Arabic-L:LING:ALS 24 Program and Info

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Date: 23 Feb 2010
From: "Brustad, Kristen" <brustad at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:ALS 24 Program and Info

Dear All,
 
The preliminary program for ALS 24 , April 9-11 at UT Austin,  is pasted below and has been posted on the conference website:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/events/conferences/als2010/als2010.php
 
 
Several “crash” sites are available for graduate students traveling to Austin to attend the conference. Please contact me at
brustad at austin.utexas.edu for more information.   
 
Looking forward to welcoming you to Austin!
 
 
Kristen Brustad
 
Associate Chair
Graduate Studies Advisor
Middle Eastern Studies
University of Texas at Austin
 
 
ALS 24
April 9-11, 2010
University of Texas at Austin
 “Arabic Across Traditions”
 
Preliminary Program
 
Friday April 9 
 
9:00-10:30      Negation   
 
Chatar-Moumni Nizha, Université Paris Descartes
            Negative association in Moroccan Arabic
Frederick Hoyt, University of Texas – Austin
                        Negative Concord and SV in Two Dialects of Arabic
Abbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                        A Corpus Study of Negative Particles in Arabic Varieties
 
10:30-11:00    Break
 
11:00-12:00    Keynote Address:  “Arabic as a Semitic Language” 
John Huehnergard, UT Austin
 
12:00-1:30      Lunch Break
 
1:30-2:30        Discourse analysis
  
Keri Miller, University of Arizona
                        The Paradox of the Term 'Democracy' in Arabic Discourse on Islamic
                        Movements
Selim Ben Said, Pennsylvania State University
                        Urban Discourses and the Construction of a Multilingual Identity on
                        Tunisian Street Signs
 
2:30-2:45        Break
 
2:45-3:45        Semantics    
 
Ola Moshref, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                        Grammatical Gender Assignment of English and French Loan Words in
                        Egyptian Arabic
Dana Abdulrahim & John Newman, University of Alberta
                        How many ways to GO in Arabic? A corpus-based approach to
                        determining polysemy and synonymy of the verbs ḏahaba, maḍā,
                        rāḥa,and inṭalaqa
3:45-4:45        Break
 
4:00-5:00        Computational Linguistics 
 
Rania Alsabbagh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                        An Unsupervised Approach for the Automatic Detection and Resolution
                        of Ambiguous Arabic
David Schulz, Wisconsin Lutheran College
                        Automatic Generation and Evaluation of Foreign Names in Arabic Script
 
6:00     Dinner
 
Saturday April 10
 
9:00-10:30      Sociolinguistics    
 
Uri Horesh, Franklin & Marshall College
                        Generational variation among Palestinian women: An age grading
                        hypothesis
Atiqa Hachimi , University of Toronto
                        Dialect change and the family in Morocco: The case of gender concord
                        among three ethnolinguistic families in Casablanca
Abdulkafi Albirini, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                        Bi-dialectal Code-switching and the Origin of Arabic Varieties
 
10:30-11:00    Break
 
11:00-12:00    Keynote Address:  “Analyzing Variation in Arabic”
Enam  Al-Wer, University of Essex
 
12:00-1:30      Lunch Served Courtesy UT Graduate School
 
1:30-2:30        Phonology   
 
Mahasen Abu-Mansour, Umm Al-Qura University
                        An optimality theoretic account of hypocoristic formation in Makkan
                        Arabic
Rawiah Kabrah, Umm Al-Qura University
                        Opaque and transparent stress in Makkan Arabic
 
2:30-2:45        Break
 
 
 
 
 
2:45-4:45        Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition 
 
Reem Khamis, Adelphi University & Karen Froud, Columbia University
                        Neurocognitive investigations of codeswitching in Arabic Diglossia:
                        breaking with tradition
Khawla Aljenaie, Kuwait University & Abbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                        The acquisition of Kuwaiti Arabic Questions: The Movement and In-Situ
                        Strategies
Rajaa Aquil, Georgia Institute of Technology & Scott Jackson, University of Maryland
                        Internalizing Arabic phonotactic rules: Is it proficiency based?
Marwa Ragheb & Davis Stuart, Indiana University
                        The acquisition of word-final consonant clusters in Cairene Arabic: An
                        OT analysis
 
Sunday April 11
 
8:30-10:30      Special Session: Syntactic Approaches to VSO and SVO Word Order 
 
Hamid Ouali, Chair
Mohammad Mohammad, UT Austin
Martin Walkow, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
                        Subject Verb Agreement Asymmetries and the Distribution of Labor
                        between Syntax and Morphology
Peter Glanville, University of Texas – Austin
                        A Lexical Functional Grammar analysis of Arabic pronoun placement
 
10:30-10:45    Break
 
10:45 -12:15   Syntax II  
 
Wassim Bekai, University of Nizwa, Oman
                        Are Subject and Object Markers clitics or non-clitics in South Lebanese
                        Arabic?
Mary Ann Walter, Middle East Technical University
                        Repetition avoidance in Arabic Syntax: A Distinctness Account of
                        Construct State and Relative Clauses.
Alexander Magidow, University of Texas – Austin
                        Explaining Case-Marking in Spoken Formal Arabic
 
 
 
End of Conference

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