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Date: 05 Mar 2004
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:ALS 2004 Program

[I posted this awhile ago, but apparently it was during the time of the  
big virus attack, because some of you did not get it, so I'm posting it  
again.--Dil]


ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
1346 S. 2950 E.
Spanish Fork, UT 84660
USA

Eighteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics

An open forum for scholars interested in the application of current  
linguistic theories and analysis to Arabic

March 19-20, 2004

The University of Oklahoma
Thurman J. White Forum Building
1704 Asp Ave
Norman, Oklahoma

sponsored by
THE ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
and
The Uuniversity of Oklahoma

Friday, March 19
8:30 – 9:15	Registration
9:15 - 9:30 	Welcome and Announcements

Morning Session
9:30 –10:00	syllable moraic structure and edge effects in arabic
	Abdessatar Mahfoudhi, University of Ottawa
10:00-10:30	the length of stem-final vowels in colloquial arabic
	John J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
10:30-11:00	reflecting on arabic reflexives: a view from the corpus
	Dilworth B. Parkinson, Brigham Young University

11:00-11:15	break

11:15-12:15	Keynote Address	
The Syntax Morphology Interface: The Construct State in Arabic
	Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Afternoon Session
2:00-2:30	rethinking aspectual categories of arabic verbs
	Mustafa Mughazy, Western Michigan University
2:30-3:00	negation and negative sensitive items in arabic dialects
	Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and  
Maher Bahloul, American 	University of Sharjah
3:00 - 3:30	locatives and existentials in arabic
	Mushira Eid, University of Utah
3:30 – 4:00	syntactic expressions of semantic agreement effects
	Heidi Lorimor, University of Illinois

4:00-4:15	Break

4:15 - 4:45	what exactly is a word? a statistical language model for  
disambiguating competing analyses of arabic ortho-graphic strings
	Andrew Freeman, University of Washington
4:45 – 5:15	are arabic numbers difficult?
	Stephen Taylor, Fitchburg State College and Ahmed Khalaf Sakarna  
Mu'tah University


Saturday, March 20
Morning Session
8:45 – 9:15	reading the arab mind in the arabic language – a  
bibliographical essay
	On Barak, New York University
9:15 – 9:45	“i am not of persian descent”: language loss and shifting  
identities among minority 	persian-kuwaitis
	Batoul Hassan and Mohammad Ali, University of Illinois at  
Urbana-Champaign
9:45 -10:15	text regulations and sites of ideology
	Naima Boussofara Omar, University of Kansas
10:15-10:45	formulaic language in french and arabic legal discourse: a  
case of borrowing
	Ahmed Fakhri, West Virginia University

10:45-11:00	break

11:00-11:30	code switching in rai music
	Taoufik Ben Amor, Columbia University
11:30-12:00	“allah” as a discourse filler in libyan arabic
	Hussein M. Elkhafaifi, University of Utah
12:15-12:45	conversational coherence: the role of tayyib, ok and  
equivalent forms
	Hassan Abd-ElJawad Shuqair, Sulatan Qaboos University
12:45-1:15	manifestations of ‘invented spelling’: universal vs.  
language-specific constraints
	Sabah Safi and Ma’arib Jasteniah, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah



Registration Form

Name	

Address	

City/State		Zip	Country	

Affiliation	 email address	

Amount enclosed:	

Preregistration (deadline: March 10, 2004)	$40	ALS 2004 Membership Dues:
At the Door	$50	Students 		$20
Faculty & Students, University of Oklahoma, 	Free	
Faculty 		$25

Checks, drawn on US banks, or international money orders should be made  
payable to the Arabic Linguistics Society and sent with registration  
forms to: Tessa Hauglid, 1346 South 2950 East, Spanish Fork, UT 84660,  
USA (email: tmh1 at mstar2.net).


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