Arabic-L:LING:ALS update
Dilworth Parkinson
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Date: 24 Feb 2006
From:mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu
Subject:ALS update
[moderator's note: sorry about the formatting. If you want an
'attachment' version, contact mustafa.--dil]
Here is the final ALS XX program (after a few changes caused by
schedules and dropouts):
Twentieth
ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS
An open forum for scholars interested in
the application of current linguistic
theories and analysis to Arabic
March 3-5, 2006
Organizer: Mustafa Mughazy
Department of Foreign Languages
Western Michigan University
410 Sprau Tower
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5338
Phone: 269-387-3001
Fax: 269-387-6333
Sponsored by
THE ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
The Center for Language Education and Research at
Michigan State University
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Education
Department of Foreign Languages
Department of History
Department of Spanish
The Diether H. Haenicke Institute for International and Area Studies
Western Michigan University
Friday, March 3 (Bernhard CENTER – Room 157)
9.00 – 9.30 Registration
9.30 – 9.45 Welcome remarks & Anniversary speech
Mushira Eid, University of Utah
9.45 – 10.15 Lexical processing in two language
varieties: An event- related brain potential
study of Arabic native speakers
Reem khamis-Dakwar & Karen Froud
Columbia University
10.15 – 10.45 The split-INFL hypothesis:
Findings from Arabic L2 learners
Mohammad Alhawary
University of Oklahoma
10.45 – 11.00 BREAK
11.00 – 11.30 A cognitive approach to analyzing
demonstratives in Tunisian Arabic
Amel Khalfaoui
University of Minnesota
11.30 – 12.00 A prosodic feature that invites back-
channels in Egyptian Arabic
Nigel Ward & Yaffa Al Bayyari
University of Texas at El Paso
12.00 – 1.30 BREAK
1.30 – 2.00 Why there is no history of the
Arabic language:
Part 1, the West
Jonathan Owens
University of Maryland
2.00 – 2.45 Keynote address
Devin Stewart
Emory University
Colorín Colorado, Cide Hamete Benegeli, and other
puzzles: Recent research on the Arabic influence on Spanish
2.45 – 3.00 BREAK
3.00 – 3.45 Keynote address
Mushira Eid
University of Utah
Border crossings:
Variation and choice in literary and media Arabic
3.45 – 4.15 Arabic diglossic switching as sets of
practices in
the media
Naima Boussofara Omar
University of Kansas
4.15 – 4.30 BREAK
4.30 – 5.00 Covert language attitudes in contemporary Morocco
Brahim Chakrani
University of Illinois
5.00 – 5.30 Constructing linguistic and social identity
in Casablanca: The case of Fessi
migrants
Atiqa Hachimi
University of Florida
Saturday, March 4 (Bernhard CENTER – Room 157)
9.00 – 9.30 The interaction between morphology and arity
operations: Evidence from Standard Arabic
Lior Laks
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
9.30 – 10.00 An Arabic Wackernagel clitic?: The
morphosyntax of negation in Palestinian Arabic
Frederick Hoyt
University of Texas at Austin
10.00 – 10.30 Productivity of verb formation strategies in
Maltese
Alina Twist
University of Arizona
10.30 – 10.45 BreaK
10.45 – 11.15 Lenition in Arabic
Eiman Mustafawi
University of Ottowa, Canada
11.15 – 12.00 Keynote address
Jeffrey Heath
University of Michigan
Stretching ablaut: CCu, CCi, and
CCa nouns in Moroccan
Arabic
12.00 – 1.00 BREAK
1.00 – 1.30 Hypocoristics revisited: Challenging
the centrality of the
consonantal Root
Samira Farwaneh
University of Arizona
1.30 – 2.15 Keynote address
Stuart Davis
University of Indiana
Issues in the phonology of ‘onset-dialects’ of Arabic
2.15 – 2.30 BREAK
2.30 – 3.00 The Verbal Particle Qad in Arabic: Is it a
syntactic filler?
Maher Bahloul
American University of Sharjah, U.A.E
3.00 – 3.45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Elabbas Benmamoun
The Syntax of Arabic Verbs
3.45 – 4.15 Adnominal possession in Egyptian Arabic and
the internal structure of DPs
Usama Soltan
University of Maryland
4.15 – 4.45 Reconstruction and islandhood in Jordanian Arabic
Nicolas Guilliot & Nouman Malkawi
University of Nantes, France
4.45 – 5.00 BREAK
5.00 – 5.30 A Link Grammar parser for Arabic
Warren Casbeer, Jon Dehdari, & Deryle Lonsdale
Brigham Young University
5.30 – 6.00 Using the Arabic tree bank for lexical semantics
Mona Diab & Neal Snider
Columbia University & Stanford University
SUNDAY, March 5 (Bernhard CENTER – Room 157)
9.00 – 9.30 A morphological analyzer for MSA and the
Arabic dialects
Nizar Habash & Owen Rambow
Columbia University
9.30 – 10.15 Keynote address
Dilworth Parkinson
Brigham Young University
ArCorpus.byu.edu: Making Arabic corpora available to
students and researchers on the web
10.15 – 10.45 A new implementation practice in building
linguistic concept-based IR systems.
Hayder Al-Ameed, Shaikha Al-Ketbi, Amna Al-Kaabi, Khadija Al-Shebli,
Naila Al-Shamsi, Noura Al-Nuaimi, & Shikha Al-Muhairi
U.A.E University, U.A.E
10.45 – 11.00 break
11.00 – 11.45 Keynote address
Mona Diab
Columbia University
Automatic Ambiguity resolution in MSA and
dialectal Arabic
11.45 – 12.15 Implementing an Arabic Resource Grammar for GF
Ali El Dada & Aarne Ranta
Göteborg University, Sweden
12.15 – 1.00 Keynote address
Bushra Zawaydeh & Tom Emerson
Basis Technology, Cambridge MA
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