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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Planet names in medieval Arabic query
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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:claudia boscolo <clobo70 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Planet names in medieval Arabic query

Dear All,

I am a scholar of romance philology, dealing with a
Franco-Italian text of the fourteenth century. I am
analysisng characterisation of Saracens and I came
across a linguistic problem.
I am not able to solve a verse which for me is a
complete enigma. I hope someone will be able to help.

Two planets are mentioned, the names of which are
Chavachabas and Çeli (pron: kavakabas/-us; tseli). I
wonder if anyone has any notion of similar names for
planets in Arabic, of which these two words could be
transcriptions in Franco-Italian. Also, it is said
that the first planet accomplishes its course neither
in 20 nor in 26 years.
Is anyone familiar with Arabic treaties on astronomy?

Thank you very much in advance for any help,
Claudia Boscolo
(Royal Holloway University of London)

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:07 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs 'win friends' book in Arabic
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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:tekbir at tekbirsilver.com
Subject:Needs 'win friends' book in Arabic

[moderator's note: please respond directly to Mr./Ms. Ozturk.  Thanks]

Dear
 
would you pls send me name of arabic books about how to win firend in  
arabic with name of writer and publishing house
 
halit öztürk
turkey istanbul

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:16 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Another color adjective response
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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:"Souad T. Ali" <Taj_1234 at msn.com>
Subject:color adjective response

Salaam Haruko:
 
Indeed, you can say huwa ashaddu (or aktharu) minha bayadan, sawadan,  
etc.
 
Yet, for Ahmar, Asfar, and Akhdar, the kind of "tameez" (or  
specification) for these comparative or superlative  
constructions becomes (ashaddu minha ihmiraaran (or homratan), ashaddu  
minha isfiraaran (or sufratan), ashaddu minha ikhdiraaran (or  
khudhratan).
 
With regard to the description of 'more orange,' huwa ashaddu (or  
aktharu) minha bortoqaaliyyatan is also used. The same applies to azraq  
as in: huwa aktharu (or ashaddu) minha zurgatan.
 
Regarding bunni and wardi, the kind of "tameez" for these includes:  
huwa aktharu bunniyyatan, wardiyyatan, etc.
 
I hope this helps.  Shukran.
Souad

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:21 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:21 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book: Afroasiatic Grammar II
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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Book: Afroasiatic Grammar II

Date:  Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:48:34 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Lecarme (ed)


Title: Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II
Subtitle: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic
	  Languages, Paris, 2000
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 241
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
            http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		
			
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT_241

Editor: Jacqueline  Lecarme, CNRS, Paris

Hardback: ISBN: 1588113868, Pages: viii, 550 pp., Price: USD 140.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027247536, Pages: viii, 550 pp., Price: EUR 140.00
			
Abstract:

This volume contains 22 of the papers presented at the 5th Conference
on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5) held at Université Paris VII in June
2000.

The authors report their latest research on the syntax, morphology,
and phonology of quite a number of languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic,
Tigrinya, Coptic Egyptian, Berber, Hausa, Beja, Somali, Gamo). The
articles discuss new solutions to familiar questions such as the free
state/construct state alternation of nouns, the Semitic template
system, and the morphosyntax of nominal and verbal plurality. Ten of
the papers center on morphology, especially the relation of phonology
to syntax and morphology; others address questions at the
syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface; two papers also offer
comparative and historical perspectives. Taken as a whole, the papers
provide an accurate picture of the state of current research in
Afroasiatic linguistics, containing important new data and new
analyses. Given its coverage, the book is a valuable resource for
anyone interested in Afroasiatic languages and theoretical
linguistics.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  vii
Alternation of state in Berber
  Karim Achab 1-19
Anti-faithfulness: An inherent morphological property
  Outi Bat-El 21-34
The internal structure of the determiner in Beja
  Sabrina Bendjaballah 35-52
Reciprocals as plurals in Arabic
  Elabbas Benmamoun 53-62
Modern Hebrew possessive yeS constructions
  Nora Boneh 63-77
The thematic and syntactic status of Ps: The Dative, Directional,
  Locative distinction
  Irena Botwinik-Rotem 79-104
Emergent vowels in Tigrinya templates
  Eugene Buckley 105-125
Transitivity alternations in the Semitic template system
  Edit Doron 127-149
Verbal plurality, transitivity, and causativity
  Abdelkader Fassi Fehri 151-185
Ex-situ and in-situ focus in Hausa: Syntax, semantics and discourse
  Melanie Green and Philip J. Jaggar 187-214
The metathesis effect in Classical Arabic and the representation of
  geminates
  M. Masten Guerssel 215-240
Omotic: The 'empty quarter' of Afroasiatic Linguistics
  Richard J. Hayward 241-261
Demonstratives and reinforcers in Arabic, Romance and Germanic
  Tabea Ihsane 263-285
Tonal alternations in Somali
  David Le Gac 287-304
Verb conjugations and the Strong Pronoun declension in Standard Arabic
  John S. Lumsden and Girma Halefom 305-337
The historical dynamics of the Arabic plural system: Implications for
  the theory of morphology
  Robert R. Ratcliffe 339-362
The syntax of special inflection in Coptic interrogatives
  Chris H. Reintges 363-408
Indexicality, logophoricity, and plural pronouns
  Philippe Schlenker 409-428
Vowel innovation in Arabic: Inductive grounding and pattern symmetry
  Kimary N. Shahin 429-445
Phrasal movement in Hebrew DPs
  Ivy Sichel 447-479
Prosodic Case checking domain: The Case of constructs
  Tal Siloni 481-510
Templatic effects as fixed prosody: The verbal system in Semitic
  Adam Ussishkin 511-530
Index  531-547

Lingfield(s):  Syntax
			
Language Family(ies):  Afroasiatic

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

      See this book announcement on our website:
      http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=8030.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:30 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Slips of the tonge
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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:Sabah Safi <sabahsafi at hotmail.com>
Subject:Arabic Slips of the tonge

Dear Colleagues:
 
I am in the process of doing a comprehensive review of research on  
Arabic slips of the tongue for the Encyclopaedia of the Arabic  
Language. Any references, suggestions, citations that I should not  
overlook would be most appreciated.
 
Many thanks,
 
Sabah

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:28 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Arabic
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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:Frederic Lagrange <fredlag at noos.fr>
Subject:Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Arabic

read my article (in French) on Mac OS 10.3 and Arabic at

http://www.macgeneration.com/mgnews/categories/en_passant/
en_passant_104030_1.shtml

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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Arabic

For those who don't read French, I will summarize the article here.
Basically, 10.3 has provided a new Arabic font, Geeza Pro, which
becomes the default Arabic font for most Arabic sites, and this has
solved the problem of the little tiny independent characters mixed in
amongst the bigger connected characters.  You can now go to a site like
Al-Jazeera using Safari and everything is very readable and normal
looking right on the screen.  However, Safari has not solve the problem
of keeping connected letters connected when there is a vowel mark
between them.  A vowel still breaks up a word.  For many sites this is
not a problem, but some papers, like Al-Hayat for example, use vowels
more than others.  Also, there are some 'literary' and religious sites
that use vowels.  As Prof. Lagrange points out, if you find something
on a site that is heavily vowelled (like lines of poetry) and therefore
unreadable, you can copy it into TextEdit and it comes out looking
fine.  In other words, the 'connecting' problem doesn't seem to be
inherent to the system, but just to the program Safari.  For example, I
found a random paragraph in a random article in Al-Hayat with the word
minna 'from us' with a shadda on the nuun.  On Safari the nuun and alif
were separated because of the shadda, but when I copied the paragraph
into textedit, the alif and nuun were connected and it looked great.
The article contains several screen shots, so even if you don't read
French you might benefit by lookiing at it.
By the way, TextEdit still has the punctuation problem that I have
mentioned before, but this can be remedied by using Melel, which has
both a text alignment and a text direction button.

Dil

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:25 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:25 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:ARCE Fellowships
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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:Carolyn Tomaselli <ctomase at emory.edu>
Subject:ARCE Fellowships

ARCE FELLOWSHIPS

2004-2005
The Fellowship Program

The goal of the Fellowship Program is to promote a fresh and more  
profound knowledge of Egypt and the Near East through scholarly  
research and to aid in the training of American specialists in Middle  
Eastern studies in academic disciplines that require familiarity with  
Egypt.

ARCE Fellowships are given for periods of between 3 and 12 months  
(depending on the source of funding – see below for details).   
TheScholar-in-Residence (carrying a special USIA stipend above and  
beyond the NEH or regular USIA funding) is offered to a senior scholar  
in the humanities (Islamic Studies, Egyptology, Philosophy, History,  
etc.) for a period of up to 12 months.  This is for a post-doctoral  
scholar who wishes to spend up to a year in Cairo carrying out a  
research project and is willing to act in an official capacity as  
“senior scholar in residence.” 

ARCE has available approximately 12 fellowships from the following  
funding sources:

v      The United States Information Agency funds fellowships available  
to pre-doctoral candidates and post-doctoral scholars for a minimum  
stay of three months.  Stipend levels begin at $1530 per month. Please  
note: Egyptologists are eligible for these fellowships, as well as for  
the NEH and Kress Fellowships.

v      The National Endowment for the Humanities makes available  
fellowships for post-doctoral scholars with a minimum stay of four  
months. Stipend levels begin at $1770 per month.  Two short-term (4-6  
weeks) curatorial fellowships for museum professionals are also  
available for three consecutive years.

v      The Samuel H. Kress Foundation funds the Kress Fellowship in  
Egyptian Art and Architecture, an annual prize of  $14,800 plus  
round-trip airfare $2,000) given to a pre-doctoral student.  The funds  
are available to students of any nationality who are enrolled in a  
North American university.

v      The William P. McHugh Memorial Fund provides the McHugh Award, a  
special grant given to a graduate student from any nation to encourage  
the study of Egyptian geoarchaeology and prehistory.  Please contact  
ARCE for more information.

Selection of Fellows

The availability of fellowships is publicized nationally via major web  
search engines, the ARCE website, through universities, research  
directories, and professional bulletins. Candidates must submit  
completed applications, transcripts (for pre-doctoral students only),  
and three (or four, if applicable) letters of recommendation by the  
January 5 deadline.  These should be sent directly to the U.S. ARCE  
office and should be timed to arrive on or before the deadline.

A pdf application is now available on the ARCE website at:  
www.arce.org, where applicants can fill out the necessary forms, print  
them out, attach the proposal, and mail.  Applicants may also contact  
the U.S. Office directly for an information packet and forms:   
TheAmerican Research Center in Egypt, Emory Briarcliff Campus, 1256  
Briarcliff Rd, NE, Atlanta GA 30306.  Tel: (404) 712-9854.   
Email: arce at emory.edu.
 
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:23 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dutch-Arabic/Arabic-Dutch Dictionaries published
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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject:Dutch-Arabic/Arabic-Dutch Dictionaries published

Dear colleagues

Yesterday (29 October) we had the official presentation of the
Arabic-Dutch and Dutch-Arabic dictionaries which were compiled at the
department of Arabic at the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands).

There is a website with a lot of background information and sample
pages available:
www.let.kun.nl/WBA

This site contains information about:

Dictionaries, Lexicography and Arabic Dictionaries in particular
Historical overview of the project: the stage before the actual
compilation started
Plans about how to carry out the project
the working methods
sample pages from both parts of the dictionary
difficulties encountered during the compilation
special attention to the phenomenon of collocation, which is also one
of the innovating aspects of these dictionaries
the team of collaborators
the editorial committee

other sites about Arabic lexicography and dictionaries, bibliographical
information

conclusions and observations

financial support

practical information (ISBN, price, adress of the publisher etc.)

I hope those who are interested in the project and its outcome will
take a look at this site.
Thanks and greetings
the proud editor and coordinator of the project
Jan Hoogland

Jan (Abu Samir) Hoogland
Department of Arabic, Nijmegen University (the Netherlands)
PO Box 9103, NL 6500 HD Nijmegen, the Netherlands
phone +-31-24-3612641, fax +-31-24-3500719, E-mail:
J.HOOGLAND at LET.KUN.NL
website: http://www.let.kun.nl/~j.hoogland/

De Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen heet vanaf 1 september 2004 Radboud
Universiteit Nijmegen
The University of Nijmegen will be named Radboud University Nijmegen as
of September 1st, 2004

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:10 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Job at Middlebury
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From:cstone <cstone at middlebury.edu>
Subject:Arabic Job at Middlebury

Middlebury College seeks applications for a lecturer in Modern Standard
Arabic beginning September 2004. The position is for a three-year term
with the possibility of renewal. The successful applicant should have
experience in teaching all levels of Modern Standard Arabic using the
communicative approach, have native or near native proficiency in
Arabic, and be interested in creating as much as possible an
intensive-program atmosphere during the regular academic year.  Send
letter of application with statement of teaching philosophy, curriculum
vitae, graduate transcript, and three letters of recommendation, at
least two of which must speak to teaching ability, to:  Prof. Jeffrey
Cason, Director, International Studies, Middlebury College, Middlebury,
VT  05753.  Review of complete applications will begin December 5, 2003,
and will continue until the position has been filled.  Christopher Stone
will be available at the MESA Conference in Anchorage November 7-9 to
meet with interested candidates.  Middlebury College is an Equal
Opportunity Employer committed to recruiting a diverse faculty to
complement its increasingly diverse student body.

Christopher Stone
Assistant Professor of Arabic and International Studies
Middlebury College
Munroe Hall - International Studies
Middlebury VT, 05753

802-443-3482
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:18 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:18 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Ph.D.
 Program at Arizona
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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh <marthas at u.arizona.edu>
Subject:Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Ph.D. Program at  
Arizona

The Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Ph.D program at the
University of Arizona is interested in receiving applications from  
Arabic
speaking students interested in pursuing research and teaching careers  
in
the field of Arabic as a Second Language or in English as a Second  
Language.
The SLAT program is working with the department of Near Eastern Studies  
in
order to provide possible support for qualified applicants who could  
teach
Arabic, and with the department of English to provide possible support  
for
qualified applicants who could teach English composition (written  
academic
English) to students at the University of Arizona. There have been  
speakers
of Arabic who have taught Arabic and English at the university while
pursuing their Ph.D. in SLAT in the past, and the SLAT program is very
interested in attracting more Arabic speakers in the future.  A detailed
description of the program and contact information is provided below. We
would be most grateful if you would bring this to the attention of  
qualified
potential applicants.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The SLAT doctoral program is an interdisciplinary
program with 62 faculty members located in 15 collaborating  
departments. The
program is designed to provide rigorous advanced training for  
researchers,
teachers, and administrators concerned with second language learning,  
and
teaching.

The SLAT Program has been recognized as a high-quality interdisciplinary
program. Several of our participating departments have been ranked in  
the
top ten in the country, including Anthropology, East Asian Studies,
Linguistics, and Speech and Hearing Sciences.

SPECIALIZATIONS: Students select from among the following four
specializations:
1. L2 Analysis: grammar, contrastive linguistics, interlanguage studies,
syntax, phonology, morphology, syntax.
2. L2 Use: discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language planning &  
policy,
rhetoric, pragmatics, variation, socio-cultural factors
3. L2 Processes and Learning: psycholinguistics, second language  
acquisition
theory and research, foreign language learning and research,  
interlanguage.
4. L2 Pedagogical Theory and Program Administration: ESL/FL methods
curriculum development, testing and evaluation, reading, writing and
educational technology.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS: Most students entering the program hold a master¹s
degree or its equivalent. Candidates are required to complete 33 units  
of
core courses (including courses in second language acquisition theory  
and
teaching practice, linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics,
research methods and statistics) and then choose an 18-unit  
specialization
from among the four specializations listed above. In addition,  
candidates
select a minor (12 or more units) from among the above four  
specializations
or the may choose an external minor in a field such as French  
Literature,
Language Reading and Culture or Rhetoric and Composition. They must also
complete a dissertation for a minimum of an additional 18 units.
Post-baccalaureate coursework completed prior to admission may be
substituted for a portion of these requirements.


APPLICATION PROCEDURES:  Application packets are available from the SLAT
Program office, and from our web site: http://www.coh.arizona.edu/SLAT/.
Applicants are asked to submit:
® A completed SLAT Application form
® A statement of purpose
® GRE scores
® An example of scholarly writing
® 3 letters of reference
® Official transcripts from all post-secondary institutions.
® International students also must submit TOEFL scores and a financial
guarantee form.
Forms and complete information on these procedures may be obtained  
directly
from the SLAT Program Office, or on-line. International students should
apply to the University before December 1 if at all possible, or as soon
thereafter as possible. The deadline for receipt of all other  
application
materials is February 1
FINANCIAL SUPPORT:  Financial aid includes: Graduate College  
Fellowships,
Research Assistantships Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GATships) in  
one
of the language departments. In addition, a limited number of tuition  
and
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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:10:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Arabic
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Date: 07 Oct  2003
From:Albrecht Hofheinz <Albrecht_Hofheinz at web.de>
Subject:Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Arabic

Thanks Frédéric Lagrange for this article. I wonder how browsers other  
than Safari display vocalized text under Panther (Mozilla 1.5, Camino,  
Firebird; iCab).

Thank you,
Albrecht Hofheinz

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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:10:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants info on Jordan and Syria programs
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Date: 07 Oct  2003
From:rccolino at aol.com
Subject:Wants info on Jordan and Syria programs

[please respond directly to Mr. Colino.]

My name is Richard Colino  and I am presently completing the first  
semester, second year of Modern Standard Arabic at Mt. Holyoke  
College/the University of Massachusetts. I would like to undertake a 3  
week course of study of Arabic in either Jordan or Syria during the  
month of January (January 1-24, 2004) next year prior to resuming  
Arabic studies as noted above. My interest is to a large degree in  
spoken Arabic which is not emphasized in the course of instruction I am  
now taking. My understanding is that 3-week courses generally are for 3  
hours per day, 5 days per week. Some courses of instruction issue a  
certicate of attendance or something similar in lieu of academic  
credits.
Please respond to this interest with an indication of what can be  
provided and when and the cost of either small group or individual  
instruction. (several classmates are interested in this interterm  
activity as well). Any information about housing would be appreciated,  
(although I will probably seek hotel accommodations since my wife will  
be with me for part of the time).
I look forward to indicating that program of instruction can be  
arranged.

Shukran,
Richard Colino

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Nov  7 22:10:34 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:10:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Acquisition and Bilingualism references needed
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Date: 07 Oct  2003
From:Fatima Badry Zalami <badry at aus.ac.ae>
Subject:Acquisition and Bilingualism references needed

Dear All:
  I am in the process of collecting information on work done on Arabic
language acquisition, for the Encyclopedia of the Arabic Language.
Research can be on any aspect of any dialect being acquired as a first
language. I am also interested in studies of bilingualism involving
Arabic as one of the languages.  I suspect that most of the work is in
unpublished dissertations/theses and would appreciate all references or
email attachments.
Thank you for your help.

Fatima Badry

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Nov  7 22:10:38 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:10:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Planet names
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Date: 07 Oct  2003
From:Jim Rader <jrader at Merriam-Webster.com>
Subject:Planet names

You might try looking in Paul Kunitzsch's _Arabische Sternnamen in
Europa_ (Harrassowitz, 1959).  I haven't had easy access to this book
in years, but it may have something on planet names.  For deciphering
European star names taken from Arabic it was indispensable.

Jim Rader

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Date: 07 Oct  2003
From:Roland Laffitte <laffitte at noos.fr>
Subject:Planet names

Here are the arabic names of planets:

Moon : al-qamar
Jupiter : al-mushtarî
Mars : al-Marîkh
Mercury : ‘atâri  (al-Kâtib au Maghreb)
Saturn : Zahil (al-Muqatil au Maghreb)
Vénus : al-Zuhra

With my best regards

Roland Laffitte
See : www.uranos.com.fr

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Nov 13 17:33:37 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:33:37 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:I Speak Arabic Film
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Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:I Speak Arabic Film

Date:  Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:05:35 +0000
From:  Diana Scalera <dscaler at nycboe.net>
Subject:  Film About Heritage Language Learners

The documentary film ''I Speak Arabic'' will be shown on SCOLA, a
foreign language cable station available in many parts of the United
States on Sundays in November and at the ACTFL Conference in
Philadelphia on November 22.

This film documents the relationship that heritage speakers have with
their heritage language through the experiences of Arabic speakers in
the US.  It is a powerful resource for all interested in understanding
the personal and political issues surrounding the use and maintenance
of heritage languages.

Please visit the film's web site at www.ispeakarabic.org for more
specific information.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Nov 13 17:33:30 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:33:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root?
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Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:Eltoukhi at aol.com
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root?

Dear ALL
I am writing this to ask : is there any Arabic-English dictionary that
goes by the stem
( by the word as is ,) without going back to the root to avoid
difficulties the foreign learner face with words as (ittahama ,
ittasala, and others?
Thanks alot
Eltoukhi

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Nov 13 17:33:27 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:33:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:LDC will pay for Levantine Phone Conversations
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Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:Tim Buckwalter <timbuck2 at ldc.upenn.edu>
Subject:LDC will pay for Levantine Phone Conversations (native speakers
only)

The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania is
conducting a telephone speech study supporting linguistic research,
technology development and education. Participants take part in 1-3
telephone calls talking to other participants for ten minutes. These
calls are recorded for research and educational purposes, and
participants receive $15 for every successful call in which they take
part. A robot operator initiates all calls, and participants answer the
phone only at the time(s) they specify during registration. If you are a
NATIVE SPEAKER OF LEVANTINE ARABIC and are interested in participating
in this study, please visit the LDC website for further details:
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/fisher/
Additional details can be obtained from David Miller, FISHER Project
Manager, by calling 1-800-380-PENN. We also have an Arabic version of
this announcement that you may want to post on your Arabic department
bulletin board. Since we can't post graphics on Arabic-L please contact
me if you'd like a copy.

Thank you,

Tim Buckwalter
Linguistic Data Consortium
3600 Market Street, Suite 810
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2653
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Nov 13 17:33:33 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:33:33 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Panther and Arabic
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Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:Albrecht Hofheinz <Albrecht.Hofheinz at smi.uib.no>

Further to my posting of 7 Nov:

> I wonder how browsers other than Safari display vocalized text under
> Panther (Mozilla 1.5, Camino, Firebird; iCab).

Since the issue is not a Panther issue but occurs under Jaguar as well,
I suspect other browsers should behave better than Safari, as they do
under Jaguar. I tested Mozilla 1.5, Camino 0.7 and Firebird 0.7, and
they all render vocalized text well-connected (see the "Hadith of the
Day" at http://www.salafi.net/). I don't have iCab installed to check
that one.

Can anyone confirm this behaviour for Panther?

Albrecht Hofheinz

Subject:Panther and Arabic

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Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:BearMeiser at aol.com

A friend of mine who is an IT guy says that he has tried the Panther
Arabic and it now renders Arabic web pages correctly.
We also found that by changing the encoding of a web page, you can fill
out forms in web pages like Google and Arabic search sites. This means
that a Mac is finally almost as good as a PC when it comes to doing
Arabic web browsing.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Nov 13 17:33:40 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:33:40 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Language and Society Symposium at UT
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Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:Afra Al-Mussawir <afraalmussawir at yahoo.com>
Subject:Language and Society Symposium at UT

CALL FOR PAPERS -- SALSA 2004
The SYMPOSIUM ABOUT LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY--AUSTIN is pleased to
announce its
12th annual meeting to be held APRIL 16-18, 2004, at the University
of Texas
at Austin. We encourage the submission of abstracts on research that
addresses the relationship of language to culture and society.
Desired
frameworks include but are not limited to:

Linguistic Anthropology
Sociolinguistics
Ethnography of Communication
Language and Identity
Speech Play, Verbal Art, and Poetics
Language, Media, and Technology
Language and Social Interaction
Discourse Analysis
Conversation Analysis
Language Vitality
Language Socialization
Gesture and Talk in Interaction

2004 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Susan Ervin-Tripp, University of California, Berkeley
Emanuel Schegloff, University of California, Los Angeles
Jürgen Streeck, University of Texas, Austin
Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania

Papers delivered at the conference will be published as a special
edition of
the Texas Linguistic Forum. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for
presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected
based on
the evaluation of an anonymously written abstract, which may not
exceed 600
words. We will accept only electronic submissions.

SUBMISSIONS
Please email your abstract to utsalsa at uts.cc.utexas.edu, Subject:
SALSA 12
Abstract.
Please include in the following order:
1. Title of the paper
2. Author's name
3. Author's affiliation
4. Address, phone number, and email address at which the author
wishes to be
notified
5. A 600-word abstract*
6. A short 200-word abstract* for publication in the conference
program
7. Equipment needs (e.g., overhead projector, computer projection,
etc.)
*Please send the abstracts as a Word attachment as well as in the
body of
the email message.

Visit the SALSA web page for submission guidelines and conference
details:
http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa/index.shtml

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is JANUARY 15, 2004. Late
submissions will
not be accepted, and we cannot accept papers that are to be published
elsewhere. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent in
mid-February 2004. Pre-registration fees will be $20 for students and
$40
for non-students, and on-site registration fees will be $25 for
students and
$45 for non-students. Completed papers must be brought to the
conference to
be included in the published proceedings.
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Nov 17 16:23:21 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:23:21 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs NJ, CN, and LA Arabic Institutes
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Ezzat FAM <ezzatfam at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs NJ, CN, and LA Arabic Institutes

[please respond directly to Ezzat.]

  I wonder if you can help me find names of centers or institutes that  
teach the Arabic language to non-native speakers in the USA  
specifically in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Los Angelos.
            Sincerely Yours,
             Dr. Wafaa El-Mankabadi

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Nov 17 16:25:49 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:25:49 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Panther and Arabic
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Albrecht Hofheinz <Albrecht.Hofheinz at smi.uib.no>
Subject:Panther and Arabic

As I have now taken the leap and installed Panther, I can at least
partly answer my own question.

Camino 0.7 and Firebird 0.7 both render vocalized text well-connected.
Camino, however, has a new problem (or at least one that I hadn't
previously noticed): it inserts a angle bracket (? not sure about the
name: >) after each laam-alif ligature. Haven't had time for extensive
testing, but just wish to report this. Firebird doesn't have this
problem, so for now Firebird would appear to be the browser of choice
for Arabic under Panther.

Otherwise, I'm pleased to say that not only are we now approaching
better legibility of Arabic web pages (you have to increase the font
size, though), but that -- as others have reported -- Panther is also
noticeably snappier than Jaguar -- finally an OS X system where I don't
have to curse the speed of my iBook/500. Upgrading went smoothly for
me. If you want to try for yourself, be sure to backup your important
files, repair permissions, and read about the FireWire issues before
you do; do an archive and install; and upgrade to 10.3.1 immediately
after installing 10.3, and before using external FireWire drives. Once
everything is upgraded, repair permissions again, and start working.

Albrecht Hofheinz

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Nov 17 16:26:11 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:26:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Steve Robertson <srr29 at email.byu.edu>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

I have used one such dictionary extensively.  It's called "Al-Mawrid
Al-Quareeb; A pocket Arabic-English Dictionary" by Dr. Rohi Baalbaki.
I have found it for the most part concise and accurate.  It's one major
limitation for foreigners is that it does not list any plural forms.
There is also an English-Arabic version and a combined version of this
dictionary for sale.  I have seen it for sale on at amazon.com before.
I hope this helps.

Steve Robertson

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Christian Sinclai r<www.sit.edu/studyabroad>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Try the al-Mawrid (details below).  It's a great dictionary if you
don't =
want to deal with roots.  It's got synonyms and prepositions as well =
listed for most words.
best,
Christian Sinclair

Al-Mawrid: Arabic/English Dictionary
Dr. Rohi Baalbaki
Dar El-Ilm LilMalayin, Beirut

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Yes there is one such dictionary.  I have it, but not with me at this
time.  I think it is the Larousse dictionary, but I could be wrong.

Waheed

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Gergana Atanassova <iana_j at hotmail.com>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Salam

Ruhi Baalbaki's "Al-Mawrid" (Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, Beirut, Lebanon) is
organized alphabetically by whole words rather than roots, so you would
find ittiHaad under hamza (alif) there, instead of w-H-d. The problem
with this dictionary is that it does not list the plural forms of nouns
or adjectives, for example, so if the word has an irregular plural the
only way to find out what its form is, is to go to a root dictionary.
Also, with a root-based dictionary you can get a sense of the general
meaning of the root just by looking at all the derivatives, and thus
the meaning of individual words is easier to understand.
I think a stem-based dictionary is suitable if you just need to look up
a word quickly, but if you need to really understand and learn the
word, you need a root-based one. I personally have both types at home
:)

Gergana

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Langenscheidt's Arabic-German is alphabetically ordered.
Maybe there are more.
Jan

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Claudette Mukalla <ibc at ibcbooks.com>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

The International Book Centre may have a book of interest. Dictionary
of Roots of Difficult Words ... by Ghawamid Al-Shah  " Al-Safadi."
Description: At long last, this is a dictionary with lists of the
roots of difficult words in the Arabic language. Hardbound 224 Pages,
Published in 1997. Price is $29.95.
Claudette with International Book centre, Inc. website:
www.ibcbooks.com

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Ahmed Ferhadi <ahmed.ferhadi at nyu.edu>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

I know of an alphabetical Arabic-English dictionary
as such, called "al qaamus al aSrii al alfbaa'ii by
Alyaas (Elias) but I don't recall the details of the
publisher.

Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:J Murgida <jmurg at ttlc.net>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Al-Mawrid Arabic-English Dictionary, al-Ba'albakki, dar al-`ilm
lil-malaayiin, Beirut. Mine is the 8th ed., 1996. I don't know if
there's a
more recent edition.

It's organized alphabetically by the first letter of the stem, which is
great when you're not sure of the root. A great drawback is that if
you're
looking for a broken plural and you don't know the singular, you have to
guess at what it might be. When you look up that singular stem, the
plural
is normally not given [unless the plural means something other than
just
the plural of the singular -- like ma`luum/ma`luumaat]. So if you're
looking
up madaaris and you guess that the singular is madrasah, you don't get
confirmation that you've got the right singular.

Of course, this normally isn't a problem for native speakers of Arabic,
but
we foreigners could use that confirmation or an indication that we got
the
wrong singular and should try again. I use both Wehr and al-Mawrid when
translating from Arabic into English. And as you say, it's great for
students, although they still have to know enough morphology to figure
out
what the stem is, i.e., that they have to look up yaSifu under waSafa.

Best regards,
Jackie

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:MULTILINGUAL TRANSLATION SYSTEM <info at cimos.com>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Dear ALL,
Yes, we can provide an Arabic- English dictionary organised by stem.

Best regards

 From    info at cimos.com     Tel 00 33 1 43 66 31 90
CIMOS

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Andrew Dempsey <andrew at egyptianarabic.com>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

This is an interesting issue that we faced as we developed our Egyptian
Arabic Vocab Clinic software, which is designed to try to accommodate
people who haven't any idea about verb forms, etc.  We ended up listing
our 3000+ items by root in the end because the issues surrounding
the "as is" were so complex.

I do not recall coming across any publications that DIDN'T use the root
system, which influenced the decision for us also
to use it.  I would be curious, like you, to know of any dictionaries
that
use a pure letter-by-letter approach.

Andrew

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Muhammad Aziz <maaziz50 at hotmail.com>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

You may try Al-Mawrid by Dr. Rohi Baalbaki, Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin.

Muhammad Aziz

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Muhammad S Eissa <eissa at umich.edu>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Yes, there is an Arabic English dictionary organized by stem. Check
"Al-Mawrid: Arabic/English. There is by lingual edition for both
Eng./Ar. &
Ar./Eng which I find very convenient.

Muhammad S. Eissa, Ph. D.
9411 Harding Ave.,
Evanston, IL 60203
Ph./Fax (847) 329-1191

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:dwilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Al Mawrid
A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary

Rohi Baalbaki

Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin
Beirut, Lebanon
PO Box 1085

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Raven at em.uni-frankfurt.de
Subject:Wants Classical Arabic Poetry CD

Dear list members,

I am longing for a CD-ROM with a substantial collection pre-Islamic and
classical Arabic poetry on it (original texts), which has a searching
facility
as well. Does anyone know whether such a thing exists?

Thank you in advance,
Wim Raven, University of Frankfurt, Germany
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:25:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:mawthabaan query
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Haruko SAKAEDANI <harukos at aa.tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:mawthabaan query

My question is: Why does "mawthabaan" mean "who stays always at home,
undertakes nothing (prince)" (according to Steingass) though its root
"w-th-b"
means "to jump" ??

i heard that the word "marzipan" had come from the Arabic word
"mawthabaan."
"mawthabaan" is a name of some coins which contains an image of Christ
sitting on the throne.
There were such coins in the Crusades time.
The coins were called "a seated king" but the Arab called them
"mawthabaan."

These coins were put on boxes then those boxes began to be called
"mawthabaan."
The people put in them some kind of sweets.
After a while, the name of these boxes became the name of the sweets.

Anyway, why did the Arab in those days called sitting Christ
"mawthabaan"
which comes from the root "w-th-b" that is, to jump?

Thanks in advance.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Nov 17 16:26:02 2003
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:26:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:A slightly fishy Arabic Translator Job posting
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Subject:Wants Arabic Translators

Hello ALL,
I am an Arabic Linguist Recruiter, currently hiring Arabic Translators  
for the worlds' largest government linguist contractor.
I am sending you this email because:
a) This may apply to you or
b) You may know someone or someone who knows someone
Who this may apply to.
I am currently seeking Arabic speaking people.  The major requirement is
being able to read and write Arabic with a GREAT command of the English
language.  I can hire US Citizens and Green Card Holders ONLY!!
You must be over the age of 18 and
NO experience is necessary.
This is a great position.  It is a full time salary job with full  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:25:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic/German Translation software query
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Petra Duenges <duenges at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE>
Subject:Arabic/German Translation software query

hallo,

is there any software around doing machine translation from Arabic to
German or from German to Arabic? Who is currently developing such a
system?

Thanks a lot.

Petra Duenges

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:25:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UofMaryland CASL Research Scientist Job
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Meredith Price <mprice at casl.umd.edu>
Subject:UofMaryland CASL Research Scientist Job

The following is a job announcement posted by the Center for Advanced  
Study of Language at the University of Maryland.

“The newly established Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) at  
the University of Maryland invites applications for appointments at the  
rank of Associate/Senior Research Scientist in areas relevant to its  
mission.  A tenure-track or tenured faculty appointment in an  
appropriate department is possible.  Target areas include: cognitive  
science/psychology, linguistics, second language acquisition, and  
computational linguistics.  Candidates must have an earned Ph.D. in a  
relevant field; have a record of individual research achievement, a  
strong record of publication, and the ability to establish an  
interdisciplinary research program across areas related to the study of  
language and analysis.

Job description: Develop research proposals; oversee all research in  
the candidate's area; serve as Principal Investigator on several  
research projects annually; organize national symposia and conferences  
in support of the Center's research; and publish on aspects of the  
candidate's Center research.  Lead up to $5 million of  
interdisciplinary research annually.  Identify and recruit senior, mid,  
and junior researchers as Center employees and consultants.  Form  
partnerships with other top research institutions, both in academia and  
industry.  Contribute to a five-year plan for the Center.  Develop a  
hiring, collaboration, research publication, education, and policy  
strategy with respect to the candidate's research area.

The Center for Advanced Study of Language was established in March  
2003.  Its mission is to conduct state-of-the-art research in areas  
that result in improved performance on language tasks relevant to the  
work of government language professionals.  The main interests include:  
(1) improving knowledge of less commonly taught languages; (2)  
enhancing acquisition and maintenance of foreign language capability by  
government professionals, especially at the advanced levels; (3)  
advancing the U.S. capacity to use foreign language skills in a wide  
variety of government professions and situations; (4) improving the  
quality of human language technology.

The Center is seeking people who will play a leading role in the  
strategic direction of CASL and will be in charge of multiple research  
projects in their field.  Candidates' research and publications should  
show evidence of ability to tackle complex, interdisciplinary research  
and to work collaboratively with a range of institutions and  
researchers.  They should have a record of successfully hiring,  
mentoring, and overseeing both junior and senior researchers.

  To apply, send a letter of application and curriculum vitae to Chief  
Research Officer, c/o Meredith Price, CASL, at mprice at casl.umd.edu.   
Candidates must hold U.S. citizenship and
be willing to obtain a security clearance

The University of Maryland is an affirmative action, equal opportunity  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:13 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Planet names in medieval Arabic query
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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:claudia boscolo <clobo70 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Planet names in medieval Arabic query

Dear All,

I am a scholar of romance philology, dealing with a
Franco-Italian text of the fourteenth century. I am
analysisng characterisation of Saracens and I came
across a linguistic problem.
I am not able to solve a verse which for me is a
complete enigma. I hope someone will be able to help.

Two planets are mentioned, the names of which are
Chavachabas and ?eli (pron: kavakabas/-us; tseli). I
wonder if anyone has any notion of similar names for
planets in Arabic, of which these two words could be
transcriptions in Franco-Italian. Also, it is said
that the first planet accomplishes its course neither
in 20 nor in 26 years.
Is anyone familiar with Arabic treaties on astronomy?

Thank you very much in advance for any help,
Claudia Boscolo
(Royal Holloway University of London)

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:07 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs 'win friends' book in Arabic
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From:tekbir at tekbirsilver.com
Subject:Needs 'win friends' book in Arabic

[moderator's note: please respond directly to Mr./Ms. Ozturk.  Thanks]

Dear
?
would you pls send me name of arabic books about how to win firend in  
arabic with name of writer and publishing house
?
halit ?zt?rk
turkey istanbul

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:16 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:16 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Another color adjective response
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From:"Souad T. Ali" <Taj_1234 at msn.com>
Subject:color adjective response

Salaam Haruko:
?
Indeed, you can say huwa ashaddu (or aktharu) minha?bayadan, sawadan,  
etc.
?
Yet, for Ahmar, Asfar, and Akhdar, the kind of?"tameez" (or  
specification) for these comparative or superlative  
constructions?becomes (ashaddu minha?ihmiraaran (or homratan), ashaddu  
minha?isfiraaran (or sufratan), ashaddu minha ikhdiraaran (or  
khudhratan).
?
With regard to the description of?'more orange,'?huwa ashaddu (or  
aktharu)?minha?bortoqaaliyyatan is also used. The same applies to azraq  
as in: huwa aktharu (or ashaddu) minha zurgatan.
?
Regarding bunni and wardi, the?kind of?"tameez" for these includes:  
huwa aktharu bunniyyatan, wardiyyatan, etc.
?
I hope this helps.? Shukran.
Souad

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:21 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:21 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book: Afroasiatic Grammar II
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From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:New Book: Afroasiatic Grammar II

Date:  Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:48:34 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Lecarme (ed)


Title: Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II
Subtitle: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic
	  Languages, Paris, 2000
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 241
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
            http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		
			
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT_241

Editor: Jacqueline  Lecarme, CNRS, Paris

Hardback: ISBN: 1588113868, Pages: viii, 550 pp., Price: USD 140.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027247536, Pages: viii, 550 pp., Price: EUR 140.00
			
Abstract:

This volume contains 22 of the papers presented at the 5th Conference
on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5) held at Universit? Paris VII in June
2000.

The authors report their latest research on the syntax, morphology,
and phonology of quite a number of languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic,
Tigrinya, Coptic Egyptian, Berber, Hausa, Beja, Somali, Gamo). The
articles discuss new solutions to familiar questions such as the free
state/construct state alternation of nouns, the Semitic template
system, and the morphosyntax of nominal and verbal plurality. Ten of
the papers center on morphology, especially the relation of phonology
to syntax and morphology; others address questions at the
syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface; two papers also offer
comparative and historical perspectives. Taken as a whole, the papers
provide an accurate picture of the state of current research in
Afroasiatic linguistics, containing important new data and new
analyses. Given its coverage, the book is a valuable resource for
anyone interested in Afroasiatic languages and theoretical
linguistics.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  vii
Alternation of state in Berber
  Karim Achab 1-19
Anti-faithfulness: An inherent morphological property
  Outi Bat-El 21-34
The internal structure of the determiner in Beja
  Sabrina Bendjaballah 35-52
Reciprocals as plurals in Arabic
  Elabbas Benmamoun 53-62
Modern Hebrew possessive yeS constructions
  Nora Boneh 63-77
The thematic and syntactic status of Ps: The Dative, Directional,
  Locative distinction
  Irena Botwinik-Rotem 79-104
Emergent vowels in Tigrinya templates
  Eugene Buckley 105-125
Transitivity alternations in the Semitic template system
  Edit Doron 127-149
Verbal plurality, transitivity, and causativity
  Abdelkader Fassi Fehri 151-185
Ex-situ and in-situ focus in Hausa: Syntax, semantics and discourse
  Melanie Green and Philip J. Jaggar 187-214
The metathesis effect in Classical Arabic and the representation of
  geminates
  M. Masten Guerssel 215-240
Omotic: The 'empty quarter' of Afroasiatic Linguistics
  Richard J. Hayward 241-261
Demonstratives and reinforcers in Arabic, Romance and Germanic
  Tabea Ihsane 263-285
Tonal alternations in Somali
  David Le Gac 287-304
Verb conjugations and the Strong Pronoun declension in Standard Arabic
  John S. Lumsden and Girma Halefom 305-337
The historical dynamics of the Arabic plural system: Implications for
  the theory of morphology
  Robert R. Ratcliffe 339-362
The syntax of special inflection in Coptic interrogatives
  Chris H. Reintges 363-408
Indexicality, logophoricity, and plural pronouns
  Philippe Schlenker 409-428
Vowel innovation in Arabic: Inductive grounding and pattern symmetry
  Kimary N. Shahin 429-445
Phrasal movement in Hebrew DPs
  Ivy Sichel 447-479
Prosodic Case checking domain: The Case of constructs
  Tal Siloni 481-510
Templatic effects as fixed prosody: The verbal system in Semitic
  Adam Ussishkin 511-530
Index  531-547

Lingfield(s):  Syntax
			
Language Family(ies):  Afroasiatic

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

      See this book announcement on our website:
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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Slips of the tonge
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From:Sabah Safi <sabahsafi at hotmail.com>
Subject:Arabic Slips of the tonge

Dear Colleagues:
?
I am in the process of doing a comprehensive?review of research on  
Arabic slips of the tongue for the Encyclopaedia of the Arabic  
Language. Any references, suggestions, citations that I should not  
overlook would be most appreciated.
?
Many thanks,
?
Sabah

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:28 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Arabic
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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:Frederic Lagrange <fredlag at noos.fr>
Subject:Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Arabic

read my article (in French) on Mac OS 10.3 and Arabic at

http://www.macgeneration.com/mgnews/categories/en_passant/
en_passant_104030_1.shtml

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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Arabic

For those who don't read French, I will summarize the article here.
Basically, 10.3 has provided a new Arabic font, Geeza Pro, which
becomes the default Arabic font for most Arabic sites, and this has
solved the problem of the little tiny independent characters mixed in
amongst the bigger connected characters.  You can now go to a site like
Al-Jazeera using Safari and everything is very readable and normal
looking right on the screen.  However, Safari has not solve the problem
of keeping connected letters connected when there is a vowel mark
between them.  A vowel still breaks up a word.  For many sites this is
not a problem, but some papers, like Al-Hayat for example, use vowels
more than others.  Also, there are some 'literary' and religious sites
that use vowels.  As Prof. Lagrange points out, if you find something
on a site that is heavily vowelled (like lines of poetry) and therefore
unreadable, you can copy it into TextEdit and it comes out looking
fine.  In other words, the 'connecting' problem doesn't seem to be
inherent to the system, but just to the program Safari.  For example, I
found a random paragraph in a random article in Al-Hayat with the word
minna 'from us' with a shadda on the nuun.  On Safari the nuun and alif
were separated because of the shadda, but when I copied the paragraph
into textedit, the alif and nuun were connected and it looked great.
The article contains several screen shots, so even if you don't read
French you might benefit by lookiing at it.
By the way, TextEdit still has the punctuation problem that I have
mentioned before, but this can be remedied by using Melel, which has
both a text alignment and a text direction button.

Dil

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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:25 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:ARCE Fellowships
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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:Carolyn Tomaselli <ctomase at emory.edu>
Subject:ARCE Fellowships

ARCE FELLOWSHIPS

2004-2005
The Fellowship Program

The goal of the Fellowship Program is to promote a fresh and more  
profound knowledge of Egypt and the Near East through scholarly  
research and to aid in the training of American specialists in Middle  
Eastern studies in academic disciplines that require familiarity with  
Egypt.

ARCE Fellowships are given for periods of between 3 and 12 months  
(depending on the source of funding ? see below for details).?  
TheScholar-in-Residence (carrying a special USIA stipend above and  
beyond the NEH or regular USIA funding) is offered to a senior scholar  
in the humanities (Islamic Studies, Egyptology, Philosophy, History,  
etc.) for a period of up to 12 months.? This is for a post-doctoral  
scholar who wishes to spend up to a year in Cairo carrying out a  
research project and is willing to act in an official capacity as  
?senior scholar in residence.??

ARCE has available approximately 12 fellowships from the following  
funding sources:

v????? The United States Information Agency funds fellowships available  
to pre-doctoral candidates and post-doctoral scholars for a minimum  
stay of three months.? Stipend levels begin at $1530 per month. Please  
note: Egyptologists are eligible for these fellowships, as well as for  
the NEH and Kress Fellowships.

v????? The National Endowment for the Humanities makes available  
fellowships for post-doctoral scholars with a minimum stay of four  
months.?Stipend levels begin at $1770 per month.? Two short-term (4-6  
weeks) curatorial fellowships for museum professionals are also  
available for three consecutive years.

v????? The Samuel H. Kress Foundation funds the Kress Fellowship in  
Egyptian Art and Architecture, an annual prize of? $14,800 plus  
round-trip airfare $2,000) given to a pre-doctoral student.? The funds  
are available to students of any nationality who are enrolled in a  
North American university.

v????? The William P. McHugh Memorial Fund provides the McHugh Award, a  
special grant given to a graduate student from any nation to encourage  
the study of Egyptian geoarchaeology and prehistory.? Please contact  
ARCE for more information.

Selection of Fellows

The availability of fellowships is publicized nationally via major web  
search engines, the ARCE website, through universities, research  
directories, and professional bulletins. Candidates must submit  
completed applications, transcripts (for pre-doctoral students only),  
and three (or four, if applicable) letters of recommendation by the  
January 5 deadline.? These should be sent directly to the U.S. ARCE  
office and should be timed to arrive on or before the deadline.

A pdf application is now available on the ARCE website at:  
www.arce.org, where applicants can fill out the necessary forms, print  
them out, attach the proposal, and mail.? Applicants may also contact  
the U.S. Office directly for an information packet and forms:?  
TheAmerican Research Center in Egypt, Emory Briarcliff Campus, 1256  
Briarcliff Rd, NE, Atlanta GA 30306.? Tel: (404) 712-9854.?  
Email:?arce at emory.edu.
?
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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:23 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dutch-Arabic/Arabic-Dutch Dictionaries published
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1) Subject:Dutch-Arabic/Arabic-Dutch Dictionaries published

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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject:Dutch-Arabic/Arabic-Dutch Dictionaries published

Dear colleagues

Yesterday (29 October) we had the official presentation of the
Arabic-Dutch and Dutch-Arabic dictionaries which were compiled at the
department of Arabic at the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands).

There is a website with a lot of background information and sample
pages available:
www.let.kun.nl/WBA

This site contains information about:

Dictionaries, Lexicography and Arabic Dictionaries in particular
Historical overview of the project: the stage before the actual
compilation started
Plans about how to carry out the project
the working methods
sample pages from both parts of the dictionary
difficulties encountered during the compilation
special attention to the phenomenon of collocation, which is also one
of the innovating aspects of these dictionaries
the team of collaborators
the editorial committee

other sites about Arabic lexicography and dictionaries, bibliographical
information

conclusions and observations

financial support

practical information (ISBN, price, adress of the publisher etc.)

I hope those who are interested in the project and its outcome will
take a look at this site.
Thanks and greetings
the proud editor and coordinator of the project
Jan Hoogland

Jan (Abu Samir) Hoogland
Department of Arabic, Nijmegen University (the Netherlands)
PO Box 9103, NL 6500 HD Nijmegen, the Netherlands
phone +-31-24-3612641, fax +-31-24-3500719, E-mail:
J.HOOGLAND at LET.KUN.NL
website: http://www.let.kun.nl/~j.hoogland/

De Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen heet vanaf 1 september 2004 Radboud
Universiteit Nijmegen
The University of Nijmegen will be named Radboud University Nijmegen as
of September 1st, 2004

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:10 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Job at Middlebury
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1) Subject:Arabic Job at Middlebury

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Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:cstone <cstone at middlebury.edu>
Subject:Arabic Job at Middlebury

Middlebury College seeks applications for a lecturer in Modern Standard
Arabic beginning September 2004. The position is for a three-year term
with the possibility of renewal. The successful applicant should have
experience in teaching all levels of Modern Standard Arabic using the
communicative approach, have native or near native proficiency in
Arabic, and be interested in creating as much as possible an
intensive-program atmosphere during the regular academic year.  Send
letter of application with statement of teaching philosophy, curriculum
vitae, graduate transcript, and three letters of recommendation, at
least two of which must speak to teaching ability, to:  Prof. Jeffrey
Cason, Director, International Studies, Middlebury College, Middlebury,
VT  05753.  Review of complete applications will begin December 5, 2003,
and will continue until the position has been filled.  Christopher Stone
will be available at the MESA Conference in Anchorage November 7-9 to
meet with interested candidates.  Middlebury College is an Equal
Opportunity Employer committed to recruiting a diverse faculty to
complement its increasingly diverse student body.

Christopher Stone
Assistant Professor of Arabic and International Studies
Middlebury College
Munroe Hall - International Studies
Middlebury VT, 05753

802-443-3482
cstone at middlebury.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Wed Nov  5 20:32:18 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:32:18 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Ph.D.
 Program at Arizona
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1) Subject:Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Ph.D. Program at  
Arizona

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1)
Date: 05 Oct  2003
From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh <marthas at u.arizona.edu>
Subject:Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Ph.D. Program at  
Arizona

The Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Ph.D program at the
University of Arizona is interested in receiving applications from  
Arabic
speaking students interested in pursuing research and teaching careers  
in
the field of Arabic as a Second Language or in English as a Second  
Language.
The SLAT program is working with the department of Near Eastern Studies  
in
order to provide possible support for qualified applicants who could  
teach
Arabic, and with the department of English to provide possible support  
for
qualified applicants who could teach English composition (written  
academic
English) to students at the University of Arizona. There have been  
speakers
of Arabic who have taught Arabic and English at the university while
pursuing their Ph.D. in SLAT in the past, and the SLAT program is very
interested in attracting more Arabic speakers in the future.  A detailed
description of the program and contact information is provided below. We
would be most grateful if you would bring this to the attention of  
qualified
potential applicants.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The SLAT doctoral program is an interdisciplinary
program with 62 faculty members located in 15 collaborating  
departments. The
program is designed to provide rigorous advanced training for  
researchers,
teachers, and administrators concerned with second language learning,  
and
teaching.

The SLAT Program has been recognized as a high-quality interdisciplinary
program. Several of our participating departments have been ranked in  
the
top ten in the country, including Anthropology, East Asian Studies,
Linguistics, and Speech and Hearing Sciences.

SPECIALIZATIONS: Students select from among the following four
specializations:
1. L2 Analysis: grammar, contrastive linguistics, interlanguage studies,
syntax, phonology, morphology, syntax.
2. L2 Use: discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language planning &  
policy,
rhetoric, pragmatics, variation, socio-cultural factors
3. L2 Processes and Learning: psycholinguistics, second language  
acquisition
theory and research, foreign language learning and research,  
interlanguage.
4. L2 Pedagogical Theory and Program Administration: ESL/FL methods
curriculum development, testing and evaluation, reading, writing and
educational technology.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS: Most students entering the program hold a master?s
degree or its equivalent. Candidates are required to complete 33 units  
of
core courses (including courses in second language acquisition theory  
and
teaching practice, linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics,
research methods and statistics) and then choose an 18-unit  
specialization
from among the four specializations listed above. In addition,  
candidates
select a minor (12 or more units) from among the above four  
specializations
or the may choose an external minor in a field such as French  
Literature,
Language Reading and Culture or Rhetoric and Composition. They must also
complete a dissertation for a minimum of an additional 18 units.
Post-baccalaureate coursework completed prior to admission may be
substituted for a portion of these requirements.


APPLICATION PROCEDURES:  Application packets are available from the SLAT
Program office, and from our web site: http://www.coh.arizona.edu/SLAT/.
Applicants are asked to submit:
? A completed SLAT Application form
? A statement of purpose
? GRE scores
? An example of scholarly writing
? 3 letters of reference
? Official transcripts from all post-secondary institutions.
? International students also must submit TOEFL scores and a financial
guarantee form.
Forms and complete information on these procedures may be obtained  
directly
from the SLAT Program Office, or on-line. International students should
apply to the University before December 1 if at all possible, or as soon
thereafter as possible. The deadline for receipt of all other  
application
materials is February 1
FINANCIAL SUPPORT:  Financial aid includes: Graduate College  
Fellowships,
Research Assistantships Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GATships) in  
one
of the language departments. In addition, a limited number of tuition  
and
registration scholarships are available. Decisions on the awarding of
GATships are generally made by the cooperating departments. Other  
support
decisions are made by the SLAT Executive Council. Funding awards are
announced as soon as funding is made available, usually in March and  
early
April for the forthcoming academic year. Application forms for financial
support offered by the Graduate College, and for teaching  
assistantships,
may be obtained from the SLAT office or from the SLAT web site.
SETTING:  The University of Arizona is located in Tucson, a culturally
lively and ethnically varied city of over 750,000 inhabitants. Situated  
in
the Sonoran Desert in Southeastern Arizona at an altitude of 2,600 feet,
Tucson provides easy access to many outdoor activities in the desert  
and in
the mountains that surround the city. The 351-acre campus of the  
University
of Arizona is conveniently located in the center of the city.  The
University is an active and expanding institution of more than 34,000
students with 6,400 graduate students enrolled in 138 masters and 95
doctoral programs. The University is a Research I institution ranked as  
one
of the top 20 universities in the nation. Its library has also been  
ranked
by the Association of Research Libraries as one of the best large  
research
libraries in North America. Moreover, the University houses nationally  
and
internationally recognized organizations in the study of language, such  
as
the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, The Federal Court
Interpreter Certification project, the center for English as a Second
Language and the American Indian Language & Development Institute.

For Further Information Contact:
Dr. Linda Waugh
SLAT Program
1731 East Second Street
P.O. Box 210014
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0014
(520) 621-7391
FAX: (520) 626-3230

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Nov  7 22:10:43 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:10:43 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Arabic
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1)
Date: 07 Oct  2003
From:Albrecht Hofheinz <Albrecht_Hofheinz at web.de>
Subject:Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Arabic

Thanks Fr?d?ric Lagrange for this article. I wonder how browsers other  
than Safari display vocalized text under Panther (Mozilla 1.5, Camino,  
Firebird; iCab).

Thank you,
Albrecht Hofheinz

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Nov  7 22:10:29 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:10:29 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Wants info on Jordan and Syria programs
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1) Subject:Wants info on Jordan and Syria programs

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Date: 07 Oct  2003
From:rccolino at aol.com
Subject:Wants info on Jordan and Syria programs

[please respond directly to Mr. Colino.]

My name is Richard Colino? and I am presently completing the first  
semester, second year of Modern Standard Arabic at Mt. Holyoke  
College/the University of Massachusetts. I would like to undertake a 3  
week course of study of Arabic in either Jordan or Syria during the  
month of January (January 1-24, 2004) next year prior to resuming  
Arabic studies as noted above. My interest is to a large degree in  
spoken Arabic which is not emphasized in the course of instruction I am  
now taking. My understanding is that 3-week courses generally are for 3  
hours per day, 5 days per week. Some courses of instruction issue a  
certicate of attendance or something similar in lieu of academic  
credits.
Please respond to this interest with an indication of what can be  
provided and when and the cost of either small group or individual  
instruction. (several classmates are interested in this interterm  
activity as well). Any information about housing would be appreciated,  
(although I will probably seek hotel accommodations since my wife will  
be with me for part of the time).
I look forward to indicating that program of instruction can be  
arranged.

Shukran,
Richard Colino

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Nov  7 22:10:34 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:10:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Acquisition and Bilingualism references needed
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Date: 07 Oct  2003
From:Fatima Badry Zalami <badry at aus.ac.ae>
Subject:Acquisition and Bilingualism references needed

Dear All:
  I am in the process of collecting information on work done on Arabic
language acquisition, for the Encyclopedia of the Arabic Language.
Research can be on any aspect of any dialect being acquired as a first
language. I am also interested in studies of bilingualism involving
Arabic as one of the languages.  I suspect that most of the work is in
unpublished dissertations/theses and would appreciate all references or
email attachments.
Thank you for your help.

Fatima Badry

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Fri Nov  7 22:10:38 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:10:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Planet names
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2) Subject:Planet names

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1)
Date: 07 Oct  2003
From:Jim Rader <jrader at Merriam-Webster.com>
Subject:Planet names

You might try looking in Paul Kunitzsch's _Arabische Sternnamen in
Europa_ (Harrassowitz, 1959).  I haven't had easy access to this book
in years, but it may have something on planet names.  For deciphering
European star names taken from Arabic it was indispensable.

Jim Rader

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Date: 07 Oct  2003
From:Roland Laffitte <laffitte at noos.fr>
Subject:Planet names

Here are the arabic names of planets:

Moon : al-qamar
Jupiter : al-mushtar?
Mars : al-Mar?kh
Mercury : ?at?ri? (al-K?tib au Maghreb)
Saturn : Zahil (al-Muqatil au Maghreb)
V?nus : al-Zuhra

With my best regards

Roland Laffitte
See?: www.uranos.com.fr

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Nov 13 17:33:37 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:33:37 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:I Speak Arabic Film
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Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:I Speak Arabic Film

Date:  Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:05:35 +0000
From:  Diana Scalera <dscaler at nycboe.net>
Subject:  Film About Heritage Language Learners

The documentary film ''I Speak Arabic'' will be shown on SCOLA, a
foreign language cable station available in many parts of the United
States on Sundays in November and at the ACTFL Conference in
Philadelphia on November 22.

This film documents the relationship that heritage speakers have with
their heritage language through the experiences of Arabic speakers in
the US.  It is a powerful resource for all interested in understanding
the personal and political issues surrounding the use and maintenance
of heritage languages.

Please visit the film's web site at www.ispeakarabic.org for more
specific information.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Nov 13 17:33:30 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:33:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root?
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1) Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root?

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Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:Eltoukhi at aol.com
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root?

Dear ALL
I am writing this to ask : is there any Arabic-English dictionary that
goes by the stem
( by the word as is ,) without going back to the root to avoid
difficulties the foreign learner face with words as (ittahama ,
ittasala, and others?
Thanks alot
Eltoukhi

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Nov 13 17:33:27 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:33:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:LDC will pay for Levantine Phone Conversations
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1) Subject:LDC will pay for Levantine Phone Conversations (native
speakers only)

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1)
Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:Tim Buckwalter <timbuck2 at ldc.upenn.edu>
Subject:LDC will pay for Levantine Phone Conversations (native speakers
only)

The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania is
conducting a telephone speech study supporting linguistic research,
technology development and education. Participants take part in 1-3
telephone calls talking to other participants for ten minutes. These
calls are recorded for research and educational purposes, and
participants receive $15 for every successful call in which they take
part. A robot operator initiates all calls, and participants answer the
phone only at the time(s) they specify during registration. If you are a
NATIVE SPEAKER OF LEVANTINE ARABIC and are interested in participating
in this study, please visit the LDC website for further details:
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/fisher/
Additional details can be obtained from David Miller, FISHER Project
Manager, by calling 1-800-380-PENN. We also have an Arabic version of
this announcement that you may want to post on your Arabic department
bulletin board. Since we can't post graphics on Arabic-L please contact
me if you'd like a copy.

Thank you,

Tim Buckwalter
Linguistic Data Consortium
3600 Market Street, Suite 810
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2653
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Nov 13 17:33:33 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:33:33 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Panther and Arabic
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Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:Albrecht Hofheinz <Albrecht.Hofheinz at smi.uib.no>

Further to my posting of 7 Nov:

> I wonder how browsers other than Safari display vocalized text under
> Panther (Mozilla 1.5, Camino, Firebird; iCab).

Since the issue is not a Panther issue but occurs under Jaguar as well,
I suspect other browsers should behave better than Safari, as they do
under Jaguar. I tested Mozilla 1.5, Camino 0.7 and Firebird 0.7, and
they all render vocalized text well-connected (see the "Hadith of the
Day" at http://www.salafi.net/). I don't have iCab installed to check
that one.

Can anyone confirm this behaviour for Panther?

Albrecht Hofheinz

Subject:Panther and Arabic

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Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:BearMeiser at aol.com

A friend of mine who is an IT guy says that he has tried the Panther
Arabic and it now renders Arabic web pages correctly.
We also found that by changing the encoding of a web page, you can fill
out forms in web pages like Google and Arabic search sites. This means
that a Mac is finally almost as good as a PC when it comes to doing
Arabic web browsing.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Thu Nov 13 17:33:40 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:33:40 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Language and Society Symposium at UT
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Date: 13 Nov  2003
From:Afra Al-Mussawir <afraalmussawir at yahoo.com>
Subject:Language and Society Symposium at UT

CALL FOR PAPERS -- SALSA 2004
The SYMPOSIUM ABOUT LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY--AUSTIN is pleased to
announce its
12th annual meeting to be held APRIL 16-18, 2004, at the University
of Texas
at Austin. We encourage the submission of abstracts on research that
addresses the relationship of language to culture and society.
Desired
frameworks include but are not limited to:

Linguistic Anthropology
Sociolinguistics
Ethnography of Communication
Language and Identity
Speech Play, Verbal Art, and Poetics
Language, Media, and Technology
Language and Social Interaction
Discourse Analysis
Conversation Analysis
Language Vitality
Language Socialization
Gesture and Talk in Interaction

2004 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Susan Ervin-Tripp, University of California, Berkeley
Emanuel Schegloff, University of California, Los Angeles
J?rgen Streeck, University of Texas, Austin
Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania

Papers delivered at the conference will be published as a special
edition of
the Texas Linguistic Forum. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for
presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected
based on
the evaluation of an anonymously written abstract, which may not
exceed 600
words. We will accept only electronic submissions.

SUBMISSIONS
Please email your abstract to utsalsa at uts.cc.utexas.edu, Subject:
SALSA 12
Abstract.
Please include in the following order:
1. Title of the paper
2. Author's name
3. Author's affiliation
4. Address, phone number, and email address at which the author
wishes to be
notified
5. A 600-word abstract*
6. A short 200-word abstract* for publication in the conference
program
7. Equipment needs (e.g., overhead projector, computer projection,
etc.)
*Please send the abstracts as a Word attachment as well as in the
body of
the email message.

Visit the SALSA web page for submission guidelines and conference
details:
http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa/index.shtml

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is JANUARY 15, 2004. Late
submissions will
not be accepted, and we cannot accept papers that are to be published
elsewhere. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent in
mid-February 2004. Pre-registration fees will be $20 for students and
$40
for non-students, and on-site registration fees will be $25 for
students and
$45 for non-students. Completed papers must be brought to the
conference to
be included in the published proceedings.
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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Nov 17 16:23:21 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:23:21 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs NJ, CN, and LA Arabic Institutes
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Ezzat FAM <ezzatfam at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs NJ, CN, and LA Arabic Institutes

[please respond directly to Ezzat.]

  I wonder if you can help me find names of centers or institutes that  
teach the Arabic language to non-native speakers in the USA  
specifically in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Los Angelos.
????????????Sincerely Yours,
?????????????Dr. Wafaa El-Mankabadi

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Nov 17 16:25:49 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:25:49 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Panther and Arabic
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Albrecht Hofheinz <Albrecht.Hofheinz at smi.uib.no>
Subject:Panther and Arabic

As I have now taken the leap and installed Panther, I can at least
partly answer my own question.

Camino 0.7 and Firebird 0.7 both render vocalized text well-connected.
Camino, however, has a new problem (or at least one that I hadn't
previously noticed): it inserts a angle bracket (? not sure about the
name: >) after each laam-alif ligature. Haven't had time for extensive
testing, but just wish to report this. Firebird doesn't have this
problem, so for now Firebird would appear to be the browser of choice
for Arabic under Panther.

Otherwise, I'm pleased to say that not only are we now approaching
better legibility of Arabic web pages (you have to increase the font
size, though), but that -- as others have reported -- Panther is also
noticeably snappier than Jaguar -- finally an OS X system where I don't
have to curse the speed of my iBook/500. Upgrading went smoothly for
me. If you want to try for yourself, be sure to backup your important
files, repair permissions, and read about the FireWire issues before
you do; do an archive and install; and upgrade to 10.3.1 immediately
after installing 10.3, and before using external FireWire drives. Once
everything is upgraded, repair permissions again, and start working.

Albrecht Hofheinz

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Nov 17 16:26:11 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:26:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Steve Robertson <srr29 at email.byu.edu>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

I have used one such dictionary extensively.  It's called "Al-Mawrid
Al-Quareeb; A pocket Arabic-English Dictionary" by Dr. Rohi Baalbaki.
I have found it for the most part concise and accurate.  It's one major
limitation for foreigners is that it does not list any plural forms.
There is also an English-Arabic version and a combined version of this
dictionary for sale.  I have seen it for sale on at amazon.com before.
I hope this helps.

Steve Robertson

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Christian Sinclai r<www.sit.edu/studyabroad>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Try the al-Mawrid (details below).  It's a great dictionary if you
don't =
want to deal with roots.  It's got synonyms and prepositions as well =
listed for most words.
best,
Christian Sinclair

Al-Mawrid: Arabic/English Dictionary
Dr. Rohi Baalbaki
Dar El-Ilm LilMalayin, Beirut

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Yes there is one such dictionary.  I have it, but not with me at this
time.  I think it is the Larousse dictionary, but I could be wrong.

Waheed

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Gergana Atanassova <iana_j at hotmail.com>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Salam

Ruhi Baalbaki's "Al-Mawrid" (Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, Beirut, Lebanon) is
organized alphabetically by whole words rather than roots, so you would
find ittiHaad under hamza (alif) there, instead of w-H-d. The problem
with this dictionary is that it does not list the plural forms of nouns
or adjectives, for example, so if the word has an irregular plural the
only way to find out what its form is, is to go to a root dictionary.
Also, with a root-based dictionary you can get a sense of the general
meaning of the root just by looking at all the derivatives, and thus
the meaning of individual words is easier to understand.
I think a stem-based dictionary is suitable if you just need to look up
a word quickly, but if you need to really understand and learn the
word, you need a root-based one. I personally have both types at home
:)

Gergana

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Langenscheidt's Arabic-German is alphabetically ordered.
Maybe there are more.
Jan

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Claudette Mukalla <ibc at ibcbooks.com>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

The International Book Centre may have a book of interest. Dictionary
of Roots of Difficult Words ... by Ghawamid Al-Shah  " Al-Safadi."
Description: At long last, this is a dictionary with lists of the
roots of difficult words in the Arabic language. Hardbound 224 Pages,
Published in 1997. Price is $29.95.
Claudette with International Book centre, Inc. website:
www.ibcbooks.com

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Ahmed Ferhadi <ahmed.ferhadi at nyu.edu>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

I know of an alphabetical Arabic-English dictionary
as such, called "al qaamus al aSrii al alfbaa'ii by
Alyaas (Elias) but I don't recall the details of the
publisher.

Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:J Murgida <jmurg at ttlc.net>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Al-Mawrid Arabic-English Dictionary, al-Ba'albakki, dar al-`ilm
lil-malaayiin, Beirut. Mine is the 8th ed., 1996. I don't know if
there's a
more recent edition.

It's organized alphabetically by the first letter of the stem, which is
great when you're not sure of the root. A great drawback is that if
you're
looking for a broken plural and you don't know the singular, you have to
guess at what it might be. When you look up that singular stem, the
plural
is normally not given [unless the plural means something other than
just
the plural of the singular -- like ma`luum/ma`luumaat]. So if you're
looking
up madaaris and you guess that the singular is madrasah, you don't get
confirmation that you've got the right singular.

Of course, this normally isn't a problem for native speakers of Arabic,
but
we foreigners could use that confirmation or an indication that we got
the
wrong singular and should try again. I use both Wehr and al-Mawrid when
translating from Arabic into English. And as you say, it's great for
students, although they still have to know enough morphology to figure
out
what the stem is, i.e., that they have to look up yaSifu under waSafa.

Best regards,
Jackie

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:MULTILINGUAL TRANSLATION SYSTEM <info at cimos.com>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Dear ALL,
Yes, we can provide an Arabic- English dictionary organised by stem.

Best regards

 From    info at cimos.com     Tel 00 33 1 43 66 31 90
CIMOS

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Andrew Dempsey <andrew at egyptianarabic.com>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

This is an interesting issue that we faced as we developed our Egyptian
Arabic Vocab Clinic software, which is designed to try to accommodate
people who haven't any idea about verb forms, etc.  We ended up listing
our 3000+ items by root in the end because the issues surrounding
the "as is" were so complex.

I do not recall coming across any publications that DIDN'T use the root
system, which influenced the decision for us also
to use it.  I would be curious, like you, to know of any dictionaries
that
use a pure letter-by-letter approach.

Andrew

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Muhammad Aziz <maaziz50 at hotmail.com>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

You may try Al-Mawrid by Dr. Rohi Baalbaki, Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin.

Muhammad Aziz

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Muhammad S Eissa <eissa at umich.edu>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Yes, there is an Arabic English dictionary organized by stem. Check
"Al-Mawrid: Arabic/English. There is by lingual edition for both
Eng./Ar. &
Ar./Eng which I find very convenient.

Muhammad S. Eissa, Ph. D.
9411 Harding Ave.,
Evanston, IL 60203
Ph./Fax (847) 329-1191

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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:dwilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Dictionary Organized by Stem, not by root

Al Mawrid
A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary

Rohi Baalbaki

Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin
Beirut, Lebanon
PO Box 1085

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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:26:06 -0700
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Raven at em.uni-frankfurt.de
Subject:Wants Classical Arabic Poetry CD

Dear list members,

I am longing for a CD-ROM with a substantial collection pre-Islamic and
classical Arabic poetry on it (original texts), which has a searching
facility
as well. Does anyone know whether such a thing exists?

Thank you in advance,
Wim Raven, University of Frankfurt, Germany
raven at em.uni-frankfurt.de

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Nov 17 16:25:52 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:25:52 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:mawthabaan query
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Haruko SAKAEDANI <harukos at aa.tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:mawthabaan query

My question is: Why does "mawthabaan" mean "who stays always at home,
undertakes nothing (prince)" (according to Steingass) though its root
"w-th-b"
means "to jump" ??

i heard that the word "marzipan" had come from the Arabic word
"mawthabaan."
"mawthabaan" is a name of some coins which contains an image of Christ
sitting on the throne.
There were such coins in the Crusades time.
The coins were called "a seated king" but the Arab called them
"mawthabaan."

These coins were put on boxes then those boxes began to be called
"mawthabaan."
The people put in them some kind of sweets.
After a while, the name of these boxes became the name of the sweets.

Anyway, why did the Arab in those days called sitting Christ
"mawthabaan"
which comes from the root "w-th-b" that is, to jump?

Thanks in advance.

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Nov 17 16:26:02 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:26:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:A slightly fishy Arabic Translator Job posting
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:A T <arabtranslatorrecruiter at yahoo.com>
Subject:Wants Arabic Translators

Hello ALL,
I am an Arabic Linguist Recruiter, currently hiring Arabic Translators  
for the worlds' largest government linguist contractor.
I am sending you this email because:
a) This may apply to you or
b) You may know someone or someone who knows someone
Who this may apply to.
I am currently seeking Arabic speaking people.? The major requirement is
being able to read and write Arabic with a GREAT command of the English
language.? I can hire US Citizens and Green Card Holders ONLY!!
You must be over the age of 18 and
NO experience is necessary.
This is a great position.? It is a full time salary job with full  
benefits (401k, health, dental, vision, vacation, paid holidays,  
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**Please send this to anyone and everyone you know!!**
If you are interested please forward your resume to  
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From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:25:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic/German Translation software query
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Petra Duenges <duenges at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE>
Subject:Arabic/German Translation software query

hallo,

is there any software around doing machine translation from Arabic to
German or from German to Arabic? Who is currently developing such a
system?

Thanks a lot.

Petra Duenges

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From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu  Mon Nov 17 16:25:56 2003
From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:25:56 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:UofMaryland CASL Research Scientist Job
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Date: 17 Nov  2003
From:Meredith Price <mprice at casl.umd.edu>
Subject:UofMaryland CASL Research Scientist Job

The following is a job announcement posted by the Center for Advanced  
Study of Language at the University of Maryland.

?The newly established Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) at  
the University of Maryland invites applications for appointments at the  
rank of Associate/Senior Research Scientist in areas relevant to its  
mission.  A tenure-track or tenured faculty appointment in an  
appropriate department is possible.  Target areas include: cognitive  
science/psychology, linguistics, second language acquisition, and  
computational linguistics.  Candidates must have an earned Ph.D. in a  
relevant field; have a record of individual research achievement, a  
strong record of publication, and the ability to establish an  
interdisciplinary research program across areas related to the study of  
language and analysis.

Job description: Develop research proposals; oversee all research in  
the candidate's area; serve as Principal Investigator on several  
research projects annually; organize national symposia and conferences  
in support of the Center's research; and publish on aspects of the  
candidate's Center research.  Lead up to $5 million of  
interdisciplinary research annually.  Identify and recruit senior, mid,  
and junior researchers as Center employees and consultants.  Form  
partnerships with other top research institutions, both in academia and  
industry.  Contribute to a five-year plan for the Center.  Develop a  
hiring, collaboration, research publication, education, and policy  
strategy with respect to the candidate's research area.

The Center for Advanced Study of Language was established in March  
2003.  Its mission is to conduct state-of-the-art research in areas  
that result in improved performance on language tasks relevant to the  
work of government language professionals.  The main interests include:  
(1) improving knowledge of less commonly taught languages; (2)  
enhancing acquisition and maintenance of foreign language capability by  
government professionals, especially at the advanced levels; (3)  
advancing the U.S. capacity to use foreign language skills in a wide  
variety of government professions and situations; (4) improving the  
quality of human language technology.

The Center is seeking people who will play a leading role in the  
strategic direction of CASL and will be in charge of multiple research  
projects in their field.  Candidates' research and publications should  
show evidence of ability to tackle complex, interdisciplinary research  
and to work collaboratively with a range of institutions and  
researchers.  They should have a record of successfully hiring,  
mentoring, and overseeing both junior and senior researchers.

  To apply, send a letter of application and curriculum vitae to Chief  
Research Officer, c/o Meredith Price, CASL, at mprice at casl.umd.edu.   
Candidates must hold U.S. citizenship and
be willing to obtain a security clearance

The University of Maryland is an affirmative action, equal opportunity  
employer.  Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.?

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