Arabic-L:LING:ALS this week
Dilworth Parkinson
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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:paul roochnik <proochnikllc at yahoo.com>
Subject:ALS this week
Dear Friends,
Ahlan wa-sahlan.
Have you got any information about the Arabic linguistics conference
to be held 08 and 09 March? I recall it will take place at the
University of Maryland, but which building? Which room? And what
time does it start?
Thanks and cheers,
Abu Sammy
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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:moderator
Subject:ALS this week
I am pasting in the info I received. In this you will find the place
and the time, I believe.
dil
Event:
22 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS
University of Maryland, College Park
March 8-9, 2008
Sponsored by
The Arabic Linguistics Society
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,
Center for the Advanced Study of Language,
University of Maryland, and
National Foreign Language Center
Venue:
Benjamin Banneker Auditorium, Adele Stamp Student Union
For directions, parking, transportation to and from the Adele H. Stamp
Union, please click on the following link:
http://www.union.umd.edu/visitorInfo/directions.shtml
Accommodation:
Marriot’s Inn & Conference Center University of Maryland University
College
3501 University Blvd E
Adelphi, Maryland 20783
Tel. 1-301-985-7300
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/wasum-the-inn-and-conference-center-university-of-maryland-university-college/?ppc=eastern_google_wasum&vpckey=inn-and-conference-center-college-park&vpccat=leisure
Other nearby Hotels are listed in the following link:
http://www.uga.umd.edu/admissions/visit/accommodations.asp
Nearest airports:
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport – BWI
Hotel direction: 30 miles South
Bus service: $35 (one way)
Estimated Taxi fare: $60
Ronald Reagan Washington National - DCA
Hotel direction: 20 miles East
Estimated Taxi fare: $50 (one way)
Washington, DC/Dulles – IAD
Hotel direction: 35 miles East
Estimated Taxi fare: $80 (one way)
Program:
SATURDAY, MARCH 8
9.00–9.30 OPENING REMARKS
9.30–10:00 Phrasal and sentential agreement in the
inter-language of learners of Arabic
Ghassan Husseinali
Yale University
10.00–10:30 Linguistic distance and the
acquisition of basic reading processes in diglossic Arabic
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
10.30–10.45 BREAK
10.45–11.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Mushira Eid
University of Utah
Arabic or Arabics: The core and the variable
11:30–12:00 Verb innovation in Palestinian Arabic
Lior Laks
Tel Aviv University, Israel
12.00–1.00 BREAK
1.00–1.45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Yasser Suleiman
University of Edinburgh
Out of place: Language, dislocation and exile
1.45-2.15 The effect of language contact and
diachrony on
Urban Palestinian phonemics
Uri Horesh
The University of Texas at Austin
2.15-2.30 BREAK
2.30–3.15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jonathan Owens
University of Maryland
The early history of Arabic
3.15 – 3.45 Ingrate or honorable: A re-examination of the word kanuud
in Qur’an 100 (al-‘Ādiyāt))
Munther Younes
Cornell University
3.45 – 4.15 Genre analysis and Arabic legal discourse
Ahmed Fakhri
West Virginia University
4.15 – 4.30 BREAK
4.30 – 5.00 The feasibility of using the web in
building Arabic sense-tagged corpora
Khalid Alghamry
Ain Shams University Egypt
5.00 – 5.30 A Unified analysis of Arabic
demonstratives in the extended nominal projection
Kamel Elsaadany & Salwa Shams
Gulf University for Science and Technology
5.30 – 6.00 The syntactic behavior of Arabic idioms
Ashraf Mohamed
University of Manchester
6.00-6.30 Patterns of variation in the adoption of
Casablancan gender concord norms by three ethnolinguistic migrant groups
Atiqa Hachimi
University of Florida
Alternates
Negative and positive imperatives in young children's Kuwaiti Arabic
Morphosyntactic Development in an Arabic Diglossic Situation
SUNDAY, MARCH 9
9.00 – 9.30 Final devoicing and voicing assimilation
in Cairene Arabic: An OT analysis
Rawia Kabrah
Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
9.30 – 10.00 The syllable: A perceptual unit in
Egyptian Arabic
Rajaa Aquil
University of Utah
10.00 – 10.30 Leading, linking and closing tonal contours in Egyptian
Arabic
Dina ELzarqa
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
10.30-10.45 BREAK
10.45 – 11.15 Phrasal syncope in Makkan Arabic: An
OT account
Mahasen Abu-Mansour
Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
11.15 – 11.45 The OCP as a synchronic constraint in
Arabic
Eiman Mustafawi
Qatar University
11.45-1.00 BREAK
1.00 – 1.45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Elabbas Benmamoun
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comparative syntax of Arabic varieties: Issues and approaches
1.45 – 2.15 “Heads” of a feather “agree”
together: On the morpho-syntax of imperatives in MSA
Usama Soltan
Middlebury College
2.15 – 2.30 BREAK
2.30 – 3.00 The myth of tensed negation: A neo-
aspectualist analysis of lam and lan in Standard Arabic
Mustafa Mughazy
Western Michigan University
3.00 – 3.30 Negative expressions in Moroccan Arabic:
NCI’s or NPI’s?
Hamid Ouali
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
3.30 – 4.00 A core syntax of Arabic pronoun and
agreement
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
University of Newcastle & University Mohammed V Rabat
4.00 – 4.15 BREAK
4.15 – 5.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Manfred Woidich
University of Amsterdam
The Egyptian lexicon and the Arabic World Atlas
5.00-5.30 Mixed agreement in Lebanese Arabic
Heidi Lorimor
University of Mary Washington
5.30 – 6.00 Use of humor in Arabic and English
travel literature: A socio-pragmatic contrastive study
Samih Salah
University of Alexandria, Egypt
Alternates
Against the Split-CP Hypothesis: Evidence from Iraqi
Arabic
The MSA – dialect interface: Borrowing vs. codeswitching in the
context of corpus analysis
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