at least two
Semitic languages.

In making the appointment, special weight shall be given to
both scholarship
and teaching skills, with documented scholarly achievements
in Arabic
counting as a substantial qualification.  Furthermore,
teaching skills in
regard to the most important Semitic languages offered at
the Department
will be seen as a special qualification.

Gender equality: Uppsala University strives to promote
gender equality in
the form of a more even gender balance.  Since the majority
of full
professors are men, the University encourages women to apply
for this chair.

Information: Information regarding the professorship will be
given by the
Deputy Head of Department, Professor Bo Utas, tel +46 18 471
1088, e-mail
mailto:Bo.Utas at afro.uu.se.  A detailed announcement with
instructions for
application can be requested from Ingrid Henriksson, tel +46
18 471 1889,
fax +46 18 471 1981, e-mail
mailto:Ingrid.Henriksson at uadm.uu.se.
The announcement is also available on the Uppsala University
home page,
http://www.personalavd.uu.se/ledigaplatser.html.

Application should be made to the Rector of Uppsala
University and sent to
the Registrar, UFV-PA 2000/1313, P.O. Box 256, SE-751 05
Uppsala, fax +46 18
471 2000, by April 10, 2000.  If application is submitted
via fax, it must
be followed by original documents as soon as possible.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:17:55 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIGN:Corpora and NLP Session at ACIDCA2000
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1) Subject: Corpora and NLP Session at ACIDCA2000 (several Arabic-related
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Date: 22 Mar 2000
From: Lamia Hadrich Belguith <l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn>
Subject: Corpora and NLP Session at ACIDCA2000

******************************************************************

                   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                  "Corpora and NLP" SESSION  of
             ACIDCA'2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
              <http://www.chez.com/acidca2000>

             Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000

*****************************************************************

                        Organised by:
                 University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS)
        Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)


                            Supported by:
                    Minstry of Higher Education
		Ministry of Tourism, Leisure and Handicrafts
                    Ministry of Communications
       State Secretary of Scientific Research and Technology
                   Sfax Ville and Monastir Ville
         Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
               European Language Resources Assocition


			     Sponsored by :
			     Groupe Affes
			       POULINA
			       IDERYET
			      Mac UNIVERS
		              POINT/POINT
		        IMPRIMERIE RELIURE D'ART
		                OMEGA
 	                     ACADEMIC PRESS


Session Program:


Wednesday 22, March 2000

9:00 am - 9:30 am, Opening

9:30 am - 10:30 am, Plenary Lecture 1
"From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words From
Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions",
by L.A. Zadeh (USA)

10:30 am - 12:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit

12:30 am - 2:30 pm, Lunch

2:30 - 3:30 pm, Session NLP-1 : Morphosyntactic Analysis
Chairs: Pieter Seuren (The Netherlands), Lamia H. Belguith (Tunisia)

1. "Morphosyntactic Specifiers to be Associated to Arabic Lexical
Entries-Methodological and Theoretical Aspects", by Joseph Dichy
(France)
2. "An Efficient Arabic Morphological Analysis Technique
for Information Retrieval Systems", by Imed A. Al sughaiyer
and Ibrahim A. Al kharashi (Saudi Arabia )
3. "Chunking, marking and searching a morphosyntactically
annotated corpus for French", by Lionel Cl?ment and Alexandra Kinyon
(France)

3:30 - 4:00 pm, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit

4:00 - 5:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP- KL1 :
"Handling texts and corpuses in Ariane-G5, a complete environment
for multilingual MT", by Christian Boitet (France).

Chairs: Ruslan Mitkov (UK) and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia)

5:00 - 6:00 pm, Session NLP-2 : Exploitation of Corpora
1. "Exploring Annotated Arabic Corpora, Preliminary Results",
by Mark Van Mol (Belgium)
2. "On the Complexity of Queries for Structurally Annotated
Linguistic Data", by Laura Kallmeyer (Germany)
3. "How to Improve Descriptive Texts Generation thanks to Corpus
 Analyses", by Laurence Balicco and St?phanie Pouchot (France)


6:00 - 7:00 pm, Free Activity

7:00 pm, Monastir City Reception

Thursday 23, March 2000

8:00 - 9:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP- KL2 :
"Automatic Extraction of information from textual data", by J.-P.
Descles (France)

9:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-3-A: Text analysis  and syntax
Chairs:  Jean-Guy Meunier (Canada) and Seham El Kareh (Egypt)

1. "Text Analysis as a Prerequisite for building Adequate
Text Knowledge Bases", by Udo Hahn and Martin Romacker (Germany)
2. "Basic Structures of Modern Standard Arabic Syntax in
terms of Functions and Categories", by Everhard Ditters (The
Netherlands)
3. "Towards a more Efficient Linguistic Recovery of
 Handwriting Recognition", by Chafik Aloulou,
 Lamia Hadrich Belguith and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia)

9:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-3-B: Anaphora resolution
Chairs: Dan Tufis (Romania) & Key-Sun Choi (Korea)

1. "Dialogue Structure as a Preference in Anaphora Resolution
Systems", by Patricio Martinez-Barco (Spain).
2. "Semantic Compatibility Techniques for Anaphora Resolution",
 by Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Jesus Peral and Armando Suarez (Spain)
3. ""VASISTH" an Anaphora Resolution System for Indian Languages",
by Sobha L, B. N. Patnaik (India)

10:00 - 10:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit

10:30 - 11:30 am, Session NLP-4-A (enlver la lettre "A"):
Term extraction and automatic abstracting
Chairs: Udo Hahn (Germany), Maria Teresa Pazienza (Italy)

1. "Automatic Text Extraction Based on Classification of
Extract's Population", by Maher Jaoua and
Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia)
2. "A Hybrid Technique for Automatic Term Extraction",
by Byron Georgantopoulos and Stelios Piperidis (Greece)
3. "An extraction method for text summarisation",
by Guillermo Moncecchi and Juan Jos? Prada (Uruguay).

11:30 am - 12:30 am, Plenary Lecture 2
"Categorial and Mathematical classification in Natural
Language Processing", by J.G. Meunier (Canada)
12:30 am - 2:30 pm, Lunch

2:30 - 3:30 pm, Session NLP-5 : Tagging
Chairs: Joseph Dichy (France), Hanene Ben Abdallah (Tunisia)
1. "Evaluating POS tagging under sub-optimal conditions. Or: Does
meticulousness pay ?", by Sandra K?bler and Andreas Wagner (Germany)
2. "An Arabic Interactive Multi-feature POS Tagger", by Seham El-Kareh
and Sameh Al Ansary (Egypt)
3. "High Accuracy Tagging with Large Tagsets", by Dan Tufis (Romania)

3:30 - 4:00 pm, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit

4:00 - 5:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP-KL3:
"An Extended Boolean Algebra for PPC3", by Pieter A.M Seuren (The
Netherlands)

Chairs:  Christian Boitet (France),  Jean-Pierre Descles (France)

5:00 - 6:20 pm, Session NLP-6 : Text segmentation and Lexis

1. "A hybrid method for clause splitting in unrestricted English texts",
by Costantin
Orasan (UK)
2. "Sub-Technical Lexis in English : A Case Study Using Corpus
Linguistics", by M. Bahloul and G. Greenall (USA)
3. "Normalisation of Association Measures for Multiword Lexical Unit
Extraction", by Ga?l Dias, Jos? Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Portugal) and
Sylvie Guillor? (France).
4. "Word Alignment for Different Language Family Based on Linguistic
Knowledge", by Jin-Xia Huang (China) and Key-Sun Choi (Korea)

6:20 - 8:00 pm, Free Activity

8:00 pm, Conference Dinner

Friday 24, March 2000

8:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-7 : NLP Tools
Chairs: Everhard Ditters (The Netherlands), Fumiyo Fukumoto (Japan)

1. "IBI: A NLP Approach to Question Answering Systems",
by Jose L. Vicedo and Antonio Ferrandez (Spain)
2. "Automatic Annotation of HTML Documents to Improve the Web
Research Pertinence", Omar Mazhoud and Lamia Hadrich Belguith (Tunisia)
3. "Correlating Newswire Articles with TV News Story using
Features of TV News", by Yoshimi Suzuki and Yoshihiro Sekiguchi (Japan)
4. "Softening Fuzzy Knowledge Representation Tool with the
 Learning of New Words in Natural Language ", by Mohamed-Nazih Omri
(Tunisia)
5. "A Logic Programming Approach to Word Expert Engineering", by
Torbj?rn
Lager  (Sweden)

10:00 - 10:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit

10:30 - 11:30 am, Session NLP-8 :
Chairs: Ruslan Mitkov (UK), Belguith lamia(Tunisia)

1. "Resolving Overt Pronouns in Japanese using Hierarchical
VP Structures" by Fumiyo Fukumoto, Hiroyasu Yamada (Japan) and Ruslan
Mitkov (UK)
2. "Identification and Classification of Italian Complex
Proper Names", by Maria Teresa Pazienza and Michele Vindigni (Italy)
3. "Definite Description Resolution in Spanish" by Rafael Munoz and
Antonio Ferrandez (Spain)

11:30 - 12:30 am, Round Table & Closing

12:30 am- 2:30 pm, Lunch




**********************************


Honorary Chairs
---------------

Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT)-Tunisia

Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley


General Chairs
--------------

Adel Alimi,
National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS)

Lamia Belguith Hadrich,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)

Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)


Programme Committee
-------------------

Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair

Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom)
Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)
Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble)
Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble)
Khalid Choukri (ELRA, Paris)
Fathi Debili (IRMC, Tunis)
Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris)
Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon)
Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen)
Fumiyo Fukumoto (University of Yamanashi)
Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble)
Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York)
Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technology, Copenhagen)
Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal)
Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of Edinburgh)
Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris)
Manolo Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain)
Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma, Tor Vergata)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille)
Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
Keh-Yih Su  (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei)
Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)
Agnes Tutin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill)
Jacques Virbel (IRIT, France)
Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki)

Additional Reviewers
--------------------
Amit Bagga (USA)
Costantin Orasan (UK)
Catalina Barbu (UK)
Hanene Ben Abdallah (Tunisia)
Kalina Bontcheva (UK)
Lamia Labed (Tunisia)
Richard Evans (UK)
Rim Faiz (Tunisia)
Wahiba ben Abdessalem (Tunisia)
Ahmed Hadj Kacem (Tunisia)


Local Organising Committee
--------------------------

Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) - Chairs
H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax),
Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS, Sfax),
Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG, Gabes),
Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax),
Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax),
Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax),
Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis),
Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)
Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)

International Organising Committee
----------------------------------

Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray
(University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs
Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan),
Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan),
Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France),
Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University),
Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA)
Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA)
Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France)
Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain)



For any Information
-------------------

Please contact :

Lamia Belguith
e-mail: l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn
Mobile  :  (216) 9 411 060
Fax     :  (216) 4 279 139

Web site of the conference : <http://www.chez.com/acidca2000>

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Mar 22 23:47:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:47:55 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Professorship at Uppsala, Sweden
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Date: 23 Mar 2000
From:  "Knut S. Vikor" <knut.vikor at smi.uib.no>
Subject: Professorship at Uppsala, Sweden

FULL PROFESSORSHIP IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES
At the Department of Asian and African Languages, Uppsala
University, Sweden.

Subject area: The subject area of the professorship is
Semitic Languages.

To be eligible for this professorship applicants are
required to possess a
professorial level of competence in Semitic Languages.
Applicants must be
able to document research credentials in at least two
Semitic languages.

In making the appointment, special weight shall be given to
both scholarship
and teaching skills, with documented scholarly achievements
in Arabic
counting as a substantial qualification.  Furthermore,
teaching skills in
regard to the most important Semitic languages offered at
the Department
will be seen as a special qualification.

Gender equality: Uppsala University strives to promote
gender equality in
the form of a more even gender balance.  Since the majority
of full
professors are men, the University encourages women to apply
for this chair.

Information: Information regarding the professorship will be
given by the
Deputy Head of Department, Professor Bo Utas, tel +46 18 471
1088, e-mail
mailto:Bo.Utas at afro.uu.se.  A detailed announcement with
instructions for
application can be requested from Ingrid Henriksson, tel +46
18 471 1889,
fax +46 18 471 1981, e-mail
mailto:Ingrid.Henriksson at uadm.uu.se.
The announcement is also available on the Uppsala University
home page,
http://www.personalavd.uu.se/ledigaplatser.html.

Application should be made to the Rector of Uppsala
University and sent to
the Registrar, UFV-PA 2000/1313, P.O. Box 256, SE-751 05
Uppsala, fax +46 18
471 2000, by April 10, 2000.  If application is submitted
via fax, it must
be followed by original documents as soon as possible.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 24 22:59:44 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:59:44 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MT Conference
Message-ID: <FRI.24.MAR.2000.145944.0800.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date:24 Mar 2000
From:  rwsh at dircon.co.uk
Subject: MT Conference


INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MT AND MULTILINGUAL NLP

MT 2000:
MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS
IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Exeter, United Kingdom
20-22 November 2000


The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group (NLTSG) of the
British Computer Society (BCS) and the University of Exeter announce
an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter (UK)
on 20-22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful
conference "Machine Translation: 10 Years On" held in 1994 in Cranfield.

Against the backdrop of increasingly multilingual society, MT2000 will
look at the main challenges to MT and multilingual NLP at the dawn of
the new millennium. The focus of this year's conference is not only
recent machine translation research and products, but latest
multilingual developments in general. The organisers aim to attract a
wide range of contributions from researchers, users, educationalists
and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering.

The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will
be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. A selection
of papers will be published in book form soon after the conference.
There will also be an exhibition area and an opportunity to hold poster
sessions.


* Topics

We invite papers covering multilingual aspects of any NLP
task/application. The following list of possible topics is not
exhaustive and is intended to indicate areas of probable interest:

Machine translation (developments, techniques, applications)
Translation aids
Controlled Languages
Terminology
Lexicography
Computer-assisted language learning
Corpora (construction, annotation, exploitation)
Evaluation
Part-of-speech tagging
Parsing
Information retrieval
Information extraction
Automatic abstracting
Word-sense disambiguation
Lexical knowledge acquisition
Anaphora resolution
Text categorisation
Dialogues systems
Web-based NLP applications
NL generation
Speech processing


* Invited speakers

Martin Kay (Xerox Parc)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)


* Programme Committee

Christian Boitet (Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble)
Francis Bond (NTT, Kyoto)
Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice)
Laurie Gerber (Systran Software Inc.)
Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble)
Changning Huang (Microsoft, China)
John Hutchins (University of Anglia)
Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Labs)
Gareth Jones (University of Exeter)
Martin Kay (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto)
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton)
Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal)
Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht)
Tara O'Leary (SDLX, Maidenhead )
Derek Lewis (University of Exeter), Co-Chair
Gabriel Lopez (New Lisbon University)
Bente Maegard (Center of Language Technology, Copenhagen)
Chris Manning (Stanford University)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Co-Chair
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton)
Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Stephen Pulman (University of Cambridge)
Lucia Rino (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University Barcelona)
Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex, Brighton)
Isabelle Trancoso (INEC, Lisbon)
Arturo Trujillo (Vocalis plc, Cambridge)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
Agnes Tutin (Stendahl University Grenoble)
Karin Vespoor (Intelligenesis, New York)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)


* Submission Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should
be written in English and should not exceed 7 single-column
pages (preferred font: Times New Roman 12) including figures,
tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature
the title of the paper, the author's name(s), the author's surface and
email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Electronic
submissions (attached postscript files, pdf, rtf or Word files) are
encouraged.

The address for e-mail paper submissions is: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk
In addition, the abstracts of the papers should be separately emailed
to Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk).

The papers will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines on how to produce
the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the
Proceedings.


* Schedule

Paper Submission Due: 1 June 2000
Notification of Acceptance: 1 August
Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September
Conference: 20-22 November 2000


* Venue

The conference venue will be the Crossmeads Conference Centre at the
University of Exeter. Exeter is an historic city in the heart of Devon
in the South West of England. The campus is celebrated as one of the
most beautiful in the United Kingdom. Exeter's international airport is
a few miles away. There are good rail and coach links to London,
Birmingham and other UK cities.


* Exhibitions

The conference will host exhibitions of software products and books
related to multilingual NLP. Companies/organisations interested in
exhibiting their products should contact Derek Lewis (see below).


* Call for participation

A call for participation, including the conference program and
attendance fees, will be posted in August.


* Further information

Further information can be obtained from

Derek Lewis
Queen's Building
University of Exeter
Exeter
United Kingdom
EX4 4QH
Telephone/fax: ++44 (0)1392 264296 / 264306
E-mail: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk

or from

David Wigg, NLTSG
Telephone: +44 (0) 1732 455446
E-mail: wiggjd at bcs.org.uk

Conference web site:
http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/index.htm
Exeter University web-site: http://www.exeter.ac.uk
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 24 22:57:47 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:57:47 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Gulf Arabic Syllabification
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Date:24 Mar 2000
From: "Frederick M. Hoyt" <fmh2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Gulf Arabic Syllabification

Greetings,

I am posting this on behalf of one of my graduate student colleagues, who
is concerned with syllabification in Gulf Arabic (Qafisheh 1977, Holes
1990). Are there any of native speakers of this dialect on this list (these
dialects?) who could take a look at the questions?

Thank you and best wishes,

Fred Hoyt
Cornell University

____________________

QUERY: SYLLABLE STRUCTURE OF GULF ARABIC

	I am working on the syllable structure of Gulf Arabic, and I am
uncertain about the status of some onset clusters. (My sources --mainly
Qafisheh 1977 and Holes 1990-- are silent on the matter.) Could you help me
out by telling me which parse of the syllables below is appropriate, and
whether these consonant clusters are common/genuine to Gulf Arabic (as
opposed to being constrained to loan words)? I'm particularly interested in
the intuitions of native speakers of Gulf Arabic, but any feedback as to
the appropriate syllable division in this or other Arabic varieties is more
than welcome.

1. Are [dr] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (madrasa "school")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ma.dra.sa		or 	b. mad.ra.sa

2. Are [tr] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (yitrayyaq "to have breakfast?")?

	    i.e. is it	a. yi.tray.yaq		or	b. yit.ray.yaq

3. Are [br] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (9ibra "lesson" or "example")?

	    i.e. is it	a. 9i.bra		or	b. 9ib.ra

4. Are [theta-r] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (ka0ra "abundance")? (Note: Because of font incompatibility, I'm
using [0] as a theta, corresponding to English 'th'.)

	    i.e. is it	a. ka.0ra		or	b. ka0.ra

5. Are [kr] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (mikrufuun "microphone")?

	    i.e. is it	a. mi.kru.fuun		or	b. mik.ru.fuun

6. Are [gr] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (tagriib "approximation")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ta.griib		or	b. tag.riib

7. Are [fr] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (yifra "hole")?

	    i.e. is it	a. yi.fra		or	b. yif.ra

8. Are [bl] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (gaabluu "they met him")?

	    i.e. is it	a. gaa.bloo		or	b. gaab.loo

9. Are [fl] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (?aflas "poorer")?

 	   i.e. is it	a. ?a.flas		or	b. ?af.las

10. Are [gl] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (?aghla "richer")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ?a.ghla		or	b. ?agh.la

11. Are [by] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (liibya "Libya")?

	    i.e. is it	a. lii.bya		or	b. liib.ya

12. Are [ry] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (maryamoo "little Miriam")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ma.rya.moo		or	b. mar.ya.moo

13. Are [zy] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (tilivizyuun "television")?

 	   i.e. is it	a. ti.li.vi.zyuun	or	b. ti.li.viz.yuun

14. Are [ly] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (balyon "billion")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ba.lyon		or	b. bal.yon

15. Are [dy] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (baadiya "semi-desert")?

	    i.e. is it	a. baa.dya		or	b. baad.ya

16. Are [gw] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (tagwiim "estimation")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ta.gwiim		or	b. tag.wiim

17. Are [Sw] sequences (where S stands for a palatal fricative
corresponding to English 'sh') syllabified together, or are they in
separate syllables (raSwa "better")?

	    i.e. is it	a. ra.Swa		or	b. raS.wa

18. Are [kw] sequences syllabified together, or are they in separate
syllables (Sakwa "complaint")? (Note: S represents a palatal fricative
corresponding to English 'sh'.)

	    i.e. is it	a. Sa.kwa		or	b. Sak.wa

19. One last question: Do borrowings like sibreey (< English spray),
sikraab (< English scrap) have alternants without the epenthetic [i], i.e.
sbreey, skraab?



Thank you very much for your help.




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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 27 23:39:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:39:28 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Gulf Arabic Syllabification Response
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Date: 27 Mar 2000
From:  sf4684 at u.cc.utah.edu
Subject: Gulf Arabic Syllabification Response

The majority of Arabic dialects including Gulf Arabic syllabify an
intervocalic biconsonantal cluster (VCCV) by assigning a coda position to
the first consonant (VC.CV). This is because a simple coda is favoured over
a complex onset. The question arises when  such clusters occur in
word-initial position., e.g., briig 'jug' or Tbuul 'drums'. Based on my
readings, all Gulf dialects tolerate word-initial clusters of some sort,
except Iraqi which mandates epenthesis in such cases, e.g., 'ibriig and
'iTbuul.

Samira Farwaneh
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Mar 27 23:37:49 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:37:49 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AUB Summer Program
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Date: 27 Mar 2000
From: Jennifer Ladkani <jll3202 at garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
Subject: AUB Sumer Program

The Center for Arab and Middle East Studies at the American University
of Beirut, Lebanon announces a Summer Program in the Arabic language
June 5-July 14, 2000. The program features three courses: Introductory
Arabic, Intermediate Arabic, and Colloquial Arabic.  All courses provide
a total immersion format combining intensive classroom instruction in
Arabic with field trips, caf=E9 sessions, Arabic speaking clubs, and
visits to markets, art galleries and theaters. The program also features
an excellent language laboratory and individualized tutoring sessions.
Both the beginning and the intermediate classes meet for twenty hours
per week for the six-week duration of the course. Each course is the
equivalent to one year (two semesters/8 credit hours/120 contact hours)
of language study at US universities. The course in Colloquial Arabic
meets for 2.5 hours per week throughout the six-week period and is the
equivalent of a one credit course (15 contact hours in the US).
The Al-Kitab series will be used as the main textbooks of instruction
for both the beginning and intermediate courses.
The total fees for the program are $3,200 and  include tuition, housing
(student dormitories), health insurance, Internet access, and usage of
the university sports facilities. Fees also cover cultural trips around
the city. Fees do not include air travel.
Individuals interested in the Summer Arabic Program should apply by
April 30th for the following summer. Applicants should include an
academic or professional letter of reference with their application. For
further information, please contact:

rh14 at aub.edu.lb or zschleno at mailer.fsu.edu
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 28 17:44:40 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:44:40 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NACAL 29 2001 Toronto
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Date: 28 Mar 2000
From: Robin Thelwall <eubule at telusplanet.net>
Subject: LING:NACAL 29 2001 Toronto

[List Members: This message was sent to me personally, but I thought some
of you might be willing to help NACAL get their e-mail lists up to date.
Respond directly to Robin.--Dil]

Dear NACAL members,
I was given your email address by a fellow member, so a brief
confirmatory reply would be appreciated to ensure our address file is up
to date.

The venue for NACAL 29, 2001, is Toronto and provisional dates are:
Wednesday 28 March - Friday 30 March.  The AOS meeting is scheduled for
Friday 30  March - Monday 2 April at the Toronto Colony Hotel, 89
Chestnut St.  I will be confirming the NACAL hotel soon.

Meanwhile I would be grateful if you could check the list below for any
members whose email addresses you may have, and let me know.  This will
considerably speed up our conference correspondence as well as save us
on postage.  Needless to say, any corrections to names will be welcome.

yours sincerely,

Robin Thelwall, Convenor NACAL 29
2121 1st Ave NW
Calgary, AB T2N 0B6
Canada
Tel: 403 283 4494
FAx: 403 283 5584
email: eubule at telusplanet.net

List of remaining names for whom I have no email (please also notify any
you know who don't/won't use email).
Peter Abboud
Sherin Abdel-Halim (SOAS)
Daniel Aberra, Addis Ababa
Tzvi Abusch
Rutie Adler
Azeb Amha, Leiden
Lloyd Anderson
Salman Al-Ani
David Appleyard, SOAS
M. Arister
Mark Aronoff
Richard Averbeck
Al-Said Al-Badawi, Cairo
Chulhyun Bae
Nicholas Bailey
John Baker, Houston
John Baker, Houston
Sergio Baldi, Naples
Giorgio Banti, Rome
Zev Bar-Lev
Barry Beitzel
Anna B?lova, Moscow
Elizabeth Bergman
Adele Berlin
Martin Bernal
Hatte Blejer
Ariel Bloch
Walter Bodine
Oded Borowski
Daniel Boyarin
Michael Brame
Eileen Broselow
Vit Bubenik, Canada
Giorgio Buccellati
Don Burquest
Ed Burrucker
Bernard Caron, Paris
Duane Christiansen
David Cohen, Paris
Michael Coogan
Jerrold Cooper
Alan Corr?
Ronald Cosper,  Halifax, Canada
Robin Cover
Joseph L. Daniels
A. J. Drewes, Leiden
Georg Echterweiss
Ragia Effat, Cairo
Barry Eichler
Mushira Eid
Jim Eisenbraun
Ami Elad-Bouskila, Jerusalem
Deborah Ellens
Rolf Endresen, Oslo
Tom Finley
Wolfdietrich Fischer, Erlangen
Eric Forster
Ken Frieden
Lillian Carol Friou
Dmitri Frolov, Moscow
William J. Fulco, S.J.
Maria Angeles Gallego
Stephen Garfinkel
Jane Garry
Talmy Givon
Allen Gleason
Lewis Glinert
David Golomb
Beverley Goodman
Cyrus Gordon
John Greppin
Dr. Catherine Griefenow-Mewis, Germany
Douglas Gropp
Heinz Grotzfeld, Muenster
Alan Harris
Mohammed Hassen
John Hayes
Lewis Heller
Harry Hoffner, Jr.
Gary Holland
Dr. Dymitr Ibriszimov, Germany
Ephraim Isaac
Otto Jastrow, Germany
Bo Johnson, Lund
C.  Douglas Johnson
Thomas L. Kane
Joshua Katz
Christa Kessler
Jacob Klein, Israel
Jared Klein
Frederick Knobloch
Robert Kraft
Charles Krahmalkov
James L. Kugel
Thomas Lambdin
Marcello Lamberti, Trieste
Aryeh Levin, Jerusalem
Baruch A. Levine
B. Barry Levy, Montreal
Maria-Rosa Lloret, Barcelona
Robert Longacre
Tremper Longman III
Antonio Loprieno
Peter Machinist
Victor Mall
Joseph Malone
Nih Mandelblit
P. Kyle McCarter
Fiona McLaughlin
Michael McOmber
H. Craig Melchert
Edmund S. Meltzer
George Mendenhall
David Michaels
Alexander Militarev
Catherine Miller
Cynthia Miller
Harvey Minkoff
John Mitchell
M. A. Mohammad, U of Florida
Ann Mulkern
Norbert Nebes
Scott Noegel
F.S. North
M. P. O?Connor
Edward Odisho
Jonathan Owens
Estiphan Panoussi, Gothenberg
Dennis Pardee
Nina Pawlak, Warsaw
John Perry
Maria Persson, Lund
Gerard Philippson, Paris
Moshe Piamenta, Jerusalem
Albert Pietersma, Toronto
Victor Porkhomovsky, Moscow
Mary Ann Pouls
Raghda El-Essawi, Cairo
Rechad Mostafa, Paris
Gary Rendsberg
Erica Reiner
E.J. Revell, Toronto
Theodore Romanoff
Franz Rosenthal
Martha Roth
Johanna Rubba
Aaron Rubin
Gonzalo Rubio
Stephen Ryan
Richard Saley
John San
Harold P. Scanlin
Russell Schuh
Stanislav Segert
Dr. Shlomit Shrayboim Shivtiel, Israel
Moises Silva
Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Paris
Mat Simonds
Ned Rosenbaum
Cameron Sinclair
Michael Sokoloff, Israel
Roberto Sottile, Palermo
Brian Spooner
David Stampe
Robin Stearns
Richard Steiner
Jaroslav Stetkevych
Olga Stolbova, Moscow
H. Stroomer, Leiden
Shemaryahu Talmon
Anbessa Teferra
Todd Thompson
Yoichi Tsuge, Japan
Siegbert Uhlig, Hamburg
Eugene Ulrich
James Vanderkam
Pascal Vernus, Paris
Kees Versteegh
Dr. William Watt-Popinjay
John W. Wevers, Toronto
Kemp Williams
Moges Yigezu, Addis Ababa
Aklilu Yilma, Addis Ababa
Bay? Yimam, Addis Ababa
Ronald Youngblood
Ziony Zevit


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 28 17:38:34 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:38:34 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dialect Confidence Query
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Date: 28 Mar 2000
From: Benjamin Troutman <troutmab at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Dialect Confidence Query

I am interested in "dialect confidence".  Could anyone suggest a
bibliography on this subject regarding Arabic?

all the best,

Benjamin Troutman

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 28 17:39:19 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:39:19 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jordan University Summer Program Query
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Date: 28 Mar 2000
From: Lisa Buckmaster <saxxgod at hotmail.com>
Subject: Jordan University Summer Program Query

Since I am an undergraduate student at one of the thousands of schools in
the US that does not offer any Arabic courses whatsoever, I have had to
resort to participating in summer Arabic courses. For this summer, I am
considering courses taught at Jordan University in Amman, but I'm having
trouble finding any information about this program. Has anyone taken courses
at JU or know anyone who does? I just have some basic questions on material
covered, amount of English spoken in class and their general impression of
the program.

Thanks,
Lisa J. Buckmaster
saxxgod at hotmail.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Mar 28 17:41:10 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:41:10 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Acquisition Query
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Date: 28 Mar 2000
From:  SHAWKY at aucegypt.edu
Subject: Arabic Acquisition Query

RE: New Book on Palestinian Border Villages

dear Sirs,

"therefore they liked classromm situation  and the instructor , however
dislike Arabic language and did not want to learn."

 I am in of People working in that sociolinguistic field to answere a
questionnaire about Arabic language acquisition. If the topic interests you
please get in touch with me I would appreciate it vvery much.

Nehad shawky-MATAFL-American Univeersity in Cairo

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 31 17:35:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:35:23 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:JAIS Keyboard Info
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Date: 31 Mar 2000
From: Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject: JAIS Keyboard Info
JOURNAL OF ARABIC AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
http://www.uib.no/jais
http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais

The version of the keyboard mapping program Keys (2.1) which can be
downloaded free from our Web sites is 16-bit, meant for Windows 3.x,
although it works without problem on Windows 95 (at least on the Arabic
enabled version). We have had problems using it with Windows NT 4 (with
Arabic support), and we do not know how it performs with Windows 98. A
32-bit _shareware_ version can be downloaded for trial from the author Peter
Szaszvari's software page at

http://www.szp-software.com/

We have tested the new version of Keys with 32-bit Windows (NT) and have
prepared a corresponding version of the .INI file for the JAIS1font
(entitled Keys32.ini) which can now be downloaded from our Web sites.

Regards,

Joseph Bell and Petr Zemanek

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 31 17:34:19 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:34:19 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jordan Program responses
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1) Subject: Jordan Program responses
1) Subject: Jordan Program responses

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Date: 31 Mar 2000
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Jordan Program response

Greetings.

You might contact Professor Mohammed Sawaie in the Department of Asian and
Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia (UVa) in
Charlottesville. His contact data follow below.

He is the UVa contact for the bilateral summertime Arabic program (intensive
and refresher, rather than an initial acquisition course) that UVa conducts
with Yarmouk University in Irbid.

     Name:                      Mohammed Sawaie
     Department:              Asian & Middle East Lang & Cul
     Messenger Mail:        Cabell Hall, Room B038
     Office Phone:            (804) 924-7917
                                     (804) 982-2304
     Fax Phone:                (804) 924-6977

     Registered E-Mail Addr:  ms at Virginia.edu
                                          ms at unix.mail.virginia.edu

I do not know about similar programs at Jordan University in Amman. Professor
Sawaie is perhaps the most knowledgable person in the U.S. to ask about such
programs offered in Jordan

Let me know if you are interested in a refresher/familiarization  course in
the Gulf Arabic dialect (Emirati), and I can suggest two possible sources at
universities in the UAE.

HTH.

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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2)
Date: 31 Mar 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Jordan Program response

Try AUB, American University of Beirut. They have a summer course
for about $3000.00 plus your ticket, includes field trips and stuff.

George N. Hallak

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2)
Date: 31 Mar 2000
From: Dilworth Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: Jordan Program response

We have had several students go to Amman and study at the Arabic Language
Institute at the University of Jordan.  As with all such programs I would
say that their experience was mixed, some benefitting more than others, but
they appear to have a coherent program that takes students through various
levels of Arabic and tries to produce fluency, particularly in fusha.  It
has the advantage of being relatively inexpensive compared to other
programs.
Dil
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 31 17:22:58 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:22:58 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING: What is NACAL?
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Date: 31 Mar 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: What is NACAL? (and the answer)

What is NACAL????
andy

NACAL is (I believe) the North American Conference on Afro-Asiatic
Linguistics, although that may not be exactly right.  It meets generally
with or just before the American Oriental Society, and last time I attended
had presentations on everything from Berber to Chadic languages to Arabic
and other semitic languages.  If anyone wants to add more detail, please do.
Dil

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Mar 31 17:19:50 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:19:50 -0800
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:What is 'dialect confidence'?
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1) Subject: What is 'dialect confidence'?

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Date: 31 Mar 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: What is 'dialect confidence'? (RE: 28 Mar 2000 message from
Benjamin Troutman)

Hi,
  What is "dialect confidence"?
andy

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