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Date: 20 Jan 2006
From:mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu
Subject:ALS 20 Program

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

Department of Foreign Languages
Western Michigan University
410 Sprau Tower
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5338
Phone: 269-387-3001
Fax: 269-387-6333
http://www.wmich.edu/language/

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)
8.00 –  8.45	Registration
8.45 –  9.00	Welcome remarks & Anniversary speech
		Mushira Eid, University of Utah	

9.00 –  9.30	Lexical processing in two language varieties: An event- 
related brain potential study of Arabic native speakers
Reem khamis-Dakwar & Karen Froud
Columbia University

9.30 – 10.00	Imperative in early Arabic child language:
Experimental approach
		Khawla Aljenaie
Kuwait University

10.00 – 10.30	The split-INFL hypothesis:
Findings from Arabic L2 learners
Mohammad Alhawary
		University of Oklahoma

10.30 – 10.45	BREAK

10.45 – 11.15	A cognitive approach to analyzing demonstratives in   
Tunisian Arabic
		Amel Khalfaoui
University of Minnesota

11.15 – 11.45	A prosodic feature that invites back-channels in  
Egyptian Arabic
		Nigel Ward & Yaffa Al Bayyari
		University of Texas at El Paso

11.45 – 12.30	Keynote address  Mohammad Mohammad
University of Texas at Austin
Al-Khalil, Sibawaih and Hatta

12.30 – 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 – 4.45	Language variation and change in Palestinian Arabic
  		Jamal Al-Shareef
Al-Azhar University, Gaza

4.45 – 5.00	BREAK

5.00 – 5.30	Covert language attitudes in contemporary Morocco
		Brahim Chakrani
		University of Illinois

5.30 – 6.00	Constructing linguistic and social identity in   
Casablanca: The case of Fessi migrants
		Atiqa Hachimi
		University of Florida


Saturday, March 4 (Sprau Tower, 10th floor)

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

3.45 – 4.15	Adnominal possession in Egyptian Arabic and the interna  
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 (Sprau Tower, 10th floor)

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 semantic 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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