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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:18 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs e-mail for Dr. M. Zaki Khadr
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:Mahmoud Elsayess <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Needs e-mail for Dr. M. Zaki Khadr

Greetings,

Does anybody have the email of
أ. د. محمد زكي خضر
الجامعة الأردنية
?
Thank you
Mahmoud Elsayess

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug  1 23:29:17 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic-Islamic materials
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From: raram <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic-Islamic materials

Dear Dr. Elsayess;

Just a note to inform you that I have developed two volumes of
Programmed Arabic-Islamic Readers. Volume One focuses on the
introduction of Arabic phonology and script using Qur'anic words and
Islamic expressions illustrated with pictures. Volume Two focuses on
reading a variety of texts including short passages of Sira, Hadiths,
supplications, short descriptions and stories-all of Islamic content.
Each unit includes introduction and explanation of certain grammatical
features included in the text of the unit. I started the Advanced Level
but stopped because of my involvement in other projects.

Wish you good luck in your projects,

Raji M. Rammuny
Professor of Arabic
University of Michigan

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs examples of diplomatic correspondence
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:oxyi i <oxyii at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs examples of diplomatic correspondence

dear friends
ı hope ı will start to  a new  job in an arabic embassy.
ın whıch  web site ı can find  diplomatic correspondence samples in  
arabic and in englısh?
thanks  a lot

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

I cannot fully answer the query about why this name has an article on  
what appears to be the first term of an idaafa.  However, running the  
form through arabiCorpus.byu.edu, I get the following interesting  
results:

search string: Alcbd ?Allh
Total found: 1753  (2.02 per 100000 words)

When divided by the separate newspapers in the corpus, we find:

Watan(Kuwait)	787	12.19 per 100000
Hayat96(London but basically Levantine)	365	1.69 per 100000
Hayat97(London but basically Levantine)	269	1.38 per 100000
Thawra(Syria)	237	1.42 per 100000
Ahram(Egypt)	89	0.54 per 100000
Tajdid(Morocco)	1	.03 per 100000

Clearly it is a common name, but ONLY in the Gulf area: the Kuwaiti  
paper has the name almost 10 times as frequently as anywhere else, and  
Egypt and North Africa seem to have almost none of it.
One would venture a guess that this is some kind of beduinized  
structure (??).

dil


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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug  1 23:29:25 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Good Intro refs to Arabic Linguistics
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:Marwa Hussein <marwahsn at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs Good Intro refs to Arabic Linguistics

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good books that would  
serve as a good starting point for someone interested in learning  
about the different branches of  Arabic linguistics (e.g. phonology,  
syntax, morphology..etc). They could be in Arabic or in English.
Thank you .
Marwa Hussein.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug  1 23:29:23 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:23 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:List of UK Institutions that teach Arabic
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:Elisabeth Kendall <Elisabeth.Kendall at ed.ac.uk>
Subject:List of UK Institutions that teach Arabic

Thanks to those who replied to my request for information. Several  
list members have asked me to share the results, so please find below  
two links to searches which generate lists of UK institutions where  
Arabic is taught at undergraduate level.

  http://www.ucas.ac.uk/students/coursesearch/coursesearch2008/

http://www.educationuk.org/pls/hot_bc/page_pls_all_homepage

Elisabeth

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug  1 23:29:20 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayet Institute Fall Program
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:info at hedayetinstitute.com
Subject:Hedayet Institute Fall Program


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  Hurry up! The deadline for registration is 17th  of August , 08
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HIAS students
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HIAS latest Tours :
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug  1 23:29:15 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Clarification of Arabic teaching website job posting
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:Mahmoud Elsayess <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Clarification of Arabic teaching website job posting

This is a clarification of my previous announcement.

ReadVerse staff will produce instructional movies for teaching Arabic  
and recitations of the Koran.  The production of these instructional  
movies will require two types of professionals:

Authors: These are the writers who will design and write scripts for  
lessons in Arabic along with explanations and translations in English.  
They will need an e-mail address to send and receive materials  
digitally.  They can be located anywhere on the globe.

Actors and actresses: These are performers who will bring the Arabic  
script “alive” in front of a camera or a microphone.  They must be  
living either in Los Angeles or Orange County, California.

If you would like to join us for this exciting and important
project, please send your resume along with samples of class materials
you have developed. Compensation will be based on levels of knowledge
and experience.

Thank you.

Mahmoud Elsayess
President, ReadVerse Company

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug  6 18:57:28 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Middlebury Job
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:llarocqu at middlebury.edu
Subject:Middlebury Job

The Arabic Program at Middlebury has an opening for a tenure track  
position, open rank, in Arabic, beginning September 2009. The  
successful candidate will teach courses in Arabic language (at all  
levels) and other related courses (in literature, cultural studies, or  
linguistics).  Native or near-native fluency in Arabic is required.  
Candidates should provide evidence of commitment to excellent teaching  
and of scholarly potential or scholarly achievement, and should have  
achieved at least ABD status. Send a letter of application with a  
statement of teaching and research interests, curriculum vitae,  
graduate transcript, a sample of scholarly work, and three current  
letters of recommendation, at least two of which must speak to  
teaching ability, to: Professor Oliver Larry Yarbrough, Search  
Committee Chair, Director of Middle East Studies, Munroe Hall,  
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753. Review of applications  
will begin Monday October 27, 2008 and end when the position has been  
filled. Candidates who will be attending the Middle East Studies  
Association meeting in November in Washington D.C. and who are  
interested in interviewing at the meetings should make their  
availability known in their cover letter. Middlebury College is an  
Equal Opportunity Employer committed to recruiting a diverse faculty  
to complement its increasingly diverse student body.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug  6 18:57:35 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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5) Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

To see if other 3abd names showed a similar phenomenon, I ran the  
following search string through arabiCorpus (wtih most of the results  
again coming from the Kuwaiti paper):  cbd ?Al

Here is a list of some the forms that showed up:

العبدالله	599
العبد الله	177
العبدالهادي	49
العبدالرزاق	26
العبد الرزاق	24
العبد الهادي	16
العبدالجليل	15
العبدالكريم	11
العبد الجليل	9
العبدالسلام	9
العبد الجادر	7
العبدالرحمن	6
العبدالجادر	5
سعدالعبدالله	5
العبد المحسن	5
والعبدالله	4
العبد الغفور	4
العبد الفقير	3
العبد المغني	3
د.العبدالهادي	3
العبدالمحسن	2
العبدالرحيم	2
العبدالعزيز	2
العبداللطيف	2
العبد الرحيم	2
العبد الصالح	2
العبد الرحمن	2
العبد الوهاب	2

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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Having a definite noun as the first element in an idaafa used to be  
common in Egyptian Arabic. I came across many examples while reading  
newspapers from the twenties and the thirties. Examples include  
الفنجان القهوة, الشوية العيال, and  
الحتتين الصيغة. This structure is very limited in  
contemporary Egyptian Arabic, but we can still hear things like  
القليل الأدب .

As for العبد الله, this could be a relic from an earlier stage  
of the Jordanian dialect. Besides, it is a name after all … what is  
in a name?

Mustafa Mughazy

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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

In Egypt one hears the self-referential العبد لله (al-abd l-il- 
laah).  Might the object of the query have come from العبد لله?

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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:khorshid <khorshid at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

This is a colloquial form of aal, which refers to the family or tribe.  
Should be Aal- whatever.

Ahmad Khorshid
Arabic Language Instructor
The American University in Cairo

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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

     If you have three men named `Abdullah in a room, `Abdulla#1,  
`A#2, and `A#3, and ask which one is the tallest, would it be correct  
to answer, e.g., "Al-`Abdulla  al-thaalith"? ["the third `Abdullah"].   
Salaamaat,
                                                                       
Mike Schub

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug  6 18:57:41 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Book series on Arabic
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:mamdouh2000 at hotmail.com
Subject:Book series on Arabic

My response to Dr. Al-sayess:
Check a series of books called (Arabic: A bridge to Islamic Culture)
You find them on www.arabicforeveryone.com

thanks

Mamdouh N. Mohamed Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Summer Program

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug  6 18:57:37 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:37 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Intro to Arabic Linguistics response
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:Muhammad Aziz <muhammad.aziz at yale.edu>
Subject:Intro to Arabic Linguistics response

Dear Marwa,
Every year, on every other semester, Prof. Raji Rammuny, at the
University of Michigan, offers an excellent course that may help you
discover the world of linguistics.  It is called "Applied Linguistics
and Methods of Teaching Arabic Language".  This course has diverse
materials including phonology, morphology, linguistics, and syntax. If
you take it, it will be sufficient for you, and if you are interested in
more details it will provide you with a fair amount of bibliographical  
data.
Muhammad Aziz

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug  6 18:57:39 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Examples of diplomatic correspondence
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Examples of diplomatic correspondence

Mansoor, Menahem has published a two-volume collection of diplomatic  
Arabic, published by Brill, Leiden.
Best wishes,
                                                                                      Mike 
  Schub

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:08:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SLRF 2008
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject:SLRF 2008

The preregistration deadline for the 2008 SLRF Conference is August 15.
Register now to enjoy discounted conference rates.  For more information
or the registration form, visit:

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31st annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
October 17-19, 2008
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/

Theme:  EXPLORING SLA: PERSPECTIVES, POSITIONS, AND PRACTICES

Plenary speakers:
- Dr. Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)
- Dr. Alan Firth (Newcastle University)
- Dr. Carmen Munoz (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Dr. Richard Schmidt (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

Invited colloquia:
- "Comparing child L2 and SLI: Crosslinguistic perspectives" (Theres
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   language use with learning and teaching practices" (Christina  
Higgins -
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plus over a hundred exciting paper and poster sessions and more!

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Facebook group on Arabic Language Study Abroad
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:moderator
Subject:Facebook group on Arabic Language Study Abroad

I personally have taken a vow not to join Facebook (who knows if I'll  
have to break it sometime in the future).  But I was 'invited' to join  
the following group that I thought those of you who are already on  
Facebook might be interested in.  There follows the text of the  
invitation.  I have left off the links, since you wouldn't be able to  
join using them (not being me), but you could probably use the search  
capabilities of Facebook to find out more about the group if you are  
interested.

Ahmed invited you to join the Facebook group "Arabic Language Study  
Abroad Working Group".

Ahmed says, "Dear All,

This Face Book page has been designed to function as a dialogue forum  
and network for the enhancement of Arabic Language Study Abroad  
Programs in the Middle East.

Best regards,

Ahmed Naguib

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Books
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:moderator
Subject:New Books

The following books were announced on the LINGUIST LIST:

AUTHOR(S): Baalbaki, Ramzi
TITLE: The Legacy of the Kit?b
SUBTITLE: S?bawayhi's Analytical Methods within the Context of the  
Arabic
Grammatical Theory
SERIES: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
YEAR: 2008
PUBLISHER: Brill
ANNOUNCED IN: http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-1971.html

AUTHOR(S): Berjaoui, Nasser
TITLE: The Moroccan Arabic "?u?": Five Categories
SERIES: LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 22
YEAR: 2008
PUBLISHER: Lincom GmbH
ANNOUNCED IN: http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-1982.html

AUTHOR(S): Khan, Geoffrey
TITLE: The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar
SERIES: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East
YEAR: 2008
PUBLISHER: Brill
ANNOUNCED IN: http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-1980.html

AUTHOR(S): Berjaoui, Nasser
TITLE: Four Types of the Moroccan "?u?"
SERIES: LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 23
YEAR: 2008
PUBLISHER: Lincom GmbH
ANNOUNCED IN: http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-1884.html


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:27:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS 23 Milwaukee
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:ALS 23 Milwaukee

23rd Arabic Linguistics Symposium
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
April 3-5, 2009

The Arabic Linguistics Society and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
are pleased to announce the 23rd Arabic Linguistics Symposium to be held
at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April 3-5, 2009.


Papers are invited on topics that deal with theoretic and applied issues
of Arabic Linguistics. Research in the following areas of Arabic
linguistics is encouraged: linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics, and pragmatics), applied linguistics,
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, historical
linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, etc.

Persons interested in presenting papers are requested to submit a
one-page abstract giving the title of the paper, a brief statement of
the topic, and a summary clearly stating how the topic will be developed
(the reasoning, data, or experimental results to be presented). Authors
are requested to be as specific as possible in describing their topics.
Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu  or
via regular mail to

Mustafa Mughazy
Department of Foreign Languages,
410 Sprau Tower,
Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI  49008-5338,

Email submissions should be in PDF format with all fonts embedded. Names
are not to appear in the abstracts. Instead, the author's name, title,
email address, address, and phone number should be included in the body
of the email message.


Twenty minutes will be allowed for each presentation followed by ten
minutes for discussion.

Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: November 15, 2008
Registration:
Before February 1, 2009: 35 for students and 50 for Non-students.
 From February 1, 2009: 45 for students and 60 for non-students.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sat Aug  9 18:43:22 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on German influence on Arabic philology
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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:"Hall, Mirko M" <Mirko.Hall at converse.edu>
Subject:Needs refs on German influence on Arabic philology

Dear Colleagues,

I'd be most appreciative if anyone could direct me to a publication or  
two that discusses the cultural or "scientific" [wissenschaftliche]  
reasons why German scholars have been so influential in the field of  
Arabic philology and Islamic religious studies?

Thanks so much! Cheers, Mirko

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Invites comments on Ana min il-balad di for
 revisions
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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:shawky <shawky at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Invites comments on Ana min il-balad di for revisions

Dear colleagues:

I am reviewing my text book in advanced Egyptian Colloquial Arabic  
“Ana Min iL balad Di “”Kalam fi il3adat w taqaliid”  I would  
appreciate from those who are using it to send me any comments that  
could help refining the new copy.

Nehad shawqi

Author and publisher of

Ana Min il Bald Di

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sat Aug  9 18:43:21 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:21 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Intermediate Arabic Textbook (focus on dialogue)
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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:hanada at arabexpertise.com
Subject:New Intermediate Arabic Textbook (focus on dialogue)

The language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) at the San Diego State  
University has just produced a book for Intermediate level Arabic  
titled "Arabic language through dialog 2".  It will be followed by  
another book for Advanced level and another for beginners in a few  
months.  The series is for university students of Arabic as a foreign  
language who want to focus more on culture, dialog, conversations and  
everyday life situations in addition to syntax, spelling, and writing  
exercises.  The series is in full color.
"Arabic language through dialog 2" is a textbook for the intermediate  
level Arabic classes and is available now for purchase by contacting  
Ms. Lina Hariri Email:lhariri at projects.sdsu.edu  at the LARC center.   
One of the authors, Hanada Taha-Thomure, will be having a book signing  
at the ACTFL conference in November 2008.

-- 
Hanada Taha-Thomure, PhD
Director of Arabic Programs, Language Acquisition Resource Center,  
SDSU http://larcnet.sdsu.edu
Director, ArabExpertise www.arabexpertise.com
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics & Oriental Languages, SDSU

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sat Aug  9 18:43:29 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic LInguistics intro ref
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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:Marc Adler <marc.adler at gmail.com>
Subject:Arabic LInguistics intro ref


Marwa,

Clive Holes' "Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions, and Varieties"  
might be a starting point. You can find it on Amazon.

Regards,
Marc Adler

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:l to n change in Arabic or Semitic
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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:Munther Younes <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:l to n change in Arabic or Semitic

Dear Arabic linguists,

There are instances of l to n sound change in a few seemingly
isolated cases in Arabic like the following:

isma'iil to isma'iin (proper name)
burtuqaal to burtqaan/burtkaan/burt'aan/burd'aan "oranges"
balluur to bannuur "marble"
zalama/zanama "part of an animal's ear"

Does anyone know of any studies of this phenomenon or of any
references to it in the linguistic literature on Arabic or other
Semitic languages?

Thanks.

Munther Younes
Cornell University

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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2) Subject:Al-3abd Allaah
3) Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

You find a the opposite non-canonical treatment of noun/adjective  
phrases in Lebanese Arabic place names. For example, one of the  
beaches in Beirut is called رملة البيضاء (pronounced  
البيضة when spoken). This looks like an idafa but is not -  
notably, the taa marbuuta is not pronounced, as it would be if it were.

David Wilmsen

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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:Terrence M Potter <tmp28 at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Thanks for the interesting thread.

As many will know, Queen Rania's name includes al-3abd Allah. The  
transliteration is written: Al Abdullah. See this site:

http://www.queenrania.jo/

Best regards,
Terry Potter

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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:rizwanur rahman <rahman_r at yahoo.com>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Salam
There are two kinds of iDafah - lafDiyah and ma'nawiyah. "Al" may be  
prefixed, if so desired, to the muDaf in iDafah lafDiyah e.g.
قارئ الدرس
كاتب الرسالة
القارئ الدرس
الكاتب الرسالة
Arabic grammar does not allow prefixing "al" to the muDaf of iDafah  
ma'nawiyah e.g.
كتاب الولد
دار الرجل
In my opinion, prefixing "al' to muDaf of iDafah ma'nawiya, as  
mentioned in the previous mail in which most results have been shown  
from Kuwaiti papers,  is either influence of colloqial language or  
they are just typographical errors.
tHiyati

Rizwanur Rahman, Ph.D.
Centre of Arabic and African Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi  - India

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AATA June 08 Newsletter online
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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:"Elizabeth M. Bergman" <emb at georgetown.edu>
Subject:AATA June 08 Newsletter online

Dear Colleagues,

Current members of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA)
receive the monthly AATA Newsletter via email.  Due to circumstances
beyond our control, the July 2008 issue of the AATA Newsletter will go
out later this week.

All others are welcome to download the AATA Newsletter from the AATA
website at (http://aataweb.org/Default.aspx?pageID=27).  The June 2008
AATA Newsletter has just been posted.

If you would like more information about AATA, the AATA Newsletter, and
about joining AATA, please see the website at
(http://aataweb.org/Default.aspx).

If you are a current member of AATA and do not receive the AATA
Newsletter, it is possible that your address is not up to date.  Please
contact the AATA Business Office at (info at aataweb.org) to change your
email or mailing address.

With best wishes,

Elizabeth M. Bergman, Ph.D.
Executive Director

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug 13 18:56:31 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on Arabic semantics
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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:Mai Zaki <maizaki at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs refs on Arabic semantics

Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anyone knows about books/papers (in English or  
Arabic) on Arabic semantics.
Thank you.
Mai Zaki
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Middlesex University

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translator test query
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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:om_qaswar om Qaswar <om_qaswar at yahoo.com>
Subject:Translator test query

Hi all,
I live in New Zealand and I want to work as a translator from English  
to Arabic and Arabic to English. I have learned that I should sit for  
a test, anyone knows about this test and where I should sit for it.
Thanks,
Zainab

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug 13 18:56:37 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:37 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:l to n change in Arabic
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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:Adam McCollum <acmccollum101 at gmail.com>
Subject:l to n change in Arabic

Off the top of my head I do not know of any studies dealing  
specifically with this well-known phenomenon (outside of Semitic  
languages too, e.g. Grk. πορφύρα and Lat. purpura but purple in  
Eng.; Eng. paper, but Span. papel), but for examples from a  
comparative Semitics perspective see Sabatino Moscati, ed. An  
Introduction to the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages  
(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1964) §8.26 and C. Brockelmann, Kurzgefasste  
vergleichende Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen (Berlin: Reuter &  
Reichard, 1908) §47.  I do not have Brockelmann's much larger  
Grundriß der vergleichenden Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen to hand  
but, if you have access to it, check the table of contents or index  
for "Dissimilation von Sonoren" or the like).  I hope that helps.
Adam McCollum

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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:"A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
Subject:l to n change in Arabic

Dear Munther,

In Cairene Arabic, I have also heard the reverse when a nasal changes  
to a lateral sound (n -----> l) in a word like fingaan "cup," which is  
also pronounced fingaal by some.

To add to the examples you have cited of lateral changing to nasal (l  
---------> n), the Arabic word for cardamom is of interest. In Iraqi  
and Levantine Arabic it is hel (pronounced with a long vowel) and in  
Standard Arabic it is Hab al-haal. In Egyptian Arabic, the latter is  
assimilated into Habbahaan undergoing the nasal to lateral sound change.

Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University

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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:l to n change in Arabic

Hi Munther,
       I've heard  /goon/!!!! for /gool/ (in soccer) for 'goal' in  
Egypt. colloq (slang)?
       A children's ball game:  /yin`an  diinak/  for  /yil`an.../.
       The classic essay:  Greenberg, J. "The Patterning of root  
morphemes in Semitic." Word 6 (1950), 162--81.
       Mention must be made of the Qur'anic  /sijjiin/ ~ /sijjiil/,  
prob. both from Latin for 'seal'.
       Best wishes,
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:15:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Dear David,
       Might this be analagous to the names of cities followed by a  / 
laqab/  (by-name), e.g. /Makka   al-Mubaarakah/,  /Hoboken  al- 
MaHruusa/  '...the protected one,'  /madiina  fulaana  al-KhaDraa'/,   
'...the verdant one',  etc.?
      Best wishes,
                                                                      
Mike Schub

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Sayyab Translation Journal CFP
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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:Sayyab Translation Journal CFP

Full Title: Sayyab Translation Journal (STJ)

Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2008

Dear researchers,

Our previous call deadline for submitting papers and book reviews to  
STJ,
an international Arabic-English-Arabic translation and contrastive  
studies
print journal published in London, has been extended to 15 Oct 2008.
Contributions may be sent directly to the editor-in-chief to save time:

gorgis_3 at yahoo.co.uk

OR:

dtgorgis at gmail.com

For more details, please visit the journal's page:

http://www.sayyab.co.uk/stj/

Prof. Dinha T. Gorgis,
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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:K-16:Cheng&Tsui new High School Textbook being developed
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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:Jennifer Matty <jennifer at cheng-tsui.com>
Subject:Cheng&Tsui new High School Textbook being developed

I am the new sales representative with Cheng & Tsui, we have a new  
Arabic textbook in development for the high school market.  Please add  
me to your list serve so teachers may contact me.
Thank you
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug 13 18:56:30 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:30 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Two computer questions
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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:"mbooth at illinois.edu" <mbooth at illinois.edu>
Subject:Two computer questions

[please note that there are two separate queries here]

Dear Colleagues:
I am posting this for a friend. Dr. Frances Hasso at Oberlin.
You could reply to me directly, or to the list.
Also, I have a computer question: my son is about to start an  
undergraduate Arabic major (hurrah!), and I'm wondering what laptop to  
buy him. I'm a PC user; he's interested in Mac but I've heard that  
present Arabic capabilities on Mac aren't so great (though I know they  
used to be the best). Any advice?

many thanks,
Marilyn Booth (mbooth at illinois.edu)

Dear colleagues -- Is anyone familiar with the font interface between  
the latest version of Wordperfect and arabic to english  
transliteration letters such as `ayn, hamza, and the letters like d  
and h that sometimes
need a period below them)? Jaghbub, which I've installed for my latest  
version of MS Word, doesn't seem to be accessible for Wordperfect. (I  
looked in the "symbols" tab.) I'm looking for the Times or Times New  
Roman font or something close for these particular letters. Is there a  
way to make a keyboard do this in WP? The internet has been no help.
Thanks. Frances Hasso

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Georgetown U Job
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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From: "Meriem M. Tikue" <mmt43 at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Georgetown U Job

he Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University
invites applications for an open rank, tenure track position in the
field of Arabic Literature starting in August 2009. Specialization is
open, but the successful candidate is expected to teach courses on
classical as well as modern Arabic literature, and to have strong
familiarity with more than one regional Arabic literary tradition.
Candidates are also expected to have familiarity with literary theory.
The successful candidate must have a completed Ph.D. in Arabic
literature or comparative literature with a clearly demonstrated
specialty in Arabic, and a sustained record of research and scholarship
in the field. Near native fluency in Arabic is assumed. The Candidate is
expected to offer undergraduate and graduate courses, supervise doctoral
research in relevant fields, advise Arabic majors, and play a leading
role in strengthening the program and complementing the research and
teaching interests of other faculty members in the Department. Please
send letters of application, curriculum vitae, writing samples, and
three letters of reference to: Arabic Search, Department of Arabic and
Islamic Studies, Poulton Hall 202, Georgetown University, Washington,
D.C. 20057-1046. Review of applications will start on October 1, and
will continue until the position is filled. Georgetown University is an
equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.  Women and minorities
are especially invited to apply.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:l to n change response
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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Manfred Woidich <m.a.woidich at uva.nl>
Subject:l to n change response

I hate to quote myself, but in my Cairo grammar (Harrassowitz 2006) on
page 15 you will find some more examples, as well as in nearly all
older grammars of Egyptian Arabic such as Spitta §8 p.26 (as well as
for /r/ Ù /l/, Vollers-Burkitt §3 p.17, Willmore p.27, Karl Vollers,
Beiträge zur Kenntnis der lebenden arabischen Sprache (ZDMG XLI (1887)
p.376  and so on. In Dakhla Oasis, in the village al-QaSr, all /l/
developped into /n/, anwuniyya wuneedit = ilwiliyya wildit, see my "Zum
Dialekt von al-QaSr in der Oase Dakhla (Ägypten)", in: Werner Arnold
and Hartmut Bobzin (eds.) "Sprich doch mit deinen Knechten aramäisch,
wir verstehen es!" (Festschrift für Otto Jastrow, Wiesbaden 2002)
821–840.

Best,

Manfred Woidich

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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Uri Horesh <uri.horesh at fandm.edu>
Subject:l to n change response

In addition to the examples mentioned by Munther and others, it is  
notable that the other non-nasal sonorant, /r/, also alternates with / 
n/ in some cases, particularly between Aramaic and the other Semitic  
languages. The two examples that come to mind are the following:

Aramaic          Arabic          Hebrew
-------          ------          ------
bar              (i)bn           ben     'son'
tre:             thnay           shne:   'two' (masc.)

I seem to think there are others, so if there any Aramaic scholars in  
the room, please feel free to chime in.

Note, however, that this is not a complete historical shift, as /r/  
and /n/ also occur in Aramaic as reflexes of their proto-Semitic  
ancestors, and examples abound.

In addition, I believe we have alternations such as /yil3an/ ~ / 
yin3al/ 'may it be cursed'. The latter is certainly used as a loanword  
in Israeli Hebrew, but I believe to have heard that some Araic  
dialects have it as well. Of course, in this case it may be construed  
as simple intra-word metathesis, but one wonders whether the phonetic  
similarity has served as a catalyst for this particular exchange.
--
Uri Horesh
Director, Arabic Language Program

Modern Languages
Franklin & Marshall College
PO Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:10 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translator test response
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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Christopher Hurtado <christopher.hurtado at linguisticsolutions.com>
Subject:Translator test response

http://atanet.org/certification/index.php

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Search by root capability added to ReadVerse site
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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Mahmoud Elsayess <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Search by root capability added to ReadVerse site

Arabic word root a new Search Internet engine breakthrough

ReadVerse Company of Westminster, CA is pleased to announce an  
important enhancement to its software search engine for retrieving  
information from its proprietary, Internet-based database of the  
complete Koran.  Formerly, visitors were able to search the entire  
Koran by one word, two words, and topic.  Now, with this important  
innovation visitors will be able to search the entire Holy Koran by  
the root of an Arabic word.  Arabic words are generally based on a  
root that uses a few consonants to define the underlying construction  
and the meaning of different words. Various vowels, prefixes and  
suffixes are used with the root letters to create the desired  
inflection of other words with different meanings.  Each set of root  
letters can lead to a vast number of words, all predictable in form  
and all related to the basic group of the few consonant root letters.

With this new enhancement when a visitor types the root of a word, the  
software will render all derivatives of that word as used in the  
entire Holy Koran.  Thus, if a visitor types ر  ح  م
(rhm), the software will pull over 65 different words from all of the  
verses having these words along with a listing of each of the verses  
with its respective sura and verse numbers that are derivatives of the  
same root. This means that once students learn one root, they can  
increase their vocabulary by over 65 words - a powerful way to  
increase the vocabulary of Arabic and Koran-learning students.

If a student does not know the root of a word, he or she can type that  
word and the software will render all verses and suras that have this  
particular word along its root. Once the root is known, the student  
can type the desired root, and the software will render all suras and  
verses that have this root.

For additional information, please contact ReadVerse at: http://www.readverse.com/

Mahmoud Elsayess, President
Read~Verse
melsayess at socal.rr.com
Mahmoud Elsayess

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sun Aug 17 15:07:54 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:07:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:National Security Internship Program at GWU Summer
 2009
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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:tsgro at edventurepartners.com
Subject:National Security Internship Program at GWU Summer 2009


Dear Colleague,

I am contacting you regarding a wonderful opportunity that is  
available to your students Summer 2009 at The George Washington  
University.  My hope is you might assist us in getting this link  
HYPERLINK "http://www.nationalsecurityinternship.com"www.nationalsecurityinternship.com 
  exposed to interested students who are studying or speak Arabic  
regarding this 2nd year program and internship.

The National Security Internship is an intensive nine-week, full  
immersion summer program that combines Arabic language, Arab Film &  
Cultural Studies, National Security Seminars and an internship  
experience at U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or FBI  
Headquarters.  Students will receive an all-expense paid summer in the  
nation's capital, including travel to Washington, D.C., 11  
transferable GWU college credits, full room and board at The George  
Washington University and an exciting internship at DHS or FBI  
Headquarters.

This program aims to develop the capacity of high-achieving  
undergraduate and graduate college students with critical skills, who  
also possess a higher degree of cultural competencies. It is not  
designed to develop a cadre of translators but rather to build a  
national security workforce of individuals and encourage them toward  
potential careers at the DHS or FBI.  The National Security Internship  
will be open to only 20 qualified applicants who are able to meet the  
requirements to be granted a top-secret clearance and have an Arabic  
rating score of 1+ or higher. Program dates are June 8 through August  
7, 2009 and all applications must be submitted by September 30, 2008.

You can also pass along this link to view the National Securing  
Internship brochure -  HYPERLINK "http://intranet.edventurepartners.com/nsi_brochure.pdf 
" http://intranet.edventurepartners.com/nsi_brochure.pdf   I can also  
send you hard copies of this brochure so that you can hand them out to  
those qualified students that you feel would benefit from this  
opportunity.  Simply email me back and I will be happy to do so.   
Additionally, if you have any questions or need additional  
information, please do not hesitate to contact me at HYPERLINK "mailto:info at nationalsecurityinternship.com 
"info at nationalsecurityinternship.com


Thank you in advance for your time and kind assistance.

Sincerely,

Mohssen Esseesy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor & Coordinator of the Arabic Program
The George Washington University

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sun Aug 17 15:08:04 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New York University Job
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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:lea.ellison at nyu.edu
Subject:New York University Job

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Clinical Assistant Professor or Language Lecturer in Arabic
Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Arts and Science

To meet the demands of our expanding Arabic Program, the Department
of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University is
inviting applications for a position teaching Arabic, to begin
September 1, 2009, pending administrative and budgetary
approval.  Appointment may be at the rank of Clinical Assistant
Professor or Language Lecturer, depending on qualifications and
experience. The normal teaching load is three courses per
semester.  Experience of teaching Arabic as a foreign language (AFL)
at the university level, familiarity with proficiency-based language
teaching and testing methods, native or near native command of
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) plus at least one dialect, ability to
teach all levels and familiarity with the use of technology in
language teaching are required.  Ph.D. in Arabic language,
linguistics, literature, or a related field is required for the
clinical position and preferred but not required for the
lecturer.  Please submit a cover letter, c.v., writing sample,
student evaluations (if available), and at least three letters of
recommendation to: Arabic Search Committee, Department of Middle
Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University, 50 Washington
Square South, New York, NY 10012. They have to be received by us no
later than Friday, October 17, 2008. NYU is an Equal
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:computer question responses
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1) Subject:computer question response

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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Benjamin Geer <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:computer question response

mbooth at illinois.edu wrote:
> Also, I have a computer question: my son is about to start an  
> undergraduate
> Arabic major (hurrah!), and I'm wondering what laptop to buy him.  
> I'm a PC
> user; he's interested in Mac but I've heard that present Arabic  
> capabilities
> on Mac aren't so great (though I know they used to be the best). Any  
> advice?

One thing to keep in mind is that Microsoft Word for Mac doesn't
support Arabic at all.  For this reason, my wife uses NeoOffice
(http://www.neooffice.org) instead of Word on her Mac laptop, and that
seems to be OK.  NeoOffice is a Mac version of the free OpenOffice
productivity suite (http://www.openoffice.org/), which runs on several
different operating systems.

My laptop runs Ubuntu Linux (http://www.ubuntu.com/), a free
community-developed operating system that includes OpenOffice; it
supports Arabic very well.  A number of companies (e.g. Dell and Acer)
sell laptops with Linux pre-installed.

> Dear colleagues -- Is anyone familiar with the font interface  
> between the
> latest version of Wordperfect and arabic to english transliteration  
> letters
> such as `ayn, hamza, and the letters like d and h that sometimes
> need a period below them)? Jaghbub, which I've installed for my latest
> version of MS Word, doesn't seem to be accessible for Wordperfect.

Any good Unicode font for European languages should have those
characters.  I often use Gentium, a free font:

http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium

If you can't find a way to type those letters on the keyboard, you
might try copying them and pasting them from this web page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_31635

Ben

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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Knut S. Vikør <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject:computer question response


> Also, I have a computer question: my son is about to start an  
> undergraduate Arabic major (hurrah!), and I'm wondering what laptop  
> to buy him. I'm a PC user; he's interested in Mac but I've heard  
> that present Arabic capabilities on Mac aren't so great (though I  
> know they used to be the best). Any advice?

Arabic capabilities on the Mac are fine, it is the Arabic capabilities  
of Microsoft Word on Mac that are not fine (do not exist). But there  
are many other excellent word processors fully Arabic capable (and all  
read and write Microsoft Word files, if collaboration with PCs is an  
issue). So go ahead with the Mac choice, if that is what he is  
interested in - a fine machine.

> Dear colleagues -- Is anyone familiar with the font interface  
> between the latest version of Wordperfect and arabic to english  
> transliteration letters such as `ayn, hamza, and the letters like d  
> and h that sometimes
> need a period below them)? Jaghbub, which I've installed for my  
> latest version of MS Word, doesn't seem to be accessible for  
> Wordperfect. (I looked in the "symbols" tab.) I'm looking for the  
> Times or Times New Roman font or something close for these  
> particular letters. Is there a way to make a keyboard do this in WP?  
> The internet has been no help.
> Thanks. Frances Hasso

Does WordPerfect support Unicode (e.g., can you write macrons over a  
and u etc. in Times New Roman?) I do not know anything about WP these  
days, but Jaghbub for Unicode (called "JaghbUni"), which I made, does  
- as the name implies - require that the application supports Unicode  
fonts. The old version of Jaghbub (called just thus) is a Mac font and  
is not intended for PCs.
For an overview of Unicode fonts for Arabic transliteration (PC/Mac)  
see,
http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv/diacs.html#ucf
but technically they are all Unicode fonts, so either none or all will  
be useful for WordPerfect, depending on the application's abilities.

Knut S. Vikør

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Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Hebrew University Job
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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:Hebrew University Job

University or Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department: Faculty of Humanities
Job Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Web Address: http://www.huji.ac.il/huji/eng/

Job Rank: Rank Open

Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish  
Linguistics


Description:

The Faculty of Humanities invites applications from outstanding  
candidates
(PhD required, postdoctoral training highly desirable).  Tenure-track  
and
tenured positions for appointment beginning in the Academic year of  
2009/2010.

In the following fields:
Arabic Language and Literature; Comparative Literature;  Hebrew  
Language:
Biblical Hebrew/ Modern Hebrew;  Holocaust Studies; Islamic Material
Culture and Archaeology; Jewish History of the Biblical period; Modern
Hebrew Literature; Philosophy; Romance Studies: Spanish Language and
Literature; Talmud; Theatre Studies;  Yiddish Language and Literature

Responsibilities will include teaching both required and elective  
courses
in their field(s) of specialization and related disciplines. The  
language
of instruction is Hebrew.

Successful candidates are expected to conduct independent and original
research at the highest academic level, to demonstrate academic  
leadership,
to apply for Israeli and international research grants,and to cooperate
with other researchers within the Faculty and other faculties.

Candidates are requested to apply in writing to:
Professor Israel Bartal, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities

Applicants should provide:
(1) Curriculum Vitae (Please use - CV form *)
(2) Current list of publications (Please use - List of Publication  
form *)
(3) 2-3 page statement of research plans
(4) Teaching evaluations (if available)
(5) 2 representative publications
Candidates should ask 2 referees to send letters of reference directly  
to
the Dean's office

Candidates are required to submit the application in 12 copies.  Please
note that application submitted not according to instructions will be
returned to sender.

Finalists may be requested to deliver a lecture on the subject of their
research.  Rank will be determined according to the candidate's
qualifications.  Appointments will begin on October 1st, 2009.

* Additional information and forms please find in the Faculty of  
Humanities
website


Application Deadline: 01-Sep-2008
Mailing Address for Applications:
        Prof. Israel Bartal
        The  Faculty of Humanities, Mount Scopus
        Jerusalem 91905
        Israel
Web Address for Applications: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/upload/(FILE)1218441686.doc
Contact Information:
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:09 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Peter Verkinderen [peter.verkinderen at ugent.be]
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Dear Mike,

I think the case of the names of the cities you mention is somewhat
different; these names are considered definite even though they don't
have the alif-lâm, which is the same for personal names (e.g.,
Muhammad al-Amîn), and some rivers (Dijla = the Tigris, Dijla l-3awrâ'
= the one-eyed Tigris)

In medieval Iraq there are a number of hydronyms that are analogous to
David's "Ramla l-BaiDâ'" : Nahr al-Jadîd, Nahr al-Mubârak, Nahr
al-Aisar. I don't know how to explain these forms, but apparently
there is a wider pattern. I'd be very grateful if someone could
enlighten us.

As for Al-3Abd Allâh: I think the Al- is the same element as in Iraqi
tribal names like Albû Muhammad, which is probably derived from âl
(family).

Best wishes,

Peter Verkinderen

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:MS portal for new Arabic technology
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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From: Dora Johnson <dJohnson at cal.org>
Subject:MS portal for new Arabic technology

This came via Multilingual News.

Microsoft Corporation has launched a new portal to involve Arabic  
speakers in the process of developing new technology terms for its  
products. The Localization Portal has been developed to encourage  
users of Microsoft's Arabic language products to comment on the  
translation of technology terms and to provide input into translation  
for future products. Although Windows Vista Arabic has a translated  
glossary of over 500,000 terms that have been built up over the years,  
the portal has only around 90 new terms so that users are not  
overloaded with terms. The portal is intended to provide an ongoing  
forum for Arabic translation, with new terms added at regular intervals.

Microsoft Corporation, E-mail: info at microsoft.com, Web: http://www.microsoft.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug 22 19:15:48 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:Ola Moshref <omoshref at gmail.com>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

[Nahr al-Jadīd, Nahr al-Mubārak, Nahr al-Aisar] are lilke [shaari3 al- 
Hamra]. None of them seems to be adjectival. This is clear from the  
last example where shaari3 is masculine and Hamra is feminine. Proper  
nouns like al-Tawiil, al-Hakiim are common. Likewise, al-Jadiid, al- 
Mubaarak, al-Hamra in these structures can very well be nominal.

Perhaps the taa' marbuuTa of [ramla al-bayDa] is not pronounced in  
analogy to proper nouns like [Fatima/Amira al-Tawil], regardless of  
the functional difference in meaning.

As for al-3abd Allah and similar names, we may reason that 3abd Allah/ 
Alraaziq/.. etc. became so common that they are treated as if they  
were single nouns like Mustafa, Omar, etc. rather than a compound of  
two nouns. We say al-[Mustafa], al-[Omar/ayn] and likewise al-[3abd  
Allah].

In one of his poems, Nizar Qabbani coined "al-3aynaa-ha", "al-shafataa- 
ha":

تلك العيناها أصفى من ماء الخلجان
تلك الشفتاها أشهى من زهر الرمان

I thought it was nice, because it made "her eyes" so unique and  
unparalleled that we should say "the [her eyes]" like we say "the  
[sun]" and "the [moon]".

Ola
TA/ UIUC

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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Dear Peter,
     You are correct.
     The problem may be Semitic:  Biblical Hebrew  /ha-lashon  ha- 
ra`/  =  'evil talk; gossip.  In Mishnaic Hebrew
(about 100--700 CE [=AD])  becomes  /lashon  ha-ra`/.
      For many more such examples, please contact Prof. Shmuel  
Bolotsky, Dept. Jewish and NE Studies,
U. Mass., Amherst.
       Best wishes,
                                                                  m

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:wants Arabic pedagogy research refs
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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:Sylvia Akar <sylvia.akar at helsinki.fi>
Subject:wants Arabic pedagogy research refs

Dear all,
does anyone know about useful pedagogic research dealing with teaching
Arabic (MSA) as a foreigh language to adult students? Being a non-native
speaker besides of being a non-linguist, I feel I need some more
structure in my teaching.

Sylvia Akar
--

Sylvia Akar Ph.D.
University Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Arabic Language
Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38B)
00014 University of Helsinki

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translation test query response
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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:jmurg [jmurg at cox.net]
Subject:Translation test query response

Dear Zeinab and Arabic-L Colleagues:
Translator certification is not a blanket requirement in the U.S. Some  
organizations may require that translators doing work for them have  
the ATA credential (which is not sponsored by the government), while  
others have their own exam. For example, federal and state courts  
often have a certification procedure for their own translators.

Other countries have certification programs dictated by the national  
or provincial government, with a test and other qualifications  
required for a translator to do certain kinds of work in the field or  
to claim a title like "certified translator."  It's a credential like  
the U.S. bar exam for lawyers.

Zeinab should check with a New Zealand translators organization (http://www.nzsti.org/ 
) or the national government to see if there is such a certification  
requirement there. I took a quick look and didn't see anything about  
testing. The ATA certification might look nice on a resume, and it's a  
nice credential for without extensive experience in the field, but it  
wouldn't constitute the official certification required in some  
situations.

That said, in general, a translator can work anywhere in the world  
without official credentials and do work for clients who don't require  
them.  Also, the various Arab countries have diplomas and  
certificates, as does the U.K., so there are other opportunities for  
some kind of credential, especially for into-Arabic.

It should be noted that at present ATA only has certification from  
Arabic into English, not the reverse. However, there are plans to add  
English into Arabic some time in the future. This will be addressed at  
the ATA's annual conference in Orlando, Florida, this fall:
http://atanet.org/conf/2008/

Jackie Murgida
ATA member

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug 22 19:15:43 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:/l/ to /r/ change
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3) Subject:/l/ to /r/ change

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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:aziz abbassi <abbassiaziz at hotmail.com>
Subject:/l/ to /r/ change

Hi Munther:

  I can confirm what other colleagues noted for “Eastern Arabic  
Dialects” Re. /l/ to /n/ shift/switch as a true and common phenomenon  
in Moroccan Arabic. So in addition to the [Sma`in] case, also found in  
various parts of the country, Moroccan Arabic has : [yen`al XXX]    
(curse be on XXX), and oddly enough the phrase [na`latu allahi wa  
`alik] (Allah's curse be on you) but actually pronounced in MSA,  
perhaps for the sake of efficacy. In addition to this type of  
consonantal switch/shift there is a pan-Maghribi  /m/ to/n/ commonly  
encountered in utterance of the possessive adj/pron /mtaa`/ pronounced  
as [nta`] ex.  /ntaa`i/  (mine) ~ compare Egypt. bitaa`i where the /m/  
turns into /b/.  I just confirmed this fact for Algerian Arabic after  
listening to the opening of a duet where Cheb Mammi (Algerian singer)  
is quibbling with Kadhem Saher (Iraqi singer) about a woman saying:    
"had al mar?a ntaa`i.... ntaa`i   ?ana”. Another example is [nira]  
(the musical inst. Recorder) assumably from “lyre” or “Lyra” (Lat-GK)  
which would represent a complex borrowing with a possible semantic  
shift. Another consonant switch found in several parts of Morocco  
concerns, here the reverse of Munther’s cases, pronouncing  /n/ as /l/  
in reference to lamb (the meat) as “ghelmi”, instead of  /ghenmi/.

Aziz –a voice from your Texas days.


Aziz Abbassi
Foreign Language Consultant
Arabic Dialectology.

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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:Adam McCollum <acmccollum101 at gmail.com>
Subject:/l/ to /r/ change

Prof. Younes,
I at first said I did not know of any studies dealing with your  
question but I happened upon a reference a few days ago:

D. Testen, "The Significance of Aramaic r < *n," Journal of Near  
Eastern Studies 44 (1985): 143-146.

All the best,
Adam McCollum

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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:Adam McCollum [acmccollum101 at gmail.com]
Subject:/l/ to /r/ change

Prof. Horesh mentioned some Aramaic evidence with regard to the l-n-r  
exchange in the Semitic languages and invited others to offer more.   
Here are a few references:

1. In general n > r before n (Bauer-Leander, Biblisch-Aramäische  
Grammatik §13a).

2. In Syriac n > l in several foreign words (Nöldeke, Syriac Grammar  
§31b).

3. Nöldeke (Mandäische Grammatik, p. 54) gives the picture that in  
Mandaic (an Aram. dialect) the interchange between l and n is less  
frequent than in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, but the more recent  
Mandaic grammar (§27)—also including modern Mandaic—of R. Macuch gives  
a fuller picutre with many examples.  For r and l alternation see  
Nöldeke, p. 55 and §28 of Macuch.

4. For l-n-r interchange in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic see C. Levias, A  
Grammar of the Aramaic Idiom Contained in the Babylonian Talmud  
§§34-36 (available as a book but originally printed in the American  
Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 13 (1896): 21-78 and  
subsequent vols.).

5. Akkadian tarlugallu (< Sumerian dar-lugal) to Aramaic tarnugla and  
similar forms (S. Kaufman, Akkadian Influences on Aramaic, p. 108).

6. Eastern Aramaic dialects alternate between l or n (instead of y) as  
the prefix for the imperfect (probably at first influenced by the  
Akkadian precative construction; see S. Kaufman, Akkadian Influences  
on Aramaic, pp. 124-126).

7. In a Jewish neo-Aramaic dialect there is a shift of l > r (under  
Kurdish influence) including Arabic loanwords, e.g. mal > mar, Hal >  
Har, ’asli > ’asri (G. Khan, The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of  
Sulemaniyya and Halabja [Leiden: Brill, 2004] §1.5; cf. H. Mutzafi,  
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Koy Sanjaq [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz,  
2004] §1.1.3, under part 3i).  For Turoyo note O. Jastrow’s Lehrbuch  
der Turoyo-Sprache (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002) §0.1.3.



[The phenomenon is also well attested in Ge‘ez (see §32 of Dillmann’s  
Ethiopic Grammar).  I am not sure how much it extends in the modern  
Ethiopian languages (Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, etc.), but the works of  
Wolf Leslau would no doubt make the matter clear.]

Adam McCollum

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New book, article
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__________________

Title: Heavenly Readings
Subtitle: Liturgical Literacy in a Multilingual Context
Series Title: New Perspectives on Language and Education

Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
           http://www.multilingual-matters.com/


Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847690920


Author: Andrey Rosowsky

Hardback: ISBN: 1847690939 9781847690937 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 119.95
Hardback: ISBN: 1847690939 9781847690937 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 59.95
Paperback: ISBN: 1847690920 9781847690920 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 24.95
Paperback: ISBN: 1847690920 9781847690920 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 49.95


Abstract:

This ethnographic study investigates for the first time in any  
significant
depth the literacy practices associated with the religion of Islam as  
they
are shaped, lived and experienced within a typical Muslim community in  
the
United Kingdom. It seeks to counterbalance prevailing views on such
practices which have often been misrepresented and misunderstood.



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

__________________

Journal Title:  Babel
Volume Number:  54
Issue Number:  3
Issue Date:  2008


Main Text:

Babel 54:3

2008. 104 pp.
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Babel%2054%3A3

Table of contents

The signalling potential of Arabic conjunctive wa: How it could be  
handled in
translation
Adil Al-Kufaishi 234-250

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:47 -0600
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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

I haven't done a systematic observation of place names in Lebanon, but  
in driving round the country and noticing  road signs, I get the  
impression that constructions such as رملة البيضاء are  
common. I do not believe they are  analogous to family names. I  
actually know a young woman from the الطويل family, and it is  
obvious that what we see in her full name is not the same phenomenon.  
I admit that you caught me for a minute with شارع الحمراء,  
but there is a family of the name حمرا (without the hamza) from  
مرجعيون. It could be that the street was named for the family،  
you may sometimes see it written الحمرا on road signs. But it is  
just as likely that it was named الحمراء for other reasons -  
perhaps for the Andalusian palace. When the construction was first  
brought to my attention, it was pointed out to me that one might often  
hear the phrase عيد الكبير when the canonical construction  
would be العيد الكبير. So clearly the gender of the nouns  
involved is not the key to the question. It seems, rather, to be a  
general trend -  perhaps no longer productive - in some varieties of  
Arabic (and other Semitic languages - thanks Michael).

DW

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NACAL 37 Albequerque CFP
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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:Uri Horesh <uri.horesh at fandm.edu>
Subject:NACAL 37 Albequerque CFP

Subject: NACAL 37 (Albuquerque, NM): Call for Papers

Dear colleagues,

The 37th meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic
Linguistics (NACAL 37) will be held in Albuquerque, NM from March 13
to March 15, 2009 (Friday to Sunday).

Papers on linguistic topics relevant to the languages of the
Afroasiatic phylum (Chadic, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, Egyptian,
Semitic) are requested. Topics relating to all aspects of Afroasiatic
languages will be considered, particularly including phonology,
morphology, syntax, comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics, and
epigraphy. These topics should be considered as general guidelines and
are not intended to be exclusive. No original paper will be rejected
on account of its subject, as long as it relates to the languages of
the Afroasiatic phylum and meets the scholarly standards established
by previous conferences.

Abstracts describing the precise topic treated with a length of
approximately 200-300 words can be sent as an electronic version (pdf
or word document) or as a paper copy to the addresses specified on the
registration page on the website (www.nacal.org). The deadline for
submission is December 1st, 2008. For more information, please visit
our website at www.nacal.org.

We look forward to hear from you,

NACAL 37 co-convenors
Dr. Rebecca Hasselbach, Univeristy of Chicago.
Dr. Na'ama Pat-El, University of Texas at Austin.

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:45 -0600
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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:hawky <shawky at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Ana Min Il Balad Di feedback reminder

Dear colleague,hi everyone:

I wrote earlier on about my intention to add material on my book "Ana  
Min Il  Balad Di" the textbook in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic ,I was  
hoping may be to receive email from someone who used the book. as it  
would be useful to know how s/he found the book , in what context they  
have found it.
Nehad Shawqi
author and publisher of
"Ana Min Il Balad Di'
a book on customs and tradition
Egyptian colloquial Arabic

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-LING:Northwestern U Job
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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:Irene Sakk <i-sakk at northwestern.edu>
Subject:Northwestern U Job

Department of Linguistics

Northwestern University

Pending final approval, the Department of Linguistics invites  
applications
from scholars with expertise and research interests in any aspect of  
Middle
Eastern languages and linguistics.  We are seeking a Ph.D. in any  
subfield
of linguistics or a related discipline who has analyzed primary data  
(e.g.,
experimental data, field data, or natural language corpora) in order to
address theoretical issues with a focus on the languages of the Middle  
East,
including but not limited to Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish and Persian.   
This is a
tenure-eligible position at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin in
fall 2009.
The Linguistics Department is participating in a multi-departmental  
search;
thus there is the opportunity for a joint hire with another department.

Applicants should submit a curriculum vita, a letter describing  
research and
teaching interests, two writing samples, and three letters of reference.
Review of applications will begin on October 15th, 2008.

E-mail inquiries should be directed to <search at ling.northwestern.edu>.
The web page for the Department is:
http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/linguistics.

Please send all materials to:

            Middle East Faculty Search Committee
            Department of Linguistics
            Northwestern University
            2016 Sheridan Road
            Evanston, IL 60208-4090
            (Tel: 847-491-7020, Fax: 847-491-3770)

Letters of reference can be sent electronically (to the email above),  
or by
mail (to the mailing address above) by October 15, 2008.

Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action  
Employer,
and applications from minority and women candidates are especially  
welcome.

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Linguists Group database update
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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:khaledrifaat at LINK.NET
Subject:Cairo Linguists Group database update

Dear All,
Cairo Linguists Group is updating its database of linguists in Egypt.   
We urge all Egyptian linguists to participate and submit the required  
information.  Needles to say, this database is of great importance to  
all academic activities and we expect that all will benefit from it.   
After completion, this database may be available to all members or may  
be put on the site of the group.  Please take a couple of minutes to  
fill in the following information.


Regards,

Prof. Khaled Rifaat

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Name:

Academic Rank:

Affiliation:

University:
Faculty:
Department:

Subfield of specialization:

Topic of Thesis:

Contact Address:

Contact Information:
  Phone:

cell phone:

Email:

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Language Documentation Conf Reminder
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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject:Language Documentation Conf Reminder

1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation:
Supporting Small Languages Together.
Honolulu, Hawai'i, March 12-14, 2009
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09

It has been a decade since Himmelmann's article on language  
documentation
appeared and focused the field into thinking in terms of creating a
lasting record of a language that could be used by speakers as well as  
by
academics. This conference aims to assess what has been achieved in the
past decade and what the practice of language documentation within
linguistics has been and can be. It has become apparent that there is  
too
much for a linguist alone to achieve and that language documentation
requires collaboration. This conference will focus on the theme of
collaboration in language documentation and revitalization and will
include sessions on interdisciplinary topics.

PLENARY SPEAKERS include:

* Nikolaus Himmelmann, University of Munster
* Leanne Hinton, UC Berkeley
* Paul Newman, Indiana University, University of Michigan
* Phil Cash Cash, University of Arizona


TOPICS

We welcome abstracts on the issue of a retrospective on language
documentation - an assessment after a decade, and on topics related to
collaborative language documentation and conservation which may include:

- Community-based documentation/conservation initiatives
- Community viewpoints on documentation
- Issues in building language documentation in collaborative teams
- Interdisciplinary fieldwork
- Collaboration for mobilization of language data
- Technology in documentation - methods and pitfalls
- Graduate students and documentation
- Topics in areal language documentation
- Training in documentation methods - beyond the university
- Teaching/learning small languages
- Language revitalization
- Language archiving
- Balancing documentation and language learning

This is not an exhaustive list and individual papers and/or colloquia on
topics outside these remits are warmly welcomed.


ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in  
any
language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the
region. Authors may submit no more than one individual and one joint
proposal.

ABSTRACTS ARE DUE BY SEPTEMBER 15th, 2008 with notification of  
acceptance
by October 17th 2008.

We ask for ABSTRACTS OF 400 WORDS for online publication so that
conference participants can have a good idea of the content of your  
paper
and a 50 WORD SUMMARY for inclusion in the conference program.  All
abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international  
experts
on the topic.

** SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL ONLINE:  http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/icldc09/call.html

Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to the
journal Language Documentation & Conservation for publication.


PRESENTATION FORMATS

* PAPERS will be allowed 20 minutes with 10 minutes of question time.
* POSTERS will be on display throughout the conference. Poster
  presentations will run during the lunch breaks.
* COLLOQUIA (themed sets of sessions) associated with the theme of the
  conference are also welcome.


For more information, visit our conference website:
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09

Enquiries to: ICLDC at hawaii.edu


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Monterey Institute Job
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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:Monterey Institute Job

Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:07:41
From: Ryan Vandergriff [ryan at jobelephant.com]
Subject: Various Languages & Applied Linguistics: Instructor, Monterey  
Institute of International Studies, CA, USA

University or Organization: Monterey Institute of International Studies
Department: International Intensive Language Studies (ILST)
Job Location: California, USA
Web Address: http://miis.interviewexchange.com

Job Rank: Instructor

Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics

Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                      Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                      French (fra)
                      Russian (rus)
                      Spanish (spa)

Description:

Instructor - Winter Intensive Language Program 2008

Definition:

Monterey Institute of International Intensive Language Studies (ILST)
Department is looking to hire two instructors for each of the following
languages for the Winter Intensive Language Program (WILP):

- Arabic
- Chinese
- Russian
- Spanish
- French

This is a part-time, temporary exempt position.

The Winter Intensive Language Program (WILP) provides beginning and
intermediate level language instruction in an intensive format to
approximately 60 undergraduate and graduate students as well as
professionals for two and a half weeks every winter.

Under supervision of the Language Program Coordinator and the WILP
Director, language instructors provide intensive instruction in a
communicative format with a focus on authentic materials for the Winter
Intensive Language Program.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Teaches assigned language and level half or full-time
- Collaborates with the language program coordinator, other  
instructors and
teaching assistant to provide integration between curricular and
extra-curricular programming as well as cultural relevance
- Prepares comprehensive syllabus including course description,  
objectives
and material as well as assessment guidelines for students
- Prepares classes and provides instruction focusing on communicative
language teaching and use of authentic materials
- Adjusts intensity of program as needed in collaboration with language
program coordinator
- Keeps track of student progress by regularly implementing assessment
mechanisms and completing grade reports as requested.

Employment Standards:
Education/Experience
- Master's degree or PhD in language, language teaching or related field
preferred
- 2+ years of previous language teaching experience
- Native or near-native language ability
- Previous experience teaching in intensive program preferred

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Excellent teaching and interpersonal communication skills
- Familiarity with communicative teaching practices and use of authentic
materials to teach foreign language
- Proven dedication to excellence in language teaching
- Willingness and ability to become acquainted and comply with SILP
processes and regulations as well as Institute policies.

Physical Requirements/Environment
- The Monterey Institute maintains a smoke-free/drug-free workplace

Required Materials:
- Curriculum Vitae detailing all relevant teaching and language  
experience
- Evidence of teaching expertise (i.e., teaching demo, student  
evaluations,
teaching materials, letter(s) of recommendation, etc.)

To apply, go to:
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:21 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic pedagogy research refs
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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From: elsherif <alarish5 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:Arabic pedagogy research refs

Hi
Greating from England
Those books are very helpful
1)The teaching of Arabic as a foreign language ;ISSUES AND DIRECTION / 
EDIDED BY MOHAMED AL-BATAL BARCODE 1801827640
2)Waqa i nadawat ta lim al lughah al Arabia li -ghayer al -natiquin  
biha . barcode 30215021171994 Al Madind L-Munawwarah.
3)Asasiat Talim al-lughah al Arabia lil natiqin bi lighat ukhr  by Abd  
al- Aziz ibn ibrahim
Barcode 1805897057 .

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug 29 20:08:16 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:16 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New article and book
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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From:moderator
Subject:New article and book

The following article and book that may have some interest from  
subscribers have been announced:

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Weighted constraints and gradient restrictions on place co-occurrence  
in Muna and Arabic

Andries W. Coetzee1  and Joe Pater2

(1)
Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, 440 Lorch Hall, 611  
Tappan Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220, USA
(2)
Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA  
01003, USA
Received: 14 October 2005  Revised: 20 September 2007  Accepted: 16  
November 2007  Published online: 14 August 2008

Abstract  This paper documents a restriction against the co-occurrence  
of homorganic consonants in the root morphemes of Muna, a western  
Austronesian language, and compares the Muna pattern with the much- 
studied similar pattern in Arabic. As in Arabic, the restriction  
applies gradiently: its force depends on the place of articulation of  
the consonants involved, and on whether the homorganic consonants are  
similar in terms of other features. Muna differs from Arabic in the  
relative strengths of these other features in affecting co-occurrence  
rates of homorganic consonants. Along with the descriptions of these  
patterns, this paper presents phonological analyses in terms of  
weighted constraints, as in Harmonic Grammar. This account uses a  
gradual learning algorithm that acquires weights that reflect the  
relative frequency of different sequence types in the two languages.  
The resulting grammars assign the sequences acceptability scores that  
correlate with a measure of their attestedness in the lexicon. This  
application of Harmonic Grammar illustrates its ability to capture  
both gradient and categorical patterns.


________________


Title: "The" Fifth Modality: On Languages that Shape our Motivations and
Cultures
Series Title: International Comparative Social Studies

Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: Brill
           http://www.brill.nl

Book URL: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=21177

Author: Carl W. Roberts

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004162358 Pages: 210 Price: Europe EURO 89.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004162358 Pages: 210 Price: U.S. $ 129.00

Abstract:

This is a book about how people understand each other. Like Simmel's
writings and works written by Foucault and Goffman toward the ends of  
their
careers, this book depicts interactions as behavioral forms. Its  
novelty is
that it grounds these forms in linguistic structure, particularly in the
ubiquitous presence of modality in discourse within all mass  
societies. Its
concluding argument is that all persons, situations, and cultures have
mutual significance in accordance with four fundamental modal forms:
ability (most common in the United States), necessity (most common in  
the
socialist countries of Western Europe and Scandinavia), obligation (most
common in ancient Chinese and Indic societies), and permission (most  
common
in the Islamic world).

Table of contents
Preface
Glossary
Chapter 1: On Persuasion
Chapter 2: Reading Personhood
Chapter 3: Gedankenexperiment
Chapter 4: Individualism
Chapter 5: Mutualism
Chapter 6: Essentialism
Chapter 7: Doctrinism
Chapter 8: Another Modality
Appendix: A Formalization
Index

Keywords:
Modality, culture linguistics, persuasion, personhood, individualism,
mutualism, essentialism, reformism.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug 29 20:08:26 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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2) Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From:Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

a propos:  we have a large number of Spanish forms from Arabic e.g. al  
Alcazar (lit. 'the the casle') ~  el Alcala;  el algebra,
al alaya (a Quranic verse); even el-algarabia (sorry!) for 'gibberish'.
      But i won't be able to sleep at night if someone doesn't tell me  
why the river(s) Guadalquivir [>al-waadii  al-kabiir] isn't 'al- 
alwaadiialquivir'.  Ayudanme por favor!  I'm drowning.
                                                                                 ms

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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From:Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Dear David,
      You think we have problems?  Pity the poor mufassiriina when  
considering Q98.5:  /al-diin  alqayyima/.
Best wishes,
                                                                                 Mike 
  Schub

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:14 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Diplomatic language
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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Diplomatic language

Wasn't there a query about references for Arabic diplomatic  
correspondence recently?

Here is something I have found that might help:

Arabisch, Hebräisch und Amharisch als Sprachen in modernen  
diplomatischen Dokumenten : grammatikalische, lexikalische und  
stilistische Probleme in synchroner und diachroner Perspektive / Lutz  
Edzard,  Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2006

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs stats on  textbook usage in US
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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From:Souad.Ali at asu.edu
Subject:Needs stats on  textbook usage in US

Do you know of any available surveys or statistics on how many  
universities in the U.S. use al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya  
versus Ahlan wa Sahlan or any of the other available textbooks? I  
would really appreciate your response.
Best wishes.

Souad
Souad T. Ali, Ph.D.
Faculty Head of Classics and Middle East Letters and Cultures
Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies
School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC)
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0202
480-965-4586

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Gilman Scholarship Program 2009
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1) Subject:Gilman Scholarship Program 2009

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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From:Gilman <Gilman at iie.org>
Subject:Gilman Scholarship Program 2009

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:18 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs e-mail for Dr. M. Zaki Khadr
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:Mahmoud Elsayess <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Needs e-mail for Dr. M. Zaki Khadr

Greetings,

Does anybody have the email of
?. ?. ???? ??? ???
??????? ????????
?
Thank you
Mahmoud Elsayess

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug  1 23:29:17 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic-Islamic materials
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From: raram <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic-Islamic materials

Dear Dr. Elsayess;

Just a note to inform you that I have developed two volumes of
Programmed Arabic-Islamic Readers. Volume One focuses on the
introduction of Arabic phonology and script using Qur'anic words and
Islamic expressions illustrated with pictures. Volume Two focuses on
reading a variety of texts including short passages of Sira, Hadiths,
supplications, short descriptions and stories-all of Islamic content.
Each unit includes introduction and explanation of certain grammatical
features included in the text of the unit. I started the Advanced Level
but stopped because of my involvement in other projects.

Wish you good luck in your projects,

Raji M. Rammuny
Professor of Arabic
University of Michigan

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs examples of diplomatic correspondence
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From:oxyi i <oxyii at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs examples of diplomatic correspondence

dear friends
? hope ? will start to  a new  job in an arabic embassy.
?n wh?ch  web site ? can find  diplomatic correspondence samples in  
arabic and in engl?sh?
thanks  a lot

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

I cannot fully answer the query about why this name has an article on  
what appears to be the first term of an idaafa.  However, running the  
form through arabiCorpus.byu.edu, I get the following interesting  
results:

search string: Alcbd ?Allh
Total found: 1753  (2.02 per 100000 words)

When divided by the separate newspapers in the corpus, we find:

Watan(Kuwait)	787	12.19 per 100000
Hayat96(London but basically Levantine)	365	1.69 per 100000
Hayat97(London but basically Levantine)	269	1.38 per 100000
Thawra(Syria)	237	1.42 per 100000
Ahram(Egypt)	89	0.54 per 100000
Tajdid(Morocco)	1	.03 per 100000

Clearly it is a common name, but ONLY in the Gulf area: the Kuwaiti  
paper has the name almost 10 times as frequently as anywhere else, and  
Egypt and North Africa seem to have almost none of it.
One would venture a guess that this is some kind of beduinized  
structure (??).

dil


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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Good Intro refs to Arabic Linguistics
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:Marwa Hussein <marwahsn at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs Good Intro refs to Arabic Linguistics

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good books that would  
serve as a good starting point for someone interested in learning  
about the different branches of  Arabic linguistics (e.g. phonology,  
syntax, morphology..etc). They could be in Arabic or in English.
Thank you .
Marwa Hussein.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:23 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:List of UK Institutions that teach Arabic
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:Elisabeth Kendall <Elisabeth.Kendall at ed.ac.uk>
Subject:List of UK Institutions that teach Arabic

Thanks to those who replied to my request for information. Several  
list members have asked me to share the results, so please find below  
two links to searches which generate lists of UK institutions where  
Arabic is taught at undergraduate level.

  http://www.ucas.ac.uk/students/coursesearch/coursesearch2008/

http://www.educationuk.org/pls/hot_bc/page_pls_all_homepage

Elisabeth

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayet Institute Fall Program
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:info at hedayetinstitute.com
Subject:Hedayet Institute Fall Program


Upcoming
Fall Program 2008
Starting September 21st , 08

Program Duration: 13 weeks  from
September  21st  includes: 260 hours of MSA
and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, weekly
trips , cultural seminars and gatherings and
parties

  Total Cost: 4100 USD covering airport pick
up, placement test, orientation / welcome
package, language instruction, cultural
activities and transportation.

  Hurry up! The deadline for registration is 17th  of August , 08
    For registration please fill in an application online at www.hedayetinstitute.com
or send us at info at hedayetinstitute.com

Latest News :
? Lecture on   Ancient Egyptian Arts presented  by Dr. Abdel Halim  
Nurruddin the
Ex Director of Egyptian Antiquities Agency
? Lecture on  Arab Literature presented  by Dr. Ayman Bakr
? HIAS  arranged a gathering with Egyptian University Students and  
HIAS students
?  Lecture on Islam in Modern Egypt by Dr. Ibrahim Negim ? Advisor of  
Egypt's
Grand Mufti. www.dar-alifta.org

HIAS latest Tours :
  This summer, HIAS students visit the  Pyramids,
Saqqara, the Egyptian Museum, Coptic Cairo (Hanging
Church ? Church of Abou Sergius), Ben Ezra
Synagogue and  the Mosque of Amr Ibn al ? 'Ass

? Egyptian Films Shown
? Egyptian Cooking
? History of the Copts for this coming fall

For More Info.
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug  1 23:29:15 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:29:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Clarification of Arabic teaching website job posting
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:Mahmoud Elsayess <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Clarification of Arabic teaching website job posting

This is a clarification of my previous announcement.

ReadVerse staff will produce instructional movies for teaching Arabic  
and recitations of the Koran.  The production of these instructional  
movies will require two types of professionals:

Authors: These are the writers who will design and write scripts for  
lessons in Arabic along with explanations and translations in English.  
They will need an e-mail address to send and receive materials  
digitally.  They can be located anywhere on the globe.

Actors and actresses: These are performers who will bring the Arabic  
script ?alive? in front of a camera or a microphone.  They must be  
living either in Los Angeles or Orange County, California.

If you would like to join us for this exciting and important
project, please send your resume along with samples of class materials
you have developed. Compensation will be based on levels of knowledge
and experience.

Thank you.

Mahmoud Elsayess
President, ReadVerse Company

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug  6 18:57:28 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Middlebury Job
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:llarocqu at middlebury.edu
Subject:Middlebury Job

The Arabic Program at Middlebury has an opening for a tenure track  
position, open rank, in Arabic, beginning September 2009. The  
successful candidate will teach courses in Arabic language (at all  
levels) and other related courses (in literature, cultural studies, or  
linguistics).  Native or near-native fluency in Arabic is required.  
Candidates should provide evidence of commitment to excellent teaching  
and of scholarly potential or scholarly achievement, and should have  
achieved at least ABD status. Send a letter of application with a  
statement of teaching and research interests, curriculum vitae,  
graduate transcript, a sample of scholarly work, and three current  
letters of recommendation, at least two of which must speak to  
teaching ability, to: Professor Oliver Larry Yarbrough, Search  
Committee Chair, Director of Middle East Studies, Munroe Hall,  
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753. Review of applications  
will begin Monday October 27, 2008 and end when the position has been  
filled. Candidates who will be attending the Middle East Studies  
Association meeting in November in Washington D.C. and who are  
interested in interviewing at the meetings should make their  
availability known in their cover letter. Middlebury College is an  
Equal Opportunity Employer committed to recruiting a diverse faculty  
to complement its increasingly diverse student body.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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4) Subject:Al-3abd Allaah
5) Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

To see if other 3abd names showed a similar phenomenon, I ran the  
following search string through arabiCorpus (wtih most of the results  
again coming from the Kuwaiti paper):  cbd ?Al

Here is a list of some the forms that showed up:

?????????	599
????? ????	177
???????????	49
???????????	26
????? ??????	24
????? ??????	16
???????????	15
???????????	11
????? ??????	9
???????????	9
????? ??????	7
???????????	6
???????????	5
????????????	5
????? ??????	5
??????????	4
????? ??????	4
????? ??????	3
????? ??????	3
?.???????????	3
???????????	2
???????????	2
???????????	2
???????????	2
????? ??????	2
????? ??????	2
????? ??????	2
????? ??????	2

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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Having a definite noun as the first element in an idaafa used to be  
common in Egyptian Arabic. I came across many examples while reading  
newspapers from the twenties and the thirties. Examples include  
??????? ??????, ?????? ??????, and  
??????? ??????. This structure is very limited in  
contemporary Egyptian Arabic, but we can still hear things like  
?????? ????? .

As for ????? ????, this could be a relic from an earlier stage  
of the Jordanian dialect. Besides, it is a name after all ? what is  
in a name?

Mustafa Mughazy

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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

In Egypt one hears the self-referential ????? ??? (al-abd l-il- 
laah).  Might the object of the query have come from ????? ????

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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:khorshid <khorshid at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

This is a colloquial form of aal, which refers to the family or tribe.  
Should be Aal- whatever.

Ahmad Khorshid
Arabic Language Instructor
The American University in Cairo

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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

     If you have three men named `Abdullah in a room, `Abdulla#1,  
`A#2, and `A#3, and ask which one is the tallest, would it be correct  
to answer, e.g., "Al-`Abdulla  al-thaalith"? ["the third `Abdullah"].   
Salaamaat,
                                                                       
Mike Schub

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug  6 18:57:41 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Book series on Arabic
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:mamdouh2000 at hotmail.com
Subject:Book series on Arabic

My response to Dr. Al-sayess:
Check a series of books called (Arabic: A bridge to Islamic Culture)
You find them on www.arabicforeveryone.com

thanks

Mamdouh N. Mohamed Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Summer Program

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug  6 18:57:37 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:37 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Intro to Arabic Linguistics response
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:Muhammad Aziz <muhammad.aziz at yale.edu>
Subject:Intro to Arabic Linguistics response

Dear Marwa,
Every year, on every other semester, Prof. Raji Rammuny, at the
University of Michigan, offers an excellent course that may help you
discover the world of linguistics.  It is called "Applied Linguistics
and Methods of Teaching Arabic Language".  This course has diverse
materials including phonology, morphology, linguistics, and syntax. If
you take it, it will be sufficient for you, and if you are interested in
more details it will provide you with a fair amount of bibliographical  
data.
Muhammad Aziz

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug  6 18:57:39 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Examples of diplomatic correspondence
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Examples of diplomatic correspondence

Mansoor, Menahem has published a two-volume collection of diplomatic  
Arabic, published by Brill, Leiden.
Best wishes,
                                                                                      Mike 
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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:08:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:SLRF 2008
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject:SLRF 2008

The preregistration deadline for the 2008 SLRF Conference is August 15.
Register now to enjoy discounted conference rates.  For more information
or the registration form, visit:

http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/registration.htm

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31st annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
October 17-19, 2008
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/

Theme:  EXPLORING SLA: PERSPECTIVES, POSITIONS, AND PRACTICES

Plenary speakers:
- Dr. Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)
- Dr. Alan Firth (Newcastle University)
- Dr. Carmen Munoz (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Dr. Richard Schmidt (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

Invited colloquia:
- "Comparing child L2 and SLI: Crosslinguistic perspectives" (Theres
   Gruter - organizer)
- "Language learning in and out of the classroom: Connecting contexts of
   language use with learning and teaching practices" (Christina  
Higgins -
   organizer)

plus over a hundred exciting paper and poster sessions and more!

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Facebook group on Arabic Language Study Abroad
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1) Subject:Facebook group on Arabic Language Study Abroad

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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:moderator
Subject:Facebook group on Arabic Language Study Abroad

I personally have taken a vow not to join Facebook (who knows if I'll  
have to break it sometime in the future).  But I was 'invited' to join  
the following group that I thought those of you who are already on  
Facebook might be interested in.  There follows the text of the  
invitation.  I have left off the links, since you wouldn't be able to  
join using them (not being me), but you could probably use the search  
capabilities of Facebook to find out more about the group if you are  
interested.

Ahmed invited you to join the Facebook group "Arabic Language Study  
Abroad Working Group".

Ahmed says, "Dear All,

This Face Book page has been designed to function as a dialogue forum  
and network for the enhancement of Arabic Language Study Abroad  
Programs in the Middle East.

Best regards,

Ahmed Naguib

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:57:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Books
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Date: 06 Aug 2008
From:moderator
Subject:New Books

The following books were announced on the LINGUIST LIST:

AUTHOR(S): Baalbaki, Ramzi
TITLE: The Legacy of the Kit?b
SUBTITLE: S?bawayhi's Analytical Methods within the Context of the  
Arabic
Grammatical Theory
SERIES: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
YEAR: 2008
PUBLISHER: Brill
ANNOUNCED IN: http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-1971.html

AUTHOR(S): Berjaoui, Nasser
TITLE: The Moroccan Arabic "?u?": Five Categories
SERIES: LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 22
YEAR: 2008
PUBLISHER: Lincom GmbH
ANNOUNCED IN: http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-1982.html

AUTHOR(S): Khan, Geoffrey
TITLE: The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar
SERIES: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East
YEAR: 2008
PUBLISHER: Brill
ANNOUNCED IN: http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-1980.html

AUTHOR(S): Berjaoui, Nasser
TITLE: Four Types of the Moroccan "?u?"
SERIES: LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 23
YEAR: 2008
PUBLISHER: Lincom GmbH
ANNOUNCED IN: http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-1884.html


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:27:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS 23 Milwaukee
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Date: 01 Aug 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:ALS 23 Milwaukee

23rd Arabic Linguistics Symposium
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
April 3-5, 2009

The Arabic Linguistics Society and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
are pleased to announce the 23rd Arabic Linguistics Symposium to be held
at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April 3-5, 2009.


Papers are invited on topics that deal with theoretic and applied issues
of Arabic Linguistics. Research in the following areas of Arabic
linguistics is encouraged: linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics, and pragmatics), applied linguistics,
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, historical
linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, etc.

Persons interested in presenting papers are requested to submit a
one-page abstract giving the title of the paper, a brief statement of
the topic, and a summary clearly stating how the topic will be developed
(the reasoning, data, or experimental results to be presented). Authors
are requested to be as specific as possible in describing their topics.
Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu  or
via regular mail to

Mustafa Mughazy
Department of Foreign Languages,
410 Sprau Tower,
Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI  49008-5338,

Email submissions should be in PDF format with all fonts embedded. Names
are not to appear in the abstracts. Instead, the author's name, title,
email address, address, and phone number should be included in the body
of the email message.


Twenty minutes will be allowed for each presentation followed by ten
minutes for discussion.

Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: November 15, 2008
Registration:
Before February 1, 2009: 35 for students and 50 for Non-students.
 From February 1, 2009: 45 for students and 60 for non-students.

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on German influence on Arabic philology
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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:"Hall, Mirko M" <Mirko.Hall at converse.edu>
Subject:Needs refs on German influence on Arabic philology

Dear Colleagues,

I'd be most appreciative if anyone could direct me to a publication or  
two that discusses the cultural or "scientific" [wissenschaftliche]  
reasons why German scholars have been so influential in the field of  
Arabic philology and Islamic religious studies?

Thanks so much! Cheers, Mirko

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Invites comments on Ana min il-balad di for
 revisions
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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:shawky <shawky at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Invites comments on Ana min il-balad di for revisions

Dear colleagues:

I am reviewing my text book in advanced Egyptian Colloquial Arabic  
?Ana Min iL balad Di ??Kalam fi il3adat w taqaliid?  I would  
appreciate from those who are using it to send me any comments that  
could help refining the new copy.

Nehad shawqi

Author and publisher of

Ana Min il Bald Di

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:21 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Intermediate Arabic Textbook (focus on dialogue)
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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:hanada at arabexpertise.com
Subject:New Intermediate Arabic Textbook (focus on dialogue)

The language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) at the San Diego State  
University has just produced a book for Intermediate level Arabic  
titled "Arabic language through dialog 2".  It will be followed by  
another book for Advanced level and another for beginners in a few  
months.  The series is for university students of Arabic as a foreign  
language who want to focus more on culture, dialog, conversations and  
everyday life situations in addition to syntax, spelling, and writing  
exercises.  The series is in full color.
"Arabic language through dialog 2" is a textbook for the intermediate  
level Arabic classes and is available now for purchase by contacting  
Ms. Lina Hariri Email:lhariri at projects.sdsu.edu  at the LARC center.   
One of the authors, Hanada Taha-Thomure, will be having a book signing  
at the ACTFL conference in November 2008.

-- 
Hanada Taha-Thomure, PhD
Director of Arabic Programs, Language Acquisition Resource Center,  
SDSU http://larcnet.sdsu.edu
Director, ArabExpertise www.arabexpertise.com
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics & Oriental Languages, SDSU

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sat Aug  9 18:43:29 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic LInguistics intro ref
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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:Marc Adler <marc.adler at gmail.com>
Subject:Arabic LInguistics intro ref


Marwa,

Clive Holes' "Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions, and Varieties"  
might be a starting point. You can find it on Amazon.

Regards,
Marc Adler

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:l to n change in Arabic or Semitic
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1) Subject:l to n change in Arabic or Semitic

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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:Munther Younes <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:l to n change in Arabic or Semitic

Dear Arabic linguists,

There are instances of l to n sound change in a few seemingly
isolated cases in Arabic like the following:

isma'iil to isma'iin (proper name)
burtuqaal to burtqaan/burtkaan/burt'aan/burd'aan "oranges"
balluur to bannuur "marble"
zalama/zanama "part of an animal's ear"

Does anyone know of any studies of this phenomenon or of any
references to it in the linguistic literature on Arabic or other
Semitic languages?

Thanks.

Munther Younes
Cornell University

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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1) Subject:Al-3abd Allaah
2) Subject:Al-3abd Allaah
3) Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

You find a the opposite non-canonical treatment of noun/adjective  
phrases in Lebanese Arabic place names. For example, one of the  
beaches in Beirut is called ???? ??????? (pronounced  
?????? when spoken). This looks like an idafa but is not -  
notably, the taa marbuuta is not pronounced, as it would be if it were.

David Wilmsen

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2)
Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:Terrence M Potter <tmp28 at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Thanks for the interesting thread.

As many will know, Queen Rania's name includes al-3abd Allah. The  
transliteration is written: Al Abdullah. See this site:

http://www.queenrania.jo/

Best regards,
Terry Potter

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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:rizwanur rahman <rahman_r at yahoo.com>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Salam
There are two kinds of iDafah - lafDiyah and ma'nawiyah. "Al" may be  
prefixed, if so desired, to the muDaf in iDafah lafDiyah e.g.
???? ?????
???? ???????
?????? ?????
?????? ???????
Arabic grammar does not allow prefixing "al" to the muDaf of iDafah  
ma'nawiyah e.g.
???? ?????
??? ?????
In my opinion, prefixing "al' to muDaf of iDafah ma'nawiya, as  
mentioned in the previous mail in which most results have been shown  
from Kuwaiti papers,  is either influence of colloqial language or  
they are just typographical errors.
tHiyati

Rizwanur Rahman, Ph.D.
Centre of Arabic and African Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi  - India

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AATA June 08 Newsletter online
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1) Subject:AATA June 08 Newsletter online

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Date: 09 Aug 2008
From:"Elizabeth M. Bergman" <emb at georgetown.edu>
Subject:AATA June 08 Newsletter online

Dear Colleagues,

Current members of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA)
receive the monthly AATA Newsletter via email.  Due to circumstances
beyond our control, the July 2008 issue of the AATA Newsletter will go
out later this week.

All others are welcome to download the AATA Newsletter from the AATA
website at (http://aataweb.org/Default.aspx?pageID=27).  The June 2008
AATA Newsletter has just been posted.

If you would like more information about AATA, the AATA Newsletter, and
about joining AATA, please see the website at
(http://aataweb.org/Default.aspx).

If you are a current member of AATA and do not receive the AATA
Newsletter, it is possible that your address is not up to date.  Please
contact the AATA Business Office at (info at aataweb.org) to change your
email or mailing address.

With best wishes,

Elizabeth M. Bergman, Ph.D.
Executive Director

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug 13 18:56:31 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on Arabic semantics
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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:Mai Zaki <maizaki at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs refs on Arabic semantics

Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anyone knows about books/papers (in English or  
Arabic) on Arabic semantics.
Thank you.
Mai Zaki
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Middlesex University

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:35 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translator test query
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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:om_qaswar om Qaswar <om_qaswar at yahoo.com>
Subject:Translator test query

Hi all,
I live in New Zealand and I want to work as a translator from English  
to Arabic and Arabic to English. I have learned that I should sit for  
a test, anyone knows about this test and where I should sit for it.
Thanks,
Zainab

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Wed Aug 13 18:56:37 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:37 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:l to n change in Arabic
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2) Subject:l to n change in Arabic
3) Subject:l to n change in Arabic

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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:Adam McCollum <acmccollum101 at gmail.com>
Subject:l to n change in Arabic

Off the top of my head I do not know of any studies dealing  
specifically with this well-known phenomenon (outside of Semitic  
languages too, e.g. Grk. ??????? and Lat. purpura but purple in  
Eng.; Eng. paper, but Span. papel), but for examples from a  
comparative Semitics perspective see Sabatino Moscati, ed. An  
Introduction to the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages  
(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1964) ?8.26 and C. Brockelmann, Kurzgefasste  
vergleichende Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen (Berlin: Reuter &  
Reichard, 1908) ?47.  I do not have Brockelmann's much larger  
Grundri? der vergleichenden Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen to hand  
but, if you have access to it, check the table of contents or index  
for "Dissimilation von Sonoren" or the like).  I hope that helps.
Adam McCollum

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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:"A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
Subject:l to n change in Arabic

Dear Munther,

In Cairene Arabic, I have also heard the reverse when a nasal changes  
to a lateral sound (n -----> l) in a word like fingaan "cup," which is  
also pronounced fingaal by some.

To add to the examples you have cited of lateral changing to nasal (l  
---------> n), the Arabic word for cardamom is of interest. In Iraqi  
and Levantine Arabic it is hel (pronounced with a long vowel) and in  
Standard Arabic it is Hab al-haal. In Egyptian Arabic, the latter is  
assimilated into Habbahaan undergoing the nasal to lateral sound change.

Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University

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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:l to n change in Arabic

Hi Munther,
       I've heard  /goon/!!!! for /gool/ (in soccer) for 'goal' in  
Egypt. colloq (slang)?
       A children's ball game:  /yin`an  diinak/  for  /yil`an.../.
       The classic essay:  Greenberg, J. "The Patterning of root  
morphemes in Semitic." Word 6 (1950), 162--81.
       Mention must be made of the Qur'anic  /sijjiin/ ~ /sijjiil/,  
prob. both from Latin for 'seal'.
       Best wishes,
                                                          Mike Schub

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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:15:53 -0600
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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Dear David,
       Might this be analagous to the names of cities followed by a  / 
laqab/  (by-name), e.g. /Makka   al-Mubaarakah/,  /Hoboken  al- 
MaHruusa/  '...the protected one,'  /madiina  fulaana  al-KhaDraa'/,   
'...the verdant one',  etc.?
      Best wishes,
                                                                      
Mike Schub

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Full Title: Sayyab Translation Journal (STJ)

Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2008

Dear researchers,

Our previous call deadline for submitting papers and book reviews to  
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an international Arabic-English-Arabic translation and contrastive  
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Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Two computer questions
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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:"mbooth at illinois.edu" <mbooth at illinois.edu>
Subject:Two computer questions

[please note that there are two separate queries here]

Dear Colleagues:
I am posting this for a friend. Dr. Frances Hasso at Oberlin.
You could reply to me directly, or to the list.
Also, I have a computer question: my son is about to start an  
undergraduate Arabic major (hurrah!), and I'm wondering what laptop to  
buy him. I'm a PC user; he's interested in Mac but I've heard that  
present Arabic capabilities on Mac aren't so great (though I know they  
used to be the best). Any advice?

many thanks,
Marilyn Booth (mbooth at illinois.edu)

Dear colleagues -- Is anyone familiar with the font interface between  
the latest version of Wordperfect and arabic to english  
transliteration letters such as `ayn, hamza, and the letters like d  
and h that sometimes
need a period below them)? Jaghbub, which I've installed for my latest  
version of MS Word, doesn't seem to be accessible for Wordperfect. (I  
looked in the "symbols" tab.) I'm looking for the Times or Times New  
Roman font or something close for these particular letters. Is there a  
way to make a keyboard do this in WP? The internet has been no help.
Thanks. Frances Hasso

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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:22 -0600
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From: "Meriem M. Tikue" <mmt43 at georgetown.edu>
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he Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University
invites applications for an open rank, tenure track position in the
field of Arabic Literature starting in August 2009. Specialization is
open, but the successful candidate is expected to teach courses on
classical as well as modern Arabic literature, and to have strong
familiarity with more than one regional Arabic literary tradition.
Candidates are also expected to have familiarity with literary theory.
The successful candidate must have a completed Ph.D. in Arabic
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research in relevant fields, advise Arabic majors, and play a leading
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teaching interests of other faculty members in the Department. Please
send letters of application, curriculum vitae, writing samples, and
three letters of reference to: Arabic Search, Department of Arabic and
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:l to n change response
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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Manfred Woidich <m.a.woidich at uva.nl>
Subject:l to n change response

I hate to quote myself, but in my Cairo grammar (Harrassowitz 2006) on
page 15 you will find some more examples, as well as in nearly all
older grammars of Egyptian Arabic such as Spitta ?8 p.26 (as well as
for /r/ ? /l/, Vollers-Burkitt ?3 p.17, Willmore p.27, Karl Vollers,
Beitr?ge zur Kenntnis der lebenden arabischen Sprache (ZDMG XLI (1887)
p.376  and so on. In Dakhla Oasis, in the village al-QaSr, all /l/
developped into /n/, anwuniyya wuneedit = ilwiliyya wildit, see my "Zum
Dialekt von al-QaSr in der Oase Dakhla (?gypten)", in: Werner Arnold
and Hartmut Bobzin (eds.) "Sprich doch mit deinen Knechten aram?isch,
wir verstehen es!" (Festschrift f?r Otto Jastrow, Wiesbaden 2002)
821?840.

Best,

Manfred Woidich

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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Uri Horesh <uri.horesh at fandm.edu>
Subject:l to n change response

In addition to the examples mentioned by Munther and others, it is  
notable that the other non-nasal sonorant, /r/, also alternates with / 
n/ in some cases, particularly between Aramaic and the other Semitic  
languages. The two examples that come to mind are the following:

Aramaic          Arabic          Hebrew
-------          ------          ------
bar              (i)bn           ben     'son'
tre:             thnay           shne:   'two' (masc.)

I seem to think there are others, so if there any Aramaic scholars in  
the room, please feel free to chime in.

Note, however, that this is not a complete historical shift, as /r/  
and /n/ also occur in Aramaic as reflexes of their proto-Semitic  
ancestors, and examples abound.

In addition, I believe we have alternations such as /yil3an/ ~ / 
yin3al/ 'may it be cursed'. The latter is certainly used as a loanword  
in Israeli Hebrew, but I believe to have heard that some Araic  
dialects have it as well. Of course, in this case it may be construed  
as simple intra-word metathesis, but one wonders whether the phonetic  
similarity has served as a catalyst for this particular exchange.
--
Uri Horesh
Director, Arabic Language Program

Modern Languages
Franklin & Marshall College
PO Box 3003
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:10 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translator test response
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From:Christopher Hurtado <christopher.hurtado at linguisticsolutions.com>
Subject:Translator test response

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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Search by root capability added to ReadVerse site
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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Mahmoud Elsayess <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Search by root capability added to ReadVerse site

Arabic word root a new Search Internet engine breakthrough

ReadVerse Company of Westminster, CA is pleased to announce an  
important enhancement to its software search engine for retrieving  
information from its proprietary, Internet-based database of the  
complete Koran.  Formerly, visitors were able to search the entire  
Koran by one word, two words, and topic.  Now, with this important  
innovation visitors will be able to search the entire Holy Koran by  
the root of an Arabic word.  Arabic words are generally based on a  
root that uses a few consonants to define the underlying construction  
and the meaning of different words. Various vowels, prefixes and  
suffixes are used with the root letters to create the desired  
inflection of other words with different meanings.  Each set of root  
letters can lead to a vast number of words, all predictable in form  
and all related to the basic group of the few consonant root letters.

With this new enhancement when a visitor types the root of a word, the  
software will render all derivatives of that word as used in the  
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(rhm), the software will pull over 65 different words from all of the  
verses having these words along with a listing of each of the verses  
with its respective sura and verse numbers that are derivatives of the  
same root. This means that once students learn one root, they can  
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If a student does not know the root of a word, he or she can type that  
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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Sun Aug 17 15:07:54 2008
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:07:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:National Security Internship Program at GWU Summer
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Dear Colleague,

I am contacting you regarding a wonderful opportunity that is  
available to your students Summer 2009 at The George Washington  
University.  My hope is you might assist us in getting this link  
HYPERLINK "http://www.nationalsecurityinternship.com"www.nationalsecurityinternship.com 
  exposed to interested students who are studying or speak Arabic  
regarding this 2nd year program and internship.

The National Security Internship is an intensive nine-week, full  
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Headquarters.

This program aims to develop the capacity of high-achieving  
undergraduate and graduate college students with critical skills, who  
also possess a higher degree of cultural competencies. It is not  
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potential careers at the DHS or FBI.  The National Security Internship  
will be open to only 20 qualified applicants who are able to meet the  
requirements to be granted a top-secret clearance and have an Arabic  
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You can also pass along this link to view the National Securing  
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Sincerely,

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Assistant Professor & Coordinator of the Arabic Program
The George Washington University

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:04 -0600
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Clinical Assistant Professor or Language Lecturer in Arabic
Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Arts and Science

To meet the demands of our expanding Arabic Program, the Department
of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University is
inviting applications for a position teaching Arabic, to begin
September 1, 2009, pending administrative and budgetary
approval.  Appointment may be at the rank of Clinical Assistant
Professor or Language Lecturer, depending on qualifications and
experience. The normal teaching load is three courses per
semester.  Experience of teaching Arabic as a foreign language (AFL)
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:computer question responses
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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Benjamin Geer <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:computer question response

mbooth at illinois.edu wrote:
> Also, I have a computer question: my son is about to start an  
> undergraduate
> Arabic major (hurrah!), and I'm wondering what laptop to buy him.  
> I'm a PC
> user; he's interested in Mac but I've heard that present Arabic  
> capabilities
> on Mac aren't so great (though I know they used to be the best). Any  
> advice?

One thing to keep in mind is that Microsoft Word for Mac doesn't
support Arabic at all.  For this reason, my wife uses NeoOffice
(http://www.neooffice.org) instead of Word on her Mac laptop, and that
seems to be OK.  NeoOffice is a Mac version of the free OpenOffice
productivity suite (http://www.openoffice.org/), which runs on several
different operating systems.

My laptop runs Ubuntu Linux (http://www.ubuntu.com/), a free
community-developed operating system that includes OpenOffice; it
supports Arabic very well.  A number of companies (e.g. Dell and Acer)
sell laptops with Linux pre-installed.

> Dear colleagues -- Is anyone familiar with the font interface  
> between the
> latest version of Wordperfect and arabic to english transliteration  
> letters
> such as `ayn, hamza, and the letters like d and h that sometimes
> need a period below them)? Jaghbub, which I've installed for my latest
> version of MS Word, doesn't seem to be accessible for Wordperfect.

Any good Unicode font for European languages should have those
characters.  I often use Gentium, a free font:

http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium

If you can't find a way to type those letters on the keyboard, you
might try copying them and pasting them from this web page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_31635

Ben

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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Knut S. Vik?r <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject:computer question response


> Also, I have a computer question: my son is about to start an  
> undergraduate Arabic major (hurrah!), and I'm wondering what laptop  
> to buy him. I'm a PC user; he's interested in Mac but I've heard  
> that present Arabic capabilities on Mac aren't so great (though I  
> know they used to be the best). Any advice?

Arabic capabilities on the Mac are fine, it is the Arabic capabilities  
of Microsoft Word on Mac that are not fine (do not exist). But there  
are many other excellent word processors fully Arabic capable (and all  
read and write Microsoft Word files, if collaboration with PCs is an  
issue). So go ahead with the Mac choice, if that is what he is  
interested in - a fine machine.

> Dear colleagues -- Is anyone familiar with the font interface  
> between the latest version of Wordperfect and arabic to english  
> transliteration letters such as `ayn, hamza, and the letters like d  
> and h that sometimes
> need a period below them)? Jaghbub, which I've installed for my  
> latest version of MS Word, doesn't seem to be accessible for  
> Wordperfect. (I looked in the "symbols" tab.) I'm looking for the  
> Times or Times New Roman font or something close for these  
> particular letters. Is there a way to make a keyboard do this in WP?  
> The internet has been no help.
> Thanks. Frances Hasso

Does WordPerfect support Unicode (e.g., can you write macrons over a  
and u etc. in Times New Roman?) I do not know anything about WP these  
days, but Jaghbub for Unicode (called "JaghbUni"), which I made, does  
- as the name implies - require that the application supports Unicode  
fonts. The old version of Jaghbub (called just thus) is a Mac font and  
is not intended for PCs.
For an overview of Unicode fonts for Arabic transliteration (PC/Mac)  
see,
http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv/diacs.html#ucf
but technically they are all Unicode fonts, so either none or all will  
be useful for WordPerfect, depending on the application's abilities.

Knut S. Vik?r

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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:07 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Hebrew University Job
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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:Hebrew University Job

University or Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department: Faculty of Humanities
Job Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Web Address: http://www.huji.ac.il/huji/eng/

Job Rank: Rank Open

Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish  
Linguistics


Description:

The Faculty of Humanities invites applications from outstanding  
candidates
(PhD required, postdoctoral training highly desirable).  Tenure-track  
and
tenured positions for appointment beginning in the Academic year of  
2009/2010.

In the following fields:
Arabic Language and Literature; Comparative Literature;  Hebrew  
Language:
Biblical Hebrew/ Modern Hebrew;  Holocaust Studies; Islamic Material
Culture and Archaeology; Jewish History of the Biblical period; Modern
Hebrew Literature; Philosophy; Romance Studies: Spanish Language and
Literature; Talmud; Theatre Studies;  Yiddish Language and Literature

Responsibilities will include teaching both required and elective  
courses
in their field(s) of specialization and related disciplines. The  
language
of instruction is Hebrew.

Successful candidates are expected to conduct independent and original
research at the highest academic level, to demonstrate academic  
leadership,
to apply for Israeli and international research grants,and to cooperate
with other researchers within the Faculty and other faculties.

Candidates are requested to apply in writing to:
Professor Israel Bartal, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities

Applicants should provide:
(1) Curriculum Vitae (Please use - CV form *)
(2) Current list of publications (Please use - List of Publication  
form *)
(3) 2-3 page statement of research plans
(4) Teaching evaluations (if available)
(5) 2 representative publications
Candidates should ask 2 referees to send letters of reference directly  
to
the Dean's office

Candidates are required to submit the application in 12 copies.  Please
note that application submitted not according to instructions will be
returned to sender.

Finalists may be requested to deliver a lecture on the subject of their
research.  Rank will be determined according to the candidate's
qualifications.  Appointments will begin on October 1st, 2009.

* Additional information and forms please find in the Faculty of  
Humanities
website


Application Deadline: 01-Sep-2008
Mailing Address for Applications:
        Prof. Israel Bartal
        The  Faculty of Humanities, Mount Scopus
        Jerusalem 91905
        Israel
Web Address for Applications: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/upload/(FILE)1218441686.doc
Contact Information:
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:09 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Peter Verkinderen [peter.verkinderen at ugent.be]
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Dear Mike,

I think the case of the names of the cities you mention is somewhat
different; these names are considered definite even though they don't
have the alif-l?m, which is the same for personal names (e.g.,
Muhammad al-Am?n), and some rivers (Dijla = the Tigris, Dijla l-3awr?'
= the one-eyed Tigris)

In medieval Iraq there are a number of hydronyms that are analogous to
David's "Ramla l-BaiD?'" : Nahr al-Jad?d, Nahr al-Mub?rak, Nahr
al-Aisar. I don't know how to explain these forms, but apparently
there is a wider pattern. I'd be very grateful if someone could
enlighten us.

As for Al-3Abd All?h: I think the Al- is the same element as in Iraqi
tribal names like Alb? Muhammad, which is probably derived from ?l
(family).

Best wishes,

Peter Verkinderen

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:MS portal for new Arabic technology
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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From: Dora Johnson <dJohnson at cal.org>
Subject:MS portal for new Arabic technology

This came via Multilingual News.

Microsoft Corporation has launched a new portal to involve Arabic  
speakers in the process of developing new technology terms for its  
products. The Localization Portal has been developed to encourage  
users of Microsoft's Arabic language products to comment on the  
translation of technology terms and to provide input into translation  
for future products. Although Windows Vista Arabic has a translated  
glossary of over 500,000 terms that have been built up over the years,  
the portal has only around 90 new terms so that users are not  
overloaded with terms. The portal is intended to provide an ongoing  
forum for Arabic translation, with new terms added at regular intervals.

Microsoft Corporation, E-mail: info at microsoft.com, Web: http://www.microsoft.com

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug 22 19:15:48 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:Ola Moshref <omoshref at gmail.com>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

[Nahr al-Jad?d, Nahr al-Mub?rak, Nahr al-Aisar] are lilke [shaari3 al- 
Hamra]. None of them seems to be adjectival. This is clear from the  
last example where shaari3 is masculine and Hamra is feminine. Proper  
nouns like al-Tawiil, al-Hakiim are common. Likewise, al-Jadiid, al- 
Mubaarak, al-Hamra in these structures can very well be nominal.

Perhaps the taa' marbuuTa of [ramla al-bayDa] is not pronounced in  
analogy to proper nouns like [Fatima/Amira al-Tawil], regardless of  
the functional difference in meaning.

As for al-3abd Allah and similar names, we may reason that 3abd Allah/ 
Alraaziq/.. etc. became so common that they are treated as if they  
were single nouns like Mustafa, Omar, etc. rather than a compound of  
two nouns. We say al-[Mustafa], al-[Omar/ayn] and likewise al-[3abd  
Allah].

In one of his poems, Nizar Qabbani coined "al-3aynaa-ha", "al-shafataa- 
ha":

??? ???????? ???? ?? ??? ???????
??? ???????? ???? ?? ??? ??????

I thought it was nice, because it made "her eyes" so unique and  
unparalleled that we should say "the [her eyes]" like we say "the  
[sun]" and "the [moon]".

Ola
TA/ UIUC

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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Dear Peter,
     You are correct.
     The problem may be Semitic:  Biblical Hebrew  /ha-lashon  ha- 
ra`/  =  'evil talk; gossip.  In Mishnaic Hebrew
(about 100--700 CE [=AD])  becomes  /lashon  ha-ra`/.
      For many more such examples, please contact Prof. Shmuel  
Bolotsky, Dept. Jewish and NE Studies,
U. Mass., Amherst.
       Best wishes,
                                                                  m

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:54 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:wants Arabic pedagogy research refs
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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:Sylvia Akar <sylvia.akar at helsinki.fi>
Subject:wants Arabic pedagogy research refs

Dear all,
does anyone know about useful pedagogic research dealing with teaching
Arabic (MSA) as a foreigh language to adult students? Being a non-native
speaker besides of being a non-linguist, I feel I need some more
structure in my teaching.

Sylvia Akar
--

Sylvia Akar Ph.D.
University Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Arabic Language
Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38B)
00014 University of Helsinki

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translation test query response
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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:jmurg [jmurg at cox.net]
Subject:Translation test query response

Dear Zeinab and Arabic-L Colleagues:
Translator certification is not a blanket requirement in the U.S. Some  
organizations may require that translators doing work for them have  
the ATA credential (which is not sponsored by the government), while  
others have their own exam. For example, federal and state courts  
often have a certification procedure for their own translators.

Other countries have certification programs dictated by the national  
or provincial government, with a test and other qualifications  
required for a translator to do certain kinds of work in the field or  
to claim a title like "certified translator."  It's a credential like  
the U.S. bar exam for lawyers.

Zeinab should check with a New Zealand translators organization (http://www.nzsti.org/ 
) or the national government to see if there is such a certification  
requirement there. I took a quick look and didn't see anything about  
testing. The ATA certification might look nice on a resume, and it's a  
nice credential for without extensive experience in the field, but it  
wouldn't constitute the official certification required in some  
situations.

That said, in general, a translator can work anywhere in the world  
without official credentials and do work for clients who don't require  
them.  Also, the various Arab countries have diplomas and  
certificates, as does the U.K., so there are other opportunities for  
some kind of credential, especially for into-Arabic.

It should be noted that at present ATA only has certification from  
Arabic into English, not the reverse. However, there are plans to add  
English into Arabic some time in the future. This will be addressed at  
the ATA's annual conference in Orlando, Florida, this fall:
http://atanet.org/conf/2008/

Jackie Murgida
ATA member

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug 22 19:15:43 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:/l/ to /r/ change
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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:aziz abbassi <abbassiaziz at hotmail.com>
Subject:/l/ to /r/ change

Hi Munther:

  I can confirm what other colleagues noted for ?Eastern Arabic  
Dialects? Re. /l/ to /n/ shift/switch as a true and common phenomenon  
in Moroccan Arabic. So in addition to the [Sma`in] case, also found in  
various parts of the country, Moroccan Arabic has : [yen`al XXX]    
(curse be on XXX), and oddly enough the phrase [na`latu allahi wa  
`alik] (Allah's curse be on you) but actually pronounced in MSA,  
perhaps for the sake of efficacy. In addition to this type of  
consonantal switch/shift there is a pan-Maghribi  /m/ to/n/ commonly  
encountered in utterance of the possessive adj/pron /mtaa`/ pronounced  
as [nta`] ex.  /ntaa`i/  (mine) ~ compare Egypt. bitaa`i where the /m/  
turns into /b/.  I just confirmed this fact for Algerian Arabic after  
listening to the opening of a duet where Cheb Mammi (Algerian singer)  
is quibbling with Kadhem Saher (Iraqi singer) about a woman saying:    
"had al mar?a ntaa`i.... ntaa`i   ?ana?. Another example is [nira]  
(the musical inst. Recorder) assumably from ?lyre? or ?Lyra? (Lat-GK)  
which would represent a complex borrowing with a possible semantic  
shift. Another consonant switch found in several parts of Morocco  
concerns, here the reverse of Munther?s cases, pronouncing  /n/ as /l/  
in reference to lamb (the meat) as ?ghelmi?, instead of  /ghenmi/.

Aziz ?a voice from your Texas days.


Aziz Abbassi
Foreign Language Consultant
Arabic Dialectology.

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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:Adam McCollum <acmccollum101 at gmail.com>
Subject:/l/ to /r/ change

Prof. Younes,
I at first said I did not know of any studies dealing with your  
question but I happened upon a reference a few days ago:

D. Testen, "The Significance of Aramaic r < *n," Journal of Near  
Eastern Studies 44 (1985): 143-146.

All the best,
Adam McCollum

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Date: 22 Aug 2008
From:Adam McCollum [acmccollum101 at gmail.com]
Subject:/l/ to /r/ change

Prof. Horesh mentioned some Aramaic evidence with regard to the l-n-r  
exchange in the Semitic languages and invited others to offer more.   
Here are a few references:

1. In general n > r before n (Bauer-Leander, Biblisch-Aram?ische  
Grammatik ?13a).

2. In Syriac n > l in several foreign words (N?ldeke, Syriac Grammar  
?31b).

3. N?ldeke (Mand?ische Grammatik, p. 54) gives the picture that in  
Mandaic (an Aram. dialect) the interchange between l and n is less  
frequent than in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, but the more recent  
Mandaic grammar (?27)?also including modern Mandaic?of R. Macuch gives  
a fuller picutre with many examples.  For r and l alternation see  
N?ldeke, p. 55 and ?28 of Macuch.

4. For l-n-r interchange in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic see C. Levias, A  
Grammar of the Aramaic Idiom Contained in the Babylonian Talmud  
??34-36 (available as a book but originally printed in the American  
Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 13 (1896): 21-78 and  
subsequent vols.).

5. Akkadian tarlugallu (< Sumerian dar-lugal) to Aramaic tarnugla and  
similar forms (S. Kaufman, Akkadian Influences on Aramaic, p. 108).

6. Eastern Aramaic dialects alternate between l or n (instead of y) as  
the prefix for the imperfect (probably at first influenced by the  
Akkadian precative construction; see S. Kaufman, Akkadian Influences  
on Aramaic, pp. 124-126).

7. In a Jewish neo-Aramaic dialect there is a shift of l > r (under  
Kurdish influence) including Arabic loanwords, e.g. mal > mar, Hal >  
Har, ?asli > ?asri (G. Khan, The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of  
Sulemaniyya and Halabja [Leiden: Brill, 2004] ?1.5; cf. H. Mutzafi,  
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Koy Sanjaq [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz,  
2004] ?1.1.3, under part 3i).  For Turoyo note O. Jastrow?s Lehrbuch  
der Turoyo-Sprache (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002) ?0.1.3.



[The phenomenon is also well attested in Ge?ez (see ?32 of Dillmann?s  
Ethiopic Grammar).  I am not sure how much it extends in the modern  
Ethiopian languages (Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, etc.), but the works of  
Wolf Leslau would no doubt make the matter clear.]

Adam McCollum

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New book, article
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__________________

Title: Heavenly Readings
Subtitle: Liturgical Literacy in a Multilingual Context
Series Title: New Perspectives on Language and Education

Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
           http://www.multilingual-matters.com/


Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847690920


Author: Andrey Rosowsky

Hardback: ISBN: 1847690939 9781847690937 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 119.95
Hardback: ISBN: 1847690939 9781847690937 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. ? 59.95
Paperback: ISBN: 1847690920 9781847690920 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. ? 24.95
Paperback: ISBN: 1847690920 9781847690920 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 49.95


Abstract:

This ethnographic study investigates for the first time in any  
significant
depth the literacy practices associated with the religion of Islam as  
they
are shaped, lived and experienced within a typical Muslim community in  
the
United Kingdom. It seeks to counterbalance prevailing views on such
practices which have often been misrepresented and misunderstood.



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

__________________

Journal Title:  Babel
Volume Number:  54
Issue Number:  3
Issue Date:  2008


Main Text:

Babel 54:3

2008. 104 pp.
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Babel%2054%3A3

Table of contents

The signalling potential of Arabic conjunctive wa: How it could be  
handled in
translation
Adil Al-Kufaishi 234-250

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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

I haven't done a systematic observation of place names in Lebanon, but  
in driving round the country and noticing  road signs, I get the  
impression that constructions such as ???? ??????? are  
common. I do not believe they are  analogous to family names. I  
actually know a young woman from the ?????? family, and it is  
obvious that what we see in her full name is not the same phenomenon.  
I admit that you caught me for a minute with ???? ???????,  
but there is a family of the name ???? (without the hamza) from  
???????. It could be that the street was named for the family?  
you may sometimes see it written ?????? on road signs. But it is  
just as likely that it was named ??????? for other reasons -  
perhaps for the Andalusian palace. When the construction was first  
brought to my attention, it was pointed out to me that one might often  
hear the phrase ??? ?????? when the canonical construction  
would be ????? ??????. So clearly the gender of the nouns  
involved is not the key to the question. It seems, rather, to be a  
general trend -  perhaps no longer productive - in some varieties of  
Arabic (and other Semitic languages - thanks Michael).

DW

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:51 -0600
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1) Subject:NACAL 37 Albequerque CFP

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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:Uri Horesh <uri.horesh at fandm.edu>
Subject:NACAL 37 Albequerque CFP

Subject: NACAL 37 (Albuquerque, NM): Call for Papers

Dear colleagues,

The 37th meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic
Linguistics (NACAL 37) will be held in Albuquerque, NM from March 13
to March 15, 2009 (Friday to Sunday).

Papers on linguistic topics relevant to the languages of the
Afroasiatic phylum (Chadic, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, Egyptian,
Semitic) are requested. Topics relating to all aspects of Afroasiatic
languages will be considered, particularly including phonology,
morphology, syntax, comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics, and
epigraphy. These topics should be considered as general guidelines and
are not intended to be exclusive. No original paper will be rejected
on account of its subject, as long as it relates to the languages of
the Afroasiatic phylum and meets the scholarly standards established
by previous conferences.

Abstracts describing the precise topic treated with a length of
approximately 200-300 words can be sent as an electronic version (pdf
or word document) or as a paper copy to the addresses specified on the
registration page on the website (www.nacal.org). The deadline for
submission is December 1st, 2008. For more information, please visit
our website at www.nacal.org.

We look forward to hear from you,

NACAL 37 co-convenors
Dr. Rebecca Hasselbach, Univeristy of Chicago.
Dr. Na'ama Pat-El, University of Texas at Austin.

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Ana Min Il Balad Di feedback reminder
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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:hawky <shawky at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Ana Min Il Balad Di feedback reminder

Dear colleague,hi everyone:

I wrote earlier on about my intention to add material on my book "Ana  
Min Il  Balad Di" the textbook in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic ,I was  
hoping may be to receive email from someone who used the book. as it  
would be useful to know how s/he found the book , in what context they  
have found it.
Nehad Shawqi
author and publisher of
"Ana Min Il Balad Di'
a book on customs and tradition
Egyptian colloquial Arabic

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-LING:Northwestern U Job
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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:Irene Sakk <i-sakk at northwestern.edu>
Subject:Northwestern U Job

Department of Linguistics

Northwestern University

Pending final approval, the Department of Linguistics invites  
applications
from scholars with expertise and research interests in any aspect of  
Middle
Eastern languages and linguistics.  We are seeking a Ph.D. in any  
subfield
of linguistics or a related discipline who has analyzed primary data  
(e.g.,
experimental data, field data, or natural language corpora) in order to
address theoretical issues with a focus on the languages of the Middle  
East,
including but not limited to Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish and Persian.   
This is a
tenure-eligible position at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin in
fall 2009.
The Linguistics Department is participating in a multi-departmental  
search;
thus there is the opportunity for a joint hire with another department.

Applicants should submit a curriculum vita, a letter describing  
research and
teaching interests, two writing samples, and three letters of reference.
Review of applications will begin on October 15th, 2008.

E-mail inquiries should be directed to <search at ling.northwestern.edu>.
The web page for the Department is:
http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/linguistics.

Please send all materials to:

            Middle East Faculty Search Committee
            Department of Linguistics
            Northwestern University
            2016 Sheridan Road
            Evanston, IL 60208-4090
            (Tel: 847-491-7020, Fax: 847-491-3770)

Letters of reference can be sent electronically (to the email above),  
or by
mail (to the mailing address above) by October 15, 2008.

Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action  
Employer,
and applications from minority and women candidates are especially  
welcome.

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Cairo Linguists Group database update
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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:khaledrifaat at LINK.NET
Subject:Cairo Linguists Group database update

Dear All,
Cairo Linguists Group is updating its database of linguists in Egypt.   
We urge all Egyptian linguists to participate and submit the required  
information.  Needles to say, this database is of great importance to  
all academic activities and we expect that all will benefit from it.   
After completion, this database may be available to all members or may  
be put on the site of the group.  Please take a couple of minutes to  
fill in the following information.


Regards,

Prof. Khaled Rifaat

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Name:

Academic Rank:

Affiliation:

University:
Faculty:
Department:

Subfield of specialization:

Topic of Thesis:

Contact Address:

Contact Information:
  Phone:

cell phone:

Email:

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Language Documentation Conf Reminder
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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject:Language Documentation Conf Reminder

1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation:
Supporting Small Languages Together.
Honolulu, Hawai'i, March 12-14, 2009
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09

It has been a decade since Himmelmann's article on language  
documentation
appeared and focused the field into thinking in terms of creating a
lasting record of a language that could be used by speakers as well as  
by
academics. This conference aims to assess what has been achieved in the
past decade and what the practice of language documentation within
linguistics has been and can be. It has become apparent that there is  
too
much for a linguist alone to achieve and that language documentation
requires collaboration. This conference will focus on the theme of
collaboration in language documentation and revitalization and will
include sessions on interdisciplinary topics.

PLENARY SPEAKERS include:

* Nikolaus Himmelmann, University of Munster
* Leanne Hinton, UC Berkeley
* Paul Newman, Indiana University, University of Michigan
* Phil Cash Cash, University of Arizona


TOPICS

We welcome abstracts on the issue of a retrospective on language
documentation - an assessment after a decade, and on topics related to
collaborative language documentation and conservation which may include:

- Community-based documentation/conservation initiatives
- Community viewpoints on documentation
- Issues in building language documentation in collaborative teams
- Interdisciplinary fieldwork
- Collaboration for mobilization of language data
- Technology in documentation - methods and pitfalls
- Graduate students and documentation
- Topics in areal language documentation
- Training in documentation methods - beyond the university
- Teaching/learning small languages
- Language revitalization
- Language archiving
- Balancing documentation and language learning

This is not an exhaustive list and individual papers and/or colloquia on
topics outside these remits are warmly welcomed.


ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in  
any
language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the
region. Authors may submit no more than one individual and one joint
proposal.

ABSTRACTS ARE DUE BY SEPTEMBER 15th, 2008 with notification of  
acceptance
by October 17th 2008.

We ask for ABSTRACTS OF 400 WORDS for online publication so that
conference participants can have a good idea of the content of your  
paper
and a 50 WORD SUMMARY for inclusion in the conference program.  All
abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international  
experts
on the topic.

** SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL ONLINE:  http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/icldc09/call.html

Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to the
journal Language Documentation & Conservation for publication.


PRESENTATION FORMATS

* PAPERS will be allowed 20 minutes with 10 minutes of question time.
* POSTERS will be on display throughout the conference. Poster
  presentations will run during the lunch breaks.
* COLLOQUIA (themed sets of sessions) associated with the theme of the
  conference are also welcome.


For more information, visit our conference website:
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09

Enquiries to: ICLDC at hawaii.edu


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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Monterey Institute Job
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Date: 25 Aug 2008
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:Monterey Institute Job

Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:07:41
From: Ryan Vandergriff [ryan at jobelephant.com]
Subject: Various Languages & Applied Linguistics: Instructor, Monterey  
Institute of International Studies, CA, USA

University or Organization: Monterey Institute of International Studies
Department: International Intensive Language Studies (ILST)
Job Location: California, USA
Web Address: http://miis.interviewexchange.com

Job Rank: Instructor

Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics

Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                      Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                      French (fra)
                      Russian (rus)
                      Spanish (spa)

Description:

Instructor - Winter Intensive Language Program 2008

Definition:

Monterey Institute of International Intensive Language Studies (ILST)
Department is looking to hire two instructors for each of the following
languages for the Winter Intensive Language Program (WILP):

- Arabic
- Chinese
- Russian
- Spanish
- French

This is a part-time, temporary exempt position.

The Winter Intensive Language Program (WILP) provides beginning and
intermediate level language instruction in an intensive format to
approximately 60 undergraduate and graduate students as well as
professionals for two and a half weeks every winter.

Under supervision of the Language Program Coordinator and the WILP
Director, language instructors provide intensive instruction in a
communicative format with a focus on authentic materials for the Winter
Intensive Language Program.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Teaches assigned language and level half or full-time
- Collaborates with the language program coordinator, other  
instructors and
teaching assistant to provide integration between curricular and
extra-curricular programming as well as cultural relevance
- Prepares comprehensive syllabus including course description,  
objectives
and material as well as assessment guidelines for students
- Prepares classes and provides instruction focusing on communicative
language teaching and use of authentic materials
- Adjusts intensity of program as needed in collaboration with language
program coordinator
- Keeps track of student progress by regularly implementing assessment
mechanisms and completing grade reports as requested.

Employment Standards:
Education/Experience
- Master's degree or PhD in language, language teaching or related field
preferred
- 2+ years of previous language teaching experience
- Native or near-native language ability
- Previous experience teaching in intensive program preferred

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Excellent teaching and interpersonal communication skills
- Familiarity with communicative teaching practices and use of authentic
materials to teach foreign language
- Proven dedication to excellence in language teaching
- Willingness and ability to become acquainted and comply with SILP
processes and regulations as well as Institute policies.

Physical Requirements/Environment
- The Monterey Institute maintains a smoke-free/drug-free workplace

Required Materials:
- Curriculum Vitae detailing all relevant teaching and language  
experience
- Evidence of teaching expertise (i.e., teaching demo, student  
evaluations,
teaching materials, letter(s) of recommendation, etc.)

To apply, go to:
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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:21 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic pedagogy research refs
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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From: elsherif <alarish5 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:Arabic pedagogy research refs

Hi
Greating from England
Those books are very helpful
1)The teaching of Arabic as a foreign language ;ISSUES AND DIRECTION / 
EDIDED BY MOHAMED AL-BATAL BARCODE 1801827640
2)Waqa i nadawat ta lim al lughah al Arabia li -ghayer al -natiquin  
biha . barcode 30215021171994 Al Madind L-Munawwarah.
3)Asasiat Talim al-lughah al Arabia lil natiqin bi lighat ukhr  by Abd  
al- Aziz ibn ibrahim
Barcode 1805897057 .

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug 29 20:08:16 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:16 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New article and book
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1) Subject:New article and book

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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From:moderator
Subject:New article and book

The following article and book that may have some interest from  
subscribers have been announced:

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Weighted constraints and gradient restrictions on place co-occurrence  
in Muna and Arabic

Andries W. Coetzee1  and Joe Pater2

(1)
Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, 440 Lorch Hall, 611  
Tappan Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220, USA
(2)
Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA  
01003, USA
Received: 14 October 2005  Revised: 20 September 2007  Accepted: 16  
November 2007  Published online: 14 August 2008

Abstract  This paper documents a restriction against the co-occurrence  
of homorganic consonants in the root morphemes of Muna, a western  
Austronesian language, and compares the Muna pattern with the much- 
studied similar pattern in Arabic. As in Arabic, the restriction  
applies gradiently: its force depends on the place of articulation of  
the consonants involved, and on whether the homorganic consonants are  
similar in terms of other features. Muna differs from Arabic in the  
relative strengths of these other features in affecting co-occurrence  
rates of homorganic consonants. Along with the descriptions of these  
patterns, this paper presents phonological analyses in terms of  
weighted constraints, as in Harmonic Grammar. This account uses a  
gradual learning algorithm that acquires weights that reflect the  
relative frequency of different sequence types in the two languages.  
The resulting grammars assign the sequences acceptability scores that  
correlate with a measure of their attestedness in the lexicon. This  
application of Harmonic Grammar illustrates its ability to capture  
both gradient and categorical patterns.


________________


Title: "The" Fifth Modality: On Languages that Shape our Motivations and
Cultures
Series Title: International Comparative Social Studies

Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: Brill
           http://www.brill.nl

Book URL: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=21177

Author: Carl W. Roberts

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004162358 Pages: 210 Price: Europe EURO 89.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004162358 Pages: 210 Price: U.S. $ 129.00

Abstract:

This is a book about how people understand each other. Like Simmel's
writings and works written by Foucault and Goffman toward the ends of  
their
careers, this book depicts interactions as behavioral forms. Its  
novelty is
that it grounds these forms in linguistic structure, particularly in the
ubiquitous presence of modality in discourse within all mass  
societies. Its
concluding argument is that all persons, situations, and cultures have
mutual significance in accordance with four fundamental modal forms:
ability (most common in the United States), necessity (most common in  
the
socialist countries of Western Europe and Scandinavia), obligation (most
common in ancient Chinese and Indic societies), and permission (most  
common
in the Islamic world).

Table of contents
Preface
Glossary
Chapter 1: On Persuasion
Chapter 2: Reading Personhood
Chapter 3: Gedankenexperiment
Chapter 4: Individualism
Chapter 5: Mutualism
Chapter 6: Essentialism
Chapter 7: Doctrinism
Chapter 8: Another Modality
Appendix: A Formalization
Index

Keywords:
Modality, culture linguistics, persuasion, personhood, individualism,
mutualism, essentialism, reformism.

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From dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU  Fri Aug 29 20:08:26 2008
From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Al-3abd Allaah
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2) Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From:Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

a propos:  we have a large number of Spanish forms from Arabic e.g. al  
Alcazar (lit. 'the the casle') ~  el Alcala;  el algebra,
al alaya (a Quranic verse); even el-algarabia (sorry!) for 'gibberish'.
      But i won't be able to sleep at night if someone doesn't tell me  
why the river(s) Guadalquivir [>al-waadii  al-kabiir] isn't 'al- 
alwaadiialquivir'.  Ayudanme por favor!  I'm drowning.
                                                                                 ms

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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From:Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Al-3abd Allaah

Dear David,
      You think we have problems?  Pity the poor mufassiriina when  
considering Q98.5:  /al-diin  alqayyima/.
Best wishes,
                                                                                 Mike 
  Schub

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:14 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Diplomatic language
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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Diplomatic language

Wasn't there a query about references for Arabic diplomatic  
correspondence recently?

Here is something I have found that might help:

Arabisch, Hebr?isch und Amharisch als Sprachen in modernen  
diplomatischen Dokumenten : grammatikalische, lexikalische und  
stilistische Probleme in synchroner und diachroner Perspektive / Lutz  
Edzard,  Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2006

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From: dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs stats on  textbook usage in US
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1) Subject:Needs stats on  textbook usage in US

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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From:Souad.Ali at asu.edu
Subject:Needs stats on  textbook usage in US

Do you know of any available surveys or statistics on how many  
universities in the U.S. use al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya  
versus Ahlan wa Sahlan or any of the other available textbooks? I  
would really appreciate your response.
Best wishes.

Souad
Souad T. Ali, Ph.D.
Faculty Head of Classics and Middle East Letters and Cultures
Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies
School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC)
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0202
480-965-4586

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Date: 29 Aug 2008
From:Gilman <Gilman at iie.org>
Subject:Gilman Scholarship Program 2009

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program
Spring 2009 Application Open ? Deadline: October 7, 2008

The Gilman International Scholarship Program provides awards of up to  
$5,000 for U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad for up to one  
academic year.  The program aims to diversify the kinds of student who  
study abroad and the countries and regions where they go.  The program  
serves students who have been under-represented in study abroad which  
includes but is not limited to: students with high financial need,  
community college students, students in under-represented fields such  
as the sciences and engineering, students from diverse ethnic  
backgrounds, students attending minority-serving institutions, and  
students with disabilities. The Gilman Program seeks to assist  
students from a diverse range and type of two-year and four-year  
public and private institutions from all 50 states.

The Gilman Program is pleased to announce an increase in the amount of  
awards to be given this academic year.  Over 1200 scholarships will be  
granted during the Academic Year 2008-2009.  Additionally, an  
increased number of $3000 Critical Need Language Supplements are  
available for students studying a critical need language for a total  
possible award of $8000.  A list of eligible languages can be found on  
the Gilman website athttp://www.iie.org/gilman.  There has never been  
a better time to apply for a Gilman Scholarship!

Eligibility: Students must be receiving a Federal Pell Grant at the  
time of application or during the time they are studying abroad and  
cannot be studying abroad in a country currently under a U.S.  
Department of State Travel Warning or in Cuba.

The Gilman International Scholarship Program is sponsored by the U.S.  
Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and  
administered by the Institute of International Education.

For more information, full eligibility criteria and the online  
application visit:  http://www.iie.org/gilman

Gilman International Scholarship Program
Institute of International Education
Houston, TX

Contact for Applicants:
Email: gilman at iie.org
Phone: 1-888-887-5939, ext 25

Contact for Advisors:
Email: gilmanadvisors at iie.org
Phone: 1-888-887-5939, ext 16

http://www.iie.org/gilman

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