From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Sep  5 21:31:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:31:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Arabic Discourse program query
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Date: 05 Sep 2000
From: Abdullah Samarah <abdullah at ling.gu.se>
Subject: Arabic Discourse program query

Dear partners, the following message is explaining my requist in case of
there is someone who can guide or advice me.

Dear Sir/s I am a Ph.D. fulltime student in Gothenburg university, subject
of 'General Linguistics, Swedish membership. At the moment I am writing my
(fil.lic avhandling)= 'Licentiate thesis', according to the plan my thesis
suppose to be finish either by the end of this year 00/middle of the year
01. I would like to have the chance/opportunaty to have some activity
courses abroad Sweden for few months - to - one year maximum. For this
reason, I will be grateful to you if you give me this chance and welcome my
stay at your place, or at least you can advice me where I could have the
best chances to develop my educational level in general linguistics and
English as well.

Dear Sir, I am aiming for two central points, if I have got the chance to
study at your place,:

1. To have some activity courses regarding the following fields:

Discourse Analysis e.g. Pragmatics, Speech acts, Variation analysis, etc.
- Intercultural communication e.g. between Arabs and Westerners.
- English courses regarding e.g. academic writings. This, however, will
assist me when I extend writing my dissirtation into a Ph.D.

2. Perhaps I might try to extend my dissirtation, as possible, and to
present as a Ph.D. in the future. My thesis title is: "Feedback In Arabic
Spoken Language Communication"

Dear Sirs, the below information might be helpful to me in case of I did
not have the chance to study at your department.

I was told that the deadline to my application will be within two weeks
from now. If I have got any chance I will be glad to hear from you as soon
as possible. The following itmes might help me as well:

i) Addresses to the head offices/professors (e-mails/post mail) to several
universities that having my field of studies

ii) If you have some information regarding e.g. fellowship, assistantship,
scholarship, etc that I can support myself and my family (I have my wife
and little daughter) while I am continuing my studies there.

iii) If you have an approximate/initial idea regarding the prices e.g.
tuition fees, accomodation, personal expenses, etc I will be grateful to
receive it from you.

iv) And if you have an idea how long time it takes for me to complete my
dissertation, after having my (fil.lic) degree according to the your system.


A brief history of the applicant:

I am a Palestinian student, born in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah) and live
permanently in Sweden, graduated with BA degree in 1988 from King Abdul
Aziz university, Dept of 'Arabic Language with Literature'. Came to Sweden
in 1993 for purpose of doing my higher education, I have received my
official acceptance as a Ph.D. student in 1995. And now I am workin on my
(fil.lic. avhandling) =  Licentiate degree between Master and Doctoral.

Sorry if my letter is very long, however your suggestion will be the best
help for me. If you need any additional information regarding the above
information do not be hesitate to contact me.

You can reach me either on this e-mail, or to my home address:

A. Samarah
Klarvädersgatan 10, Flat 413,
SE- 418 39 Göteborg
E.mail: abdullah at ling.gu.se

All the best and waiting for your answer.

A. J. Samarah
Ph.D. student
Dept. of G. Linguistics
GBG, SWEDEN
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Sep  5 21:29:54 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:29:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Business Arabic Responses
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1) Subject: Business Arabic Response
1) Subject: Business Arabic Response

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Date: 05 Sep 2000
From: "Ernest N. McCarus" <enm at umich.edu>
Subject: Business Arabic Response

The two-volume Business Arabic by Raji Rammuny is available
 now at the University of Michigan Press. The second volume includes a long
 unit (Pages 135-197) on Arabic Business Letters. To place an order contact
 Ann Christ at Telephone # (734) 764-4394, Fax # (800) 876-1922, e-mail
aecrist at umich.edu.

Ernest McCarus

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Date: 05 Sep 2000
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Business Arabic Response

Advanced Business Arabic
Raji M. Rammuny,
part 1
(I don't know if part 2 exists):
It contains some info on letter writing, but it's very basic.

There are some books about 'writing letters' primarily meant for Arabs for
writing English letters, but I've been using these books in the reverse
direction too.

I have some material myself as well: I made a list of 'writing functions'
(parallel to spoken language functions like 'starting a letter',
'apologizing', asking for prices of goods-quotations etc. However, this is
in Arabic and in Dutch, but I could send you a copy if you want. It's still
from the pre-computer age, so it's just photocopies.

Jan

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Sep  5 21:32:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:32:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs Arabic Office 97
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Date: 05 Sep 2000
From:  Sumair at Netzero.net
Subject: Needs Arabic Office 97

I don't mean to sound silly, but I don't like Microsoft Office
2000... yet all the sites which sell Arabic software are peddling
it.

Does anybody have a copy of Microsoft Office 97, Arabic edition,
that he / she would be willing to sell?  Perhaps you are happy
having upgraded, and no longer need the older version.


Sumair Mahmood

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Sep  5 21:27:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:27:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Tayyib Salih Responses
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1) Subject: Tayyib Salih Response
1) Subject: Tayyib Salih Response

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Date: 05 Sep 2000
From: Wail Hassan <w-hassan at wiu.edu>
Subject: Tayyib Salih Response

Mawsim al-hijra was first published in two issues of the Brirut-based
magazine *Hiwar*, edited by Suhayl Idris, in 1966. In the same year it was
published in Cairo (dal al-Ma'arif), then in 1969 in Beirut (Dar al-'awda)
as well as in English translation by Heinemann.

3urs al-Zayn and Salih's seven early short stories were published in one
volume  in 1966 by Al-Dar al-Sharqiyya (Beirut).

In addition to the above, the two parts of *Bandarshah* were published in
Beirut in 1972 (Dau al-Beit) and 1976 (Meryoud), and in English translation
in 1996. (See my dissertation, *Tayeb Salih: Culture, History, Memory*,
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998).

Wail

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Date: 05 Sep 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Tayyib Salih Response

		----------------------------------------------------
		> Is there anybody who can tell me:
		>
		> I. What is the year of the first Arabic issue of
		>    (a) at-Tayyib Salih's Mawsim al-hijra ila
		>    ash-shima:(Season of Migration to the North),
		>    (b) 3ars az-zayn (The Wedding of Zein).
		>
		> 2. What is the complete list of Salih's
                >    published works.
		>
		> Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
		> 31 Aug 2000
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***
	Original and influential as it is, Tayyib Salih's canon is petite
in size (some 589 pages of the small format).  Below is a listing of his
works, with only known English translations, thus leaving out German and
Italian versions.

  -  *Mawsim al-Hijrah ila ash-Shamaal,* Beirut, 1966; trans. Denys
      Johnson-Davis as *Season of Migration to the North,* 1969.

  -  *@Urs az-Zayn: Riwaayah,* 1966; trans. Denys Johnson-Davis as *The
      Wedding of Zein and Other Stories,* 1966.  (Besides _The Wedding_
      the translation contains "The Doum Tree of Wad Hamad," and "A
      Handful of Dates."

  -  *Bandarshaah Daww al-Bayt: UHduuthah @an Kawn al-Ab DaHiyyah
      li Abiih wa 'Ibnih,* 1st. edn., 1971.

  -  *Duumat Wad Hamad: Sab@ QiSaS,* 4th. edn., 1980.

  -  *Maryuud,* 3rd., edn., 1978.

								--
								MD

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep  7 16:33:57 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:33:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CALL conference
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Date: 07 Sep 2000
From: Mohamed-Salah Omri <M.S.Omri at exeter.ac.uk>
Subject: CALL conference

[Mohamedd-Salah informs me that there will be an Arabic component to this
conference, and that there will likely be a workshop on Arabic CALL
sponsored by Exeter.]

A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY!

2001: September 1-3 Ninth Biennial International Exeter CALL 2001
Conference on 'CALL - The Challenge of Change', University of Exeter.
CALL FOR PAPERS. Please send your proposals to Keith Cameron, School of Modern
Languages, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH. Tel: (0)1392
264221; FAX: (0)1392 264222; Email: K.C.Cameron at ex.ac.uk.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep  7 16:35:58 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:35:58 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Gulf Native Speaker Linguists wanted
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Date: 07 Sep 2000
From:  [reposted from LINGUIST]
Subject: Gulf Native Speaker Linguists wanted

Date:  6 Sep 2000 15:58:32 -0000
From:  Andrea Bloom <globalID at lionbridge.com>
Subject:  Freelance Linguists for Name Evaluations: Lionbridge, California USA


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: Freelance Linguists needed for Name Evaluations in
specified languages
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Lionbridge
Department: Global Identity
State or Province: California
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: open
Contact: Andrea Bloom globalID at lionbridge.com

Address for Applications:
globalID at lionbridge.com
San Francisco
CA 94105
USA

Native Speakers of the following languages needed urgently for name
evaluation projects: Arabic (Gulf States: UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia),
Hebrew, Turkish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo,Fulani
Australian English, New Zealand English, Thai, Indonesian, Tagalog,
Malay, Thai, Afrikaans, British English, Irish English, Iberian Spanish,
Bolivian, Chilean, Peruvian, Colombian Spanish, Swiss German, French and
Italian.

You must have a background in linguistics, and an interest in analyzing
product names. We prefer evalautors who reside in their native
countries, but this is not absolute. We pay by the hour, work can be
frequent with tight deadlines. All work can be conducted using Excel
documents.

Please apply only if you are a native speaker of the above languages.
Please send your resume via email to: globalID at lionbridge.com or
fax to: 415.495.4926 attn Andrea Bloom

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep  7 16:29:57 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:29:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Univ. of Oslo Job
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Date: 07 Sep 2000
From: Gunvor Mejdell <gunvor.mejdell at east.uio.no>
Subject: Univ. of Oslo Job

Professorship in Semitic Linguistics/Semitic Languages
vacant in the Department of East European and Oriental Studies.

Further information from Professor M.G. Carter, tel.: +47 22856854 or
e-mail: m.g.carter at east.uio.no or administrative head of department Edle
Stang, tel.: +47 22856979 or e-mail:edle.stang at east.uio.no.

Salary class; 60 - 65 NOK 396,000 - 435,500 pr. year (depending on
qualifications)
Time limit for application: 15 October 2000

The Department has 31 academic positions, 4 Scholarships , 4 administrative
staff, about 500 students and offers courses in 20 subjects.  In addition
to the advertised Chair the Department has in this faculty area two
positions in Arabic language and culture and one in Middle East Studies.  A
third position in Arabic is expected to be announced in the course of the
year.

The appointee will take part in teaching, supervision and examination, as
well as adminstrative duties according to current regulations.  He or she
will teach Comparative Semitic Philology at all levels as a component of
the existing course structure.  Further, he or she will be responsible for
the teaching of Hebrew, which is an established Course in the Department.
The appointee will also be expected  to teach other Semitic languages as
options within the Master's programme in Semitic Linguistics, e.g.
Akkadian, Aramaic and Ethiopic.

Knowledge of Norwegian language and culture will be an advantage.  If the
appointee does not know Norwegian, Swedish or Danish it is a prerequisite
that the candidate shall in the course of two years acquire sufficient
competence to take part in all the functions the position includes.
Within the normal teaching duties and academic speciality the appointee may
also be required to work outside the Department in which the appointment is
located.

A more detailed description of the post and of any special duties and other
factors to which weight will be attached when the appointment is being
made, is included in a separate description of the post, which may be
obtained on application to the telephone or e-mail reference.  Otherwise
reference is made to the Rules for appointments to professorships*.

Eligible applicants will be called upon to attend an interview and give
presentations.

Oslo University wishes to have more women in permanent positions, and women
are therefore encouraged to apply.

Applications must contain information concerning: education, the positions
held, academic/professional and pedagogical activity, as well as
administrative experience. Pedagogical training must be documented, cf.
Rules for the assessment and weighting of pedagogical competence*.
Applicants who on appointment cannot document basic pedagogical training
must obtain it within two years of being appointed.

The applicant must specify up to 10 works she/he wishes to be given
particular weight when the selection board conducts its assessment.

Application, CV and publications list in 5 copies and 3 complete sets of
academic publications are to be sent to the following adress by 15 October
2000:

Det historisk-filosofiske fakultet, Postboks 1079 Blindern, N-03l6 Oslo, Norway
marked: "IØO Semitic position"

(When we have received the academic works from the selection board, the
publications you submitted will be returned to you).

* To obtain these call the telephone reference or e-mail.


1. aman. Gunvor Mejdell
Institutt for østeuropeiske og orientalske studier
POB 1030, Blindern
0315 Oslo
tel. + 47 22 85 47 76    FAX +47 22 85 41 40

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep  7 16:25:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:25:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Mawsim
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Date: 07 Sep 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Mawsim

		---------------------------------------------------
		> Mawsim al-hijra was first published in two issues
		> of the Brirut-based magazine *Hiwar*, edited
		> by Suhayl Idris, in 1966.
		>
		> Wail Hassan <w-hassan at wiu.edu>
		-------------------------------

***

	True, *Mawsim al-Hijrah ila 'sh-Shama:l* was first published
	in 1966, in two instalments, by the bimonthly periodical
	*Hiwa:r.*  But *Hiwa:r* itself was edited by the late
	Tawfiq Sayigh (1923 - 1971).  Suhayl Idriss is
	the former editor-in-chief of the Lebanese
	monthly, *al-A:da:b.*
						M. Deeb

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Sep 13 17:37:37 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:37:37 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:macabre etymology
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Date: 13 Sep 2000
From: American Association of Teachers of Arabic <aata at wm.edu>
Subject: macabre etymology

Does anyone have any concrete evidence that the word "macabre" has its
origins in the Arabic language, (via French)? Or is that just a fairly
popular misconception? Any information about the etymology of the word
would be appreciated.

Jason Fabbricante
American Association of Teachers of Arabic

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep 14 16:45:07 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:45:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Verb Form Numbers Origin Query
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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: Jamal Ali <jamalali at pacbell.net>
Subject: Verb Form Numbers Origin Query

Does anyone know the answer to the following question?
As you know, only Europeans and mustashriqs use the number system to
refer to Arabic verbs. form I, form II, form II, form VI, etc. All the
European grammars and dictionaries are thoroughly consistent in using the
exact same number system for all of the verb forms. The question is: Who
invented this system and when and where was it first used and by whom??
Apparently it caught on smashingly and has been used by Westerners ever
since, but never by Arabs.
Who started and popularized it and when how and where?

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep 14 16:53:47 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:53:47 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:macabre etymology responses
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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: macabre etymology response

I don't have concrete evidence, but I remember a claim that macabre comes
from maQaabir (graves, grave site).
Waheed

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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: "Munther A. Younes" <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: macabre etymology response

	This word (macabre) has intrigued me for some time. I think it must
have its origins in the Arabic word "maqaabir" (graveyards). The similarity
(in sound/spelling and meaning) between the Arabic and the English is too
strong to be coincidental. I checked a number of English dictionaries, but
none of them show any connection with Arabic.

	Munther Younes
	Cornell University

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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: macabre etymology response

	The assumption that "macabre" is related to Arabic "maqaabir"
(graves; graveyard) is no more than folk etymology, very likely made
plausible by the tonal and thematic similarities between the two words.
"Macabre", adopted as an _adjective_ from French in mid-19th century,
comes from _danse macabre_, "macabre" being a scribal error for the Early
Modern French adjectival phrase: "danse macabre" (avec un accent aigu).

	This in turn was a translation of medieval Latin _chorea
Machabaeorum_ (= dance of the Maccabees), which is said to be a reference
to a stylized representation of the slaughter of the Maccabees (a Jewish
dynasty in biblical times) in a medieval miracle play.

							M. Deeb

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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: jolandaguardi <jolandaguardi at iol.it>
Subject: macabre etymology response

The word macabre comes from the french macabre which etymology is not
certain; some propose from the arabic maqabir or from the hebrew maqaber (H.
Sperber The etymology aof macabre in Studia Philologica et Litteraria in
Honorem
L. Spitzer, Bonn 1958, pp. 391-401) or, in alternative, from the Bible
(from the
nickname Giuda Maccabeo).
Jolanda Guardi

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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: djust at netvision.net.il
Subject: macabre etymology response

If my memory hasn't gone completely:

Barbara Tuchman, in her long section on the danse macabre in A
Distant Mirror, makes it clear that we're dealing in the realm of
guesswork.  However, she tends to the popular theory that it comes
from the Hebrew meqaber, the present active participle of a word
meaning "to bury".  You'll find it under "qiber" in the dictionary.
Again, if I remember my numbers right, the form corresponds to form
II in Arabic, i.e., that with the middle consonant geminate.

I don't know how reliable she is on these things.

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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: Jim Rader <jrader at Merriam-Webster.com>
Subject: macabre etymology response

There is a considerable body of literature on the etymology of
French <macabre>.  Even a brief sketch of the convoluted history
of this word and the many etymological hypotheses it has evoked
would be out of place on an Arabic list. But suffice it to say that
attempts made in the 19th century or earlier to link the word with
Arabic <maqa:bir>, plural of <maqbar(a)>, "tomb, graveyard, etc."
or with Syriac <meqabbere^y>, "gravediggers," are now generally
thought by Romance specialists to be poorly founded.  Maybe
Arabists think differently.

A good digest of <macabre> etymologies can be found under the
entry for the word in the multivolume monolingual French dictionary
_TrÈsor de la langue franÁaise_, on the reference shelves of most
academic libraries in the U.S. and Europe.

Jim Rader
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7)
Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: macabre etymology response

The OED guesses that the origin is with the Maccabees (I quote):

"The etymology of the word is obscure; so far as its form is concerned it
might be a popular corruption of OF. Macabé = Maccabæus
(an example of ŒJudas Macabré¹ has been found), and in the 15th c. the
ŒDance of Death¹ was called chorea Machabæorum in Latin (Du Cange cites a
Besançon document of
1453), and Makkabeusdans in Du. M. Gaston Paris, however, thinks Macabré
may have been the name of the artist who painted the picture which
suggested the first poem on
the subject.] "

Dil

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 15 18:44:27 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:44:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:More on macabre
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Date: 15 Sep 2000
From: "Kaye, Alan" <akaye at Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU>
Subject: More on macabre

More on 'macabre'

I have thought, along with Garland Cannon, long and hard on 'macabre'.  We
did not list it in our 1994 The Arabic Contributions to the English language
because, as has been stated by a few already, this is a good example of a
folk etymology.  It is similar, in my opinion, to deriving 'earth' from
'arD, or from deriving 'father' from Ar. faaTir.

Alan Kaye
akaye at fullerton.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 15 18:48:54 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:48:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Verb Form Numbers Origin Responses
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Date: 15 Sep 2000
From: devin stewart <dstewar at emory.edu>
Subject: Verb Form Numbers Origin Response

Dear Jamal,

Like many American and European students of Arabic, I was surprised to
find that the teachers and friends i met on my first trip to Egypt were
completely unfamiliar with the numbered form system.  I
collected material to publish a short article on the topic, perhaps in
al-'Arabiyya.  Until then, I can tell you that it is quite old, going back
not to the very earliest European Arabic grammars such as that of
Guillaume Postel, Paris, ca. 1538 or
Pedro de Alcala`, ca. 1600, but to the famous Latin grammar of Arabic by
Thomas Erpenius, who was Professor of  Arabic at Leiden from 1613 until
his death in
1624 and published his grammar in
1613. The order of numbering is the same as that with which we are
familiar.  Another grammar was published in Rome ca. 1622 which uses the
numbering system but has forms II and IV switched.  Erpenius' grammar was
only superceded in 1810 by the grammar of De
Sacy, who used the same system, which has been in vogue ever since.
Incidentally, the numbering system was also used in older grammars of
Hebrew, but seems to have fallen out of usage.
	The system, an extremely useful mnemonic device,
is not entirely unrelated to traditional Arabic presentations of
morphology in the classical works of Sarf, for it follows the order of
mujarrad (fa3ala) , mazid bi-harf
(fa33ala, faa3ala, 'af3ala), mazid
bi-harfayn (tafa33ala, etc.), mazid bi-thalatha (istaf3ala).  The use of
numbering, however, is the Latin, European innovation, which I suspect
to have been a calque on some aspect of the study of Latin grammar (this
is the part of the research which I have not completed yet).  At thevery
least, it is well known that Latin grammar traditionally numbers the
diferrent classes of verb conjugations (1: = are; 2. = e-re, 3. = -ere,
4. = -ire).  De Sacy is
careful to make clear in his presentation of the verb forms that they
fall into the groups of mazid be-harf, mazid bi-harfayn, etc., though
most modern textbooks have dropped such explanations.  To my mind, this is
unfortunate,
because it would help students learn and remember the order.
I hope that answers your question.

al-MukhliS,

Devin Stewart

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2)
Date: 15 Sep 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Verb Form Numbers Origin Response


	Although he, like almost all his contemporaries, was uncharitable
to Islam to the extent of dismissing it as an imposter religion, the Dutch
scholar Erpenius (1584 - 1624) may well be credited with having laid the
foundation of Arabic grammar and philology.  Thus, the assignment of Roman
numerals (I - XV) to the triliteral and derived verbal forms was most
likely introduced by him.  The numeric distinction is often a challenge to
the memories of Arab and Western scholars in the field, but it is a
space-saver.  With verbal Arabic names, Hans Wehr and Lane, for instance,
would have quadrupled their present sizes!
						M. Deeb

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Sep 18 17:09:15 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:09:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Verb Form Numbers
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Date: 18 Aug 2000
From: Haseeb Shehadeh <Haseeb.Shehadeh at helsinki.fi>
Subject: Verb Form Numbers

With regard to the emergence of the usage of the Roman numbers I, II, III, IV,
etc. in order to point at the Arabic verbal patterns I do remember that
Germans in the late 19th century were the first ones to adapt this system. The
reason behind it is to avoid the difficulty of the pronunciation of the
guttural ain.
Yet, the matter needs further examination
Haseeb Shehadeh

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Sep 18 17:08:27 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:08:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:COLTIA Announcement
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1)
Date: 18 Aug 2000
From: Gerald Lampe <glampe at nflc.org>
Subject: COLTIA Announcement

PLEASE POST

ANNOUNCEMENT

CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONALLY-SPECIFIC
LANGUAGE TRAINING AND INTERNSHIPS ABROAD

	The Center for Occupationally-Specific Language Training and
Internships Abroad (COLTIA) offers a limited number of fellowships
consisting of a combination of an internship opportunity and intensive
advanced Arabic language training focusing on business, finance, and the
professions to members of the academic, business, and non-profit
communities.

	Applicants must be US citizens or Permanent Residents, have had
at least one year of Arabic language training and preferably two years,
apply to the CASA Summer-Only Program, be accepted in the CASA Program
or the ALI Program, and be enrolled in an appropriate degree program OR
currently hold a position in a related business or organization. Please
see the COLTIA Information Brochure for complete requirements.

Applications are available on the COLTIA website:
www.sais-jhu.edu/languages/coltia or from:

The Center for Occupationally-Specific Language Training and Internships
Abroad  (COLTIA)
The Johns Hopkins University-SAIS
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036-1983
Attn. Theresa Simmons
tsimmons at mail.jhuwash.jhu.edu <mailto:tsimmons at mail.jhuwash.jhu.edu>

E-mail COLTIA with questions at: coltia at mail.jhuwash.jhu.edu.
You may also reach us by telephone at (202) 663-5676 or fax at (202)
663-5683.

Disclosure of Federal Funding
COLTIA received $140,027 from the National Security Education Program
(NSEP) in 2000.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep 21 18:43:45 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:43:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Software Position for Arabic Speaker
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Date: 21 Sep 2000
From: John Makhoul <makhoul at bbn.com>
Subject: Software Position for Arabic Speaker

SOFTWARE POSITION FOR ARABIC SPEAKER

We have a position open for a speaker of Arabic with good software
experience.  The position is full-time in principle, although we will
consider part-time applicants.

THE WORK

  The ultimate dream of ubiquitous access to information will only be
realized when new tools are created to selectively and efficiently
search any form of human language for content.  Today, at BBN, we are
inventing these new capabilities with our world-class speech and
language technologies and building systems for audio-indexing and
content-based information management.  We are working in a number of
languages, including Arabic.

  The candidate for this position will join a high-powered team of
scientists and engineers to use these advanced speech and language
capabilities to develop new applications and products.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
. Good experience in C/C++ software development
. Working knowledge of Win32 and/or GNU/Linux development environments
. Knowledge of spoken and written Arabic

CONTACT:
Please email your resume to:
Kendra Carpenter, kcarpent at bbn.com, Tel. 617-873-4768.
BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138

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BBN Technologies, located in Cambridge, MA, has about thirty years of
experience in developing state-of-the-art speech and language
processing technologies; more than 100 technical staff are currently
working in this area.  In 1969, BBN received the contract to build the
first packet-switched network, ARPAnet, which was the precursor to the
modern Internet.  In the early 1970's, BBN implemented one of the
first email systems and introduced the @ sign in email addresses, as
in Name at bbn.com.

 ========================================================================
John Makhoul
BBN Technologies, Verizon Communications		Tel: 617-873-3332
70 Fawcett Street					Fax: 617-873-2534
Cambridge, MA 02138				   Email: makhoul at bbn.com
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep 21 18:42:17 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:42:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Business Arabic response
Message-ID: <THU.21.SEP.2000.114217.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 21 Sep 2000
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Business Arabic response

[moderator's note: sorry to be so late with this one.  I temporarily lost
the message.]

Greetings / tahaiya tayyioba wa b3ad...

Yaa halla biljamii3...

There are several Arabic guidebooks (daliilak li...) that are specifically
about business correspondence (heavy on format letters for most occasions).
Most are commercial paperbacks, plus a few recent titles from Jordan. I
have used some in my commercial and technical translation projects (and
spotted / avoided a few that were clunkers).

I'll check my lists and post citations of some suitable materials.

The Universty of Michigan (UMI) Press may still have the college course
textbook on Business Arabic by Professor Rajhi Ramnuny (aplogies for any
misspelling) in stock. That UMI textbook, IIRC, focusses more on
translating and comprehension than on composition.

Back to the list about this subject soon, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep 21 18:44:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:44:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Zakariyya Tamir picture query
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Date: 21 Sep 2000
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Zakariyya Tamir picture query

Anybody can help with a scanned photo of the Syrian writer Zakariyya Tamir?
(Tamir himself promised me to send one but he uses snail-mail only; on the
other hand, my publisher needs a photo in two days or never.)
Srpko Lestaric,
Belgrade

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep 21 18:43:07 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:43:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Ahman Mannur Query
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Date: 21 Sep 2000
From: jolandaguardi <jolandaguardi at iol.it>
Subject: Ahman mannur query

does anyone knows something about the
arabian write ahman mannur? I read a book by him (lahn ifriqi) but I couldn't
find any information about him
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 16:03:34 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:03:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Arabic related jobs in Chronicle
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: moderator
Subject: Arabic related jobs in Chronicle

The Chronicle of Higher education is currently listing jobs related to
Arabic at

The American University of Cairo (Araibc and Islamic Studies)

and

Georgetown University (Senior Lecturer, 3 years renewable in Arabic
teaching, specialty in either linguistics or literature)

Check out the Chronicle for more details.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:50:10 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:50:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA Announcement
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Mahmoud Al-Batal <albatal at emory.edu>
Subject: CASA Announcement

DEAR MEMBERS OF ARABIC-L

PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION ABOUT THE CASA PROGRAM WITH YOUR STUDENTS,
FRIENDS, AND COLLEAGUES AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO APPLY.&NBSP; THE CASA
EXPERIENCE IS UNIQUE BOTH LINGUISTICALLY AND CULTURALLY AND WE ARE ALWAYS
LOOKING FOR EXCELLENT AND COMMITTED STUDENTS OF ARABIC TO LIVE THIS
EXPERIENCE AND ENJOY IT.
 SO, AHLAN WA SAHLAN ILAA CASA!

ANNOUNCEMENT

CENTER FOR
ARABIC STUDY ABROAD
(CASA)

 SUMMER AND FULL-YEAR PROGRAMS

The Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) offers a limited number of
fellowships for advanced Arabic language study at the American University
in Cairo to graduate and undergraduate students committed to a career in
Middle East Studies.


Successful applicants must be U.S. citizens or Permanent Residents,* have
had at least two years of Arabic language study, be enrolled full-time in a
degree program at an accredited university or college, have attained a
degree of scholarly and psychological stability sufficient to enable full
participation in intensive Arabic language study abroad, and pass a written
and oral examination which will be given to all applicants at a school in
their locality on Friday, February 2, 2001 from approximately 9:00 a.m. to
3:00 p.m.

Two programs are available:

1) a two-month summer program that offers 15 hrs./week of Colloquial
Egyptian Arabic and 5hrs. of MSA reading, listening and writing, and

2) a full-year program that provides comprehensive language training in all
skills in the fall semester and allows students to take courses (in Arabic)
in their fields of specializations in the spring.

APPLICATION
DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 31.

Further information and applications can be obtained by accessing the CASA
web site at:

_http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/CASA_

OR by writing to the following address:

Center for Arabic Study Abroad
Institute for Comparative & International Studies
428-B Candler Library
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Email: casa at emory.edu

Telephone: (404) 727-2575

Fax: (404)
727-6724

Principal support for this program comes from the US Department
of Education with additional funding from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, and the Starr Foundation.
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*Others may apply to participate on a Pay-Your-Own Way basis.  For details,
please refer to page 6 of the application.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:51:16 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:51:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA III Announcement
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Mahmoud Al-Batal<albatal at emory.edu>
Subject: CASA III Announcement


DEAR MEMBERS OF ARABIC-L

PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION ABOUT THE CASA III PROGRAM WITH ANY COLLEAGUE
WHO IS LOOKING FOR AN ENJOYABLE AND REWARDING SUMMER EXPERIENCE WITH
ARABIC.

ANNOUNCEMENT

CASA III

REFRESHER ARABIC COURSE
FOR
PROFESSORS OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) will offer a seven-week refresher
course for professors of the humanities and social sciences whose
specialties focus on any aspects of the Arab world/Middle East and who are
interested in further advancing their proficiency in Arabic.

The CASA III Program, conducted at the American University in Cairo,
emphasizes work on aural, oral, and written Arabic. In addition, the
program features tutorials and special classes to accommodate the special
interests of the fellows.

Applicants must be American citizens* and must have competence in the
Arabic language equivalent to at least three years of study at the college
level.

 Application Deadline is December 3, 2000.


 Applications can be obtained by accessing our website:


HTTP://WWW.EMORY.EDU/COLLEGE/CASA

 OR by writing to the following address:


 Center for Arabic Study Abroad

Institute for Comparative & International
Studies

428-B Candler Library

Emory University

Atlanta GA 30322


Telephone: (404) 727-2575; Fax: (404) 727-6724

E-mail: _casa at emory.edu_


 Principal support for this program comes from USIA/The Fulbright Commission
in Cairo with

additional funding from the US Department of Education.

*  Non-U.S. citizens and permanent residents may apply to participate in this
program on a Pay-Your-Own Way basis. See page 5 of the CASA III application
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:52:04 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:52:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Army Quote query
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: "A. FERHADI" <af3 at is2.nyu.edu>
Subject: Army Quote query

"Language is a dialect with an army and a navy?"

Does anyone know to whom the quotation above is attributed and where
it was said? I'd be grateful for your thoughts on this.

--Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:54:01 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:54:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Mawsim correction
Message-ID: <FRI.29.SEP.2000.085401.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Farouk Mustafa <fawm at midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Mawsim correction

Hello everyone,
Sorry for such a late comment.  Actually Mawsim was published complete in
**one** double issue of Hiwar. Farouk.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:56:12 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:56:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:5th Issue of Languages and Linguistics
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Moha Ennaji <estry at fesnet.net.ma>
Subject: 5th Issue of Languages and Linguistics

FIFTH ISSUE OF "LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS"
ON THE THEME: Research in Chamito-Semitic Linguistics
			Edited by Ahmed Makhoukh


 Contents

Ahmed Makhoukh
Introduction

Abdeljalil El-Idrissi
Verbes Supports et Supports à Lien en Arabe Marocain

Ahmed Makhoukh
WH-Agreement in Standard Arabic

Haseeb Shehadeh
The Influence of Arabic on Modern Hebrew

G. Kitula King'ei
A Descriptive Study of Arabic Loan Words in Kiswahili

N. Mcbeath
Rebuilding a Nation: Language Policy
in the Sultanate of Oman since 1970

Moha Ennaji
The Issue of Arabisation in the Moroccan Educational System
(in Arabic)

 Book review (in Arabic)

Fouâd Saâ
Principes d'Orthographe Berbère
By Mohamed Elmedlaoui

For further contact, Please write to:
Professor Moha Ennaji
e-mail: estry at fesnet.net.ma
Fax: +212 46 08 44

Address: Languest et Linguistique
BP 5720 Fes-Sidi Brahim
Fes 30014
MOROCCO

For more information about the journal, please consult:

                http://www.fesnet.net.ma/lang-ling


For further contact, Please write to:
Professor Moha Ennaji
e-mail: estry at fesnet.net.ma
Fax: +212 46 08 44

Address: Languest et Linguistique
BP 5720 Fes-Sidi Brahim
Fes 30014
MOROCCO

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:54:16 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:54:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Ahmad mannur Response
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Aida Bamia <abamia at aall.ufl.edu>
Subject: Ahmad mannur Response

Here is the informationyou need. His correct name is Ahmad Mannur and he is
Algerian, alive and well . lives in algiers and teaches Arabic literature
at the university of Algiers. Has a PhD.
I hope this helps.
Aida Bamia

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:57:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Paper
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: moderator
Subject: New Paper

Computational Linguistics


Volume 26 Issue 1
                             March 2000


                             Pages 77-105

                             Multi-Tiered Nonlinear Morphology Using
                             Multi-Tape Finite Automata: A Case Study
                             on Syriac and Arabic

                             By George Anton Kiraz

                             This paper presents a computational model for
nonlinear
                             morphology with illustrations from Syriac and
Arabic. The
                             model is a multitiered one in that it allows
for multiple text
                             lexical representations corresponding to the
multiple tiers of
                             autosegmental phonology. The model consists of
three main
                             components: (i) a lexicon, which is made of
sublexica, with
                             each sublexicon representing lexical material
from a specific
                             tier, (ii) a rewrite rules component that maps
multiple lexical
                             representations into one surface form and vice
versa, and (iii) a
                             morphotactic component that employs regular
grammars. The
                             system is finite-state in that lexica and
rules can be
                             represented by multitape finite-state machines.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:57:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Zemanek query
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Melissa Barkat <Melissa.Barkat at ish-lyon.cnrs.fr>
Subject: Zemanek query

Dear Arabic-Lers,

Could anyone send me Petr Zemànek's e-mail (or postal) adress.

Thanks for your help.

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From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:59:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA/LING:Senior Georgetown Position
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Brian McGrath <MCGRATHB at gunet.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Senior Georgetown Position

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT


Georgetown University welcomes applications and nominations for a
senior-level appointment to chair its Department of Arabic Language,
Literature and Linguistics.  The Department, which has long been known for
its graduate and undergraduate programs in Arabic language and linguistics,
seeks to increase its attention to various aspects of Arabic and Islamic
culture.  To this end, the research focus of this senior appointment will
be in the area of medieval Islamic thought as this is expressed in Arabic
literary sources.  As Chair of the Department of Arabic, this senior-level
faculty member will work collaboratively with Georgetown University faculty
in such cognate units as the Department of History (Middle East and North
Africa concentration), the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the
Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.  Additionally, outreach to the
rich scholarly resources available in the Washington, DC area will enhance
the operations of the Department within the University.  The search
committee will begin its review of applications after December 10, 2000 and
will continue to accept applications until the position is filled.  A
letter of application together with representative reprints, curriculum
vitae, and at least three letters of reference should be sent to: Professor
Jane D. McAuliffe, Dean, Georgetown University, Box 571003, Washington, DC
20057-1003.   Georgetown is a Catholic and Jesuit, student-centered
research university and candidates are strongly recommended to read its
mission statement on the university's webpage.  Georgetown University is
AA/EOE.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Sep  5 21:31:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:31:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Arabic Discourse program query
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Date: 05 Sep 2000
From: Abdullah Samarah <abdullah at ling.gu.se>
Subject: Arabic Discourse program query

Dear partners, the following message is explaining my requist in case of
there is someone who can guide or advice me.

Dear Sir/s I am a Ph.D. fulltime student in Gothenburg university, subject
of 'General Linguistics, Swedish membership. At the moment I am writing my
(fil.lic avhandling)= 'Licentiate thesis', according to the plan my thesis
suppose to be finish either by the end of this year 00/middle of the year
01. I would like to have the chance/opportunaty to have some activity
courses abroad Sweden for few months - to - one year maximum. For this
reason, I will be grateful to you if you give me this chance and welcome my
stay at your place, or at least you can advice me where I could have the
best chances to develop my educational level in general linguistics and
English as well.

Dear Sir, I am aiming for two central points, if I have got the chance to
study at your place,:

1. To have some activity courses regarding the following fields:

Discourse Analysis e.g. Pragmatics, Speech acts, Variation analysis, etc.
- Intercultural communication e.g. between Arabs and Westerners.
- English courses regarding e.g. academic writings. This, however, will
assist me when I extend writing my dissirtation into a Ph.D.

2. Perhaps I might try to extend my dissirtation, as possible, and to
present as a Ph.D. in the future. My thesis title is: "Feedback In Arabic
Spoken Language Communication"

Dear Sirs, the below information might be helpful to me in case of I did
not have the chance to study at your department.

I was told that the deadline to my application will be within two weeks
from now. If I have got any chance I will be glad to hear from you as soon
as possible. The following itmes might help me as well:

i) Addresses to the head offices/professors (e-mails/post mail) to several
universities that having my field of studies

ii) If you have some information regarding e.g. fellowship, assistantship,
scholarship, etc that I can support myself and my family (I have my wife
and little daughter) while I am continuing my studies there.

iii) If you have an approximate/initial idea regarding the prices e.g.
tuition fees, accomodation, personal expenses, etc I will be grateful to
receive it from you.

iv) And if you have an idea how long time it takes for me to complete my
dissertation, after having my (fil.lic) degree according to the your system.


A brief history of the applicant:

I am a Palestinian student, born in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah) and live
permanently in Sweden, graduated with BA degree in 1988 from King Abdul
Aziz university, Dept of 'Arabic Language with Literature'. Came to Sweden
in 1993 for purpose of doing my higher education, I have received my
official acceptance as a Ph.D. student in 1995. And now I am workin on my
(fil.lic. avhandling) =  Licentiate degree between Master and Doctoral.

Sorry if my letter is very long, however your suggestion will be the best
help for me. If you need any additional information regarding the above
information do not be hesitate to contact me.

You can reach me either on this e-mail, or to my home address:

A. Samarah
Klarv?dersgatan 10, Flat 413,
SE- 418 39 G?teborg
E.mail: abdullah at ling.gu.se

All the best and waiting for your answer.

A. J. Samarah
Ph.D. student
Dept. of G. Linguistics
GBG, SWEDEN
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Sep  5 21:29:54 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:29:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Business Arabic Responses
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1) Subject: Business Arabic Response
1) Subject: Business Arabic Response

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Date: 05 Sep 2000
From: "Ernest N. McCarus" <enm at umich.edu>
Subject: Business Arabic Response

The two-volume Business Arabic by Raji Rammuny is available
 now at the University of Michigan Press. The second volume includes a long
 unit (Pages 135-197) on Arabic Business Letters. To place an order contact
 Ann Christ at Telephone # (734) 764-4394, Fax # (800) 876-1922, e-mail
aecrist at umich.edu.

Ernest McCarus

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Date: 05 Sep 2000
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Business Arabic Response

Advanced Business Arabic
Raji M. Rammuny,
part 1
(I don't know if part 2 exists):
It contains some info on letter writing, but it's very basic.

There are some books about 'writing letters' primarily meant for Arabs for
writing English letters, but I've been using these books in the reverse
direction too.

I have some material myself as well: I made a list of 'writing functions'
(parallel to spoken language functions like 'starting a letter',
'apologizing', asking for prices of goods-quotations etc. However, this is
in Arabic and in Dutch, but I could send you a copy if you want. It's still
from the pre-computer age, so it's just photocopies.

Jan

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Sep  5 21:32:29 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:32:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs Arabic Office 97
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Date: 05 Sep 2000
From:  Sumair at Netzero.net
Subject: Needs Arabic Office 97

I don't mean to sound silly, but I don't like Microsoft Office
2000... yet all the sites which sell Arabic software are peddling
it.

Does anybody have a copy of Microsoft Office 97, Arabic edition,
that he / she would be willing to sell?  Perhaps you are happy
having upgraded, and no longer need the older version.


Sumair Mahmood

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Tue Sep  5 21:27:23 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:27:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Tayyib Salih Responses
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1) Subject: Tayyib Salih Response
1) Subject: Tayyib Salih Response

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Date: 05 Sep 2000
From: Wail Hassan <w-hassan at wiu.edu>
Subject: Tayyib Salih Response

Mawsim al-hijra was first published in two issues of the Brirut-based
magazine *Hiwar*, edited by Suhayl Idris, in 1966. In the same year it was
published in Cairo (dal al-Ma'arif), then in 1969 in Beirut (Dar al-'awda)
as well as in English translation by Heinemann.

3urs al-Zayn and Salih's seven early short stories were published in one
volume  in 1966 by Al-Dar al-Sharqiyya (Beirut).

In addition to the above, the two parts of *Bandarshah* were published in
Beirut in 1972 (Dau al-Beit) and 1976 (Meryoud), and in English translation
in 1996. (See my dissertation, *Tayeb Salih: Culture, History, Memory*,
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998).

Wail

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Date: 05 Sep 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Tayyib Salih Response

		----------------------------------------------------
		> Is there anybody who can tell me:
		>
		> I. What is the year of the first Arabic issue of
		>    (a) at-Tayyib Salih's Mawsim al-hijra ila
		>    ash-shima:(Season of Migration to the North),
		>    (b) 3ars az-zayn (The Wedding of Zein).
		>
		> 2. What is the complete list of Salih's
                >    published works.
		>
		> Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
		> 31 Aug 2000
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***
	Original and influential as it is, Tayyib Salih's canon is petite
in size (some 589 pages of the small format).  Below is a listing of his
works, with only known English translations, thus leaving out German and
Italian versions.

  -  *Mawsim al-Hijrah ila ash-Shamaal,* Beirut, 1966; trans. Denys
      Johnson-Davis as *Season of Migration to the North,* 1969.

  -  *@Urs az-Zayn: Riwaayah,* 1966; trans. Denys Johnson-Davis as *The
      Wedding of Zein and Other Stories,* 1966.  (Besides _The Wedding_
      the translation contains "The Doum Tree of Wad Hamad," and "A
      Handful of Dates."

  -  *Bandarshaah Daww al-Bayt: UHduuthah @an Kawn al-Ab DaHiyyah
      li Abiih wa 'Ibnih,* 1st. edn., 1971.

  -  *Duumat Wad Hamad: Sab@ QiSaS,* 4th. edn., 1980.

  -  *Maryuud,* 3rd., edn., 1978.

								--
								MD

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep  7 16:33:57 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:33:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CALL conference
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Date: 07 Sep 2000
From: Mohamed-Salah Omri <M.S.Omri at exeter.ac.uk>
Subject: CALL conference

[Mohamedd-Salah informs me that there will be an Arabic component to this
conference, and that there will likely be a workshop on Arabic CALL
sponsored by Exeter.]

A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY!

2001: September 1-3 Ninth Biennial International Exeter CALL 2001
Conference on 'CALL - The Challenge of Change', University of Exeter.
CALL FOR PAPERS. Please send your proposals to Keith Cameron, School of Modern
Languages, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH. Tel: (0)1392
264221; FAX: (0)1392 264222; Email: K.C.Cameron at ex.ac.uk.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep  7 16:35:58 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:35:58 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Gulf Native Speaker Linguists wanted
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Date: 07 Sep 2000
From:  [reposted from LINGUIST]
Subject: Gulf Native Speaker Linguists wanted

Date:  6 Sep 2000 15:58:32 -0000
From:  Andrea Bloom <globalID at lionbridge.com>
Subject:  Freelance Linguists for Name Evaluations: Lionbridge, California USA


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: Freelance Linguists needed for Name Evaluations in
specified languages
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Lionbridge
Department: Global Identity
State or Province: California
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: open
Contact: Andrea Bloom globalID at lionbridge.com

Address for Applications:
globalID at lionbridge.com
San Francisco
CA 94105
USA

Native Speakers of the following languages needed urgently for name
evaluation projects: Arabic (Gulf States: UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia),
Hebrew, Turkish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo,Fulani
Australian English, New Zealand English, Thai, Indonesian, Tagalog,
Malay, Thai, Afrikaans, British English, Irish English, Iberian Spanish,
Bolivian, Chilean, Peruvian, Colombian Spanish, Swiss German, French and
Italian.

You must have a background in linguistics, and an interest in analyzing
product names. We prefer evalautors who reside in their native
countries, but this is not absolute. We pay by the hour, work can be
frequent with tight deadlines. All work can be conducted using Excel
documents.

Please apply only if you are a native speaker of the above languages.
Please send your resume via email to: globalID at lionbridge.com or
fax to: 415.495.4926 attn Andrea Bloom

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep  7 16:29:57 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:29:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Univ. of Oslo Job
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Date: 07 Sep 2000
From: Gunvor Mejdell <gunvor.mejdell at east.uio.no>
Subject: Univ. of Oslo Job

Professorship in Semitic Linguistics/Semitic Languages
vacant in the Department of East European and Oriental Studies.

Further information from Professor M.G. Carter, tel.: +47 22856854 or
e-mail: m.g.carter at east.uio.no or administrative head of department Edle
Stang, tel.: +47 22856979 or e-mail:edle.stang at east.uio.no.

Salary class; 60 - 65 NOK 396,000 - 435,500 pr. year (depending on
qualifications)
Time limit for application: 15 October 2000

The Department has 31 academic positions, 4 Scholarships , 4 administrative
staff, about 500 students and offers courses in 20 subjects.  In addition
to the advertised Chair the Department has in this faculty area two
positions in Arabic language and culture and one in Middle East Studies.  A
third position in Arabic is expected to be announced in the course of the
year.

The appointee will take part in teaching, supervision and examination, as
well as adminstrative duties according to current regulations.  He or she
will teach Comparative Semitic Philology at all levels as a component of
the existing course structure.  Further, he or she will be responsible for
the teaching of Hebrew, which is an established Course in the Department.
The appointee will also be expected  to teach other Semitic languages as
options within the Master's programme in Semitic Linguistics, e.g.
Akkadian, Aramaic and Ethiopic.

Knowledge of Norwegian language and culture will be an advantage.  If the
appointee does not know Norwegian, Swedish or Danish it is a prerequisite
that the candidate shall in the course of two years acquire sufficient
competence to take part in all the functions the position includes.
Within the normal teaching duties and academic speciality the appointee may
also be required to work outside the Department in which the appointment is
located.

A more detailed description of the post and of any special duties and other
factors to which weight will be attached when the appointment is being
made, is included in a separate description of the post, which may be
obtained on application to the telephone or e-mail reference.  Otherwise
reference is made to the Rules for appointments to professorships*.

Eligible applicants will be called upon to attend an interview and give
presentations.

Oslo University wishes to have more women in permanent positions, and women
are therefore encouraged to apply.

Applications must contain information concerning: education, the positions
held, academic/professional and pedagogical activity, as well as
administrative experience. Pedagogical training must be documented, cf.
Rules for the assessment and weighting of pedagogical competence*.
Applicants who on appointment cannot document basic pedagogical training
must obtain it within two years of being appointed.

The applicant must specify up to 10 works she/he wishes to be given
particular weight when the selection board conducts its assessment.

Application, CV and publications list in 5 copies and 3 complete sets of
academic publications are to be sent to the following adress by 15 October
2000:

Det historisk-filosofiske fakultet, Postboks 1079 Blindern, N-03l6 Oslo, Norway
marked: "I?O Semitic position"

(When we have received the academic works from the selection board, the
publications you submitted will be returned to you).

* To obtain these call the telephone reference or e-mail.


1. aman. Gunvor Mejdell
Institutt for ?steuropeiske og orientalske studier
POB 1030, Blindern
0315 Oslo
tel. + 47 22 85 47 76    FAX +47 22 85 41 40

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep  7 16:25:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:25:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Mawsim
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Date: 07 Sep 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Mawsim

		---------------------------------------------------
		> Mawsim al-hijra was first published in two issues
		> of the Brirut-based magazine *Hiwar*, edited
		> by Suhayl Idris, in 1966.
		>
		> Wail Hassan <w-hassan at wiu.edu>
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***

	True, *Mawsim al-Hijrah ila 'sh-Shama:l* was first published
	in 1966, in two instalments, by the bimonthly periodical
	*Hiwa:r.*  But *Hiwa:r* itself was edited by the late
	Tawfiq Sayigh (1923 - 1971).  Suhayl Idriss is
	the former editor-in-chief of the Lebanese
	monthly, *al-A:da:b.*
						M. Deeb

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Sep 13 17:37:37 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:37:37 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:macabre etymology
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Date: 13 Sep 2000
From: American Association of Teachers of Arabic <aata at wm.edu>
Subject: macabre etymology

Does anyone have any concrete evidence that the word "macabre" has its
origins in the Arabic language, (via French)? Or is that just a fairly
popular misconception? Any information about the etymology of the word
would be appreciated.

Jason Fabbricante
American Association of Teachers of Arabic

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep 14 16:45:07 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:45:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Verb Form Numbers Origin Query
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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: Jamal Ali <jamalali at pacbell.net>
Subject: Verb Form Numbers Origin Query

Does anyone know the answer to the following question?
As you know, only Europeans and mustashriqs use the number system to
refer to Arabic verbs. form I, form II, form II, form VI, etc. All the
European grammars and dictionaries are thoroughly consistent in using the
exact same number system for all of the verb forms. The question is: Who
invented this system and when and where was it first used and by whom??
Apparently it caught on smashingly and has been used by Westerners ever
since, but never by Arabs.
Who started and popularized it and when how and where?

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep 14 16:53:47 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:53:47 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:macabre etymology responses
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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: macabre etymology response

I don't have concrete evidence, but I remember a claim that macabre comes
from maQaabir (graves, grave site).
Waheed

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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: "Munther A. Younes" <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: macabre etymology response

	This word (macabre) has intrigued me for some time. I think it must
have its origins in the Arabic word "maqaabir" (graveyards). The similarity
(in sound/spelling and meaning) between the Arabic and the English is too
strong to be coincidental. I checked a number of English dictionaries, but
none of them show any connection with Arabic.

	Munther Younes
	Cornell University

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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: macabre etymology response

	The assumption that "macabre" is related to Arabic "maqaabir"
(graves; graveyard) is no more than folk etymology, very likely made
plausible by the tonal and thematic similarities between the two words.
"Macabre", adopted as an _adjective_ from French in mid-19th century,
comes from _danse macabre_, "macabre" being a scribal error for the Early
Modern French adjectival phrase: "danse macabre" (avec un accent aigu).

	This in turn was a translation of medieval Latin _chorea
Machabaeorum_ (= dance of the Maccabees), which is said to be a reference
to a stylized representation of the slaughter of the Maccabees (a Jewish
dynasty in biblical times) in a medieval miracle play.

							M. Deeb

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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: jolandaguardi <jolandaguardi at iol.it>
Subject: macabre etymology response

The word macabre comes from the french macabre which etymology is not
certain; some propose from the arabic maqabir or from the hebrew maqaber (H.
Sperber The etymology aof macabre in Studia Philologica et Litteraria in
Honorem
L. Spitzer, Bonn 1958, pp. 391-401) or, in alternative, from the Bible
(from the
nickname Giuda Maccabeo).
Jolanda Guardi

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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: djust at netvision.net.il
Subject: macabre etymology response

If my memory hasn't gone completely:

Barbara Tuchman, in her long section on the danse macabre in A
Distant Mirror, makes it clear that we're dealing in the realm of
guesswork.  However, she tends to the popular theory that it comes
from the Hebrew meqaber, the present active participle of a word
meaning "to bury".  You'll find it under "qiber" in the dictionary.
Again, if I remember my numbers right, the form corresponds to form
II in Arabic, i.e., that with the middle consonant geminate.

I don't know how reliable she is on these things.

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Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: Jim Rader <jrader at Merriam-Webster.com>
Subject: macabre etymology response

There is a considerable body of literature on the etymology of
French <macabre>.  Even a brief sketch of the convoluted history
of this word and the many etymological hypotheses it has evoked
would be out of place on an Arabic list. But suffice it to say that
attempts made in the 19th century or earlier to link the word with
Arabic <maqa:bir>, plural of <maqbar(a)>, "tomb, graveyard, etc."
or with Syriac <meqabbere^y>, "gravediggers," are now generally
thought by Romance specialists to be poorly founded.  Maybe
Arabists think differently.

A good digest of <macabre> etymologies can be found under the
entry for the word in the multivolume monolingual French dictionary
_Tr?sor de la langue fran?aise_, on the reference shelves of most
academic libraries in the U.S. and Europe.

Jim Rader
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7)
Date: 14 Sep 2000
From: Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: macabre etymology response

The OED guesses that the origin is with the Maccabees (I quote):

"The etymology of the word is obscure; so far as its form is concerned it
might be a popular corruption of OF. Macab? = Maccab?us
(an example of ?Judas Macabr?? has been found), and in the 15th c. the
?Dance of Death? was called chorea Machab?orum in Latin (Du Cange cites a
Besan?on document of
1453), and Makkabeusdans in Du. M. Gaston Paris, however, thinks Macabr?
may have been the name of the artist who painted the picture which
suggested the first poem on
the subject.] "

Dil

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 15 18:44:27 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:44:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:More on macabre
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Date: 15 Sep 2000
From: "Kaye, Alan" <akaye at Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU>
Subject: More on macabre

More on 'macabre'

I have thought, along with Garland Cannon, long and hard on 'macabre'.  We
did not list it in our 1994 The Arabic Contributions to the English language
because, as has been stated by a few already, this is a good example of a
folk etymology.  It is similar, in my opinion, to deriving 'earth' from
'arD, or from deriving 'father' from Ar. faaTir.

Alan Kaye
akaye at fullerton.edu

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 15 18:48:54 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:48:54 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Verb Form Numbers Origin Responses
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Date: 15 Sep 2000
From: devin stewart <dstewar at emory.edu>
Subject: Verb Form Numbers Origin Response

Dear Jamal,

Like many American and European students of Arabic, I was surprised to
find that the teachers and friends i met on my first trip to Egypt were
completely unfamiliar with the numbered form system.  I
collected material to publish a short article on the topic, perhaps in
al-'Arabiyya.  Until then, I can tell you that it is quite old, going back
not to the very earliest European Arabic grammars such as that of
Guillaume Postel, Paris, ca. 1538 or
Pedro de Alcala`, ca. 1600, but to the famous Latin grammar of Arabic by
Thomas Erpenius, who was Professor of  Arabic at Leiden from 1613 until
his death in
1624 and published his grammar in
1613. The order of numbering is the same as that with which we are
familiar.  Another grammar was published in Rome ca. 1622 which uses the
numbering system but has forms II and IV switched.  Erpenius' grammar was
only superceded in 1810 by the grammar of De
Sacy, who used the same system, which has been in vogue ever since.
Incidentally, the numbering system was also used in older grammars of
Hebrew, but seems to have fallen out of usage.
	The system, an extremely useful mnemonic device,
is not entirely unrelated to traditional Arabic presentations of
morphology in the classical works of Sarf, for it follows the order of
mujarrad (fa3ala) , mazid bi-harf
(fa33ala, faa3ala, 'af3ala), mazid
bi-harfayn (tafa33ala, etc.), mazid bi-thalatha (istaf3ala).  The use of
numbering, however, is the Latin, European innovation, which I suspect
to have been a calque on some aspect of the study of Latin grammar (this
is the part of the research which I have not completed yet).  At thevery
least, it is well known that Latin grammar traditionally numbers the
diferrent classes of verb conjugations (1: = are; 2. = e-re, 3. = -ere,
4. = -ire).  De Sacy is
careful to make clear in his presentation of the verb forms that they
fall into the groups of mazid be-harf, mazid bi-harfayn, etc., though
most modern textbooks have dropped such explanations.  To my mind, this is
unfortunate,
because it would help students learn and remember the order.
I hope that answers your question.

al-MukhliS,

Devin Stewart

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Date: 15 Sep 2000
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Verb Form Numbers Origin Response


	Although he, like almost all his contemporaries, was uncharitable
to Islam to the extent of dismissing it as an imposter religion, the Dutch
scholar Erpenius (1584 - 1624) may well be credited with having laid the
foundation of Arabic grammar and philology.  Thus, the assignment of Roman
numerals (I - XV) to the triliteral and derived verbal forms was most
likely introduced by him.  The numeric distinction is often a challenge to
the memories of Arab and Western scholars in the field, but it is a
space-saver.  With verbal Arabic names, Hans Wehr and Lane, for instance,
would have quadrupled their present sizes!
						M. Deeb

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Sep 18 17:09:15 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:09:15 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Verb Form Numbers
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Date: 18 Aug 2000
From: Haseeb Shehadeh <Haseeb.Shehadeh at helsinki.fi>
Subject: Verb Form Numbers

With regard to the emergence of the usage of the Roman numbers I, II, III, IV,
etc. in order to point at the Arabic verbal patterns I do remember that
Germans in the late 19th century were the first ones to adapt this system. The
reason behind it is to avoid the difficulty of the pronunciation of the
guttural ain.
Yet, the matter needs further examination
Haseeb Shehadeh

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Sep 18 17:08:27 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:08:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:COLTIA Announcement
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Date: 18 Aug 2000
From: Gerald Lampe <glampe at nflc.org>
Subject: COLTIA Announcement

PLEASE POST

ANNOUNCEMENT

CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONALLY-SPECIFIC
LANGUAGE TRAINING AND INTERNSHIPS ABROAD

	The Center for Occupationally-Specific Language Training and
Internships Abroad (COLTIA) offers a limited number of fellowships
consisting of a combination of an internship opportunity and intensive
advanced Arabic language training focusing on business, finance, and the
professions to members of the academic, business, and non-profit
communities.

	Applicants must be US citizens or Permanent Residents, have had
at least one year of Arabic language training and preferably two years,
apply to the CASA Summer-Only Program, be accepted in the CASA Program
or the ALI Program, and be enrolled in an appropriate degree program OR
currently hold a position in a related business or organization. Please
see the COLTIA Information Brochure for complete requirements.

Applications are available on the COLTIA website:
www.sais-jhu.edu/languages/coltia or from:

The Center for Occupationally-Specific Language Training and Internships
Abroad  (COLTIA)
The Johns Hopkins University-SAIS
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036-1983
Attn. Theresa Simmons
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E-mail COLTIA with questions at: coltia at mail.jhuwash.jhu.edu.
You may also reach us by telephone at (202) 663-5676 or fax at (202)
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep 21 18:43:45 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:43:45 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Software Position for Arabic Speaker
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Date: 21 Sep 2000
From: John Makhoul <makhoul at bbn.com>
Subject: Software Position for Arabic Speaker

SOFTWARE POSITION FOR ARABIC SPEAKER

We have a position open for a speaker of Arabic with good software
experience.  The position is full-time in principle, although we will
consider part-time applicants.

THE WORK

  The ultimate dream of ubiquitous access to information will only be
realized when new tools are created to selectively and efficiently
search any form of human language for content.  Today, at BBN, we are
inventing these new capabilities with our world-class speech and
language technologies and building systems for audio-indexing and
content-based information management.  We are working in a number of
languages, including Arabic.

  The candidate for this position will join a high-powered team of
scientists and engineers to use these advanced speech and language
capabilities to develop new applications and products.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
. Good experience in C/C++ software development
. Working knowledge of Win32 and/or GNU/Linux development environments
. Knowledge of spoken and written Arabic

CONTACT:
Please email your resume to:
Kendra Carpenter, kcarpent at bbn.com, Tel. 617-873-4768.
BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138

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processing technologies; more than 100 technical staff are currently
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modern Internet.  In the early 1970's, BBN implemented one of the
first email systems and introduced the @ sign in email addresses, as
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BBN Technologies, Verizon Communications		Tel: 617-873-3332
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Cambridge, MA 02138				   Email: makhoul at bbn.com
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep 21 18:42:17 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:42:17 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Business Arabic response
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Date: 21 Sep 2000
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Business Arabic response

[moderator's note: sorry to be so late with this one.  I temporarily lost
the message.]

Greetings / tahaiya tayyioba wa b3ad...

Yaa halla biljamii3...

There are several Arabic guidebooks (daliilak li...) that are specifically
about business correspondence (heavy on format letters for most occasions).
Most are commercial paperbacks, plus a few recent titles from Jordan. I
have used some in my commercial and technical translation projects (and
spotted / avoided a few that were clunkers).

I'll check my lists and post citations of some suitable materials.

The Universty of Michigan (UMI) Press may still have the college course
textbook on Business Arabic by Professor Rajhi Ramnuny (aplogies for any
misspelling) in stock. That UMI textbook, IIRC, focusses more on
translating and comprehension than on composition.

Back to the list about this subject soon, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep 21 18:44:28 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:44:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Zakariyya Tamir picture query
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Date: 21 Sep 2000
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Zakariyya Tamir picture query

Anybody can help with a scanned photo of the Syrian writer Zakariyya Tamir?
(Tamir himself promised me to send one but he uses snail-mail only; on the
other hand, my publisher needs a photo in two days or never.)
Srpko Lestaric,
Belgrade

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Sep 21 18:43:07 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:43:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Ahman Mannur Query
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Date: 21 Sep 2000
From: jolandaguardi <jolandaguardi at iol.it>
Subject: Ahman mannur query

does anyone knows something about the
arabian write ahman mannur? I read a book by him (lahn ifriqi) but I couldn't
find any information about him
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 16:03:34 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:03:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:Arabic related jobs in Chronicle
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: moderator
Subject: Arabic related jobs in Chronicle

The Chronicle of Higher education is currently listing jobs related to
Arabic at

The American University of Cairo (Araibc and Islamic Studies)

and

Georgetown University (Senior Lecturer, 3 years renewable in Arabic
teaching, specialty in either linguistics or literature)

Check out the Chronicle for more details.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:50:10 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:50:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA Announcement
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Mahmoud Al-Batal <albatal at emory.edu>
Subject: CASA Announcement

DEAR MEMBERS OF ARABIC-L

PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION ABOUT THE CASA PROGRAM WITH YOUR STUDENTS,
FRIENDS, AND COLLEAGUES AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO APPLY.&NBSP; THE CASA
EXPERIENCE IS UNIQUE BOTH LINGUISTICALLY AND CULTURALLY AND WE ARE ALWAYS
LOOKING FOR EXCELLENT AND COMMITTED STUDENTS OF ARABIC TO LIVE THIS
EXPERIENCE AND ENJOY IT.
 SO, AHLAN WA SAHLAN ILAA CASA!

ANNOUNCEMENT

CENTER FOR
ARABIC STUDY ABROAD
(CASA)

?SUMMER AND FULL-YEAR PROGRAMS

The Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) offers a limited number of
fellowships for advanced Arabic language study at the American University
in Cairo to graduate and undergraduate students committed to a career in
Middle East Studies.


Successful applicants must be U.S. citizens or Permanent Residents,* have
had at least two years of Arabic language study, be enrolled full-time in a
degree program at an accredited university or college, have attained a
degree of scholarly and psychological stability sufficient to enable full
participation in intensive Arabic language study abroad, and pass a written
and oral examination which will be given to all applicants at a school in
their locality on Friday, February 2, 2001 from approximately 9:00 a.m. to
3:00 p.m.

Two programs are available:

1) a two-month summer program that offers 15 hrs./week of Colloquial
Egyptian Arabic and 5hrs. of MSA reading, listening and writing, and

2)?a full-year program that provides comprehensive language training in all
skills in the fall semester and allows students to take courses (in Arabic)
in their fields of specializations in the spring.

APPLICATION
DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 31.

Further information and applications can be obtained by accessing the CASA
web site at:

_http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/CASA_

OR by writing to the following address:

Center for Arabic Study Abroad
Institute for Comparative & International Studies
428-B Candler Library
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Email: casa at emory.edu

Telephone: (404) 727-2575

Fax: (404)
727-6724

Principal support for this program comes from the US Department
of Education with additional funding from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, and the Starr Foundation.
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*Others may apply to participate on a Pay-Your-Own Way basis.? For details,
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:51:16 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:51:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CASA III Announcement
Message-ID: <FRI.29.SEP.2000.085116.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Mahmoud Al-Batal<albatal at emory.edu>
Subject: CASA III Announcement


DEAR MEMBERS OF ARABIC-L

PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION ABOUT THE CASA III PROGRAM WITH ANY COLLEAGUE
WHO IS LOOKING FOR AN ENJOYABLE AND REWARDING SUMMER EXPERIENCE WITH
ARABIC.

ANNOUNCEMENT

CASA III

REFRESHER ARABIC COURSE
FOR
PROFESSORS OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) will offer a seven-week refresher
course for professors of the humanities and social sciences whose
specialties focus on any aspects of the Arab world/Middle East and who are
interested in further advancing their proficiency in Arabic.

The CASA III Program, conducted at the American University in Cairo,
emphasizes work on aural, oral, and written Arabic. In addition, the
program features tutorials and special classes to accommodate the special
interests of the fellows.

Applicants must be American citizens* and must have competence in the
Arabic language equivalent to at least three years of study at the college
level.

?Application Deadline is December 3, 2000.


?Applications can be obtained by accessing our website:


HTTP://WWW.EMORY.EDU/COLLEGE/CASA

?OR by writing to the following address:


?Center for Arabic Study Abroad

Institute for Comparative & International
Studies

428-B Candler Library

Emory University

Atlanta GA 30322


Telephone: (404) 727-2575; Fax: (404) 727-6724

E-mail: _casa at emory.edu_


?Principal support for this program comes from USIA/The Fulbright Commission
in Cairo with

additional funding from the US Department of Education.

*? Non-U.S. citizens and permanent residents may apply to participate in this
program on a Pay-Your-Own Way basis. See page 5 of the CASA III application
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:52:04 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:52:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Army Quote query
Message-ID: <FRI.29.SEP.2000.085204.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: "A. FERHADI" <af3 at is2.nyu.edu>
Subject: Army Quote query

"Language is a dialect with an army and a navy?"

Does anyone know to whom the quotation above is attributed and where
it was said? I'd be grateful for your thoughts on this.

--Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University
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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:54:01 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:54:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Mawsim correction
Message-ID: <FRI.29.SEP.2000.085401.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Farouk Mustafa <fawm at midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Mawsim correction

Hello everyone,
Sorry for such a late comment.? Actually Mawsim was published complete in
**one** double issue of Hiwar. Farouk.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:56:12 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:56:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:5th Issue of Languages and Linguistics
Message-ID: <FRI.29.SEP.2000.085612.0700.DILWORTHPARKINSON@BYU.EDU>

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1) Subject: 5th Issue of Languages and Linguistics

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1)
Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Moha Ennaji <estry at fesnet.net.ma>
Subject: 5th Issue of Languages and Linguistics

FIFTH ISSUE OF "LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS"
ON THE THEME: Research in Chamito-Semitic Linguistics
			Edited by Ahmed Makhoukh


 Contents

Ahmed Makhoukh
Introduction

Abdeljalil El-Idrissi
Verbes Supports et Supports ? Lien en Arabe Marocain

Ahmed Makhoukh
WH-Agreement in Standard Arabic

Haseeb Shehadeh
The Influence of Arabic on Modern Hebrew

G. Kitula King'ei
A Descriptive Study of Arabic Loan Words in Kiswahili

N. Mcbeath
Rebuilding a Nation: Language Policy
in the Sultanate of Oman since 1970

Moha Ennaji
The Issue of Arabisation in the Moroccan Educational System
(in Arabic)

 Book review (in Arabic)

Fou?d Sa?
Principes d'Orthographe Berb?re
By Mohamed Elmedlaoui

For further contact, Please write to:
Professor Moha Ennaji
e-mail: estry at fesnet.net.ma
Fax: +212 46 08 44

Address: Languest et Linguistique
BP 5720 Fes-Sidi Brahim
Fes 30014
MOROCCO

For more information about the journal, please consult:

                http://www.fesnet.net.ma/lang-ling


For further contact, Please write to:
Professor Moha Ennaji
e-mail: estry at fesnet.net.ma
Fax: +212 46 08 44

Address: Languest et Linguistique
BP 5720 Fes-Sidi Brahim
Fes 30014
MOROCCO

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:54:16 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:54:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Ahmad mannur Response
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Aida Bamia <abamia at aall.ufl.edu>
Subject: Ahmad mannur Response

Here is the informationyou need. His correct name is Ahmad Mannur and he is
Algerian, alive and well . lives in algiers and teaches Arabic literature
at the university of Algiers. Has a PhD.
I hope this helps.
Aida Bamia

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:57:10 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:57:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Paper
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: moderator
Subject: New Paper

Computational Linguistics


Volume 26 Issue 1
                             March 2000


                             Pages 77-105

                             Multi-Tiered Nonlinear Morphology Using
                             Multi-Tape Finite Automata: A Case Study
                             on Syriac and Arabic

                             By George Anton Kiraz

                             This paper presents a computational model for
nonlinear
                             morphology with illustrations from Syriac and
Arabic. The
                             model is a multitiered one in that it allows
for multiple text
                             lexical representations corresponding to the
multiple tiers of
                             autosegmental phonology. The model consists of
three main
                             components: (i) a lexicon, which is made of
sublexica, with
                             each sublexicon representing lexical material
from a specific
                             tier, (ii) a rewrite rules component that maps
multiple lexical
                             representations into one surface form and vice
versa, and (iii) a
                             morphotactic component that employs regular
grammars. The
                             system is finite-state in that lexica and
rules can be
                             represented by multitape finite-state machines.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:57:56 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:57:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Zemanek query
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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Melissa Barkat <Melissa.Barkat at ish-lyon.cnrs.fr>
Subject: Zemanek query

Dear Arabic-Lers,

Could anyone send me Petr Zem?nek's e-mail (or postal) adress.

Thanks for your help.

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From Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Sep 29 15:59:43 2000
From: Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:59:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA/LING:Senior Georgetown Position
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1) Subject: Senior Georgetown Position

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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: Brian McGrath <MCGRATHB at gunet.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Senior Georgetown Position

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT


Georgetown University welcomes applications and nominations for a
senior-level appointment to chair its Department of Arabic Language,
Literature and Linguistics.  The Department, which has long been known for
its graduate and undergraduate programs in Arabic language and linguistics,
seeks to increase its attention to various aspects of Arabic and Islamic
culture.  To this end, the research focus of this senior appointment will
be in the area of medieval Islamic thought as this is expressed in Arabic
literary sources.  As Chair of the Department of Arabic, this senior-level
faculty member will work collaboratively with Georgetown University faculty
in such cognate units as the Department of History (Middle East and North
Africa concentration), the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the
Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.  Additionally, outreach to the
rich scholarly resources available in the Washington, DC area will enhance
the operations of the Department within the University.  The search
committee will begin its review of applications after December 10, 2000 and
will continue to accept applications until the position is filled.  A
letter of application together with representative reprints, curriculum
vitae, and at least three letters of reference should be sent to: Professor
Jane D. McAuliffe, Dean, Georgetown University, Box 571003, Washington, DC
20057-1003.   Georgetown is a Catholic and Jesuit, student-centered
research university and candidates are strongly recommended to read its
mission statement on the university's webpage.  Georgetown University is
AA/EOE.

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