From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Fri Jul 1 22:37:50 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:37:50 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Articles Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Fri 01 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Articles -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 Jul 2005 From:from LINGUIST Subject:New Articles The following articles of interest to Arabic-L subscribers have appeared on the LINGUIST list recently: Journal Title: Babel Volume Number: 50 Issue Number: 3 Issue Date: 2004 The deterioration of the usage of 'kaana' in the Holy Quran via translation Mohammad Al-Khawalda 215-229 Stylistic-semantic and grammatical functions of punctuation in English-Arabic translation Hasan Ghazala 230-245 The effect of word order differences on English-into-Arabic simultaneous interpreters' performance Alya'M.H. Ahmad Al-Rubai'i 246-266 Journal Title: Babel Volume Number: 50 Issue Number: 4 Issue Date: 2004 A study of antonymous and synonymous couplings in Arabic with reference to translation Abdul Sahib Mehdi Ali 346-360 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 01 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Fri Jul 1 22:37:54 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:37:54 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Mughazy's Dardasha Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Fri 01 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Mughazy's Dardasha -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 Jul 2005 From:mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu Subject:Mughazy's Dardasha Dear List members If you are teaching Egyptian Arabic this summer using Dardasha, please let me know. I have some accompanying teaching materials that you might find useful. You can contact me directly at mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu Thank you Mustafa Mughazy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 01 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 5 19:41:42 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:41:42 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Cairo course for 10 year old Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 05 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs Cairo course for 10 year old -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 Jul 2005 From:Waleed.El-shobaki at manchester.ac.uk Subject:Needs Cairo course for 10 year old Hello everyone, I am off to Egypt for the summer vacation , and hoping to find a course for my daughter who is 10 to learn Arabic during the month of August in Cairo. I know it is an unusual request , but , if anyone knows something or have any information about that , please send over as I really feel guilty that my daughter doesn't speak much Arabic at her age. \\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\/ Waleed el-Shobaki Academic Liaison Librarian for Middle Eastern Studies, John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, MANCHESTER M13 9PP UK . Tel: ( 0044 ) 161- 275 3728 Fax: ( 0044 ) 161- 273 7488 Email:- waleed.el-shobaki at manchester.ac.uk \\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 5 19:41:47 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:41:47 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Linguistic Information Integration in Arabic Character Recognition Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 05 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Linguistic Information Integration in Arabic Character Recognition -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 Jul 2005 From:sami.boudelaa at mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Subject:Linguistic Information Integration in Arabic Character Recognition Call for Papers International Conference on Machine Intelligence (ICMI05), Tozeur, Tunisia http://www.acidca-icmi2005.org Special Session on Linguistic Information Integration in Arabic Character and Text Recognition The International Conference on Machine Intelligence 2005 (ICMI05) will be held in Tozeur, Tunisia, November 5-7, 2005. A special session on Linguistic Information Integration in Arabic Character and Text Recognition is planned. The session, which is due to last one full day, aims at bringing together specialists in Arabic OCR and Text recognition and specialists in Natural language processing (NLP), with special reference to Arabic, in either monolingual or multilingual perspective. The idea is to discuss the integration of linguistic information in linguistic-based and statistic-based approaches of Arabic printed and handwritten documents recognition, with special reference to various types of languages resources (LR- s), and to LR based analyzers. The idea is to develop robust systems for the recognition, indexing and thematic classification of printed or handwritten Arabic texts. The building of such systems is of momentous interest for Arabic countries and organizations, considering the significant production of printed and handwritten documents in Arabic witnessed daily in the whole world. Robust OCR systems should also be of great help in the indexing of Arabic historical documents and manuscripts in the context of the conservation and protection of the Arabic culture and civilisation inheritance. Papers of current interest are invited to any of the areas listed bellow: Arabic character, word and text recognition Analysis of vowel-free Arabic texts Arabic language resources (electronic dictionaries, tree-banks, contextual analysis resources, etc.) Robust OCR techniques (printed and handwritten documents) Word and text images digitalization, compression and indexation techniques Submission procedure Papers should conform to the guidelines of the ACIDCA-ICMI05 conference. Guidelines for formatting papers can be found in the ACIDCA-ICMI05 web site (www.acidca-icmi2005.org). Prospective authors should submit an electronic draft copy of their manuscript through the two e-mail address of the special session organizers/chairs by June 30, 2005. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Important dates Deadline for draft paper submission: June 30, 2005. Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2005. Deadline for camera-ready paper and authorsregistration: August 31, 2005. ACIDCA-ICMI2005 conference in Tozeur, Tunisia: November 5-7, 2005. Special Session Organizers / Chairs: Joseph Dichy, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, ICAR (Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations) UMR 5191 CNRS/Lyon2 and ELISA (Épistémologie, Linguistique, Ingénierie et Sémiologie de lArabe) - 86, rue Pasteur 69365 Lyon Cedex 07 France - Joseph.Dichy at univ- lyon2.fr and: Slim Kanoun, Ecole Nationale dIngérieurs de Safx (ENIS), University of Sfax, REGIM (Research Group on Intelligent Machines) - BP W, Sfax, 3038, Tunisia slim.kanoun at enis.rnu.tn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 Jul 2005 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 5 19:41:57 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:41:57 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 05 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 Jul 2005 From:farwaneh at email.arizona.edu Subject:Needs early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' Hello everyone, I wonder if any of you know the very first reference the term "colloquial" or its Arabic equivalent "`ammiyyah" first appeared in. I am reading Al-Baghdadi and he refers to Arabic dialects as "lugha", which is best interpreted as 'mother tongue"; as in "lughat bani tamiim" and "allugha aTTaa'iyya", etc. I do realize very well the political and religious ideology behind the use of the term 'colloquial/`ammiyyah" , but I need to specify the first reference that first used the term. many thanks for your input, and I will post a summary if I receive responses off the list, Samira Samira Farwaneh Assistant Professor, Arabic Language and Linguistics Department of Near Eastern Studies Department of Linguistics Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program Louise Foucar Marshall Building 845 N Park Avenue, Room 440 PO BOX 210158B University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721-0158B Phone: (520) 621-8629 Or 621-8012 Fax: (520) 621-2333 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 5 19:42:01 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:42:01 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Washington College Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 05 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Washington College Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 Jul 2005 From:gshivers2 at washcoll.edu Subject:Washington College Job Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies The Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Washington College is seeking a full-time assistant professor of Arabic language and Islamic Studies. Native or near-native fluency in Arabic. Ph.D preferred but ABD's are invited to apply. The successful candidate will teach elementary and intermediate Arabic, as well as courses in Near Eastern Politics and Islamic culture, taught in English. Washington College is an independent liberal arts college with a student body of 1350, located in Chestertown on Maryland's Eastern Shore, approximately 90 minutes from Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. Send letter of application, resume, transcripts, and three letters of recommendation to Professor George R. Shivers, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Washington College, 300 Washington Ave., Chestertown, MD 21620. Tel: 410-778-7776. Fax: 410-810-7170. Email: gshivers2 at washcoll.edu. Review of applications will begin on July 1 and continue until the position is filled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 5 19:52:03 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:52:03 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs help with e-mail address Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 05 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs help with e-mail address -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 Jul 2005 From:moderator Subject:Needs help with e-mail address I am having trouble with the following address, which is not subscribed to Arabic-L, but apparently to which Arabic-L messages are being forwarded and it is generating a huge amount of 'error messages' back to the list. btqutbuddin at hotmail.com If anyone recognizes this address and can tell me who it belongs to, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 12 19:44:13 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:44:13 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 12 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' 2) Subject:Early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Jul 2005 From:Pierre.Larcher at up.univ-mrs.fr Subject:Early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' Dear Samira, If you can read French, you will find many references concerning 'ammiyya and colloquial in my article: “Diglossie arabisante et fus'h'â vs ‘âmmiyya arabes : essai d'histoire parallèle”, Auroux, Sylvain et al. (eds) History of Linguistics 1999. Selected Papers from the Eighth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VIII), Fontenay-St.Cloud, France, 14-19 September 1999, coll. SIHoLS 99, pp. 47-61. Amsterdam-Philadelphie : Benjamins, 2003. With wishes Pierre Larcher plarcher at up.univ-mrs.fr http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/oriental/abthis http://www.mmsh.univ-aix.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 2) Date: 12 Jul 2005 From:Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu Subject:Early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' Hi Samira, According to Dr. Ibrahim Anis, *Fii l-lahajaat al-`Arabiyya' * p. 16 end, the two terms /lughah/ and /laHn/ were used in the earliest dictionaries for "dialect." Best regards to Leyla H. Mike Schub ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 12 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 12 19:44:09 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:44:09 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs help with 'Arablish' data Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 12 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs help with 'Arablish' data -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Jul 2005 From:ch_kerihuel at yahoo.fr Subject:Needs help with 'Arablish' data [the requester is not a subscriber to Arabic-L, so please respond directly to her. If you have something of general interest, please forward it to the list as well, since others are probably interested.--dil] Dear Sir, I’m a student in maîtrise in Paris IV, Sorbonne, and as a subject for my dissertation, I have decided to study the language contact between Arabic and American English- I’m also studying Arabic at the university. I’d like to focus on the interferences of English on Arabic and vice-versa and thus see if we can speak of “Arablish” or of a kind of Arab American Vernacular English by Arab Americans. Yet, I can’t do interviews and collect data inside the community itself therefore I am working with books already written. I’m writing to you today to know whether you can help me in some way by advising me some websites, movies or books that could be useful for my researches and where I could find more data. Please accept my sincere thanks. Don’t hesitate to get in touch. I’m looking forward to hearing for you. Cordially. Charlotte Kerihuel. ch_kerihuel at yahoo.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 12 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed Jul 20 22:24:37 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:24:37 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Help with 'Arablish' reply Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 20 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Help with 'Arablish' reply -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Jul 2005 From:enm at umich.edu Subject:Help with 'Arablish' reply For starters, H.L. Mencken wrote a book, "The American Language", in the 1930's I believe, with an appendix on English items assimilated into the structure of Arabic, among other languages. Ernest McCarus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 20 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed Jul 20 22:24:34 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:24:34 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Linux Arabic Input Method Query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 20 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Linux Arabic Input Method Query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Jul 2005 From:andyf at u.washington.edu Subject:Linux Arabic Input Method Query Hello Arabic-l list; I have taken the time hit and installed a linux partition onto my XP windows machine. I have located some Arabic fonts, and I have successfully installed the Arabic version OpenOffice 1.1.4. Unfortunately, I have not figured out how to switch the input method from an English keyboard to a keyboard that will produce Arabic input. The "view input method" menu option remains grayed out and hterefore unselectable. Would anybody on the list be kind enough to point me to a build or source for an "input methods switching" tool that will build and then run on RedHat Linux Work Station version 3? Thank you in advance for any and all help. Sincerely, Dr. Andrew Freeman (NES, Linguistics) (BSCS) Andrew Freeman Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Senior afreeman at mitre.org Office: (703) 983-1459 The MITRE Corporation M/S H305 7515 Colshire Dr. McLean, VA 22102 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 20 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed Jul 20 22:24:33 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:24:33 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING&PED:Two new reviews Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 20 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Two new reviews -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Jul 2005 From:moderator (from LINGUIST) Subject:Two new reviews LINGUIST has posted two new reviews of books of interest to Arabic-L subscribers: 1- AUTHOR: Holes, Clive TITLE: Modern Arabic SUBTITLE: Structures, Functions, and Varieties EDITION: Revised edition SERIES: Georgetown Classics in Arabic and Linguistics PUBLISHER: Georgetown University Press YEAR: 2004 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-2509.html reviewed by Andrzej Zaborski, Jagellonian University of Cracow posted on July 17th, under posting 6.2189 2- AUTHOR: Schulz, Eckehard TITLE: A Student Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press YEAR: 2005 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-407.html reviewed by Iveta Kourilova, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen Otakar Smrz, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University in Prague posted on July 20th, under posting 16.2221 Both are available online at the LINGUIST list archives. 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URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Thu Jul 21 20:24:04 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:24:04 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Linux Arabic Input response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Thu 21 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Linux Arabic Input response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Jul 2005 From:wasamy at umich.edu Subject:Linux Arabic Input response Andy, You might find pointers in the following links: http://www.langbox.com/arabic/axmedit.html http://www.linux-egypt.org/ http://www.eglug.org/ http://www.arabeyes.org/resources.php Waheed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 21 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Thu Jul 21 20:23:51 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:23:51 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:DLI Jobs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Thu 21 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:DLI Jobs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Jul 2005 From:Kalyn.Shubnell at monterey.army.mil Subject:DLI Jobs DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE Foreign Language Teachers Needed We have openings for teachers of the following languages: Arabic, Dari, Hebrew, Hindi, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian and more . In addition to knowing MSA, the following dialects are also desirable: Iraqi, Egyptian, and Levantine. For Kurdish: Kurmanji and Sorani. Responsibilities: Intensive student-centered environment with diverse opportunities for faculty development. Teaching students listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills, as well as geopolitical, economic and social issues, in an immersion-proficiency based environment. Class preparation, checking homework and grading tests. Teaching four to six hours a day in a 40-hour workweek, Monday - Friday 7:45am to 4:45pm. Faculty members are expected to stay abreast of current foreign language teaching theories and methods. Qualifications: An academic rank will be determined on the basis of information contained in Vacancy Announcement FPS-05-001 "Academic Rank Information" section. In addition to the Academic Rank qualifications, applicants must have near native language proficiency in all skills and strong English skills. Language testing will be required for recommended candidates. Four year accredited university degree is the minimum requirement. Related degrees in foreign language education, linguistics, MATFL/TESOL, language, literature, education, educational psychology, or educational administration etc. are preferred. (MA or higher preferred.) The Institute: The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. It is a year-round school specializing in foreign languages. Offering 20+ languages to approximately 3,000+ students from the four military services, courses at DLIFLC are intensive. Faculty members work in teams. Students attend classes six hours a day five days a week. Located in Monterey, California. Other information: Variable start dates throughout the year. Applicants must be U.S. Citizens, U.S. Permanent Residents or have authorization to work in the United States. Salary based on Faculty Pay System Schedule for DLIFLC and is dependent on education and experience (see salary ranges in the FPS-05-001). Tenure-track, full- time, and federal benefit eligible. DLIFLC is an EEO employer. Vacancy Announcement FPS-05-001 is open until January 7, 2006. Applications are accepted year-round; please see our website for current language openings. How to apply: More information can be found at www.dliflc.edu (Vacancy Announcement FPS-05-001) or contact us via email at Rodrigo.Fidel at monterey.army.mil or 831-242-4403. Please see the How to Apply section for details on submitting a completed application. Please tell us in a cover letter or our survey where you heard about our vacancies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 21 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Thu Jul 21 20:24:00 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:24:00 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Conf on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Thu 21 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Conf on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Jul 2005 From:jowens at casl.umd.edu Subject:Conf on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic The Arabic Program of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the University of Maryland, and the Center for Advanced Study of Language at the University of Maryland are pleased to announce a conference on: Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic This conference aims to fill a gap in studies about spoken Arabic by presenting descriptions of how information is structured by speakers. A core issue to be addressed, for instance, is the interplay between new and old information, a topic which has been defined within the Arabic linguistic tradition since mediaeval times (e.g. mubtada’ vs. xabar). Elements of information structure will be examined in the spoken language in terms of word order, internal structure and semantics of grammatical elements encoding informational units, segmental marking, discourse particles, stress and intonation, as well as the macro-organization of information in longer stretches of text. The Arabic Program of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the University of Maryland, and the Center for Advanced Study of Language invite scholars in Arabic linguistics to present original research papers that contribute to our understanding of oral communication in Arabic. Presentations from various theoretical perspectives are welcome, including Arabic dialectology, accommodation theory, code-switching, pragmatics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and the ethnography of speaking. We intend to publish a collection of selected papers with a major publishing house. A list of invited speakers will be announced by October 2005. A certain amount of travel funding is available for those whose papers are accepted. Further information about the conference, as well as forms for registering and submitting abstracts can be found at: http://register.casl.umd.edu/arabicconference/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 21 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Thu Jul 21 22:21:09 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:21:09 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:aConCorde wants teacher input Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 21 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:aConcorde wants teacher input -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Jul 2005 From:eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk (reposted from CLLT) Subject:aConcorde wants teacher input [please respond directly to the poster] Leeds software engineer Andy Roberts is developing a free concordencer, aConcorde, http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/andyr/software/aConCorde/ index.html Originally developed for Arabic concordancing, it has English and Arabic interfaces; aConCorde is written in Java, so it can run on a wide range of platforms, and other open-source Java packages can be readily integrated. Andy is interested in adding novel concordance functionality, making use of other Java modules. However, we need advice from corpus-aware language teachers: could these extensions (or others) actually be of any use in language teaching and learning? Features such as: - root/stem concordancing: use an Arabic root/stem analyser (eg Buckwalter's root/stem wordlist) to display concordances of words sharing a common root/stem - inferred word-clustering: use a Grammatical Inference package to automatically cluster words in the corpus into groups with similar syntactic behaviour, and then display concordances of "similar" words - corpus-gathering: use a "web-as-corpus" package like Baroni's Bootcat to allow users to automatically gather a custom-built corpus from the Web, and then display concordances from this These may be "solutions looking for a problem": they may be technically interesting to implement, but pointless unless language techers can see some useful application in language teaching and learning. SO ... can any CLLT readers suggest possible classroom uses or exercises which might benefit from concordances of root/stem, or syntactic cluster, or web-sourced D-I-Y corpus? thanks in advance for any suggestions Eric Atwell (pp Andy Roberts) -- Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England TEL: +44-113-2335430 FAX: +44-113-2335468 http:// www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 21 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Fri Jul 1 22:37:50 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:37:50 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Articles Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Fri 01 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:New Articles -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 Jul 2005 From:from LINGUIST Subject:New Articles The following articles of interest to Arabic-L subscribers have appeared on the LINGUIST list recently: Journal Title: Babel Volume Number: 50 Issue Number: 3 Issue Date: 2004 The deterioration of the usage of 'kaana' in the Holy Quran via translation Mohammad Al-Khawalda 215-229 Stylistic-semantic and grammatical functions of punctuation in English-Arabic translation Hasan Ghazala 230-245 The effect of word order differences on English-into-Arabic simultaneous interpreters' performance Alya'M.H. Ahmad Al-Rubai'i 246-266 Journal Title: Babel Volume Number: 50 Issue Number: 4 Issue Date: 2004 A study of antonymous and synonymous couplings in Arabic with reference to translation Abdul Sahib Mehdi Ali 346-360 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 01 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu Fri Jul 1 22:37:54 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:37:54 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Mughazy's Dardasha Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Fri 01 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Mughazy's Dardasha -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 01 Jul 2005 From:mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu Subject:Mughazy's Dardasha Dear List members If you are teaching Egyptian Arabic this summer using Dardasha, please let me know. I have some accompanying teaching materials that you might find useful. You can contact me directly at mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu Thank you Mustafa Mughazy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 01 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 5 19:41:42 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:41:42 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs Cairo course for 10 year old Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 05 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs Cairo course for 10 year old -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 Jul 2005 From:Waleed.El-shobaki at manchester.ac.uk Subject:Needs Cairo course for 10 year old Hello everyone, I am off to Egypt for the summer vacation , and hoping to find a course for my daughter who is 10 to learn Arabic during the month of August in Cairo. I know it is an unusual request , but , if anyone knows something or have any information about that , please send over as I really feel guilty that my daughter doesn't speak much Arabic at her age. \\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\/ Waleed el-Shobaki Academic Liaison Librarian for Middle Eastern Studies, John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, MANCHESTER M13 9PP UK . Tel: ( 0044 ) 161- 275 3728 Fax: ( 0044 ) 161- 273 7488 Email:- waleed.el-shobaki at manchester.ac.uk \\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 5 19:41:47 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:41:47 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Linguistic Information Integration in Arabic Character Recognition Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 05 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Linguistic Information Integration in Arabic Character Recognition -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 Jul 2005 From:sami.boudelaa at mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Subject:Linguistic Information Integration in Arabic Character Recognition Call for Papers International Conference on Machine Intelligence (ICMI05), Tozeur, Tunisia http://www.acidca-icmi2005.org Special Session on Linguistic Information Integration in Arabic Character and Text Recognition The International Conference on Machine Intelligence 2005 (ICMI05) will be held in Tozeur, Tunisia, November 5-7, 2005. A special session on Linguistic Information Integration in Arabic Character and Text Recognition is planned. The session, which is due to last one full day, aims at bringing together specialists in Arabic OCR and Text recognition and specialists in Natural language processing (NLP), with special reference to Arabic, in either monolingual or multilingual perspective. The idea is to discuss the integration of linguistic information in linguistic-based and statistic-based approaches of Arabic printed and handwritten documents recognition, with special reference to various types of languages resources (LR- s), and to LR based analyzers. The idea is to develop robust systems for the recognition, indexing and thematic classification of printed or handwritten Arabic texts. The building of such systems is of momentous interest for Arabic countries and organizations, considering the significant production of printed and handwritten documents in Arabic witnessed daily in the whole world. Robust OCR systems should also be of great help in the indexing of Arabic historical documents and manuscripts in the context of the conservation and protection of the Arabic culture and civilisation inheritance. Papers of current interest are invited to any of the areas listed bellow: Arabic character, word and text recognition Analysis of vowel-free Arabic texts Arabic language resources (electronic dictionaries, tree-banks, contextual analysis resources, etc.) Robust OCR techniques (printed and handwritten documents) Word and text images digitalization, compression and indexation techniques Submission procedure Papers should conform to the guidelines of the ACIDCA-ICMI05 conference. Guidelines for formatting papers can be found in the ACIDCA-ICMI05 web site (www.acidca-icmi2005.org). Prospective authors should submit an electronic draft copy of their manuscript through the two e-mail address of the special session organizers/chairs by June 30, 2005. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Important dates Deadline for draft paper submission: June 30, 2005. Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2005. Deadline for camera-ready paper and authorsregistration: August 31, 2005. ACIDCA-ICMI2005 conference in Tozeur, Tunisia: November 5-7, 2005. Special Session Organizers / Chairs: Joseph Dichy, Universit? Lumi?re-Lyon 2, ICAR (Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Repr?sentations) UMR 5191 CNRS/Lyon2 and ELISA (?pist?mologie, Linguistique, Ing?nierie et S?miologie de lArabe) - 86, rue Pasteur 69365 Lyon Cedex 07 France - Joseph.Dichy at univ- lyon2.fr and: Slim Kanoun, Ecole Nationale dIng?rieurs de Safx (ENIS), University of Sfax, REGIM (Research Group on Intelligent Machines) - BP W, Sfax, 3038, Tunisia slim.kanoun at enis.rnu.tn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 Jul 2005 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 5 19:41:57 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:41:57 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 05 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 Jul 2005 From:farwaneh at email.arizona.edu Subject:Needs early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' Hello everyone, I wonder if any of you know the very first reference the term "colloquial" or its Arabic equivalent "`ammiyyah" first appeared in. I am reading Al-Baghdadi and he refers to Arabic dialects as "lugha", which is best interpreted as 'mother tongue"; as in "lughat bani tamiim" and "allugha aTTaa'iyya", etc. I do realize very well the political and religious ideology behind the use of the term 'colloquial/`ammiyyah" , but I need to specify the first reference that first used the term. many thanks for your input, and I will post a summary if I receive responses off the list, Samira Samira Farwaneh Assistant Professor, Arabic Language and Linguistics Department of Near Eastern Studies Department of Linguistics Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program Louise Foucar Marshall Building 845 N Park Avenue, Room 440 PO BOX 210158B University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721-0158B Phone: (520) 621-8629 Or 621-8012 Fax: (520) 621-2333 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 5 19:42:01 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:42:01 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Washington College Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 05 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Washington College Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 Jul 2005 From:gshivers2 at washcoll.edu Subject:Washington College Job Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies The Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Washington College is seeking a full-time assistant professor of Arabic language and Islamic Studies. Native or near-native fluency in Arabic. Ph.D preferred but ABD's are invited to apply. The successful candidate will teach elementary and intermediate Arabic, as well as courses in Near Eastern Politics and Islamic culture, taught in English. Washington College is an independent liberal arts college with a student body of 1350, located in Chestertown on Maryland's Eastern Shore, approximately 90 minutes from Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. Send letter of application, resume, transcripts, and three letters of recommendation to Professor George R. Shivers, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Washington College, 300 Washington Ave., Chestertown, MD 21620. Tel: 410-778-7776. Fax: 410-810-7170. Email: gshivers2 at washcoll.edu. Review of applications will begin on July 1 and continue until the position is filled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 5 19:52:03 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:52:03 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs help with e-mail address Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 05 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs help with e-mail address -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 05 Jul 2005 From:moderator Subject:Needs help with e-mail address I am having trouble with the following address, which is not subscribed to Arabic-L, but apparently to which Arabic-L messages are being forwarded and it is generating a huge amount of 'error messages' back to the list. btqutbuddin at hotmail.com If anyone recognizes this address and can tell me who it belongs to, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 05 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 12 19:44:13 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:44:13 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 12 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' 2) Subject:Early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Jul 2005 From:Pierre.Larcher at up.univ-mrs.fr Subject:Early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' Dear Samira, If you can read French, you will find many references concerning 'ammiyya and colloquial in my article: ?Diglossie arabisante et fus'h'? vs ??mmiyya arabes : essai d'histoire parall?le?, Auroux, Sylvain et al. (eds) History of Linguistics 1999. Selected Papers from the Eighth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VIII), Fontenay-St.Cloud, France, 14-19 September 1999, coll. SIHoLS 99, pp. 47-61. Amsterdam-Philadelphie : Benjamins, 2003. With wishes Pierre Larcher plarcher at up.univ-mrs.fr http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/oriental/abthis http://www.mmsh.univ-aix.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 2) Date: 12 Jul 2005 From:Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu Subject:Early refs to terms 'colloquial' and 'ammiyah' Hi Samira, According to Dr. Ibrahim Anis, *Fii l-lahajaat al-`Arabiyya' * p. 16 end, the two terms /lughah/ and /laHn/ were used in the earliest dictionaries for "dialect." Best regards to Leyla H. Mike Schub ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 12 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Tue Jul 12 19:44:09 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:44:09 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs help with 'Arablish' data Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Tue 12 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Needs help with 'Arablish' data -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 12 Jul 2005 From:ch_kerihuel at yahoo.fr Subject:Needs help with 'Arablish' data [the requester is not a subscriber to Arabic-L, so please respond directly to her. If you have something of general interest, please forward it to the list as well, since others are probably interested.--dil] Dear Sir, I?m a student in ma?trise in Paris IV, Sorbonne, and as a subject for my dissertation, I have decided to study the language contact between Arabic and American English- I?m also studying Arabic at the university. I?d like to focus on the interferences of English on Arabic and vice-versa and thus see if we can speak of ?Arablish? or of a kind of Arab American Vernacular English by Arab Americans. Yet, I can?t do interviews and collect data inside the community itself therefore I am working with books already written. I?m writing to you today to know whether you can help me in some way by advising me some websites, movies or books that could be useful for my researches and where I could find more data. Please accept my sincere thanks. Don?t hesitate to get in touch. I?m looking forward to hearing for you. Cordially. Charlotte Kerihuel. ch_kerihuel at yahoo.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 12 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed Jul 20 22:24:37 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:24:37 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Help with 'Arablish' reply Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 20 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Help with 'Arablish' reply -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Jul 2005 From:enm at umich.edu Subject:Help with 'Arablish' reply For starters, H.L. Mencken wrote a book, "The American Language", in the 1930's I believe, with an appendix on English items assimilated into the structure of Arabic, among other languages. Ernest McCarus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 20 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed Jul 20 22:24:34 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:24:34 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Linux Arabic Input Method Query Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 20 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Linux Arabic Input Method Query -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Jul 2005 From:andyf at u.washington.edu Subject:Linux Arabic Input Method Query Hello Arabic-l list; I have taken the time hit and installed a linux partition onto my XP windows machine. I have located some Arabic fonts, and I have successfully installed the Arabic version OpenOffice 1.1.4. Unfortunately, I have not figured out how to switch the input method from an English keyboard to a keyboard that will produce Arabic input. The "view input method" menu option remains grayed out and hterefore unselectable. Would anybody on the list be kind enough to point me to a build or source for an "input methods switching" tool that will build and then run on RedHat Linux Work Station version 3? Thank you in advance for any and all help. Sincerely, Dr. Andrew Freeman (NES, Linguistics) (BSCS) Andrew Freeman Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Senior afreeman at mitre.org Office: (703) 983-1459 The MITRE Corporation M/S H305 7515 Colshire Dr. McLean, VA 22102 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 20 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Wed Jul 20 22:24:33 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:24:33 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING&PED:Two new reviews Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Wed 20 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Two new reviews -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Jul 2005 From:moderator (from LINGUIST) Subject:Two new reviews LINGUIST has posted two new reviews of books of interest to Arabic-L subscribers: 1- AUTHOR: Holes, Clive TITLE: Modern Arabic SUBTITLE: Structures, Functions, and Varieties EDITION: Revised edition SERIES: Georgetown Classics in Arabic and Linguistics PUBLISHER: Georgetown University Press YEAR: 2004 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-2509.html reviewed by Andrzej Zaborski, Jagellonian University of Cracow posted on July 17th, under posting 6.2189 2- AUTHOR: Schulz, Eckehard TITLE: A Student Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press YEAR: 2005 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-407.html reviewed by Iveta Kourilova, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen Otakar Smrz, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University in Prague posted on July 20th, under posting 16.2221 Both are available online at the LINGUIST list archives. 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URL: From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Thu Jul 21 20:24:04 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:24:04 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Linux Arabic Input response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Thu 21 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Linux Arabic Input response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Jul 2005 From:wasamy at umich.edu Subject:Linux Arabic Input response Andy, You might find pointers in the following links: http://www.langbox.com/arabic/axmedit.html http://www.linux-egypt.org/ http://www.eglug.org/ http://www.arabeyes.org/resources.php Waheed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 21 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Thu Jul 21 20:23:51 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:23:51 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:DLI Jobs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Thu 21 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:DLI Jobs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Jul 2005 From:Kalyn.Shubnell at monterey.army.mil Subject:DLI Jobs DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE Foreign Language Teachers Needed We have openings for teachers of the following languages: Arabic, Dari, Hebrew, Hindi, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian and more . In addition to knowing MSA, the following dialects are also desirable: Iraqi, Egyptian, and Levantine. For Kurdish: Kurmanji and Sorani. Responsibilities: Intensive student-centered environment with diverse opportunities for faculty development. Teaching students listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills, as well as geopolitical, economic and social issues, in an immersion-proficiency based environment. Class preparation, checking homework and grading tests. Teaching four to six hours a day in a 40-hour workweek, Monday - Friday 7:45am to 4:45pm. Faculty members are expected to stay abreast of current foreign language teaching theories and methods. Qualifications: An academic rank will be determined on the basis of information contained in Vacancy Announcement FPS-05-001 "Academic Rank Information" section. In addition to the Academic Rank qualifications, applicants must have near native language proficiency in all skills and strong English skills. Language testing will be required for recommended candidates. Four year accredited university degree is the minimum requirement. Related degrees in foreign language education, linguistics, MATFL/TESOL, language, literature, education, educational psychology, or educational administration etc. are preferred. (MA or higher preferred.) The Institute: The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. It is a year-round school specializing in foreign languages. Offering 20+ languages to approximately 3,000+ students from the four military services, courses at DLIFLC are intensive. Faculty members work in teams. Students attend classes six hours a day five days a week. Located in Monterey, California. Other information: Variable start dates throughout the year. Applicants must be U.S. Citizens, U.S. Permanent Residents or have authorization to work in the United States. Salary based on Faculty Pay System Schedule for DLIFLC and is dependent on education and experience (see salary ranges in the FPS-05-001). Tenure-track, full- time, and federal benefit eligible. DLIFLC is an EEO employer. Vacancy Announcement FPS-05-001 is open until January 7, 2006. Applications are accepted year-round; please see our website for current language openings. How to apply: More information can be found at www.dliflc.edu (Vacancy Announcement FPS-05-001) or contact us via email at Rodrigo.Fidel at monterey.army.mil or 831-242-4403. Please see the How to Apply section for details on submitting a completed application. Please tell us in a cover letter or our survey where you heard about our vacancies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 21 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Thu Jul 21 20:24:00 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:24:00 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Conf on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Arabic-L: Thu 21 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Conf on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Jul 2005 From:jowens at casl.umd.edu Subject:Conf on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic The Arabic Program of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the University of Maryland, and the Center for Advanced Study of Language at the University of Maryland are pleased to announce a conference on: Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic This conference aims to fill a gap in studies about spoken Arabic by presenting descriptions of how information is structured by speakers. A core issue to be addressed, for instance, is the interplay between new and old information, a topic which has been defined within the Arabic linguistic tradition since mediaeval times (e.g. mubtada? vs. xabar). Elements of information structure will be examined in the spoken language in terms of word order, internal structure and semantics of grammatical elements encoding informational units, segmental marking, discourse particles, stress and intonation, as well as the macro-organization of information in longer stretches of text. The Arabic Program of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the University of Maryland, and the Center for Advanced Study of Language invite scholars in Arabic linguistics to present original research papers that contribute to our understanding of oral communication in Arabic. Presentations from various theoretical perspectives are welcome, including Arabic dialectology, accommodation theory, code-switching, pragmatics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and the ethnography of speaking. We intend to publish a collection of selected papers with a major publishing house. A list of invited speakers will be announced by October 2005. A certain amount of travel funding is available for those whose papers are accepted. Further information about the conference, as well as forms for registering and submitting abstracts can be found at: http://register.casl.umd.edu/arabicconference/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 21 Jul 2005 From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU Thu Jul 21 22:21:09 2005 From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:21:09 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:aConCorde wants teacher input Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Thu 21 Jul 2005 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:aConcorde wants teacher input -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Jul 2005 From:eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk (reposted from CLLT) Subject:aConcorde wants teacher input [please respond directly to the poster] Leeds software engineer Andy Roberts is developing a free concordencer, aConcorde, http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/andyr/software/aConCorde/ index.html Originally developed for Arabic concordancing, it has English and Arabic interfaces; aConCorde is written in Java, so it can run on a wide range of platforms, and other open-source Java packages can be readily integrated. Andy is interested in adding novel concordance functionality, making use of other Java modules. However, we need advice from corpus-aware language teachers: could these extensions (or others) actually be of any use in language teaching and learning? Features such as: - root/stem concordancing: use an Arabic root/stem analyser (eg Buckwalter's root/stem wordlist) to display concordances of words sharing a common root/stem - inferred word-clustering: use a Grammatical Inference package to automatically cluster words in the corpus into groups with similar syntactic behaviour, and then display concordances of "similar" words - corpus-gathering: use a "web-as-corpus" package like Baroni's Bootcat to allow users to automatically gather a custom-built corpus from the Web, and then display concordances from this These may be "solutions looking for a problem": they may be technically interesting to implement, but pointless unless language techers can see some useful application in language teaching and learning. SO ... can any CLLT readers suggest possible classroom uses or exercises which might benefit from concordances of root/stem, or syntactic cluster, or web-sourced D-I-Y corpus? thanks in advance for any suggestions Eric Atwell (pp Andy Roberts) -- Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England TEL: +44-113-2335430 FAX: +44-113-2335468 http:// www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- End of Arabic-L: 21 Jul 2005