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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