From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  1 15:53:27 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 08:53:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Middle East Librarian Job
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1) Subject: Middle East Librarian Job

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Date: 01 May 2000
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at humanitas.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Middle East Librarian Job

			MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES LIBRARIAN

The University of California, Santa Barbara, one of nine campuses of the
University of California system, is seeking a Middle Eastern Studies
Librarian.  The University if ranked as a category 1 research university
by the Carnegie Commission, and is an elected member of the Association of
American Universities.  The library memberships include ARL, CRL, and the
OCLC.  The library is also a participant in the California Digital
Library, and the Library of California.  The library collections include
over two million volumes, government documents, microforms, sophisticated
electronic resources, and numerous Special Collections.

Librarians at the University of California, Santa Barbara are professional
academic appointees who accrue vacation at the rate of two days per month
and sick leave at the rate of one day per month.  All librarians are
members of the Librarians Association of the University of California
(LAUC).  The University has an excellent retirement system, which is
coordinated with Social Security.  A selection of group health, dental,
vision, and life insurance plans are offered by the University.

Islamic and Near Eastern Studies, an interdisciplinary program that
explores the peoples, societies, languages, and cultures of the Near
Eastern worlds from a variety of perspectives, is seeking to establish a
Center for Middle East Studies at UCSB.  The Center's primary focus will
be to support the teaching and research needs of the faculty and student
population in Islamic and Near Eastern Studies.  The INES is poised to
embark upon a new and dynamic phase in its development as a major research
unit on the campus.  Support for library services and resources will be a
recognized component of the Center.


RESPONSIBILITIES:   Reporting to the Area, Ethnic, and Gender Studies
Collection Coordinator   and working closely with the Principal Cataloger
the Middle Eastern Studies Librarian works individually and as part of a
team to provide reference, cataloging, bibliographic and instructional
services to students, faculty, staff and the university community.

The incumbent is responsible for all aspects of collection management and
development for assigned subjects such as Islamic and Near Eastern
Studies, including selection of information resources, storage and weeding
decisions, faculty liaison, collection interpretation, evaluation,
budgetary management, and resource sharing.  Liaison work includes
collaboration with the Center for Middle East Studies and the faculty to
promote and support interest in Middle East Studies throughout the
university and the community.

The librarian provides reference assistance and library instruction
services to faculty and students.   H/she has responsibility for scheduled
reference service in all social sciences and humanities disciplines,
research consultation, electronic reference and online
searching.  Includes some evening and weekend assignments.

The incumbent working under the general direction of the Principal
Cataloger catalogs library materials in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and
Turkish.

H/she participates in the library's instruction program.  The incumbent
also has responsibility for the development and maintenance of printed and
electronic guides to specialized library resources.

QUALIFICATIONS:   ALA accredited MLS.  Scholarly competence in Arabic
language as well as knowledge and understanding of Middle East
culture.  Reading knowledge of Persian, Turkish, or Hebrew
language.  Demonstrated experience in reference, collection development,
and bibliographic instruction.  Cataloging experience, including
experience with LC classification, LCSH, LCRI, AACR2, MARC formats and
familiarity with a bibliographic utility, preferably OCLC.

 A strong commitment to excellence in public service and the ability to
work effectively in a culturally diverse environment.  Demonstrated
initiative, flexibility, creativity, and the ability to handle multiple
responsibilities.

Evidence of an understanding of the publishing and book trade industry in
the Middle East as well as methods of acquiring materials.  The ability to
work effectively with faculty, students, staff, and the
community.  Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication
skills.


Hiring Range $40,248 to $57,984 based on qualifications and
experience.  Consideration of applications begins July 14, 2000, and
continues until the position is filled.  Send resume, and names and
addresses of three references to:  Detrice Bankhead, Associate University
Librarian, Personnel, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara, CA 93106.


The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer and invites applications from all who meet the stated
qualifications.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  1 15:52:32 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 08:52:32 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:99 Names Query
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1) Subject: 99 Names Query

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Date: 01 May 2000
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at humanitas.ucsb.edu>
Subject: 99 Names Query

The UCSB Middle East ensemble is adding Sayyid Makawi's <al-asmaa'
al-Husna> (The 99 Names of God) to its repertoire.  In transcribing the
song, however, a puzzling omission has come to light: the song text
contains only 98 names and <al-Ahad> is not included in its customary
place between <al-Wahid> and <as-Samad>.  Does anyone know of a plausible
explanation for this?

Many thanks,
Dwight

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  1 15:59:18 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 08:59:18 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Teaching Jobs
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1) Subject: Durham Job
1) Subject: Arizona Job

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Date: 01 May 2000
From: reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject: Durham Job

University of Durham
CENTRE FOR MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
Lectureship in Arabic (one year appointment) #16,286 - #22,578 p.a.
Required to teach on a range of courses at undergraduate and
postgraduate level (including an MA in Arabic/English
translation) and to supervise PhD students in Arabic
linguistics and Arabic/English translation. Successful
applicants will preferably have a doctorate and wide
experience of teaching Arabic as a foreign language. He/she
will also be research active with a proven research record.
The Centre is particularly interested in specialists in
Arabic/English translation. Informal enquiries to Professor
Ehteshami (tel: 0191 374 2821 or e-mail:
A.Ehteshami at durham.ac.uk). Reference: A140B Closing date
for the above post: 18 May 2000. Further details and an
application form for the above posts may be obtained from
the Director of Personnel, University of Durham, Old Shire
Hall, Durham DH1 3HP (tel: 0191 374 7258, fax: 0191 374 7253
or e-mail: Acad.Recruit at durham.ac.uk or visit
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Personnel/vacancies/). Please quote
the appropriate reference.  6124538
GMG plc. 2000

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Date: 01 May 2000
From: dil
Subject: Arizona Job

This job announcement has a copyright notice not allowing it to be
reposted, so I don't repost it, but simply make people aware that it is
available either on arabic-info or in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
It is for a full-time Program Development Specialist at the University of
Arizona-South, for development of teaching programs for Serbian, Croatian,
Arabic, Korean, Thai, Portuguese and Spanish.  See web site at
http://www.hr2.hr.arizona.edu.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  1 16:08:43 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 09:08:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING/PEDA:jiim/giim
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Date: 01 May 2000
From: mustafa a mughazy <mughazy at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: jiim/giim

Here is my reaction to the posting on the /g/ and /j/ issue.
First of all, I think that MSA is viewed as one pan-Arab variety; however,
it would be unrealistic to view it as a frozen or invariant variety
because there are obvious systematic variations. In Egypt, the speech
community I am familiar with, [g] is not just acceptable, it is considered
fusha. Therefore, it is used in reciting the Quran and in TV news
broadcasts. The only times where [j] is used is in the formulaic sentence
[a3oozo bellahi min ashyTan ar-rajeem] and when specialists recite the
Quran. That is why when [j] is used for borrowed words the Arabic letter
has three dots rather than just one, the same as the letters for [p] and
[v]. Moreover, using [jiim] is called [ta3Teesh eg-giim] which suggests
that people perceive it as unnatural pronunciation. Actually, I knew that
[j] is the MSA form only when I started my Ph.D. at UIUC after 25 years of
formal education in Egypt.
Being an Arabic TA myself, I think it is crucial to expose students to
such variations because we do not want them to go to the Middle East and
be incapable of communicating after years of instruction.

Thanks a lot
Mustafa A. Mughazy
Linguistics Department
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champiagn
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Sat May  6 18:21:36 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 11:21:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING/PEDA:jiim/giim response
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Date: 06 May 2000
From: Benjamin Troutman <troutmab at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject:  jiim/giim

Mr. Mughazy wrote:
> Moreover, using [jiim] is called [ta3Teesh eg-giim] which suggests
> that people perceive it as unnatural pronunciation.

I would like to know who these "people" are and what an "unnatural
pronunciation" is.  Moreover, it would be interesting to find out on the
map of Arabic variations, MSA or the natural ones, where the ji:m stops
and the ka:f starts in arabic orthography in terms of pronuncing
"foreign" words.  i'd definately place my bets that anywhere in the
peninsula (besides parts of oman) we'd see the change.  just a thought...

Also regarding Arabic orthography, it's a shame that some language
grumblers and worry worts think it's a grave transgression to use the
ingenius orthography of the arabic-speaking world's persian and urdu
neighbors.

please send more comments about phonological variations and language
attitudes.  i love this stuff!

all the best,

benjamin troutman

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Sat May  6 18:25:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 11:25:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Afroasiatic Languages Conference Announcement
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Date: 06 May 2000
From: The LINGUIST Discussion List <LINGUIST at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Subject: Afroasiatic Languages Conference Announcement

  CONFERENCE PROGRAM

			        CAL5
		   5th International Conference on
		        Afroasiatic Languages
			   Paris, France

			  28-30 June 2000

The 5th International Conference on Afroasiatic Linguisitics will be
held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 28-30, 2000, at Université
Paris VII-Denis Diderot, 2 place Jussieu (Métro Jussieu).

Invited speakers for CAL5 are Mohand Guerssel (UQAM), R.J. Hayward
(SOAS), and Alec Marantz (MIT).

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Wednesday, 28 June 2000
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8.45-9.00	Jochem Hoock, Vice President of Denis Diderot University
                Opening remarks

9.00-9.45	Jamal Ouhalla, QMWC London
                Complementizers and Clitic-Second in Berber

9.45-10.00	Girma Halefom and John Lumsden, UQAM
                Decomposing the Perfect Conjugation

10.00-10.45	Tal Siloni, Tel Aviv University
                Case Checking in Phonology

10.45-11.00	Pause

11.00-11.45	Lina Choueiri, University of Southern California
                Yes-No questions, focus, and PF movement

11.45-12.00	Adam Ussishkin, University of Santa Cruz
                Templatic Effects as Fixed Prosody: the Verbal System
                in Semitic

12.00-14.00	Pause

14.00-14.45	Melanie Green and Phil Jaggar, University of Sussex and SOAS
                Exhaustive Listing vs. New Information Focus in Hausa:
                morphosyntactic-semantic correlations?

14.45-15.00	Eugene Buckley, University of Pennsylvania
                Emergent vowels in Tigrinya templates

15.00-15.15	Pause

15.15-16.00	David Swinburne, Tel Aviv University
                Context-dependent Prepositions: the Semantics of `Be'

16.00-16.45	Sabrina Bendjaballah, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Vienna
                The internal structure of the determiner in Bedja

16.45-17.30	Edit Doron, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
                Transitivity Alternations in the Semitic Template System

17.30-17.45	Pause

17.45-18.45	Invited Speaker: R.J. HAYWARD
                Omotic: the 'empty quarter' in Afroasiatic Linguistics

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Thursday, 29 June 2000
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9.00-9.45	Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, IRA - Université Mohammed 5
                Transitivity, Aspect, and Number

9.45-10.00	Chris Reintges, Leiden University
                A Configurational Approach to Second Tenses in Coptic Egyptian

10.00-10.45	Ivy Sichel, City University of NY Graduate Center
                Phrasal Movement in Hebrew DPs

10.45-11.00	Pause

11.00-11.45	Tabea Ihsane, Université de Genève
                'That's a demonstrative: that's a head !'

11.45-12.00	David Le Gac, Université Paris 7
                Tonal Alternations in Somali

12.00-12.45	Denise Perrett, SOAS
                The Dynamics of Tense Construal: clause chaining in Hadiyya

12.45-14.00	Pause

14.00-14.45	Outi Bat-El, Tel Aviv University
                Anti-faithfulness: An Inherent Morphological Property

14.45-15.30	Irena Botwinik-Rotem, Tel Aviv University
                The thematic and Categorial Status of Ps: the Dative,
                Directional, Locative Distinction

15.30-16.15	Karim Achab, McGill University
                Ordre des mots, topicalisation et alternance d'état en berbère

16.15-16.30	Pause

16.30-17.15	Degif Petros Banksira, MIT
                Phonemic Decomposition

17.15-18.00	Ur Shlonsky, Université de Genève
                The form of Semitic noun phrases

18.00-18.15	Pause

18.15-19.00     Invited Speaker: Mohand GUERSSEL, UQAM
                Branching rimes

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Friday, 30 June 2000
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9.00-9.45	Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois
                Lexical Relations and the Role of the Imperfective
                Template in Arabic Morphology

9.45-10.00	Mara Frascarelli, Università di Roma Tre
                Somali waxaa Cleft Constructions: A Small Clause analysis

10.00-10.45	François Dell and Mohamed Elmedlaoui, EHESS-CNRS and
                University of Oujda
                Syllabification in Moroccan Arabic and how it differs
                from that in Tashlhiyt Berber

10.45-11.00	Pause

11.00-11.45	Philippe Schlenker, ENS France and USC
                Indexicality, Logophoricity, and Plural Pronouns

11.45-12.00	Kimary Shahin, Birzeit University, Israel
                Vowel Innovation in Arabic: Inductive Grounding and
                Pattern Symmetry

12.00-14.00	Pause

14.00-14.45	Nora Boneh, Université Paris 3
                On Information Packaging Strategies and Syntactic
                Structure in Modern Hebrew

14.45-15.00	Robert Ratcliffe, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
                The Plural System of Moroccan Arabic in Diachronic Perspective

15.00-15.15	Pause

15.15-16.00	Alhaji M. Gimba, UCLA and University of Maiduguri, Nigeria
                Verbal Plurality in Bole

16.00-16.45	Ali Idrissi, UQAM
                Word Formation and Transfer in Templatic Morphology

16.45-17.30	Ilan Hazout, University of Haïfa
                Argument Control and Purpose Phrases in Hebrew

17.30-17.45	Pause

17.45-18.15	Business Meeting

18.15-19.15	Invited Speaker: Alec MARANTZ, MIT
                Roots: The Universality of Root and Pattern Morphology

Alternates:

Maher Bahloul, King Saud University
The Syntax of Negative Adverbs in Arabic

Maarten Mous and Rint Sybesma, Leiden University
Object positions in Iraqw  and the composition of the sentence

Naima Louali and Gilbert Puech, ISH Lyon 2
Présence et interprétation phonologique d'une voyelle radicale dans les
formes nominales et verbales du berbère

Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi, University of Fes
Subject and Dative Clitics in Berber

Mohammed Diriye Abdullahi, Université de Montréal
Is Somali a Tone Language?

Georgine Ayoub, Université Paris 7
Les modes de l'énonciation en arabe littéraire et en arabe libanais

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Web site for CAL5:
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/CAL5.html

For further information, email
lowen at ccr.jussieu.fr (Jean Lowenstamm)
lecarme at cra.cnrs.fr (Jacqueline Lecarme)


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Sat May  6 18:22:41 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 11:22:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Translation of terms response
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Date: 06 May 2000
From: Geula Elimelekh <elimeg at mail.biu.ac.il>
Subject: Translation of terms response

Dear Ali,

In reply to your question, I have found the terms that you have been
looking for in the book: "Muajjam al-Mustalahat al-`Arabiyya fi al-Lugha
wa-Aladab", by Majdi Wahba.

"Gharad": intention
"Fikra" : idea
"Ma`ani" : meaning


I hope it will help you,


Nesya , Michal, Geula.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  8 16:51:07 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:51:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Leeds job
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Date: 08 May 2000
From: reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject: Leeds job

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES & CULTURES
DEPARTMENT OF ARABIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
LECTOR/LECTRICE Available from September 2000,
you will be expected to teach, among other things, grammar
at Level One and essential language skills for all three levels
of the BA degree. You must have a minimum of five years
experience and a qualification in Teaching Arabic as a
Foreign Language is preferable. Salary: Other related 1
(#16,286 - #20,811 p.a.). Informal enquiries to Dr D A Agius,
tel: 0113 233 3423. Information packs are available from
Human Resources, The University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT,
tel: 0113 233 5771, email: J.Byron at adm.leeds.ac.uk or from
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts/ Job ref: 012-034-006-051.
It is expected that interviews will be held in June 2000.
Closing date: 26 May 2000
We welcome applications from all sections of the community,
regardless of gender, ethnic origin, or disability. Textphone
for deaf applicants only 0113 233 4353. All information is
available in alternative formats - please contact 0113 233 5771.
GMG plc. 2000

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  8 16:45:22 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:45:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:LA Arabic teaching jobs
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1) Subject: LA Arabic teaching jobs

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Date: 08 May 2000
From: Ahmad Khorshid <a_khorshid at hotmail.com>
Subject: LA Arabic teaching jobs

The New Horizon Schools in Los Angeles are looking for a teacher of Arabic
as a foreign language. We have a vigorous, communication-based, pre-k to 8th
grade program. Native or native-like proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic
required. Preference will be given to candidates with qualifications and
experience in TAFL. Position will remain open until filled. Salary is
attractive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. Please send
your resume with names and addresses of three references to:

Wael Merza
Director, Bureau of Islamic Education
Islamic Center of Southern California
434 S. Vermont Avenue
L.A., CA. 90020

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  8 16:44:43 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:44:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Publishers query
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Date: 08 May 2000
From: Younes Mourchid <mourchid at usc.edu>
Subject: Publishers query

Dear Colleagues,

    I 'm looking for information regarding Arabic Publishers who publish
Translated Books from English to Arabic. Any direction in this regard will
be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


Best Regards.


Younes Mourchid.
University of Southern California

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  8 16:43:59 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:43:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:More Shawqi Dayf info
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1) Subject: More Shawqi Dayf info

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Date: 08 May 2000
From: Geula Elimelekh <elimeg at mail.biu.ac.il>
Subject: More Shawqi Dayf info

In response to your message, I have found some material about Shawqi
Dayf:
Shawqi Dayf is an Egyptian literary critic and historian, Editor and
Scholar. He was born in 1910 in lower egypt and received a B.A. in arabic
litrature from the university of Cairo in 1935.During the time he became
a professor in the arabic department of the university of cairo. you can
find more details in the "Encyclopedia of Arabic Litrature",
edited by Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey.

Yours,

Nesya Rubinstein.
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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:47:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:giim/jiim
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Date: 08 May 2000
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: giim/jiim

> Mr. Mughazy wrote:
> > Moreover, using [jiim] is called [ta3Teesh eg-giim] which suggests
> > that people perceive it as unnatural pronunciation.
>
> I would like to know who these "people" are and what an "unnatural
> pronunciation" is.

These people are most everybody.

With the exception of regional dialects in Egypt, the giim is pronounced
as a voiced velar plosive both in colloquial and classical.
This includes news, both radio and TV, public announcements, political
addresses, and so on.

On the other hand the jiim, a voiced postalveolar fricative,
and its more 'erudite' affricate counter part, the djeem,  are both used by
sheikhs on religious occasions, such as the Friday khutba, and by
participants in religious radio or TV programs.

The rules concerning the appropriate usage of register, which include
giim, jiim, and djiim, are such that the use of an un-called-for jiim or
djiim would immediately be noticed.

A person's speech - to be classical - does not hinge on jiim or djiim.
>>From a purely Egyptian point of view, the q - ? pair are much more
important as a measure of classicalness.  There are several other
criteria amongst the most important of which is case marking.

Waheed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  8 16:48:25 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:48:25 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Orthography of non-Arabic Neighbors
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Date: 08 May 2000
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Orthography of non-Arabic Neighbors

Greetings / tahaiya tayyiba wa b3ad...

Re "... the orthography of the Arabic-speaking world's Persian and Urdu
neighbors"

In the United Arab Emirates (especially the coastal cities), such
"transplanted" orthography is common and pervasive because of the large
non-Arab ethnic communities there (largest Indian community outside the
Subcontinent).

Orthography with the three dots (peh, zheh, cheh and veh) and the "gheh"
appear occasionally in some Arabic advertising that involves foreign words
and brand names. Emiratis seem accustomed (blase) to those usages. The
observations by the late T. M. Johnstone on dialectal variations in Gulf
Arabic are valid.

Due to the large "Egyptian academic mafia" (their own self-description) in a
number of universities, colleges and teriary institutes in UAE, one can also
encounter the "jiim" vs "geem" business, although the discussions that follow
seem more for amusement. Older Emiratis in their casual speech among
themselves still tend to shift medial jiim > yaa  > "yaa reyaal..."

BTW, Saudi/Gulf Arabic equivalent of "shop 'til you drop" => al-tasawwiq
hatta al-aflaas (shopping until poverty).

HTH.

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 10 15:59:57 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:59:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING/PEDA:jiim/giim
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Date: 10 May 2000
From: mustafa a mughazy <mughazy at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: jiim/giim

Mr. Troutman wrote:
"It is a shame that some language grumblers and worry worts think it's a
grave transgression to use the ingenious orthography of the
Arabic-speaking world's Persian and Urdu neighbors."

The issue of [giim] and [jiim] was a mere illustration of how MSA is an
ill-defined construct, and how it means different things for different
people. For example, the use of [giim] is accepted in Egypt, but not in
Syria or Lebanon, and the same applies for non-Arabic orthography. If one
uses the name [margaret] in Egypt, it is MSA OK, but in Syria and Lebanon,
it is not. It will have to be [margharet] because /g/ is not an Arabic
sound. What I find interesting is the use of non-Arabic orthography to
represent Arabic sounds as in the case of [jiim].
Mustafa

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 10 15:58:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:58:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Publishers response
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Date: 10 May 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Publishers response

	You may want to try Dar al-Adab (Daar al-Aadaab), in Beirut,
Lebanon.  Please, write to Dr. Samah Suheil (it's a he), at: Dar Al-Adab
<d_aladab at cyberia.net.lb>

	Salaam and best of luck.
					M. Deeb

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 10 17:47:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:47:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Horizons clarifications
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1) Subject: New Horizons clarification
2) Subject: New Horizons clarification

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1)
Date: 10 May 2000
From: Ahmad Khorshid <a_khorshid at hotmail.com>
Subject: New Horizons clarification

>The New Horizon Schools in Los Angeles are run by the Islamic Center of
>Southern California. They offer, in addition to the usual school subjects,
>Arabic and Islamic studies. Although most of the children are Moslems, the
>schools are open to non-Moslems as well. Actually, we do have a few
>non-Moslem children. We have a "pioneer"?! Arabic language program which
>teaches kids 3-6 years old standard Arabic orally. This program does not
>follow the traditional Arabic alphabet method. I mean alif asad, baa'
>baTTa, taa' tuffaaHa, and so on. The program is very successful. We measure
>the success by the language functions the children can engage in. Two
>distinctive features of this program are: 1. an influx of vocabulary
>representing the needs of children at that age, used in context (with
>puppets, stories, songs, etc.) and recycled systematically. 2. we teach
>what you can call "functional grammar" starting with a non-holistic
>approach. That is, we teach one bit at a time, so that the children's
>ability to communicate builds up gradually. After establishing a sound
>base, relatively speaking, we teach the language through a holistic
>approach. The Arabic alphabet will be introduced on the 4th year (1st
>grade). Students continue learning Standard Arabic in a communicative way
>till 8th grade. Hope this helps. Regards.
>
>Ahmad Khorshid
>Teacher trainer and curriculum developer
>New Horizon Schools
>Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Pasadena

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2)
Date: 10 May 2000
From: Ahmad Khorshid <a_khorshid at hotmail.com>
Subject: New Horizons clarification

For the Arabic teaching position in the New Horizon Schools in Los Angeles
advertised earlier, we do welcome applications from the States and from
oversees as well.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 10 17:48:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:48:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:letter to sound mapping query
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Date: 10 May 2000
From: Yaser Al-Onaizan <yaser at ISI.EDU>
Subject: letter to sound mapping query

Greetings all,

I'm wondering if there is any work been done on letter to sound (phoneme)
mappings of Arabic orthography. I'm mostly interested in computational work but
non-computational work is worth looking at too.

Any pointers are highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Yaser

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 10 17:50:33 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:50:33 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MT Call
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1) Subject: MT Call

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1)
Date: 10 May 2000
From:  David Wigg <wiggjd at bcs.org.uk>
Subject: MT Call

British Computer Society
Natural Language Translation Specialist Group
URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm


****************************
EXTENDED DEADLINE 19 June 2000
*****************************


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. We encourage the representation of a broad
range of areas; 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
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
Translation studies
Terminology
Lexicography
Syntax
Semantics
Discourse
Pragmatics


* Invited speakers

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


* Programme Committee

Mona Baker (UMIST, Manchester)
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 (TRADOS Ireland)
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)
Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante)
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)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
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)
Lotfi Zadeh (University of California)

* 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: 19 June 2000
Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2000
Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September 2000
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 May 12 16:33:22 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:33:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book
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1) Subject: New Book: Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in
                                     Standard and Palestinian Arabic

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Date: 12 May 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: New Book

John Benjamins Publishing announces a new work in Arabic Syntax using
Generative Grammar, specifically Minimalism,  for the analysis.

Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in Standard and Palestinian Arabic.
Mohammad A. MOHAMMAD (University of Florida)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 181
US & Canada: 1 55619 958 9 / USD 69.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3687 9 / NLG 138.00 (Hardcover)

The two related issues of word order, and subject-verb agreement have
occupied center stage in the study of Arabic syntax since the time of
Sibawayhi in the eighth century. This book is a contribution to both
of these areas. It is grounded within the generative grammar framework
in one of its most recent versions, namely Minimalism, as expounded in
Chomsky (1995).

In this volume, a detailed description is given of word order options
in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Palestinian Arabic (PA). It is
shown that, perhaps surprisingly, the two varieties allow almost the
same range of word orders.

The important question of whether Arabic has a VP is addressed: the
author argues extensively that Arabic has a VP category. The evidence
derives from examining superiority effects, ECP effects, binding,
variable interpretations, etc.

Also discussed is the content of [Spec, TP] in VSO sentences. It is
argued that the position is occupied by an expletive pronoun. The
author defends the Expletive Hypothesis which states that in VSO
sentences the expletive may take part in checking some features of the
verb. A typology of the expletive pronoun in Modern Standard Arabic,
Palestinian Arabic, Lebanese Arabic, and Moroccan Arabic is provided.

A particularly interesting problem involving pronominal co-reference
is the following: if the subject is the antecedent of a pronominal
clitic, word order is free; if a pronominal is cliticized onto the
subject, then the antecedent must precede. An account that derives
these restrictions without recourse to linear order is proposed.

			John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Offices:	Philadelphia			Amsterdam:
Websites: 	http://www.benjamins.com	http://www.benjamins.nl
E-mail:		service at benjamins.com		customer.services at benjamins.nl
Phone:		+215 836-1200			+31 20 6762325
Fax: 		+215 836-1204			+31 20 6739773

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 19 21:54:32 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:54:32 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:UN Job
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Date: 19 May 2000
From: Thouria Benferhat <benferhat at un.org>
Subject: UN Job

This is to inform you that the Arabic Language Coordinator post at UN
Headquarters, New York is being advertised.

Click here to view the Circular:

http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/examin/0l-alc.htm



Please forward this email to anyone you know who might be interested.

Regards,

Thouria Benferhat,
Interim Arabic Coordinator,
Arabic Language Programme.

Thank you.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 19 21:56:40 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:56:40 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Need Arabic Calligraphy Demonstrator/Teacher
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Date: 19 May 2000
From: MOHAMMED M JIYAD <mmjiyad at unix.amherst.edu>
Subject: Need Arabic Calligraphy Demonstrator/Teacher

Dear Colleagues,
The Asian Program at the University of Massachusetts is
planning a 3-days event between March 8 -10, 2001. One of
the sessions is assigned to Arabic Calligraphy. With its fluid
design and diacratical markings, the Arabic language lends itself
to the art of calligraphy.
We seek your assistance to locate someone, preferably within
a driving/short distance flight to Amherst, to talk about and
demonstrate types of Arabic calligraphy. The session is scheduled
for March 8, 2001. Please respond to me or call the organizer,
Professor Ranjana Devi, at (413) 545-1980.
Best.
Mohammed Jiyad

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 19 21:58:13 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:58:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MSA Computational Linguist Job
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Date: 19 May 2000
From: "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
Subject: MSA Computational Linguist Job

[Reposted from LINGUIST]

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world's leading provider of
speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses
and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down language barriers
through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by
voice in any language with the machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H
has revolutionized the development and application of advanced speech and
language technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer,
business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation, sound
compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation.
As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H
maintains offices in more than forty countries in Europe, Asia,the Middle East,
North America, and South America. With over 5.000 employees - mainly linguists,
scientists and engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $344 million in
1999.
For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an
opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f):


          **********************************************************
          Computational Linguist Modern Standard Arabic
                       Speech and Language Technology
          **********************************************************

Function:
* You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and
  programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech,
  Artificial Intelligence and Language.
* In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and
  language study in view of technology development and assessment of third
  party providers of data and/or technology.
* You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus
  on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets,
  creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion,
  prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of
  documentation.
* Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical
  documentation.
* Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language
  specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge.
* You will report to the group or project manager.

Profile:
* university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent;
* (near) native Modern Standard Arabic speaker with a conversational level of
  English;
* solid grounding in linguistic theory;
* good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas:
  speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational
  linguistics, programming, other languages;
* ability to work in a team and independently;
* IT literate;
* perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness;
* good social and communicative abilities;
* willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time.



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

If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfill the
required profile, we have to meet each other.
 Please send your application letter and detailed resume to:


     Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
     Personnel Department

     Mailto:job-announce at lhs.be

     attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont
     Flanders Language Valley 50
     B-8900 Ieper
     BELGIUM
     Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89


To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage:
http://www.lhsl.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 19 22:15:34 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 15:15:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:jiim/giim
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Date: 19 May 2000
From: John Leake <J.E.S.Leake at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: jiim/giim

Of course, <ghain>  seems to be there as a fairly universal /g/ marker!
So the question therefore arises: under what circumstances do
<jiim>/<kaaf> _as opposed to <ghain>_ get used for /g/?  Is the choice
free, informed be education or audience, or dependent on pholological
considerations?

John

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 19 21:59:20 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:59:20 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MT Conference deadline extended
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Date: 19 May 2000
From: rwsh at dircon.co.uk
Subject: MT Conference deadline extended
British Computer Society
Natural Language Translation Specialist Group
URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm


****************************
EXTENDED DEADLINE 19 June 2000
*****************************


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. We encourage the representation of a broad
range of areas; 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
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
Translation studies
Terminology
Lexicography
Syntax
Semantics
Discourse
Pragmatics


* Invited speakers

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


* Programme Committee

Mona Baker (UMIST, Manchester)
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 (TRADOS Ireland)
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)
Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante)
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)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
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)
Lotfi Zadeh (University of California)

* 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: 19 June 2000
Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2000
Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September 2000
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  Thu May 25 17:32:00 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:32:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ACTFL Rating query
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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Maik Gibson <maik_gibson at expatos.com>
Subject: ACTFL Rating query

     Hi everyone!
        Does anyone know how one can get one's level in MSA, accordng to
     the ACTFL scale, measured?
     I'm asking for a friend dong a Master's thesis on his own progress in
     learning MSA, focussed particularly on the skiill of reading. He needs
     some way of assessing his progress.
     Any ideas?

     Thanks,

     Maik Gibson

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:32:54 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:32:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Medical Ethics Conference
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAY.2000.103254.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Ali Hussin <ahussin at study.haifa.ac.il>
Subject: Medical Ethics Conference

Dear Collegue,
The Department of Arabic Language and Literature, and the International
Center for Health, Law, and Ethics at the Faculty of Law, both of the
University of Haifa, Israel, will sponsor an International Conference on
Medical Ethics and Medical Law in Islam to be held at the University of
Haifa, Israel, between March 19-21 2001.
      The Conference Organizing Committee welcomes participants and
speakers from various disciplines of Islamic Studies, including Law,
History, Sociology, Medicine and Philosophy.

A 3rd announcement was recently published in the Conference Homepage in
the Internet, to see it please visit:
                http://hcc.haifa.ac.il/islammed/


Sincerely yours,
Dr. Vardit Rispler-Chaim
Department of Arabic
University of Haifa
Haifa, 31905 ISRAEL
E-mail: varditrc at research.haifa.ac.il
Fax: 972-4-8249710

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:36:01 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:36:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Ph.D. in Arabic Translation Query
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAY.2000.103601.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 25 May 2000
From: sami yasin <samiyasin at yahoo.com>
Subject: Ph.D. in Arabic Translation Query

dear sir;
 I wonder if you can help me. I'm trying to find a university in U.S.A that
offers a phd in translation (English/Arabic/English) even if it is an
interdisciplinary work.
thanks

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:36:52 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:36:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Corpus Query
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAY.2000.103652.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Karam Eliwa <eliwa at writeme.com>
Subject: Arabic Corpus Query

Dear sir,
I am a Ph.D student at umist, Manchester. I work on Arabic. I would
like employ Arabic corpus in my study. I'd be grateful if you tell me
how can I get it. I only want the tools that can help me  make search in
word lists, make concordances and frequency counts in Arabic.
Waiting for your kind reply as soon  as possible

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:41:14 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:41:14 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Translation software Query
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAY.2000.104114.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Robert Blecher <rblecher at leland.stanford.edu>
Subject: Translation software Query

[please respond directly to sender]

I'm a graduate student at
Stanford in Middle East history, augmenting my funding by doing an Arabic
consulting project on the side.  I'm looking into Arabic-English and
English-Arabic machine translation software.  I've seen the commercially
available packages (L&H/Apptek, al-Naqel, al-Mutarjim al-Arabey, Sakhr) but
I was wondering if you know of any universities that have strong research
programs in Arabic MT.  Or perhaps there are other commercial packages out
there that you might know about.  Just to be clear, I'm not talking about
dictionaries or computer assisted translation, I'm talking about something
that has a syntactical component.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:48:51 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:48:51 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Moroccan jiim/giim
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAY.2000.104851.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Moroccan jiim/giim

Hi,

  In Moroccan Arabic which has both the /zh/ pronunciation in words like
/zharida/ == newspaper and /zham9/ == mosque it also has the /g/
pronunciation.  Most noticeably in the common word fgor "sit", i.e.
/gles/. In Morocco, when dialect is written using Arabic-based script the
/g/ is written as a kaaf with a solid line over it, parallel to the top
line of the kaaf.

andy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:46:33 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:46:33 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CALES Scholarship/Assistant in Yemen Offer
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Date: 25 May 2000
From: CALES <cales at y.net.ye>
Subject: CALES Scholarship/Assistant in Yemen Offer

Scholarship Offered

The Center of Arabic Language and Eastern Studies in Sanaa, Yemen, is in
need of an Office Assistant and therefore offers a scholarship to a
University student comprising of free lessons in Arabic language for 6
to 12 months. A longer duration is prefered by the Center.

Who we are:
The Center of Arabic Language and Eastern Studies (CALES) is a division
of the University of Science and Technology in Sanaa and a well known
and highly reputed language school. We are located in the heart of
Sanaa's famous Old City, the only fully preserved medieval city in the
Arab world. The Center offers all kinds of language courses which are
reasonably priced and thoroughly adjusted to the individual needs of our
students. Along with our unique setting, we are keen to provide one of
the best opportunities for studies of the Arabic language and society in
the Middle East.

What we need:
CALES needs a person to assist its office staff for approximately 8-10
hours per week. The Office Assistant will be mainly in charge with mail
correspondance, initial support for new students, promotional
activities, handling of e.mail and internet access, updating of the
school`s internet website (www.ust.edu/cales).
Our requirements are as follows:
· fluent in English, knowledge of other western languages (German,
French, Spanish, Italian) is not obligatory but prefered
· profound computer skills
· personality with the will and ability to adopt to and work in
different societies and cultures
· two years of prior studies of subjects related to Middle Eastern
studies on University level
· experience in office work is not obligatory but prefered

What we offer:
CALES offers a scholarship for a duration of at least 6 months to not
more than one year and in particular:
· 2 hours of individual lessons per day, 5 days / week, beginning as
early as possible
· free accomodation at the student`s house which is also located in the
Old City and within 5 min. of walking distance to CALES
· a letter of recognition as an internship

Please send your application along with your CV until June 3o, 2000 to:
Center of Arabic Language and Eastern Studies
P.O.Box: 29107
Sana`a, Republic of Yemen
Or via e-mail:
cales at y.net.ye (Subject: Scholarship)


For further enquiries, contact: 	cales at ust.edu
					ph.: 967-1-287078	fax:
967-1-281700

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:47:39 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:47:39 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic NLP Post-doc
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Date: 25 May 2000
From: BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr>
Subject: Arabic NLP Post-doc

[reposted from LINGUIST]

France Telecom R&D is offering a Post-doctoral position in Arabic NLP.

- Subject: Arabic NLP (Lexicon, Morphology and Syntax).
- Required skills: PhD in Linguistics, specialized in Arabic language.
- Date: as soon as possible.
- Duration: one year.

Address for Applications (please send a detailed CV):
Malek Boualem
France Telecom R&D - DMI/GRI
2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France
Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83
Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86
Email: malek.boualem at francetelecom.fr

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:39:04 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:39:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Al-Jabri query
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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Safa Abou Chahla Jubran <jubran at osite.com.br>
Subject: Al-Jabri query

I'd like to know if there is a way to contact Mr. Mohammed Ali Al-Jabri (
Marrocean philosopher)
if any body knows his e-mail address, phone number, etc
Thank you
Safa
  <mailto:jubran at osite.com.br>jubran at osite.com.br

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 17:35:03 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:35:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:semantic role of Arabic roots query
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: kjwilso at midway.uchicago.edu
Subject: semantic role of Arabic roots query

As I begin an MA research project on metaphor in Arabic, I am looking for
any suggestions for authors, books, chapters, articles, etc. which focus on
the semantic role of Arabic roots.  Since I have no exposure yet to the
topic and undoubtedly the topic is vast, introductory material would be
ideal, but all suggestions are welcome.  As well, since I am a primarily
linguistic anthropologist and still only a student of Arabic, I would
prefer English-language sources, but again all suggestions are welcome and
I'm quite willing to work through one or two key chapters or
articles.  Many thanks in advance for any help.

Katherine Wilson
University of Chicago
kj5wilson at yahoo.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 15:52:52 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:52:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Ph.D. in Arabic Translation Response
Message-ID: <WED.31.MAY.2000.085252.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 31 May 2000
From: Jackie Murgida <jackie at apptek.com>
Subject: Ph.D. in Arabic Translation Response

Sami, there is no program in the U.S. that I know of that even offers
Arabic<->English translation courses on a regular basis, let alone a degree
or certificate program at any level.

It may be possible to do a Ph.D. in Arabic, linguistics, English, etc. at a
university that also has a translation program and to take some translation
courses on a tutorial basis at the same time, as well as the courses in the
translation department that aren't language specific.

Such a degree wouldn't be a Ph.D. *in Translation*, but if you did your
dissertation on a translation-related topic, it would be close. You can have
one of the committee members be from the translation department, or it can
even be someone outside the university who knows the translation field.

Georgetown U., Washington, D.C., has a translation dept. and also offers a
Ph.D. in Arabic and linguistics.  You might be able to work something out
with them. There aren't too many universities in this country with Arabic
and translation departments. Maybe others on the list will be able to name
some.

Good luck!

Jackie Murgida

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 15:58:06 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:58:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Corpus Responses
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1) Subject: Arabic Corpus Response
2) Subject: Arabic Corpus Response
3) Subject: Arabic Corpus Response

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Date: 31 May 2000
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Arabic Corpus Response

Karam,
for concordancing Arabic: see Monoconc at: www.athel.com
for building a corpus I would suggest you to search the net: there's a huge
amount of Arabic text data available.
for example: http://www.raya.com/indexw.htm

Jan

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Date: 31 May 2000
From: SHAWKY at aucegypt.edu
Subject: Arabic Corpus Response

Dear colleague,
I am working at the moment on my MA thesis , IN TAFL, and I have have been
recently working on word count, measuring the most frequent words in MSA
such as fi- peposition. and slos the high frequency for the nominal
sentence -as part of thethe most frequently counttted words and structures
in MSA. mail you ht
Nehad Shawky.
NB: I might tell you about my thesis topic next time inshaaallah.

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Date: 31 May 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Arabic Corpus Response

  I have had good luck with Watt's
concordance at http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/ .  You can use it for a
month then you must register it fot $99 USD.  It sorts by context and
gives statistical information.  If you are working with more than one file
you need to chunk everything together into one file, but c'est la guerre,
yaa Habiibi! It also works for any script that you have installed on your
system.

  I have had absolutely no luck with Mike Barlow's/Athelstan's MonoConc.
I could never get it to properly read and display Arabic characters.  Jan
Hoogland was kind enough to show me how to get it to do command line
searches of a single item (or grep wildcard item) which is OK if you know
what to look for.  Mike Barlow was no help and insisted that the problem
was with my setup and not his software.  He offered to reimburse me on my
purchase (I have the emails) which he later reneged on.  My Arabic setup,
sorts just fine in Word, so I can only conclude that MonoCOnc cannot do
the sorting by frequency etc. that I wanted it to do and that I saw it
do for English when I bought it.
.............
  In any event Monoconc doesn't do
the things for Arabic that Watt's Concordance does effortlessly, and for
the same price.

cheers,
andy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 17:28:00 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:28:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Indexing Software Query
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Indexing Software Query

Dear Friends,

I appreciate any leads on the subject, below:
>
>  (I spoke with George Hallak on the phone, he asked that I send this request
>  in.)
>
>  We produce an Arabic language learning software program, The Rosetta Stone.
>  With the software, we provide the complete printed text of our curriculum.
>  Currently we do not provide an index for this book. What we would like is
>  something like this (example in English, using line numbers).
>
>  1 boy
>  2 girl
>  3 man
>  4 woman
>  5 man and boy
>  6 man and woman
>  7 boy and girl
>  8 man and girl
>
>  Then an index would provide:
>
>  boy (1,5,7)
>  girl (2,7,8)
>  man (3,5,6,8)
>  woman (4,6)
>
>  We would like to either purchase software than can automatically compile
>  such a list, or find out what such a service would cost. We have two
>  products, Level I and Level II, each in voweled and unvoweled forms. There
>  are about 3600 lines of script in each level, perhaps 8000 lines total
>  (many of the lines are complete sentences).
>
>  Attached is our Level I curriculum text in pdf format. Let me know if you
>  need it in another form.
>
>  Thanks for any information you can provide!
>
>  Greg
>

There is a PDF file attached to the message, I will send upon demand.
Please, forward any information or address of companies or persons
who know of a utility or are willing to help for a fee (I do not think the
guy is asking for just a favor!). Thank you.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 17:30:24 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:30:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:new article
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: reposted from <LINGUIST>
Subject: new article

Journal of Sociolinguistics

http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/journals/josl

5. Changes in the attitudes of Jordanian university students to the Hebrew
language
Fawwaz Al-Abed Al-Haq

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 17:33:24 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:33:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:needs MSA course
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: dpeastman at oznetcom.com.au
Subject: needs MSA course

> Dear Sir/ Madam
>
> I am currently studying a Bachelor of Arts majoring in International
> Relations at the University of Queensland in Australia.
>
> I am interested in studying Modern Standard Arabic externally as it is not
> offered at any local university.
>
> Could you please tell me if your institution offers this or if you could
> recommend one which does.
>
> Sincerely
>
> David Eastman
>
> Student
> University of Queensland
> http://www.groovystylie.com


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 15:58:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:58:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Al-Jabri info query
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: Safa Abou Chahla Jubran <jubran at osite.com.br>
Subject: Al-Jabri info query

dear subscribers 

I wonder if you can help me. I'm trying to find a way to contact Prof.
Mohamed A. Al-Jabri (e-mail, phone number, address)
thank you very much 
Safa Jubran

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 17:28:43 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:28:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book on tense and aspect
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: "Dr. Stefan Weninger" <Stefan.Weninger at lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: New Book on tense and aspect

Dear listmembers,

just recently a new book on tense and aspect in Semitic languages was
published, that has also several articles on Arabic:

Tempus und Aspekt in den semitischen Sprachen,
ed. Norbert Nebes
(=Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient 1).
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999
ISBN 3-447-4257-5

>>From the table of contents:
W. Arnold: Das Verbum in den neuwestaramäischen Dialekten
T. Bauer: Verben und Textpartikeln in altarabischen narrativen Texten
S. Bombeck: Das syrische Verbalsystem: hypothetische Sätze und hwa vor
Adjektiv und Partizip
A. Denz: Tempus _und_ Aspekt? Vorstellung eines noetischen Modells
A. Jastrow: Verbformen und ihre Funktionen im arabischen Dialekt von
Kenderib (Südostanatolien)
I. Kottsieper: "und mein Vater zog hinauf". Aspekte des älteren
aramäischen Verbalsystems und seiner Entwicklung
N. Nebes: Das Satzschema fa-huwa yaf'alu/fa'ilun/Prädikativ für
Vergangenheit in frühklassischer arabischer Erzählliteratur
M. Streck: Das 'Perfekt' iptaras im Altbabylonischen der Hamurapi-Briefe
E. Tichy: Nicht nur Vordergrund und Hintergrund: Zum Aspektgebrauch im
Neuen Testament und im homerischen Epos
J. Tropper: Imperfektive Darstellung vergangener Sachverhalte im
Ugaritischen
Ewald Wagner: Das Verb im alten und modernen Harari
Stefan Weninger: kona qatala zum Ausdruck der Vorvergangenheit im Geez?

Greetings,
S.W.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  1 15:53:27 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 08:53:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Middle East Librarian Job
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Date: 01 May 2000
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at humanitas.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Middle East Librarian Job

			MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES LIBRARIAN

The University of California, Santa Barbara, one of nine campuses of the
University of California system, is seeking a Middle Eastern Studies
Librarian.  The University if ranked as a category 1 research university
by the Carnegie Commission, and is an elected member of the Association of
American Universities.  The library memberships include ARL, CRL, and the
OCLC.  The library is also a participant in the California Digital
Library, and the Library of California.  The library collections include
over two million volumes, government documents, microforms, sophisticated
electronic resources, and numerous Special Collections.

Librarians at the University of California, Santa Barbara are professional
academic appointees who accrue vacation at the rate of two days per month
and sick leave at the rate of one day per month.  All librarians are
members of the Librarians Association of the University of California
(LAUC).  The University has an excellent retirement system, which is
coordinated with Social Security.  A selection of group health, dental,
vision, and life insurance plans are offered by the University.

Islamic and Near Eastern Studies, an interdisciplinary program that
explores the peoples, societies, languages, and cultures of the Near
Eastern worlds from a variety of perspectives, is seeking to establish a
Center for Middle East Studies at UCSB.  The Center's primary focus will
be to support the teaching and research needs of the faculty and student
population in Islamic and Near Eastern Studies.  The INES is poised to
embark upon a new and dynamic phase in its development as a major research
unit on the campus.  Support for library services and resources will be a
recognized component of the Center.


RESPONSIBILITIES:   Reporting to the Area, Ethnic, and Gender Studies
Collection Coordinator   and working closely with the Principal Cataloger
the Middle Eastern Studies Librarian works individually and as part of a
team to provide reference, cataloging, bibliographic and instructional
services to students, faculty, staff and the university community.

The incumbent is responsible for all aspects of collection management and
development for assigned subjects such as Islamic and Near Eastern
Studies, including selection of information resources, storage and weeding
decisions, faculty liaison, collection interpretation, evaluation,
budgetary management, and resource sharing.  Liaison work includes
collaboration with the Center for Middle East Studies and the faculty to
promote and support interest in Middle East Studies throughout the
university and the community.

The librarian provides reference assistance and library instruction
services to faculty and students.   H/she has responsibility for scheduled
reference service in all social sciences and humanities disciplines,
research consultation, electronic reference and online
searching.  Includes some evening and weekend assignments.

The incumbent working under the general direction of the Principal
Cataloger catalogs library materials in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and
Turkish.

H/she participates in the library's instruction program.  The incumbent
also has responsibility for the development and maintenance of printed and
electronic guides to specialized library resources.

QUALIFICATIONS:   ALA accredited MLS.  Scholarly competence in Arabic
language as well as knowledge and understanding of Middle East
culture.  Reading knowledge of Persian, Turkish, or Hebrew
language.  Demonstrated experience in reference, collection development,
and bibliographic instruction.  Cataloging experience, including
experience with LC classification, LCSH, LCRI, AACR2, MARC formats and
familiarity with a bibliographic utility, preferably OCLC.

 A strong commitment to excellence in public service and the ability to
work effectively in a culturally diverse environment.  Demonstrated
initiative, flexibility, creativity, and the ability to handle multiple
responsibilities.

Evidence of an understanding of the publishing and book trade industry in
the Middle East as well as methods of acquiring materials.  The ability to
work effectively with faculty, students, staff, and the
community.  Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication
skills.


Hiring Range $40,248 to $57,984 based on qualifications and
experience.  Consideration of applications begins July 14, 2000, and
continues until the position is filled.  Send resume, and names and
addresses of three references to:  Detrice Bankhead, Associate University
Librarian, Personnel, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara, CA 93106.


The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer and invites applications from all who meet the stated
qualifications.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  1 15:52:32 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 08:52:32 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:99 Names Query
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Date: 01 May 2000
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at humanitas.ucsb.edu>
Subject: 99 Names Query

The UCSB Middle East ensemble is adding Sayyid Makawi's <al-asmaa'
al-Husna> (The 99 Names of God) to its repertoire.  In transcribing the
song, however, a puzzling omission has come to light: the song text
contains only 98 names and <al-Ahad> is not included in its customary
place between <al-Wahid> and <as-Samad>.  Does anyone know of a plausible
explanation for this?

Many thanks,
Dwight

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  1 15:59:18 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 08:59:18 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Teaching Jobs
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1) Subject: Arizona Job

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Date: 01 May 2000
From: reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject: Durham Job

University of Durham
CENTRE FOR MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
Lectureship in Arabic (one year appointment) #16,286 - #22,578 p.a.
Required to teach on a range of courses at undergraduate and
postgraduate level (including an MA in Arabic/English
translation) and to supervise PhD students in Arabic
linguistics and Arabic/English translation. Successful
applicants will preferably have a doctorate and wide
experience of teaching Arabic as a foreign language. He/she
will also be research active with a proven research record.
The Centre is particularly interested in specialists in
Arabic/English translation. Informal enquiries to Professor
Ehteshami (tel: 0191 374 2821 or e-mail:
A.Ehteshami at durham.ac.uk). Reference: A140B Closing date
for the above post: 18 May 2000. Further details and an
application form for the above posts may be obtained from
the Director of Personnel, University of Durham, Old Shire
Hall, Durham DH1 3HP (tel: 0191 374 7258, fax: 0191 374 7253
or e-mail: Acad.Recruit at durham.ac.uk or visit
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Personnel/vacancies/). Please quote
the appropriate reference.  6124538
GMG plc. 2000

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Date: 01 May 2000
From: dil
Subject: Arizona Job

This job announcement has a copyright notice not allowing it to be
reposted, so I don't repost it, but simply make people aware that it is
available either on arabic-info or in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
It is for a full-time Program Development Specialist at the University of
Arizona-South, for development of teaching programs for Serbian, Croatian,
Arabic, Korean, Thai, Portuguese and Spanish.  See web site at
http://www.hr2.hr.arizona.edu.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  1 16:08:43 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 09:08:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING/PEDA:jiim/giim
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Date: 01 May 2000
From: mustafa a mughazy <mughazy at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: jiim/giim

Here is my reaction to the posting on the /g/ and /j/ issue.
First of all, I think that MSA is viewed as one pan-Arab variety; however,
it would be unrealistic to view it as a frozen or invariant variety
because there are obvious systematic variations. In Egypt, the speech
community I am familiar with, [g] is not just acceptable, it is considered
fusha. Therefore, it is used in reciting the Quran and in TV news
broadcasts. The only times where [j] is used is in the formulaic sentence
[a3oozo bellahi min ashyTan ar-rajeem] and when specialists recite the
Quran. That is why when [j] is used for borrowed words the Arabic letter
has three dots rather than just one, the same as the letters for [p] and
[v]. Moreover, using [jiim] is called [ta3Teesh eg-giim] which suggests
that people perceive it as unnatural pronunciation. Actually, I knew that
[j] is the MSA form only when I started my Ph.D. at UIUC after 25 years of
formal education in Egypt.
Being an Arabic TA myself, I think it is crucial to expose students to
such variations because we do not want them to go to the Middle East and
be incapable of communicating after years of instruction.

Thanks a lot
Mustafa A. Mughazy
Linguistics Department
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champiagn
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Sat May  6 18:21:36 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 11:21:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING/PEDA:jiim/giim response
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Date: 06 May 2000
From: Benjamin Troutman <troutmab at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject:  jiim/giim

Mr. Mughazy wrote:
> Moreover, using [jiim] is called [ta3Teesh eg-giim] which suggests
> that people perceive it as unnatural pronunciation.

I would like to know who these "people" are and what an "unnatural
pronunciation" is.  Moreover, it would be interesting to find out on the
map of Arabic variations, MSA or the natural ones, where the ji:m stops
and the ka:f starts in arabic orthography in terms of pronuncing
"foreign" words.  i'd definately place my bets that anywhere in the
peninsula (besides parts of oman) we'd see the change.  just a thought...

Also regarding Arabic orthography, it's a shame that some language
grumblers and worry worts think it's a grave transgression to use the
ingenius orthography of the arabic-speaking world's persian and urdu
neighbors.

please send more comments about phonological variations and language
attitudes.  i love this stuff!

all the best,

benjamin troutman

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Sat May  6 18:25:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 11:25:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Afroasiatic Languages Conference Announcement
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Date: 06 May 2000
From: The LINGUIST Discussion List <LINGUIST at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Subject: Afroasiatic Languages Conference Announcement

  CONFERENCE PROGRAM

			        CAL5
		   5th International Conference on
		        Afroasiatic Languages
			   Paris, France

			  28-30 June 2000

The 5th International Conference on Afroasiatic Linguisitics will be
held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 28-30, 2000, at Universit?
Paris VII-Denis Diderot, 2 place Jussieu (M?tro Jussieu).

Invited speakers for CAL5 are Mohand Guerssel (UQAM), R.J. Hayward
(SOAS), and Alec Marantz (MIT).

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Wednesday, 28 June 2000
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8.45-9.00	Jochem Hoock, Vice President of Denis Diderot University
                Opening remarks

9.00-9.45	Jamal Ouhalla, QMWC London
                Complementizers and Clitic-Second in Berber

9.45-10.00	Girma Halefom and John Lumsden, UQAM
                Decomposing the Perfect Conjugation

10.00-10.45	Tal Siloni, Tel Aviv University
                Case Checking in Phonology

10.45-11.00	Pause

11.00-11.45	Lina Choueiri, University of Southern California
                Yes-No questions, focus, and PF movement

11.45-12.00	Adam Ussishkin, University of Santa Cruz
                Templatic Effects as Fixed Prosody: the Verbal System
                in Semitic

12.00-14.00	Pause

14.00-14.45	Melanie Green and Phil Jaggar, University of Sussex and SOAS
                Exhaustive Listing vs. New Information Focus in Hausa:
                morphosyntactic-semantic correlations?

14.45-15.00	Eugene Buckley, University of Pennsylvania
                Emergent vowels in Tigrinya templates

15.00-15.15	Pause

15.15-16.00	David Swinburne, Tel Aviv University
                Context-dependent Prepositions: the Semantics of `Be'

16.00-16.45	Sabrina Bendjaballah, Institut f?r Sprachwissenschaft, Vienna
                The internal structure of the determiner in Bedja

16.45-17.30	Edit Doron, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
                Transitivity Alternations in the Semitic Template System

17.30-17.45	Pause

17.45-18.45	Invited Speaker: R.J. HAYWARD
                Omotic: the 'empty quarter' in Afroasiatic Linguistics

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Thursday, 29 June 2000
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9.00-9.45	Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, IRA - Universit? Mohammed 5
                Transitivity, Aspect, and Number

9.45-10.00	Chris Reintges, Leiden University
                A Configurational Approach to Second Tenses in Coptic Egyptian

10.00-10.45	Ivy Sichel, City University of NY Graduate Center
                Phrasal Movement in Hebrew DPs

10.45-11.00	Pause

11.00-11.45	Tabea Ihsane, Universit? de Gen?ve
                'That's a demonstrative: that's a head !'

11.45-12.00	David Le Gac, Universit? Paris 7
                Tonal Alternations in Somali

12.00-12.45	Denise Perrett, SOAS
                The Dynamics of Tense Construal: clause chaining in Hadiyya

12.45-14.00	Pause

14.00-14.45	Outi Bat-El, Tel Aviv University
                Anti-faithfulness: An Inherent Morphological Property

14.45-15.30	Irena Botwinik-Rotem, Tel Aviv University
                The thematic and Categorial Status of Ps: the Dative,
                Directional, Locative Distinction

15.30-16.15	Karim Achab, McGill University
                Ordre des mots, topicalisation et alternance d'?tat en berb?re

16.15-16.30	Pause

16.30-17.15	Degif Petros Banksira, MIT
                Phonemic Decomposition

17.15-18.00	Ur Shlonsky, Universit? de Gen?ve
                The form of Semitic noun phrases

18.00-18.15	Pause

18.15-19.00     Invited Speaker: Mohand GUERSSEL, UQAM
                Branching rimes

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Friday, 30 June 2000
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9.00-9.45	Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois
                Lexical Relations and the Role of the Imperfective
                Template in Arabic Morphology

9.45-10.00	Mara Frascarelli, Universit??di Roma Tre
                Somali waxaa Cleft Constructions: A Small Clause analysis

10.00-10.45	Fran?ois Dell and Mohamed Elmedlaoui, EHESS-CNRS and
                University of Oujda
                Syllabification in Moroccan Arabic and how it differs
                from that in Tashlhiyt Berber

10.45-11.00	Pause

11.00-11.45	Philippe Schlenker, ENS France and USC
                Indexicality, Logophoricity, and Plural Pronouns

11.45-12.00	Kimary Shahin, Birzeit University, Israel
                Vowel Innovation in Arabic: Inductive Grounding and
                Pattern Symmetry

12.00-14.00	Pause

14.00-14.45	Nora Boneh, Universit? Paris 3
                On Information Packaging Strategies and Syntactic
                Structure in Modern Hebrew

14.45-15.00	Robert Ratcliffe, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
                The Plural System of Moroccan Arabic in Diachronic Perspective

15.00-15.15	Pause

15.15-16.00	Alhaji M. Gimba, UCLA and University of Maiduguri, Nigeria
                Verbal Plurality in Bole

16.00-16.45	Ali Idrissi, UQAM
                Word Formation and Transfer in Templatic Morphology

16.45-17.30	Ilan Hazout, University of Ha?fa
                Argument Control and Purpose Phrases in Hebrew

17.30-17.45	Pause

17.45-18.15	Business Meeting

18.15-19.15	Invited Speaker: Alec MARANTZ, MIT
                Roots: The Universality of Root and Pattern Morphology

Alternates:

Maher Bahloul, King Saud University
The Syntax of Negative Adverbs in Arabic

Maarten Mous and Rint Sybesma, Leiden University
Object positions in Iraqw  and the composition of the sentence

Naima Louali and Gilbert Puech, ISH Lyon 2
Pr?sence et interpr?tation phonologique d'une voyelle radicale dans les
formes nominales et verbales du berb?re

Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi, University of Fes
Subject and Dative Clitics in Berber

Mohammed Diriye Abdullahi, Universit? de Montr?al
Is Somali a Tone Language?

Georgine Ayoub, Universit? Paris 7
Les modes de l'?nonciation en arabe litt?raire et en arabe libanais

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Web site for CAL5:
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/CAL5.html

For further information, email
lowen at ccr.jussieu.fr (Jean Lowenstamm)
lecarme at cra.cnrs.fr (Jacqueline Lecarme)


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Sat May  6 18:22:41 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 11:22:41 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Translation of terms response
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Date: 06 May 2000
From: Geula Elimelekh <elimeg at mail.biu.ac.il>
Subject: Translation of terms response

Dear Ali,

In reply to your question, I have found the terms that you have been
looking for in the book: "Muajjam al-Mustalahat al-`Arabiyya fi al-Lugha
wa-Aladab", by Majdi Wahba.

"Gharad": intention
"Fikra" : idea
"Ma`ani" : meaning


I hope it will help you,


Nesya , Michal, Geula.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  8 16:51:07 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:51:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Leeds job
Message-ID: <MON.8.MAY.2000.095107.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 08 May 2000
From: reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject: Leeds job

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES & CULTURES
DEPARTMENT OF ARABIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
LECTOR/LECTRICE Available from September 2000,
you will be expected to teach, among other things, grammar
at Level One and essential language skills for all three levels
of the BA degree. You must have a minimum of five years
experience and a qualification in Teaching Arabic as a
Foreign Language is preferable. Salary: Other related 1
(#16,286 - #20,811 p.a.). Informal enquiries to Dr D A Agius,
tel: 0113 233 3423. Information packs are available from
Human Resources, The University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT,
tel: 0113 233 5771, email: J.Byron at adm.leeds.ac.uk or from
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts/ Job ref: 012-034-006-051.
It is expected that interviews will be held in June 2000.
Closing date: 26 May 2000
We welcome applications from all sections of the community,
regardless of gender, ethnic origin, or disability. Textphone
for deaf applicants only 0113 233 4353. All information is
available in alternative formats - please contact 0113 233 5771.
GMG plc. 2000

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  8 16:45:22 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:45:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:LA Arabic teaching jobs
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Date: 08 May 2000
From: Ahmad Khorshid <a_khorshid at hotmail.com>
Subject: LA Arabic teaching jobs

The New Horizon Schools in Los Angeles are looking for a teacher of Arabic
as a foreign language. We have a vigorous, communication-based, pre-k to 8th
grade program. Native or native-like proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic
required. Preference will be given to candidates with qualifications and
experience in TAFL. Position will remain open until filled. Salary is
attractive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. Please send
your resume with names and addresses of three references to:

Wael Merza
Director, Bureau of Islamic Education
Islamic Center of Southern California
434 S. Vermont Avenue
L.A., CA. 90020

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  8 16:44:43 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:44:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Publishers query
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Date: 08 May 2000
From: Younes Mourchid <mourchid at usc.edu>
Subject: Publishers query

Dear Colleagues,

    I 'm looking for information regarding Arabic Publishers who publish
Translated Books from English to Arabic. Any direction in this regard will
be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


Best Regards.


Younes Mourchid.
University of Southern California

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  8 16:43:59 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:43:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:More Shawqi Dayf info
Message-ID: <MON.8.MAY.2000.094359.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 08 May 2000
From: Geula Elimelekh <elimeg at mail.biu.ac.il>
Subject: More Shawqi Dayf info

In response to your message, I have found some material about Shawqi
Dayf:
Shawqi Dayf is an Egyptian literary critic and historian, Editor and
Scholar. He was born in 1910 in lower egypt and received a B.A. in arabic
litrature from the university of Cairo in 1935.During the time he became
a professor in the arabic department of the university of cairo. you can
find more details in the "Encyclopedia of Arabic Litrature",
edited by Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey.

Yours,

Nesya Rubinstein.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  8 16:47:36 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:47:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:giim/jiim
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Date: 08 May 2000
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: giim/jiim

> Mr. Mughazy wrote:
> > Moreover, using [jiim] is called [ta3Teesh eg-giim] which suggests
> > that people perceive it as unnatural pronunciation.
>
> I would like to know who these "people" are and what an "unnatural
> pronunciation" is.

These people are most everybody.

With the exception of regional dialects in Egypt, the giim is pronounced
as a voiced velar plosive both in colloquial and classical.
This includes news, both radio and TV, public announcements, political
addresses, and so on.

On the other hand the jiim, a voiced postalveolar fricative,
and its more 'erudite' affricate counter part, the djeem,  are both used by
sheikhs on religious occasions, such as the Friday khutba, and by
participants in religious radio or TV programs.

The rules concerning the appropriate usage of register, which include
giim, jiim, and djiim, are such that the use of an un-called-for jiim or
djiim would immediately be noticed.

A person's speech - to be classical - does not hinge on jiim or djiim.
>>From a purely Egyptian point of view, the q - ? pair are much more
important as a measure of classicalness.  There are several other
criteria amongst the most important of which is case marking.

Waheed

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon May  8 16:48:25 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:48:25 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Orthography of non-Arabic Neighbors
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Date: 08 May 2000
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Orthography of non-Arabic Neighbors

Greetings / tahaiya tayyiba wa b3ad...

Re "... the orthography of the Arabic-speaking world's Persian and Urdu
neighbors"

In the United Arab Emirates (especially the coastal cities), such
"transplanted" orthography is common and pervasive because of the large
non-Arab ethnic communities there (largest Indian community outside the
Subcontinent).

Orthography with the three dots (peh, zheh, cheh and veh) and the "gheh"
appear occasionally in some Arabic advertising that involves foreign words
and brand names. Emiratis seem accustomed (blase) to those usages. The
observations by the late T. M. Johnstone on dialectal variations in Gulf
Arabic are valid.

Due to the large "Egyptian academic mafia" (their own self-description) in a
number of universities, colleges and teriary institutes in UAE, one can also
encounter the "jiim" vs "geem" business, although the discussions that follow
seem more for amusement. Older Emiratis in their casual speech among
themselves still tend to shift medial jiim > yaa  > "yaa reyaal..."

BTW, Saudi/Gulf Arabic equivalent of "shop 'til you drop" => al-tasawwiq
hatta al-aflaas (shopping until poverty).

HTH.

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 10 15:59:57 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:59:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING/PEDA:jiim/giim
Message-ID: <WED.10.MAY.2000.085957.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 10 May 2000
From: mustafa a mughazy <mughazy at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: jiim/giim

Mr. Troutman wrote:
"It is a shame that some language grumblers and worry worts think it's a
grave transgression to use the ingenious orthography of the
Arabic-speaking world's Persian and Urdu neighbors."

The issue of [giim] and [jiim] was a mere illustration of how MSA is an
ill-defined construct, and how it means different things for different
people. For example, the use of [giim] is accepted in Egypt, but not in
Syria or Lebanon, and the same applies for non-Arabic orthography. If one
uses the name [margaret] in Egypt, it is MSA OK, but in Syria and Lebanon,
it is not. It will have to be [margharet] because /g/ is not an Arabic
sound. What I find interesting is the use of non-Arabic orthography to
represent Arabic sounds as in the case of [jiim].
Mustafa

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 10 15:58:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:58:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Publishers response
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Date: 10 May 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Publishers response

	You may want to try Dar al-Adab (Daar al-Aadaab), in Beirut,
Lebanon.  Please, write to Dr. Samah Suheil (it's a he), at: Dar Al-Adab
<d_aladab at cyberia.net.lb>

	Salaam and best of luck.
					M. Deeb

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 10 17:47:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:47:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Horizons clarifications
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2) Subject: New Horizons clarification

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Date: 10 May 2000
From: Ahmad Khorshid <a_khorshid at hotmail.com>
Subject: New Horizons clarification

>The New Horizon Schools in Los Angeles are run by the Islamic Center of
>Southern California. They offer, in addition to the usual school subjects,
>Arabic and Islamic studies. Although most of the children are Moslems, the
>schools are open to non-Moslems as well. Actually, we do have a few
>non-Moslem children. We have a "pioneer"?! Arabic language program which
>teaches kids 3-6 years old standard Arabic orally. This program does not
>follow the traditional Arabic alphabet method. I mean alif asad, baa'
>baTTa, taa' tuffaaHa, and so on. The program is very successful. We measure
>the success by the language functions the children can engage in. Two
>distinctive features of this program are: 1. an influx of vocabulary
>representing the needs of children at that age, used in context (with
>puppets, stories, songs, etc.) and recycled systematically. 2. we teach
>what you can call "functional grammar" starting with a non-holistic
>approach. That is, we teach one bit at a time, so that the children's
>ability to communicate builds up gradually. After establishing a sound
>base, relatively speaking, we teach the language through a holistic
>approach. The Arabic alphabet will be introduced on the 4th year (1st
>grade). Students continue learning Standard Arabic in a communicative way
>till 8th grade. Hope this helps. Regards.
>
>Ahmad Khorshid
>Teacher trainer and curriculum developer
>New Horizon Schools
>Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Pasadena

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2)
Date: 10 May 2000
From: Ahmad Khorshid <a_khorshid at hotmail.com>
Subject: New Horizons clarification

For the Arabic teaching position in the New Horizon Schools in Los Angeles
advertised earlier, we do welcome applications from the States and from
oversees as well.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 10 17:48:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:48:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:letter to sound mapping query
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Date: 10 May 2000
From: Yaser Al-Onaizan <yaser at ISI.EDU>
Subject: letter to sound mapping query

Greetings all,

I'm wondering if there is any work been done on letter to sound (phoneme)
mappings of Arabic orthography. I'm mostly interested in computational work but
non-computational work is worth looking at too.

Any pointers are highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Yaser

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 10 17:50:33 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:50:33 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MT Call
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1)
Date: 10 May 2000
From:  David Wigg <wiggjd at bcs.org.uk>
Subject: MT Call

British Computer Society
Natural Language Translation Specialist Group
URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm


****************************
EXTENDED DEADLINE 19 June 2000
*****************************


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. We encourage the representation of a broad
range of areas; 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
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
Translation studies
Terminology
Lexicography
Syntax
Semantics
Discourse
Pragmatics


* Invited speakers

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


* Programme Committee

Mona Baker (UMIST, Manchester)
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 (TRADOS Ireland)
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)
Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante)
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)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
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)
Lotfi Zadeh (University of California)

* 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: 19 June 2000
Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2000
Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September 2000
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 May 12 16:33:22 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:33:22 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book
Message-ID: <FRI.12.MAY.2000.093322.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: New Book: Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in
                                     Standard and Palestinian Arabic

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1)
Date: 12 May 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: New Book

John Benjamins Publishing announces a new work in Arabic Syntax using
Generative Grammar, specifically Minimalism,  for the analysis.

Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in Standard and Palestinian Arabic.
Mohammad A. MOHAMMAD (University of Florida)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 181
US & Canada: 1 55619 958 9 / USD 69.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3687 9 / NLG 138.00 (Hardcover)

The two related issues of word order, and subject-verb agreement have
occupied center stage in the study of Arabic syntax since the time of
Sibawayhi in the eighth century. This book is a contribution to both
of these areas. It is grounded within the generative grammar framework
in one of its most recent versions, namely Minimalism, as expounded in
Chomsky (1995).

In this volume, a detailed description is given of word order options
in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Palestinian Arabic (PA). It is
shown that, perhaps surprisingly, the two varieties allow almost the
same range of word orders.

The important question of whether Arabic has a VP is addressed: the
author argues extensively that Arabic has a VP category. The evidence
derives from examining superiority effects, ECP effects, binding,
variable interpretations, etc.

Also discussed is the content of [Spec, TP] in VSO sentences. It is
argued that the position is occupied by an expletive pronoun. The
author defends the Expletive Hypothesis which states that in VSO
sentences the expletive may take part in checking some features of the
verb. A typology of the expletive pronoun in Modern Standard Arabic,
Palestinian Arabic, Lebanese Arabic, and Moroccan Arabic is provided.

A particularly interesting problem involving pronominal co-reference
is the following: if the subject is the antecedent of a pronominal
clitic, word order is free; if a pronominal is cliticized onto the
subject, then the antecedent must precede. An account that derives
these restrictions without recourse to linear order is proposed.

			John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Offices:	Philadelphia			Amsterdam:
Websites: 	http://www.benjamins.com	http://www.benjamins.nl
E-mail:		service at benjamins.com		customer.services at benjamins.nl
Phone:		+215 836-1200			+31 20 6762325
Fax: 		+215 836-1204			+31 20 6739773

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 19 21:54:32 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:54:32 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:UN Job
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.145432.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1)
Date: 19 May 2000
From: Thouria Benferhat <benferhat at un.org>
Subject: UN Job

This is to inform you that the Arabic Language Coordinator post at UN
Headquarters, New York is being advertised.

Click here to view the Circular:

http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/examin/0l-alc.htm



Please forward this email to anyone you know who might be interested.

Regards,

Thouria Benferhat,
Interim Arabic Coordinator,
Arabic Language Programme.

Thank you.
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 19 21:56:40 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:56:40 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Need Arabic Calligraphy Demonstrator/Teacher
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.145640.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Need Arabic Calligraphy Demonstrator/Teacher

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Date: 19 May 2000
From: MOHAMMED M JIYAD <mmjiyad at unix.amherst.edu>
Subject: Need Arabic Calligraphy Demonstrator/Teacher

Dear Colleagues,
The Asian Program at the University of Massachusetts is
planning a 3-days event between March 8 -10, 2001. One of
the sessions is assigned to Arabic Calligraphy. With its fluid
design and diacratical markings, the Arabic language lends itself
to the art of calligraphy.
We seek your assistance to locate someone, preferably within
a driving/short distance flight to Amherst, to talk about and
demonstrate types of Arabic calligraphy. The session is scheduled
for March 8, 2001. Please respond to me or call the organizer,
Professor Ranjana Devi, at (413) 545-1980.
Best.
Mohammed Jiyad

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 19 21:58:13 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:58:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MSA Computational Linguist Job
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.145813.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: MSA Computational Linguist Job

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Date: 19 May 2000
From: "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
Subject: MSA Computational Linguist Job

[Reposted from LINGUIST]

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world's leading provider of
speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses
and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down language barriers
through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by
voice in any language with the machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H
has revolutionized the development and application of advanced speech and
language technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer,
business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation, sound
compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation.
As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H
maintains offices in more than forty countries in Europe, Asia,the Middle East,
North America, and South America. With over 5.000 employees - mainly linguists,
scientists and engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $344 million in
1999.
For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an
opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f):


          **********************************************************
          Computational Linguist Modern Standard Arabic
                       Speech and Language Technology
          **********************************************************

Function:
* You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and
  programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech,
  Artificial Intelligence and Language.
* In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and
  language study in view of technology development and assessment of third
  party providers of data and/or technology.
* You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus
  on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets,
  creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion,
  prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of
  documentation.
* Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical
  documentation.
* Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language
  specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge.
* You will report to the group or project manager.

Profile:
* university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent;
* (near) native Modern Standard Arabic speaker with a conversational level of
  English;
* solid grounding in linguistic theory;
* good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas:
  speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational
  linguistics, programming, other languages;
* ability to work in a team and independently;
* IT literate;
* perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness;
* good social and communicative abilities;
* willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time.



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

If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfill the
required profile, we have to meet each other.
 Please send your application letter and detailed resume to:


     Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
     Personnel Department

     Mailto:job-announce at lhs.be

     attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont
     Flanders Language Valley 50
     B-8900 Ieper
     BELGIUM
     Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89


To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage:
http://www.lhsl.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 19 22:15:34 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 15:15:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:jiim/giim
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.151534.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: jiim/giim

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1)
Date: 19 May 2000
From: John Leake <J.E.S.Leake at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: jiim/giim

Of course, <ghain>  seems to be there as a fairly universal /g/ marker!
So the question therefore arises: under what circumstances do
<jiim>/<kaaf> _as opposed to <ghain>_ get used for /g/?  Is the choice
free, informed be education or audience, or dependent on pholological
considerations?

John

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri May 19 21:59:20 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:59:20 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MT Conference deadline extended
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.145920.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: MT Conference deadline extended

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1)
Date: 19 May 2000
From: rwsh at dircon.co.uk
Subject: MT Conference deadline extended
British Computer Society
Natural Language Translation Specialist Group
URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm


****************************
EXTENDED DEADLINE 19 June 2000
*****************************


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. We encourage the representation of a broad
range of areas; 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
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
Translation studies
Terminology
Lexicography
Syntax
Semantics
Discourse
Pragmatics


* Invited speakers

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


* Programme Committee

Mona Baker (UMIST, Manchester)
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 (TRADOS Ireland)
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)
Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante)
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)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
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)
Lotfi Zadeh (University of California)

* 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: 19 June 2000
Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2000
Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September 2000
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  Thu May 25 17:32:00 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:32:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ACTFL Rating query
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1) Subject: ACTFL Rating query

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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Maik Gibson <maik_gibson at expatos.com>
Subject: ACTFL Rating query

     Hi everyone!
        Does anyone know how one can get one's level in MSA, accordng to
     the ACTFL scale, measured?
     I'm asking for a friend dong a Master's thesis on his own progress in
     learning MSA, focussed particularly on the skiill of reading. He needs
     some way of assessing his progress.
     Any ideas?

     Thanks,

     Maik Gibson

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:32:54 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:32:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Medical Ethics Conference
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAY.2000.103254.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: Medical Ethics Conference

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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Ali Hussin <ahussin at study.haifa.ac.il>
Subject: Medical Ethics Conference

Dear Collegue,
The Department of Arabic Language and Literature, and the International
Center for Health, Law, and Ethics at the Faculty of Law, both of the
University of Haifa, Israel, will sponsor an International Conference on
Medical Ethics and Medical Law in Islam to be held at the University of
Haifa, Israel, between March 19-21 2001.
      The Conference Organizing Committee welcomes participants and
speakers from various disciplines of Islamic Studies, including Law,
History, Sociology, Medicine and Philosophy.

A 3rd announcement was recently published in the Conference Homepage in
the Internet, to see it please visit:
                http://hcc.haifa.ac.il/islammed/


Sincerely yours,
Dr. Vardit Rispler-Chaim
Department of Arabic
University of Haifa
Haifa, 31905 ISRAEL
E-mail: varditrc at research.haifa.ac.il
Fax: 972-4-8249710

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:36:01 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:36:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Ph.D. in Arabic Translation Query
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Date: 25 May 2000
From: sami yasin <samiyasin at yahoo.com>
Subject: Ph.D. in Arabic Translation Query

dear sir;
 I wonder if you can help me. I'm trying to find a university in U.S.A that
offers a phd in translation (English/Arabic/English) even if it is an
interdisciplinary work.
thanks

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:36:52 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:36:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Corpus Query
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAY.2000.103652.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Karam Eliwa <eliwa at writeme.com>
Subject: Arabic Corpus Query

Dear sir,
I am a Ph.D student at umist, Manchester. I work on Arabic. I would
like employ Arabic corpus in my study. I'd be grateful if you tell me
how can I get it. I only want the tools that can help me  make search in
word lists, make concordances and frequency counts in Arabic.
Waiting for your kind reply as soon  as possible

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:41:14 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:41:14 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Translation software Query
Message-ID: <THU.25.MAY.2000.104114.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Robert Blecher <rblecher at leland.stanford.edu>
Subject: Translation software Query

[please respond directly to sender]

I'm a graduate student at
Stanford in Middle East history, augmenting my funding by doing an Arabic
consulting project on the side.  I'm looking into Arabic-English and
English-Arabic machine translation software.  I've seen the commercially
available packages (L&H/Apptek, al-Naqel, al-Mutarjim al-Arabey, Sakhr) but
I was wondering if you know of any universities that have strong research
programs in Arabic MT.  Or perhaps there are other commercial packages out
there that you might know about.  Just to be clear, I'm not talking about
dictionaries or computer assisted translation, I'm talking about something
that has a syntactical component.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:48:51 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:48:51 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Moroccan jiim/giim
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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Moroccan jiim/giim

Hi,

  In Moroccan Arabic which has both the /zh/ pronunciation in words like
/zharida/ == newspaper and /zham9/ == mosque it also has the /g/
pronunciation.  Most noticeably in the common word fgor "sit", i.e.
/gles/. In Morocco, when dialect is written using Arabic-based script the
/g/ is written as a kaaf with a solid line over it, parallel to the top
line of the kaaf.

andy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:46:33 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:46:33 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CALES Scholarship/Assistant in Yemen Offer
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Date: 25 May 2000
From: CALES <cales at y.net.ye>
Subject: CALES Scholarship/Assistant in Yemen Offer

Scholarship Offered

The Center of Arabic Language and Eastern Studies in Sanaa, Yemen, is in
need of an Office Assistant and therefore offers a scholarship to a
University student comprising of free lessons in Arabic language for 6
to 12 months. A longer duration is prefered by the Center.

Who we are:
The Center of Arabic Language and Eastern Studies (CALES) is a division
of the University of Science and Technology in Sanaa and a well known
and highly reputed language school. We are located in the heart of
Sanaa's famous Old City, the only fully preserved medieval city in the
Arab world. The Center offers all kinds of language courses which are
reasonably priced and thoroughly adjusted to the individual needs of our
students. Along with our unique setting, we are keen to provide one of
the best opportunities for studies of the Arabic language and society in
the Middle East.

What we need:
CALES needs a person to assist its office staff for approximately 8-10
hours per week. The Office Assistant will be mainly in charge with mail
correspondance, initial support for new students, promotional
activities, handling of e.mail and internet access, updating of the
school`s internet website (www.ust.edu/cales).
Our requirements are as follows:
? fluent in English, knowledge of other western languages (German,
French, Spanish, Italian) is not obligatory but prefered
? profound computer skills
? personality with the will and ability to adopt to and work in
different societies and cultures
? two years of prior studies of subjects related to Middle Eastern
studies on University level
? experience in office work is not obligatory but prefered

What we offer:
CALES offers a scholarship for a duration of at least 6 months to not
more than one year and in particular:
? 2 hours of individual lessons per day, 5 days / week, beginning as
early as possible
? free accomodation at the student`s house which is also located in the
Old City and within 5 min. of walking distance to CALES
? a letter of recognition as an internship

Please send your application along with your CV until June 3o, 2000 to:
Center of Arabic Language and Eastern Studies
P.O.Box: 29107
Sana`a, Republic of Yemen
Or via e-mail:
cales at y.net.ye (Subject: Scholarship)


For further enquiries, contact: 	cales at ust.edu
					ph.: 967-1-287078	fax:
967-1-281700

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:47:39 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:47:39 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic NLP Post-doc
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Date: 25 May 2000
From: BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr>
Subject: Arabic NLP Post-doc

[reposted from LINGUIST]

France Telecom R&D is offering a Post-doctoral position in Arabic NLP.

- Subject: Arabic NLP (Lexicon, Morphology and Syntax).
- Required skills: PhD in Linguistics, specialized in Arabic language.
- Date: as soon as possible.
- Duration: one year.

Address for Applications (please send a detailed CV):
Malek Boualem
France Telecom R&D - DMI/GRI
2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France
Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83
Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86
Email: malek.boualem at francetelecom.fr

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu May 25 17:39:04 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:39:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Al-Jabri query
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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Safa Abou Chahla Jubran <jubran at osite.com.br>
Subject: Al-Jabri query

I'd like to know if there is a way to contact Mr. Mohammed Ali Al-Jabri (
Marrocean philosopher)
if any body knows his e-mail address, phone number, etc
Thank you
Safa
? <mailto:jubran at osite.com.br>jubran at osite.com.br

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 17:35:03 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:35:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:semantic role of Arabic roots query
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: kjwilso at midway.uchicago.edu
Subject: semantic role of Arabic roots query

As I begin an MA research project on metaphor in Arabic, I am looking for
any suggestions for authors, books, chapters, articles, etc. which focus on
the semantic role of Arabic roots.  Since I have no exposure yet to the
topic and undoubtedly the topic is vast, introductory material would be
ideal, but all suggestions are welcome.  As well, since I am a primarily
linguistic anthropologist and still only a student of Arabic, I would
prefer English-language sources, but again all suggestions are welcome and
I'm quite willing to work through one or two key chapters or
articles.  Many thanks in advance for any help.

Katherine Wilson
University of Chicago
kj5wilson at yahoo.com

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 15:52:52 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:52:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Ph.D. in Arabic Translation Response
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: Jackie Murgida <jackie at apptek.com>
Subject: Ph.D. in Arabic Translation Response

Sami, there is no program in the U.S. that I know of that even offers
Arabic<->English translation courses on a regular basis, let alone a degree
or certificate program at any level.

It may be possible to do a Ph.D. in Arabic, linguistics, English, etc. at a
university that also has a translation program and to take some translation
courses on a tutorial basis at the same time, as well as the courses in the
translation department that aren't language specific.

Such a degree wouldn't be a Ph.D. *in Translation*, but if you did your
dissertation on a translation-related topic, it would be close. You can have
one of the committee members be from the translation department, or it can
even be someone outside the university who knows the translation field.

Georgetown U., Washington, D.C., has a translation dept. and also offers a
Ph.D. in Arabic and linguistics.  You might be able to work something out
with them. There aren't too many universities in this country with Arabic
and translation departments. Maybe others on the list will be able to name
some.

Good luck!

Jackie Murgida

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 15:58:06 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:58:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Corpus Responses
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2) Subject: Arabic Corpus Response
3) Subject: Arabic Corpus Response

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Date: 31 May 2000
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Arabic Corpus Response

Karam,
for concordancing Arabic: see Monoconc at: www.athel.com
for building a corpus I would suggest you to search the net: there's a huge
amount of Arabic text data available.
for example: http://www.raya.com/indexw.htm

Jan

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Date: 31 May 2000
From: SHAWKY at aucegypt.edu
Subject: Arabic Corpus Response

Dear colleague,
I am working at the moment on my MA thesis , IN TAFL, and I have have been
recently working on word count, measuring the most frequent words in MSA
such as fi- peposition. and slos the high frequency for the nominal
sentence -as part of thethe most frequently counttted words and structures
in MSA. mail you ht
Nehad Shawky.
NB: I might tell you about my thesis topic next time inshaaallah.

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Date: 31 May 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Arabic Corpus Response

  I have had good luck with Watt's
concordance at http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/ .  You can use it for a
month then you must register it fot $99 USD.  It sorts by context and
gives statistical information.  If you are working with more than one file
you need to chunk everything together into one file, but c'est la guerre,
yaa Habiibi! It also works for any script that you have installed on your
system.

  I have had absolutely no luck with Mike Barlow's/Athelstan's MonoConc.
I could never get it to properly read and display Arabic characters.  Jan
Hoogland was kind enough to show me how to get it to do command line
searches of a single item (or grep wildcard item) which is OK if you know
what to look for.  Mike Barlow was no help and insisted that the problem
was with my setup and not his software.  He offered to reimburse me on my
purchase (I have the emails) which he later reneged on.  My Arabic setup,
sorts just fine in Word, so I can only conclude that MonoCOnc cannot do
the sorting by frequency etc. that I wanted it to do and that I saw it
do for English when I bought it.
.............
  In any event Monoconc doesn't do
the things for Arabic that Watt's Concordance does effortlessly, and for
the same price.

cheers,
andy

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 17:28:00 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:28:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Indexing Software Query
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Indexing Software Query

Dear Friends,

I appreciate any leads on the subject, below:
>
>  (I spoke with George Hallak on the phone, he asked that I send this request
>  in.)
>
>  We produce an Arabic language learning software program, The Rosetta Stone.
>  With the software, we provide the complete printed text of our curriculum.
>  Currently we do not provide an index for this book. What we would like is
>  something like this (example in English, using line numbers).
>
>  1 boy
>  2 girl
>  3 man
>  4 woman
>  5 man and boy
>  6 man and woman
>  7 boy and girl
>  8 man and girl
>
>  Then an index would provide:
>
>  boy (1,5,7)
>  girl (2,7,8)
>  man (3,5,6,8)
>  woman (4,6)
>
>  We would like to either purchase software than can automatically compile
>  such a list, or find out what such a service would cost. We have two
>  products, Level I and Level II, each in voweled and unvoweled forms. There
>  are about 3600 lines of script in each level, perhaps 8000 lines total
>  (many of the lines are complete sentences).
>
>  Attached is our Level I curriculum text in pdf format. Let me know if you
>  need it in another form.
>
>  Thanks for any information you can provide!
>
>  Greg
>

There is a PDF file attached to the message, I will send upon demand.
Please, forward any information or address of companies or persons
who know of a utility or are willing to help for a fee (I do not think the
guy is asking for just a favor!). Thank you.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 17:30:24 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:30:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:new article
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: reposted from <LINGUIST>
Subject: new article

Journal of Sociolinguistics

http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/journals/josl

5. Changes in the attitudes of Jordanian university students to the Hebrew
language
Fawwaz Al-Abed Al-Haq

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 17:33:24 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:33:24 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:needs MSA course
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: dpeastman at oznetcom.com.au
Subject: needs MSA course

> Dear Sir/ Madam
>
> I am currently studying a Bachelor of Arts majoring in International
> Relations at the University of Queensland in Australia.
>
> I am interested in studying Modern Standard Arabic externally as it is not
> offered at any local university.
>
> Could you please tell me if your institution offers this or if you could
> recommend one which does.
>
> Sincerely
>
> David Eastman
>
> Student
> University of Queensland
> http://www.groovystylie.com


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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 15:58:55 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:58:55 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Al-Jabri info query
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: Safa Abou Chahla Jubran <jubran at osite.com.br>
Subject: Al-Jabri info query

dear subscribers?

I wonder if you can help me. I'm trying to find a way to contact Prof.
Mohamed A. Al-Jabri (e-mail, phone number, address)
thank you very much?
Safa Jubran

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed May 31 17:28:43 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:28:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book on tense and aspect
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: "Dr. Stefan Weninger" <Stefan.Weninger at lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: New Book on tense and aspect

Dear listmembers,

just recently a new book on tense and aspect in Semitic languages was
published, that has also several articles on Arabic:

Tempus und Aspekt in den semitischen Sprachen,
ed. Norbert Nebes
(=Jenaer Beitr?ge zum Vorderen Orient 1).
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999
ISBN 3-447-4257-5

>>From the table of contents:
W. Arnold: Das Verbum in den neuwestaram?ischen Dialekten
T. Bauer: Verben und Textpartikeln in altarabischen narrativen Texten
S. Bombeck: Das syrische Verbalsystem: hypothetische S?tze und hwa vor
Adjektiv und Partizip
A. Denz: Tempus _und_ Aspekt? Vorstellung eines noetischen Modells
A. Jastrow: Verbformen und ihre Funktionen im arabischen Dialekt von
Kenderib (S?dostanatolien)
I. Kottsieper: "und mein Vater zog hinauf". Aspekte des ?lteren
aram?ischen Verbalsystems und seiner Entwicklung
N. Nebes: Das Satzschema fa-huwa yaf'alu/fa'ilun/Pr?dikativ f?r
Vergangenheit in fr?hklassischer arabischer Erz?hlliteratur
M. Streck: Das 'Perfekt' iptaras im Altbabylonischen der Hamurapi-Briefe
E. Tichy: Nicht nur Vordergrund und Hintergrund: Zum Aspektgebrauch im
Neuen Testament und im homerischen Epos
J. Tropper: Imperfektive Darstellung vergangener Sachverhalte im
Ugaritischen
Ewald Wagner: Das Verb im alten und modernen Harari
Stefan Weninger: kona qatala zum Ausdruck der Vorvergangenheit im Geez?

Greetings,
S.W.

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