Arabic-L:ALS Provo Final Program and info

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Date: 12 Feb 2007
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:ALS Provo Final Program and info

There were a few necessary changes to the program, but hopefully this  
should be the final version.  I will post it at the end of this message.

Also, please note the following items of information.

The first day sessions (Friday, 2 March) will be held in 3211 WSC  
(the Wilkinson Center) which is the Student Activity Center on  
Brigham Young University Campus.  If you are driving, you should park  
in the Museum of Art parking lot (there is a booth, but they give  
visitors a free pass).  If you are taking a shuttle from a hotel,  
they will drop you off near the Wilkinson Center.  (Reminder: if you  
want us to pick you up in our shuttle vans that we have rented for  
the conference, please let Tessa know by about a week before so we  
can organize it.)

There will be breaks with refreshments in the middle of the morning  
and afternoon sessions on Friday.  It is possible that the Middle  
East Studies Student Association will host a small informal reception  
for us Friday right after the last session (they are still working on  
setting it up.) Lunch and dinner (and breakfast) that day are on your  
own.  There are several eating options right in the Wilkinson Center,  
as well as other places to eat both on and off campus.  We will  
provide a list with your registration materials when you arrive.

The Saturday Sessions (3 March) will be held at the Aspen Grove  
Conference Center, which is up in the mountains above the Sundance  
Ski Resort, in a beautiful alpine setting.  We will have two vans  
available for transportation, and several conference attendees will  
have cars, so we will arrange on Friday to make sure everyone has a  
way to get there.

There will be breaks with refreshments on Saturday at about 10 and  
about 12:15.  We will serve lunch for the attendees (and anyone else  
who registers within the next week) (cost included in conference  
fees) at 2:00 in the Center dining hall.  This is a fairly isolated,  
wilderness spot, and there are no other eating options, so if you  
have special food needs you might want to bring a food for the day,  
or make arrangements with me or Tessa.

The conference will end after the 2:00 PM lunch.  However, it is  
possible we will schedule either a business meeting or a board  
meeting at that time, so stay tuned on that. If you have your own  
transportation, you might want to visit Sundance after the conference  
on the way down the mountain.  It has excellent restaurants.  For a  
more extensive visit, you could hit the Olympic events park in Heber  
Valley, and/or the ski resorts and Olympic event sites in the Park  
City area (instead of heading straight back to Provo).  If you will  
be staying Saturday night, you might consider staying in Salt Lake  
City, which also has a number of attractions (as well as the  
conference at the University of Utah on Sunday and Monday).

Here is the program:

Friday

8:00 Registration

8:25 Welcome

8:30 Ghassan Husseinali:
Processability and Development of Syntax and Agreement in  
Interlanguage of Learners of Arabic as a Foreign Language

9:00 Mohammad T. Alhawary:
Processability theory: Processing prerequisites or L1 transfer

9:30 Khawla Aljenaie:
Imperatives in Early Kuwaiti Arabic Child Language: Experimental  
Approach

10:00 Break

10:15 Samira Farwaneh:
Paradigm Uniformity Effects and the Arabic Verb

10:45 Kamel Elsaadany:
An LFG Account of Agreement

11:15 Usama Soltan:
Structural Opacity and default agreement in Standard Arabic

11:45 Ahmad Al-Jallad:
The Etymology of the Imperfect Indicative Augment bi- in some Neo- 
Arabic dialects


12:15 Lunch on your own

1:30 Abbas Benmamoun:
A corpus study of negation in Arabic dialects

2:00 Dilworth Parkinson:
Sentence Subject Agreement Variation in Newspaper Arabic

2:30 Tim Buckwalter:
A Corpus-based Frequency Count of Spoken and Written Modern Arabic

3:00 Bushra Zawaydeh:
The LInguistic Properties of Romanized Arabic used in Chat rooms

3:30 Break

3:45 Zina Saadi:
Arabic Unicode Variations in Natural Language Processing

4:15 Munther Younes:
Charging Steeds or Maidens doing good deeds?

4:45 Ahmad Fakhri:
Citations in Arabic Legal Opinion: 'iftaa's versus qaDAa'

5:15  possible reception

Dinner on your own

Saturday

8:30 Hossam Eldin Ibrahim Ahmed:
Same Mode, Different Representation: Standard/colloquial code  
switching in Arabic

9:00 Jonathan Owens, Trent Rockwood:
The Discourse Marker yaʕni: what it (really) means

9:30 Maher Bahloul:
Unveiling the Pragmatics of ya'ni, fil-Haqiqa and Tab'an in Formal  
Conversational Arabic

10:00 Break

10:15 Marwa Mohamed Khamis Al-Zouka:
Directness and Face Relations in Egyptian Arabic Performatives: A  
Socio-Pragmatic Study

10:45 Reda A. Mahmoud:
A Text Pragmatic Approach to Moot questions in Arabic

11:15 Mustafa Mughazy and Nehad Heliel:
The pragmatics of dialect change: the case of negation in the Arabic  
dialect of Alexandria.

11:45 Ahmad Shehu Abdussalam:
Linguistic Security of Arabic in the context of globalization

12:15 Break

12:30 Selim Ben Said:
The perception of Arab-accented speech by American native speakers  
and non-native speakers from east and south east Asia

1:00 Brahim Chakrani:
Cultural Context and Speech Act Theory: A Sociopragmatic Analysis of  
Bargaining Exchanges in Morocco

1:30 Abderrahmane Zouhir (UIUC)
A Critical Approach to some Middle Eastern and Moroccan Language  
Policies

2:00 Lunch

3:00 (or so) Business or Board Meeting


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