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Date: 03 Nov 2010
From: Richard Durkan <rdurkan at hotmail.com>
Subject: needs studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

Does anyone know of any study of cognates of Arabic in other Semitic languages, especially Hebrew?
 
Richard Durkan

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Two corpora for text categorization and other tasks
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Date: 03 Nov 2010
From: reposted from CORPORA
Subject: Two corpora for text categorization and other tasks

Dear Colleagues,
 
You can download two arabic corpora "Khaleej-2004" and "watan-2004" to use them in Natural Language Processing and particularly for text categorization and topic identification. This is the link: http://sites.google.com/site/mouradabbas9/
 
Good luck.
 
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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Nov  3 16:33:44 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AALIM Spring Deadline
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Date: 03 Nov 2010
From: Driss Cherkaoui <aalimorocco at yahoo.com>
Subject: AALIM Spring Deadline

The deadline for application to the intensive Arabic spring semester program at AALIM, the Arab American Language Institute in Morocco, is December 1, 2010. Application forms on the website, www.aalimorocco.com. IBN KHALDOUN SCHOLARSHIP available for up to $3000 tuition reduction. 

Spring semester 2011, 13-week intensive Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) program includes:

Academic component

- 3 classroom hours per day, Monday through Friday, of MSA 15 hours/wk

- 1 classroom hour per day, Monday through Friday, of Darija 5 hours/wk

- Introduction to North African Culture, an interactive MSA class 2 hours/wk

  (Tuesday and Thursday afternoon)

- Directed MSA conversation class (Monday and Friday afternoon) 2 hours/wk

- Movie club (Arabic films) or cultural activity (Wed. afternoon) 2 hours/wk


Total, NOT counting the cultural activities/movies: 312 contact hours/13 weeks

Room and board (see www.riadidrissi.com)

-       Double occupancy in AALIM partner guest house (riad) in the Medina

-       2 meals/day: breakfast and main mid-day meal

-       5 Friday mid-day meals with Moroccan families

Other

-       Orientation tour of Meknes

-       Educational materials, not including textbooks

-       Outside of class teaching assistant

-       Office hours with professors, 3 hours/wk

-       Day trip to the Roman ruins of Volubilis and the village of Moulay Idriss

-       Day trip to Azrou

-       Certificate of program completion

-       Documentation at no charge for university credit if requested

-       Final party

Not included

-       R/T airfare to Morocco

-       Airport pick-up and/or drop-off (available at additional cost)

-       Third daily meal

-       Medical expenses or insurance

-       Personal expenses

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Nov  3 16:33:45 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New TAFL Volume
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Date: 03 Nov 2010
From: Paula Santillán <psgrimm at casaarabe-ieam.es>
Subject: New TAFL Volume

Victoria Aguilar
ENSEÑANZA Y APRENDIZAJE DE LA LENGUA ÁRABE

Over the last twenty years, the desire and the need to get closer to the Arab societies, both in the Arab and the non Arab worlds, have been accompanied not only by an increase in the number of students and teachers of the language but also by a proliferation of methods, materials, congresses and forums for discussion about the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL). Yet in spite of the ground that has been gained, a large area remains to be conquered.
 
This volume includes some of the most representative contributions to Arabele09, the first international congress on TAFL celebrated in Spain in the 21st century, which hosted over 150 participants coming from 15 countries.
 
For more information about this volume visit: http://tinyurl.com/34ey267
 
 
Paula Santillán Grimm
Adjunta - Responsable del Centro de Lengua Árabe
Casa Árabe-IEAM

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Nov  3 16:33:51 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Corpus of Spoken Arabic
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Date: 03 Nov 2010
From: Melissa Barkat-Defradas <melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr>
Subject: Corpus of Spoken Arabic

Dear Zaïnab,

I do have a corpus (digitized 22Khz 16 bits mono) produced by native speakers of several arabic dialects (both western and eastern dialects). It is based on free translations of the story The North Wind and the Sun, which was first developed by the International Association of Phonetics and exists now in several languages (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Wind_and_the_Sun). A second corpus consists in free narrations of the Frog Story (which exists  as well in several languages - including English)

You can have a look to the data on http://www.praxiling.fr/corpuspluriels/corpus/axe-de-recherche/parlers-vernaculaires-arabophones-sur-the-frog-story#more-8

I can send you a  free copy of that data. The only condition to use it, is to quote the corpus' name (AraBer database) as well as my name and lab. 

Best wishes,
--
Dr. Melissa Barkat-Defradas
Chargé de Recherches / Research Scientist
Laboratoire Praxiling UMR 5267 
CNRS / Université de Montpellier
Tel : + 00 33 (0)4 67 14 58 41 (ou 61 secrétariat)
Fax : + 00 33 (0)4 67 14 58 68
e-mail : melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr
website : http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/praxiling/ 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Montana Job
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Date: 03 Nov 2010
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Subject: U of Montana Job

University or Organization: University of Montana 
Department: Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center
Job Location: Montana, USA 
Job Rank: Assistant Professor  

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Description:

The Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center under the Department of
Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of
Montana, Missoula, MT, invites applications for a full time, tenure-track
position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Arabic language and
linguistics, commencing Fall 2011.

Applicants should hold a doctorate degree in Arabic or a related field and
have demonstrated excellence in scholarship, grant writing and teaching at
the undergraduate level. Candidates should have native, or native-like
proficiency in one dialect of Arabic with advanced mastery of Modern
Standard Arabic. Strong interpersonal and communication skills in English
and Arabic are essential. Preferred skills include grant proposal writing
and computer skills. Responsibilities include teaching Arabic courses at
the elementary, intermediate and/or advanced level(s), leading the process
of revising the Arabic language curriculum, and participating in writing
grant proposals. Other responsibilities include engaging in scholarly and
college service activities and advising students. As the Arabic program
grows, willingness to teach interdisciplinary courses related to Arabic
linguistics and/or literature is preferred.

Applicants should submit (1) a letter of interest, (2) a statement of
teaching philosophy, (3) a curriculum vitae, (4) an official copy of
transcripts, and (5) a list of names and contact information for three
references. Please address correspondence with the subject line: "Assistant
Professor in Arabic and Linguistics" to the address below. The deadline for
submitting all the application materials is Friday, December 3, 2010. For
more information, please visit the application URL below.

AA/EEO/ADA/Veterans Preference Employer


Application Deadline: 03-Dec-2010 
Mailing Address for Applications: 
	Dr. Ardeshir Kia, Arabic Search Committee Chair 
	Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center 
	The University of Montana 
	Missoula, MT 59812 
	USA  
Web Address for Applications: http://www.umt.edu/cap 
Contact Information
	Human Resources 
	Email: none at given.com 

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Nov  3 16:33:41 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:needs articles on Egyptian Arabic passives
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Date: 03 Nov 2010
From: Farzan Zaheed <farzanzaheed at yahoo.com>
Subject: needs articles on Egyptian Arabic passives

Hello Everyone,
Does anybody know of any articles on the passive verb in Egyptian Arabic? I mean verbs that begin with the prefix 'it-' in the perfective such as:
masik - itmasik
fahhim - itfahhim
qaabal - itqaabal  (This is not a passive but I was interested in any verb that begins with 'it-' whether passive or not).

These verbs are usually termed passive verbs (although this might not be the most accurate description). The are also sometimes called t-stem verbs (by Woidich).

If anybody knows of anything outside of the the comprehensive grammars of EA, especially journal articles or dissertations on the subject I'd really appreciate the info.

Thanks so much,
Farzan Zaheed
University of Texas at Austin.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:12:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Cal State San Bernadino Job
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Date: 05 Nov 2010
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Subject: Cal State San Bernadino Job

University or Organization: California State University, San Bernardino 
Department: World Languages & Literatures
Job Location: California, USA 
Web Address: http://flan.csusb.edu
Job Rank: Assistant Professor  

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Description:

The department is looking for energetic and enterprising candidates who
will contribute to the growth of the Arabic program. Experience in writing
curriculum and in seeking grant funding highly desirable. Knowledge of
ACTFL Standards, OPI Training and assessment also desirable. Native or near
native proficiency in Arabic required. PhD in Arabic language or related
field required. Experience in student-centered teaching and the ability to
relate well to a diverse, multi-ethnic student body are essential. 

Preferred candidates will be expected to meet the traditional requirements
of excellence in teaching, active scholarly and professional work, and
service to the University and community. In addition, new faculty are
encouraged to develop and participate in activities that support the
University's strategic plan. This plan emphasizes three areas: a) teaching
and learning excellence; b) student access, retention, and success; c)
excellence in research and creative activities; d) campus community; e)
community engagement; and f) infrastructure.


Application Deadline: 01-Dec-2010 
Mailing Address for Applications:
	Dr. Terri Nelson 
	5500 Univeristy Pkwy 
	World Languages Dept UH-314 
	San Bernardino, CA 92407 
	USA  
Contact Information:
	Cynthia Moss 
	Email: cmoss at csusb.edu 

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Fri Nov  5 22:12:31 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:12:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other
 Semitic languages
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Date: 05 Nov 2010
From: Slavomír Čéplö <bulbulthegreat at gmail.com>
Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

Dear Richard,

Martin Zammit's "A Comparative Lexical Study of Qur'ānic Arabic" seems
like a good candidate:

http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=9307

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Date: 05 Nov 2010
From: Robert Ricks <rsricks at gmail.com>
Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, but Martin Zammit's Comparative Lexical Study of Qur'anic Arabic contains information about Semitic cognates for Qur'anic lexical items.

Robert

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Date: 05 Nov 2010
From:  david.wilmsen at GMAIL.COM
Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

You can find comparisons of Arabic and Hebrew in these works. Some of these
are indispensable references. I find Lipinski to be the most valuable
overall, but you ignore Brockelmann at your peril:

Bennett, Patrick R. 1998. *Comparative Semitic Linguistics*: A Manual. Winona
Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Bergstrasser, Gotthelf. 1995. *Introduction to the Semitic Languages: Text
Specimens and Grammatical Sketches* (translated by Peter T. Daniels). Winona
Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Bravmann, Meir M. 1977. *Studies in Semitic Philology*. Leiden : E.J. Brill,
1977.

Brockelmann, Carl. 1908-13. *Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der
semitischen Sprachen*. Berlin: Reuther & Reichard

Hetzron, Robert, ed. 2006. *The Semitic Languages*. London, New York:
Routledge.

Lipinski, Edward. 2001. *Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar
*. Leuven: Peeters.

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

Moscati, Sabation, Anton Spitaler, Edwar Ullendorf, and Wolfram von Soden.
1964. *An Introduction to the Comarative Grammar of the Semitic Languages*.
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

O'Leary, De Lacy. 1923. *Comparative grammar of the Semitic languages*.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.

Rubin, Aaron D. 2005 *Studies in Semitic Grammaticalization*. Winona Lake,
IN: Eisenbrauns.

Shraybom-Shivtiel, Shlomit (2001). “The Development of the Coining System in
Hebrew and Arabic and the problem of Compounding Words,” in Judith
Rosenhouse and Ami Elad-Bouskila, (ed.) (2001) *Linguistic and Cultural
Studies on Arabic and Hebrew*. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrasowitz, 193—211.

David Wilmsen
Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Fri Nov  5 22:12:29 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:12:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:e-Arabic Teachers Digest #001 (Oct 2010)
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Date: 05 Nov 2010
From: Mourad Diouri <mourad.diouri at e-arabic.com>
Subject: e-Arabic Teachers Digest #001 (Oct 2010)

[This message was, as you can imagine, nicely formatted and colored, but Arabic-L currently can only post unformatted messages.  Sorry about that. -dil]

*************Please forward to interested colleagues***********

Abbreviations: ALT: (Arabic Language Teaching),  TAFL (Teaching Arabic As a Foreign Language)
Dear Arabic Teachers,

I hope this update finds you in the best state of health and at the peak of your teaching career.

This is the first e-Arabic Teachers Digest which is a dedicated monthly service to support anyone involved in the field of ALT and would like to stay up to date with the latest developments in the field.   In a nutshell, there are six important updates to share with you this month:

e-Arabic Teachers Portal
EVENTS Directory & Calendar
NEWS Articles Directory
Professional Networks & Groups
Mailing Lists Directory
e-Learning Tools & Technologies
A copy of this digest is available online at the e-Arabic Teachers Portal: v-arabic.com/digest-001

If you wish to share an up-to-date item related to TAFL, please go the page Share & Contribute (http://goo.gl/C2Ps)

e-Arabic Teachers Portal

In response to a repeated request from Arabic teachers, I have designed this portal which is a gateway to a growing pool of resources , tools and ideas organised and indexed into categories to help you enhance your teaching practice of AFL (Arabic as a Foreign Language). The (eATP) is still under construction. For now, you may browse the following pages:

Events Directory & Calendar

With the ever-changing field of ALT, many institutions organise  a variety of events to support anyone involved in teaching or researching the Arabic language. Keeping up to date with the latest events is sometimes near-impossible! To help you keep track of the latest events from around the world, we have created a directory of events and an interactive Calendar. The type of events that will appear in this directory/calendar are:

Conferences
CPD Training Programs
Seminars & Workshops
Online Training courses
Symposiums
Exhibitions
If you wish to stay in touch with the latest and forthcoming events, I’d recommend that you subscribe to any of the following:

Calendar (Google, iCal, Outlook)
Email alerts
RSS feed
Here is a selection of the latest events:

Conference | 4th MoLaCo conference for teachers of Arabic, French, Italian and Spanish, London, UK (http://bit.ly/b5AY69) 
Conference  | The Challenges of Teaching Arabic in the 21st Century 9-10th Feb 2011, Carnegie Mellon University,  Qatar (http://goo.gl/kRfj) 
Conference | Arabic Language and the Internet Conference Dec 2010, Tunisia ( http://bit.ly/aWdM8r) 
Visit the Events Directory at: http://goo.gl/mZIJ

NEWS Articles Directory

The news articles, both in Arabic and English, listed in this page are weblinks to external sites which I regularly come across online. These links are then bookmarked and archived in this page for future reference.

Here is a selection of the latest news:

NEWS | تونس قِبلة لتعليم العربية للأجانب | Middle East Online
NEWS | بين تحرير العربية وتصحيح الرؤية لتعليم اللغات | Middle East Online
NEWS | Reading Arabic "hard for brain" BBC NEWS
Visit the NEWS directory at :http://goo.gl/dgSQ

Professional & Social Networks & Groups

Another way to help you stay up to date with events, news and developments in the field of ALT as well as networking with fellow-minded professionals, you may join the following:

Professional Networks
Professional Organisations
Social/Facebook Groups
If you are familiar with other networks, organisations, etc… that are not included in this directory, please get in touch.

Visit the directory at:  http://goo.gl/o8RX

Mailing & Discussion Lists

Likewise, to help you stay up to date with events, news and developments in the field of TAFL, you may also wish to subscribe to any of the mailing-lists listed in the directory. These mailing lists are dedicated to teaching professionals in:

Arabic language
Arabic Linguistics
Arabic Literature
If you are familiar with other mailing-lists that are not included in this directory, please get in touch.

Visit the directory at:http://goo.gl/o8RX

e-Learning Tools & Technologies

The e-Learning Tools & Technologies directory is still under development and will be available soon to support ALT professionals interested to integrate technology in their classroom teaching.

URL: http://goo.gl/V2AM

Finally, don't forget to:
Follow us at: Facebook, Twitter
Join the eATP
If you have any questions about this digest, please feel free to leave a comment below.

Best Regards
Mourad Diouri  | مراد الديوري
e-Learning Lecturer in Arabic Studies
Centre for the Ad. Study of the Arab World | University of Edinburgh
e: mourad.diouri at e-arabic.com
w: eArabic Learners Portal : e-Arabic.com
w: eArabic Teachers Portal : v-Arabic.com
w: As the Arabs Say... v-Arabic.com/aas

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Invitation to Participate in Arabic Sociolinguistic
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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: Jason Schroepfer <j_schroepfer at yahoo.com>
Subject: Invitation to Participate in Arabic Sociolinguistic Research

Hello,

My name is Jason Schroepfer with the University of Texas and I am conducting an IRB approved sociolinguistic research on Arabic.  This is an invitation to participate in it if you would like.  To participate, one must be a native speaker of Arabic that was raised in an Arab country.  If you want to participate fill out the survey here:

https://sites.google.com/site/arabicattitudes/home  

It shouldn't take but 20 minutes for the whole survey.  

Thank you!

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Gulf dialect studies
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1) Subject: Needs Gulf dialect studies

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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: Rasha Abbas Mahmoud <rasha.abbas at qu.edu.qa>
Subject: Needs Gulf dialect studies

 Hello Everyone,
Does anybody know of any articles or studies on the Gulf Dialect besides the ones done by Dr. Clive Holes?
If anybody knows of anything , especially journal articles, thesis or dissertations on the subject I'd really appreciate the info.
Thank you!


Rasha Abbas Mahmoud 
Arabic Program for Non-Native Speakers 
College of Arts and Sciences 
Qatar University. 
Tel: +974-4403-4589 
Fax: +974-4493-4063

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:35:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Standards Based Arabic K-12 Instruction (New Book)
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1) Subject: Standards Based Arabic K-12 Instruction (New Book)

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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: Hanada Taha-Thomure <hanada at arabexpertise.com>
Subject: Standards Based Arabic K-12 Instruction (New Book)

Salam Dear All,
 
ArabExpertise has just released a new book (in Arabic) titled: "Standards Based Instruction in the Arabic Classroom".  The book is meant to be a  resource for teachers that includes: Arabic Language Standards, Benchmarks, Performance Indicators (grades K-12), samples of rubrics and standards based lesson in addition to sight words (grades K-5).
 
To order a copy of the book, please contact:
sales at arabexpertise.com
 
and visit: www.arabexpertise.com
 
Tahiyyati, hanada

Dr. Hanada Taha-Thomure, Associate Dean,
Bahrain Teachers College, University of Bahrain,
P. O. Box 32038, Manama
Kingdom of Bahrain
Office: +973 17448986  Mobile: +973 39921392
FAX: +973 17449051
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs contact info at Cairo and Ain Shams
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1) Subject: Needs contact info at Cairo and Ain Shams universities

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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: paul roochnik <proochnikllc at yahoo.com>
Subject: Needs contact info at Cairo and Ain Shams universities

Dear Friends,
I would like to contact the highest officials at the Universities of Cairo & Ain Shams.  This concerns the possibility of sending a group of American students to one of those universities for brief but intensive studies.  Would you happen to know the names and contact information (email address & direct telephone number) for the President and/or Vice President at these fine universities?  Thanks very much.
Cheers,
Abu Sammy

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Nov 11 16:36:03 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books on Quran, Sunna, etc.
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1) Subject: Gerlach Books on Quran, Sunna, etc.

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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: Gerlach Books - Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies <orders at gerlach-books.de>
Subject: Gerlach Books on Quran, Sunna, etc.

Antiquarian Books: Qur'an, Sunna, Hadith Studies

Until 23rd November we offer 61 single copies of antiquarian books on Qur'an, Sunna, Hadith Studies with up to 20% discount. For more information please have a look at the title list which you can download from this site:

http://mysql.snafu.de/khg/gerlach_books/books_offers.php

Some of them bear light traces of wear (signature, ex libris). The overall condition of the books is mostly very good or at least good.

Our offer:
- purchase of single antiquarian copies (first come, first serve)
- 10% discount for any single book
- 20% discount when ordering 10 or more books
- plus shipping charges (surface or air mail delivery)
- European VAT included
- pre-payment by bank transfer or credit card preferred
  (institutional customers by open account)
- this offer is valid until 23rd November 2010 only

Looking forward to your orders.

Best regards from Berlin

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS in Alex reminder
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1) Subject: ALS in Alex reminder

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Date: 11 Nov 2010
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Subject: ALS in Alex reminder

4th International Arabic Linguistics Symposium 
Short Title: ALS 2010 

Date: 11-Dec-2010 - 12-Dec-2010 
Location: Alexandria, Egypt 
Contact: Organizing Commitee 
Contact Email: webmaster at foa.edu.eg 
Meeting URL: http://www.foa.edu.eg/als2010/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Meeting Description: 

The Arabic Linguistics Society and Alexandria University are pleased to announce the 4th International Arabic Linguistics Symposium to be held at Alexandria University, Egypt, December 11-12, 2010.

Topics deal with theoretic and applied issues of Arabic Linguistics. Including:
- Linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics), 
- Applied linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Discourse analysis
- Historical linguistics
- Corpus linguistics
- Computational linguistics 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Arabic morphological pattern generator
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1) Subject: Needs Arabic morphological pattern generator

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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: Maxim Romanov <romanov at umich.edu>
Subject: Needs Arabic morphological pattern generator

Dear members of the list,

I am trying to find a morphological pattern generator for Arabic, which can generate all possible (or probable) word forms from a given root (roots) including all possible prefixes and suffixes. I wonder if anything like that exists? Perhaps there are descriptions (algorithms) for things like this. Or, maybe, there is something else you aware of that can take a any word and guess from which roots it can possible be derived. 

All suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Maxim G. Romanov

PhD Candidate in Arabic & Islamic Studies
Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Nov 11 16:36:12 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other
 Semitic languages
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1) Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: Mike Schub <m7schub at aol.de>
Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

A propos:  to this stodgy melange, please add, just for fun, the hilarious index to 
John Allegro's sempiternal *The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross*.  [If you can get it.]
Mike Schub  <m7schub at aol.com>       

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Human Language Technology for Development Conf in
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1) Subject: Human Language Technology for Development Conf in Alex

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Date: 11 Nov 2010
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Full Title: Conference on Human Language Technology for Development 
Short Title: HLTD 2011 

Date: 02-May-2011 - 05-May-2011
Location: Alexandria, Egypt 
Contact Person: Sarmad Hussain
Meeting Email: sarmad at cantab.net
Web Site: http://www.hltd.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; 
Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-Feb-2011 

Meeting Description:

Human Language Technology (HLT) is a growing field of research and 
development, converging multiple disciplines including computer science, 
engineering, linguistics, sociology and cognitive sciences, striving to 
develop a natural, easy and effective user interaction.  HLT, including 
localization, is particularly relevant for addressing access to information by 
the disadvantaged communities, including the illiterate, the rural poor, and 
the physically challenged population, especially in the developing countries.  

The Conference aims to promote interaction among researchers and 
professionals working on language technology, language computing 
industry, civil society engaged with deployment of language technology to 
end-users, and policy makers planning the use of HLT in national 
development projects.  It aims to provide a single platform to engage these 
stakeholders in a dialogue over a wide range of relevant issues, to show-
case state-of-practice in HLT and its use in development, and to identify 
needs and priorities of the end-users.  It is hoped that the Conference will 
highlight HLTD challenges in the developing regions, especially in Asia and 
Africa. 

Call For Papers

Conference Topics:
Original unpublished research papers are invited for two tracks: (i) HLT 
Development track, focusing on engineering challenges and solutions for 
HLT, and (ii) HLT Use track, focusing on challenges and models for 
dissemination and adoption of HLT.  Specific topics include, but are not 
limited to, the following areas, with special focuses on Asia and Africa. 

HTL Development:
Linguistics and linguistic resources
Language computing standards
Localization
HLT (MT, TTS, ASR, OCR, IR, Dialogue systems)
HLT technology, people and process challenges
Commercialization models 
Technology policy

HLT Use:
Education
Health
Governance
Rural development
Accessibility
Culture
Language and culture policy

In addition, proposals are also invited for workshops, tutorials and 
product/project demonstrations.  

Submission details are available at the Conference website www.HLTD.org.

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline:		
7th Feb., 2011 
Acceptance Notification: 7th Mar., 2011 
Camera ready paper: 23rd Mar., 2011 
Conference dates: 2nd - 5th May, 2011

Venue:
The Conference will be held at Bibliotheca Alexandrina at Alexandria, Egypt 
(http://www.bibalex.org). 

Travel and Registration Grants:
A small number of grants are available on a competitive basis for travel 
support and Conference registration fees for authors.  Further details are 
available from the Conference website.

Technical Committee:
Dr. Adel El Zaim, International Development Research Centre, Middle East 
Office, Egypt
Dr. Ananya Raihan, D.NET, Bangladesh
Dr. Chafic Mokbel, Balamand University, Lebanon
Dr. Chai Wutiwiwatchai, NECTEC, Thailand
Mr. Dwayne Bailey, Zuza Software Foundation, South Africa (co-chair)
Mr. Donanl Z. Osborn, African Network for Localization, USA
Dr. Florence Tushabe, Univ., Uganda 
Dr. Guy De Pauw, Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium 
Dr. Hammam Riza, Agency for the Assessment and Application of 
Technology, Indonesia
Dr. Key-Sun Choi, Korean Advance Institute of Science and Technology, 
South Korea
Dr. Lamine Aouad, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland
Dr. Lisa Moore, Unicode Consortium, USA
Dr. Magdy Nagi, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt 
Ms. Manal Amin, Arabize, Egypt 
Dr. Miriam Butt, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany
Dr. Mirna Adriani, Univ. of Indonesia
Dr. Mumit Khan, BRAC Univ., Bangladesh
Dr. Peter Waiganjo Wagacha, Univ. of Nairobi, Kenya
Dr. Rajeev Sangal, International Institute of Information Technology, 
Hyderabad, India
Dr. Roni Rosenfield, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe, Univ. of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka
Dr. Satoshi Nakamura, National Institute of Information and Communication 
Technology, Japan
Dr. Sarmad Hussain, Univ. of Engr. and Tech., Pakistan (co-chair)
Mr. Solomon Gizaw, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland 
Dr. Steven Bird, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Tim Unwin, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, Univ. of London, UK
Dr. Tunde Adegbola, African Languages Technology Initiative, Lagos, 
Nigeria 
Dr. Virach Sornlertlamvanich, NECTEC, Thailand
Dr. Wanjiku Ng'ang'a, Univ. of Nairobi, Kenya 

Oragnizing Committee:
Dr. Adel El Zaim, International Development Research Centre, Middle East 
Office, Egypt (chair)
Dr. Ananya Raihan, D.NET, Bangladesh
Mr. Dwayne Bailey, Zuza Software Foundation, South Africa 
Dr. Magdy Nagi, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt 
Ms. Manal Amin, Arabize, Egypt 
Ms. Maria Ng Lee Hoon, International Development Research Centre, SE&E 
Asia Office, Singapore
Dr. Peter Waiganjo Wagacha, Univ. of Nairobi, Kenya
Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe, Univ. of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka
Dr. Sarmad Hussain, Center for Language Engineering, KICS, Univ. of Engr. 
and Tech., Pakistan 

About the Organizers:
The Conference is jointly organized by the PAN Localization Network (PAN 
L10n, www.PANL10n.net) of Asia and the African Network for Localization 
(ANLoc, www.africanlocalisation.net).  It is supported by Canada's 
International Development Research Centre (IDRC, www.idrc.ca). 

PAN L10n is network of Asian professionals and organizations, collectively 
working to develop local language computing capacity and its use across 
developing Asian countries, since 2003.  It has been developing linguistic 
resources, language technology, human resource capacity and relevant 
language computing policy in the region.  It has also been active in 
disseminating language technology to end users, and investigating effective 
training and adoption models.  The network is coordinated by the Center for 
Language Engineering (www.cle.org.pk), Al-Khawarizmi Institute of 
Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan.

ANLoc has the vision to empower Africans to participate in the digital age by 
removing 'the last inch' barriers to language usage.  The project is working 
towards overcoming this by creating a network of African language 
localizers who through various projects are developing translation and 
localization tools, linguistic resources, standards and software in several 
African languages. Building local capacities and disseminating knowledge 
are also essential for achieving the mission.  The network is coordinated by 
Zuza Software Foundation (www.translate.org.za) in South Africa.

PAN L10n and ANLoc are funded by the International Development 
Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.

About the Host Institution:
The new library of Alexandria, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, aims to be a center 
of excellence in the production and dissemination of knowledge and to be a 
place of dialogue, learning and understanding between cultures and 
peoples.


For Further Queries:
Asia coordinator: Sarmad Hussain, sarmad at cantab.net
Africa coordinator: Dwayne Bailey, dwayne at translate.org.za 
Egypt coordinator: Manal Amin, Manal.Amin at arabize.com.eg
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:14 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:grammaticalization
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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject: grammaticalization

I find the statement of our colleague about grammaticalization to the effect that "this process is not applicable in the Arabic language" to be very curious (although I recognize the source of its motivation).

First, grammaticalization processes have surely occurred in Arabic over its long history (and prehistory). As such, it is appropriate for us to search for a suitable equivalent for the term 'grammaticaliztion' in Arabic, that we may be able to speak about such historical processes without being obliged always to borrow the European language term (in this case, originally French) when speaking Arabic.

I hasten to add that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with using borrowed technical terms - we are all members of an international community and as such may borrow each others' terms when those are more apt than our own. But it would certainly assist those of us who are teaching students whose native language is Arabic to have a set of agreed upon Arabic terms to use with students who are just entering into our community of scholars. One problem with such terms in Arabic is that there seems to be no consensus amongst scholars and other users over the adoption of technical terminology, and even if there were, such terms often remain opaque. Just consider the discussions that break out occasionally over this forum about the Arabic equivalents of various technical terms! It does little good to teach them to students if students themselves find them opaque and no one else understands them.

Second, grammaticalization processes must surely continue to take place in Arabic as a whole, certainly within the spoken vernaculars, which are, after all, also a part of the entity to which we refer when we speak of "Arabic."

What is more, the process can be seen to have taken place in the development of written Arabic. For example, the word نفس has in some contexts lost (or as those concerned with grammaticalization say, it has undergone the “semantic bleaching” of) its original meaning of 'soul' or 'breath' and is now used to mean 'the same' as in نفس الشيء 'the same thing.' This clear case of grammaticalization is discussed in the book Studies in Semitic Grammaticalization by Aaron D. Rubin (Harvard Semitic Series, vol. 57. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2005, p. 19), who says that the “shift of a noun referring to the body or part of the body into a reflexive pronoun ‘self’” is quite common in Semitic, as indeed it is across world languages. 

While some purists decry the construction, it is nevertheless used and found to be quite acceptable by many modern authors, such as Ghassan Kanafani, Naguib Mahfouz, Ahlam al-Mustaghenmi and many others, including that paragon of modern Arabic stylists Taha Hussein.

That some modern-day purists decry such usage must indicate that some change has taken place and that the construction would be encountered less often in earlier but still familiar texts. 

To satisfy myself about just this issue, which, I admit, has piqued my curiosity since I first heard it mentioned ages ago while sitting at the feet of my then Arabic teacher استاذ فائز of Yarmouk University of Jordan, I searched arabiCorpus (http://arabicorpus.byu.edu) for the phrase نفس ال in the premodern and the modern literature databases (representing texts from all of the writers mentioned above and many more). After eliminating false hits like النفس البشرية and تنفس الصعداء , the results are as follows:

In the premodern database (comprising 912,996 words), the construction appears 103 times.

In the modern literature database (403,901 words), it appears 272 times.

That is, in a modern literature database less than half the size of that constituting the premodern database, the construction appears almost three times as often. 

Using the Quran database (for what it's worth, 84,532 words) as a base line (where the construction appears exactly 0 times), we can see that the grammaticalization of نفس proceeded apace from sometime after the 1st century hijri, becoming increasingly more common between the medieval and modern eras of Arabic writing. 

That a process of grammaticalization has clearly occurred, even it if has not gone to completion, is evident in that the function of the word نفس has shifted and its inflectional categories when used to mean ‘the same’ have been bleached to a certain extent. For one may use the plural نفوس with words like بشر or its derivations, but one may not say something like نفوس الشيء ** or نفوس الأشياء ** to mean ‘the same things.’ DeLancey discusses precisely this sort of bleaching and functional shift with respect to the English words ‘top’ and ‘finish’ in an article that may be found on his webpage: http://pages.uoregon.edu/delancey/papers/glt.html

In this instance at least, a discussion of grammaticaliztion is indeed applicable to the history of and current usage in the Arabic language. 

This, then, contradicts our colleague's even more curious assertion that "any new grammatical change in Arabic is not acceptable." For, whether or not there is a continued grammaticalization of نفس , other processes of grammatical change do indeed take place even in written Arabic (which is the variety to which he seems to be limiting his statement). One such change, that I myself find grating on the ear, is the non-canonical formation of, if you will, a double valence iḍāfa, or what Badawi, Carter and Gulley (Modern Written Arabic: A comprehensive grammar. London: Routledge, p. 136) call “multiple annexation,” by collapsing what at one time and in higher style is still  written as two iḍāfas. To illustrate, I cite a very tongue-in-cheek example adduced by one of my translation teachers, استاذ سوسف الزاهد (now, alas, deceased الله يرحمه). He said:

قد قلت لكم مئة مرة إننا لا نكتب  « جزمة وشراب الواد » بل  « جزمة الواد وشرابه 

Excuse the crudity of expression; this was a mnemonic invented by استاذ يوسف for inculcating in his students how the iḍāfa is generally formed in more elevated registers; he meant it to be humorous so that it stayed in the mind (at which it proved quite effective with me!). Simply that he had to use the mnemonic at all, and, as he was wont to say, had to repeat it a hundred times, should provide ample indication that the construction is found to be acceptable by college-educated native writers of Arabic. Indeed, the construction جزمة وشراب الواد  - if not the actual words - can be found very often in current Arabic writing, especially in newspapers. 

About the process, Badawi, Carter, and Gulley say, “Although in CA [i.e., Classical Arabic] only one element normally occupies the first position, MWA [Modern Written Arabic] is extending the possibilities,” adding that (p. 138), “MWA is increasingly making use of binomial (or indeed now polynomial) annexation, in which two or more 1st elements are coordinated (by any of the coordinators) before annexation the 2nd element.”

Badawi, Carter and Gulley (137-8) adduce many examples of this, including the binomial annexation عقل وضمير الأمّة , which purists would maintain should be عقل الأمّة وضميرها and I myself, although not a purist, prefer. When they get to polynomial annexation, however, the process becomes harder to dispute, for while we can easily rewrite a phrase such as مشروع تطوير وتحديث مسرح البلوون to read مشروع تطويرمسرح البلون وتحديثه , it is difficult to change a rather unlovely name like غرفة تجارة وصناعة دبي to غرفة تجارة دبي وصناعتها without introducing ambiguity, sounding foolishly pedantic, and doing violence to the name of the institution in question itself. 

Therefore, pace our colleague, by the principle that usage defines acceptability, such constructions are apparently an acceptable grammatical change to have occurred recently, let us say within the last fifty years, in written Arabic

   غصبا عن عيون النحويين وعن عيون الحرصاء علي الصفاء 

If a language has ceased to undergo grammaticalization and grammatical change, it is probably dying or already dead.
 
David Wilmsen
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Dear all,

I am interested in doing some work on Arabic corpus linguistics and would like to know about available concordancers that can handle the Arabic script successfully.

I would also appreciate any information on available Arabic corpora that can be downloaded and used for research/teaching purposes.

Thanks and best wishes,

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I had simply asked for the term for translation purposes. Thanks, incidentally, to all the contributors. Not only did I have a large selection from which to choose, I also picked up a few new reference works as well! Thanks again.

As long as we're on this, though, if we are going to pretend that Classical Arabic is the only language which hasn't undergone linguistic change diachronically (and the arguments against that, as David so eloquently wrote, are legion), that certainly isn't the case for spoken Arabics. The use of raaH as a future auxiliary, or "3am" as an present progressive marker are, among many others, plenty of evidence of grammaticization. 

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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject: Gulf Arabic dialect studies

Prof. Hamdi A. Qafisheh has produced the following books on Gulf Arabic:

A BASIC COURSE IN GULF ARABIC, The University of Arizona Press and 
Librairie du Liban, 1975

GULF ARABIC. INTERMEDIATE LEVEL, The University of Arizona Press, 1979

A SHORT REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF GULF ARABIC. The University of Arizona Press, 
1977.

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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: Maria Persson <maria.persson at lingfil.uu.se>
Subject: Gulf Arabic dialect studies

Dear Rasha Abbas Mahmoud,
 
I’m happy to hear about your interest in Gulf Arabic. Here are a few titles that immediately spring to my mind. For your reference, I also include the titles of some research papers – including one paper presented at your own university last year. Although you might not be able to read those papers (many of them are in Swedish) you may still get an idea of what I’ve been working on and see if there are any shared areas of interest. I would be very happy to discuss any related topic with you if you’d like to do so.
 
Best wishes,
Maria Persson
Lund and Uppsala Universities, Sweden.
 
 
References on Gulf Arabic
Abboud, Peter Fouad. 1964. The Syntax of Najdi Arabic. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International
 
Brockett, A. A. 1985. The spoken Arabic of Khābūra on the Bātina of Oman. Manchester: Journal of Semitic Studies, University of Manchester
 
Brustad, Kristen E. 2000. The syntax of spoken Arabic: a comparative study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian and Kuwaiti dialects. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
 
Feghali, Habaka J. 2004. Gulf Arabic. The Dialects of Riyadh and Eastern Saudi Arabia. Grammar, Dialogues and Lexicon. Springfield: Dunwoody Press
  
Ingham, Bruce. 1994. Najdi Arabic: central Arabian. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
 
Johnstone, T.M, 1967. Eastern Arabian Dialect Studies. London: Oxford University Press
 
Al-Maʿtūq, Šarīfa. 1986. Lahǧat al-ʿaǧmān fi l-Kuwait. Dirāsa luġawiyya. Doha: Markaz at-turāṯ aš-šaʿbi li-duwal al-ḫalīǧ al-ʿarabiyya
 
Persson, Maria. 2008. “The Role of the b-prefix in Gulf Arabic dialects as a marker of future, intent and/or irrealis” in Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies vol 8/4, 26-52 (2008). http://www.uib.no/jais/docs/vol8/v8_4_Persson_26_52.pdf
———.  2009. “Circumstantial qualifiers in Gulf Arabic dialects,” in Isaksson, Bo; Kammensjö, Heléne and Persson Maria. 2009. Circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic: The case of Arabic and Hebrew. ed. Bo Isaksson. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 206-289.
 
Qafisheh, Hamdi A. 1977. A short reference grammar of Gulf Arabic. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press
 
Reinhardt, Carl. 1894. Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ʿOmān und Zanzibar. Stuttgart/Berlin: W. Spemann

Al-Tajir, M.A. 1982. Language and linguistic origins in Bahrain. The Baharnah Dialect of Arabic. London: Kegan Paul International
  
Conference papers
“A Comparative Study of the Active Participle in Rural and Urban Dialects of the Gulf Region” Paper written by Maria Persson and Domenyk Eades. Presented by Eades at the 2nd International Conference, Dept. of English, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, 10-12/3 2010.
 
 “Circumstantial Qualifiers in Gulf Arabic Dialects” Presented at Linguistics in the Gulf II, Qatar University, Doha, 11-12/3 2009
 
“Omständighetsbestämningar: Adverbiella uttryck och bakgrundsmarkörer på olika språkliga nivåer i Gulfarabiska dialekter” (Circumstantial qualifiers: Adverbial  expressions and background indicators at different language levels in Gulf Arabic Dialects). Paper presented at Grammatik i Fokus, Lund University, Sweden 5-6/2 2009.
 
 “An interesting typological compromise. Report from a corpus based study of modal and aspectual markers in Gulf Arabic dialects”. Presented at AIDA 8, Essex University, Colchester 28-31/8 2008.
 
 “Progressiv och habituell aspekt i gulfarabiska”. (Progressive and habitual aspect in Gulf Arabic). Presented at Nordiska semitistsymposiet, Kivik, Sweden 13-16/8 2008.
 
 “Det gulfarabiska b-prefixet – en irrealismarkör snarare än markör för futurum/intention” (The Gulf Arabic b-prefix – a marker of irrealis rather than future/intention). Presented at Grammatik i Fokus,Lund University, Sweden 7-8/2 2008.
 
 “’Jag ville jag vore’ i Arabia land – om några sätt att uttrycka futurum i gulfarabisk dialekt” (‘I wish I were’ in Arabia – on some ways of expressing the future in  Gulf Arabic dialects). Presented at Nordiska semitistsymposiet, Kivik, Sweden 2-4/8 2006.
 
“The AP in Gulf Arabic”. Presented at the Nordic-Arab Research Conference on Arabic Literature and Linguistics, Alexandria, 13-15/4 2005

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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: Stephen Franke <shfranke at hotmail.com>
Subject: Gulf Arabic dialect studies

Greetings... taHaiya Tayyiba wa 3badhaa...ahalan wa sahalan....

I refer to your query in the Arabic-L list for materials about Gulf Arabic (GA) dialects.

Hope these prove useful:

Dissertation at a university in UK (I cannot recall the institution) on the Emirati dialect of GA by Dr. Myriam Bishkek.

Best I recall, she is on faculty in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at UAE University (UAEU) in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, and she would most probably know about other Emirati academics who have done related linguistic studies. Her lectures to a group of US linguists studying the "lower Gulf" (Emirati) dialect in 1995 under an interdepartmental language and area studies immersion program hosted by UAEU were excellent (I was liaison and escort for the group).

Eastern Arabic Dialect Studies, T. M. Johnstone, 
London Oriental Series vol. 17, London: Oxford U. Press, 1967
[The University of Riyadh -- now King Saud University (KSU) -- published an Arabic edition, circa 1971; I found a copy in the stacks of the main library at KSU when I was a guest lecturer in 1991.]

Saudi Arabian Dialects, Theodore Prochazka, Jr.
Library of Arabic Linguistics Monograph  no. 8, 
London: Kegan Paul International, 1988
(Coverage includes the dialects in Eastern Province around al-Hasa)

Books, articles, and presentations by Dr. Bruce Ingham, SOAS, London
I will look for my PDF of one of his SOAS papers on features of the Mesopotamian / "upper Gulf" dialect common in southern Iraq and Kuwait, and can send that, if it may fit your research interest.

I think an Omani graduate student at The U of Texas at Austin did his dissertation on the coastal dialect of [Gulf-facing, around Ra's Musandam] of Omani Arabic, and another Omani elsewhere in the US did his dissertation on the dialect of Omani Arabic spoken in the interior town of al-Buraymi.

Look forward to seeing responses by other list members.

Khair, in shaa' Allah.

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: NEWMAN D.L. <daniel.newman at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Gulf Arabic dialect studies

Hello,
 
There is a multitude of resources on dialects in the Arabian Peninsula. In addition to the (by no means exhaustive!) list of resources below, a good starting point is the Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics for entries on individual countries/regions.
 
GENERAL (Saudi Arabian Dialects)
 
Abboud, Peter Fouad (1964): The Syntax of Najdi Arabic, Unpubl. PhD thesis, University of
            Texas.
Al-Azraqi, Munirah (1998): Aspects of the syntax of the dialect of Abha (South-west Saudi
            Arabia), Unpubl. Ph.D. diss., University of Durham.
Al-Hazmi, A. (1975):  A critical and comparative study of the spoken Arabic of the Ḥarb
            tribe in Saudi Arabia, Unpubl. Ph.D. diss., University of Leeds.
Ingham, Bruce (1971): “Some characteristics of Meccan speech”. Bulletin of the School of
            Oriental and African Studies 34.273–297.
Ingham, Bruce (1982): Northeast Arabian dialects. London: Kegan Paul International.
Ingham, B. (1986): “Notes on the dialect of the Al Murrah of Eastern and Southern Arabia”,
            Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 49.271–291.
Ingham, B. (1986): Bedouin of northern Arabia: Traditions of the Al-Dhafir, London and
            New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Ingham, B. (1994):  Najdi Arabic: Central Arabian, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J.
            Benjamins.
Jastrow, Otto (1980): “Die Dialekte der Arabischen Halbinseln”, in W. Fischer,
            O. Jastrow (eds), Handbuch Der arabischen Dialekte. Mit Beiträgen von
            P. Behnstedt, H. Grotzfeld, B. Ingham, A. Sabuni, P. Schabert, H.R.
            Singer, L. Tsotskhadze und M. Woidich, ed. By, 103-129, Wiesbaden: O.
            Harrassowitz.
Johnstone, T. M. (1963): “The Affrication of Kaf and Gaf in the Arabic Dialects of the     Arabian Peninsula”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 8:210-226.
Johnstone, T. M. (1965): “The Sound Change ‘j > y’ in the Arabic Dialects of Peninsular   Arabia”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 28(2):233-241.
Johnstone, T. M. (1967): Eastern Arabian Dialect Studies, in London Oriental Series 17,    London: Oxford University Press.
Kurpershoek, Marcel (1994-2005): Oral poetry and narratives from Central Arabia, 5 vols, Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Nadwi, Abdullah Abbas (1968): A Study of the Arabic Dialects of the Belad Ghamid
            and Zahran region of Saudi Arabia on the Basis of Original Field Recording and an
            Examination of the Relationship to the Neighbouring Regions, Unpubl. PhD diss.,
            University of Leeds.
Prochazka, Theodore (1988): Saudi Arabian dialects, London: Kegan Paul International.
Prochazka, T. (1988): “The spoken Arabic of al-Thōr in al-Ḥasa”. Zeitschrift für Arabische
            Linguistik, 18.59–76.
Prochazka, T. (1990): “The spoken Arabic of al-Qaṭīf”, Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik,
            21.63–70.
Prochazka, T. (1991): “Notes on the spoken Arabic of Tihāmat Beni Shihr”, Zeitschrift für
            Arabische Linguistik , 23.99–101.
Qafisheh, Hamdi (1980): Basic Course in Gulf Arabic, International Book Centre.
Qafisheh, H. (1997): Advanced Gulf Arabic, Beirut: Librairie du Liban.
Rosenhouse, Judith (1984): The Bedouin Arabic Dialects: General Problems and a Close Analysis of North Israel Bedouin Dialects, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
Sieny, Mahmoud Esma’il (1972): The Syntax of Urban Hijazi Arabic, Unpubl. PhD diss.,
            Georgetown University. [=London: Longman; Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1978].
Schreiber, Giselher (1970): Der arabische Dialekt von Mekka: Abriß der Grammatik mit
            Texten und Glossar, Ph.D. diss., University of Münster.
Smart, Jack (1990): “Pidginization in Gulf Arabic: A first report”,  Anthropological
            Linguistics, 32.83–119.
 
KUWAITI
 
Alharbi, Lafi M. (1991): Formal Analysis of Intonation: The Case of the Kuwaiti Dialect Of
            Arabic, Unpubl. PhD diss., Heriot—Watt University.
Al-Najjar, Balkees (1984): The Syntax and Semantics of Verbal Aspect in Kuwaiti Arabic, Unpubl. Ph.D. Diss., University of Utah.
Al-Qenaie, Shamlan D. (2007): The Syllabic Structure of Kuwaiti Arabic, Unpubl. MA diss.,
            University of Manchester.
Al-Sabʿan, Layla (2002): Tatawwur al-lahja al-Kuwaytiyya: Dirāsa wa Tahlīl, Kuwait:
            Kuwait University.
Elgibali, Alaa (1985): Towards a Sociolinguistic Analysis of Language Variation in Arabic:
            Cairene and Kuwaiti Dialects, Unpubl. Ph.D. Diss., University of Pittsburgh.
Elgibali, Alaa (1993): “Stability and Language Variation in Arabic: Cairene and     Kuwaiti
            Arabic”, in M. Eid & C. Holes (eds.), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics. Papers from the Fifth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic  Theory, 5:75-96, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Johnstone, T.M. (1961): “Some characteristics of the Dōsiri dialect of Arabic as spoken in
            Kuwait”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 24.249–297.
Johnstone (1964): “Further studies on the Dōsiri dialect of Arabic as spoken in Kuwait”,
            Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 27.77–113.
Yassin, Mahmoud Aziz F. (1977): “Bi-polar Terms of Address in Kuwaiti Arabic”, Bulletin
            of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 40(2):297-301.
  
OMANI
 
Brockett, Adrian (1985): The spoken Arabic of Khābūra on the Bātina of Oman. (= Journal
            of Semitic Studies Monograph, VII.) Manchester: University of Manchester.
Galloway, Douglas (1977): An introduction to the spoken Arabic of Oman. Unpubl.
 mimeograph, University of St. Andrews.
Glover, Bonnie Carol (1988): The Morphonology of Muscat Arabic, Unpubl. PhD diss.
            University of California.
Ingham, Bruce (1986): “Notes on the Āl-Murra of eastern and southern Arabia”. Bulletin of
            the School of Oriental and African Studies, 49.271–291.
Jayakar, Atmaram (1889): “The Omanee dialect of Arabic”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic
            Society, 649–687, 811–889.
Jayakar, A. (1902): “The Shihee dialect of Arabic”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society,
            246–277.
Reinhardt, Carl (1894): Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in Oman und Zanzibar. Stuttgart/
            Berlin (Repr., Amsterdam: APA Oriental Press, 1972.)
Rhodokanakis, Nikolaus (1908, 1911): Der vulgärarabische Dialekt im Ḏ̣ofâr (Zfar), Vienna:
            Alfred Hölder.
Shaaban, Kassim Ali (1977): The Phonology of Omani Arabic, Unpubl. PhD diss., The
            University of Texas at Austin.
Thomas, Bertram (1930): “The Kumzari dialect of the Shihuh tribe, Arabia, and a
            vocabulary”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 785–854.
Webster, Roger (1991): “Notes on the dialect and the way of life of the Āl-Wahība Bedouin
            of Oman”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 54.473–485.
 
QATARI
 
Bukshaisha, F. A. M. (1985): An Experimental Phonetic Study of Some Aspects of Qatari   Arabic, Doctoral dissertation, University of Edinburgh.
 
YEMENI
 
Behnstedt, Peter (1985): Die Nordjemenitischen Dialekte. Teil I: Atlas,Wiesbaden: L.
            Reichert.
Behnstedt, Peter (1987): Die Dialekte der Gegend von ‘a‘dah (Nord-Jemen),Wiesbaden: O.
            Harrassowitz.
Behnstedt, Peter (1992): Die nordjemetische Dialekte. Teil 2 : Glossar Alif –Dâl.Wiesbaden:
            L. Reichert.
Behnstedt, Peter (2001): “Notes on the Arabic Dialects of Eastern North-Yemen”, Linguistic
            and Cultural Studies on Arabic and Hebrew. Essays Presented to Professor Moshe
            Piamenta for his Eightieth Birthday, ed. by    Judith Rosenhouse & Ami Elad-
            Bouskila, 23-40,Wiesbaden: O.  Harrassowitz.
Bettini, Lidia (1985): “Note sull’arabo parlato al Barradan (Yemen del Nord)”, Studi
            Yemeniti, Quaderni di Semitistica 14, ed. by Fronzaroli, Pelio, 117-  159, Firenze:
            Istituto di linguistica e di lingue orientali, Università di Firenze.
Diem, Werner (1973): Skizzen Jemenitischer Dialekte. Beyrouth: F. Steiner.
Emerson, L.H.S. & S.M.A. Ghanem (1943): Aden Arabic Grammar. Aden: The British
            Council, Al-Maaref Press.
Landberg, Carlo de (1901): Etudes sur les dialectes de l’Arabie Méridionale, Premier
            volume: Hadramaût. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Landberg, Carlo de (1905): Etudes sur les dialectes de l’Arabie Méridionale. Deuxième
            volume: Datînah. Première partie. Textes et traduction, Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Landberg, Carlo de (1909): Etude sur les dialectes de l’Arabie méridionale. Vol. II : Datînah,
            Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Landberg, Carlo de (1913): Etudes sur les dialectes de l’Arabie Méridionale. Datînah.
            Troisième partie. Commentaire des textes poétiques. Articles Detaches et Indices,
            Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Landberg, Carlo de (1920-43): Glossaire Datînois. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Naïm-Sanbar, Samia (1994): “Contribution à l’étude de l’accent yéménite: Le parler des
            femmes de l’ancienne génération”. Zeitschrift für ArabischeLinguistik, 27.65-89.
Piamenta, Moshe (1990-91): Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic (2 vol.), Leiden:
            E.J. Brill.
Prochazka, Theodore Jr.  (1987): “Remarks on the spoken Arabic of Zab&#1048787;d”, Zeitschrift für
            arabische Linguistik, 17.58-68.
Qafisheh, Hamdi (1982): Yemeni Arabic, International Book Centre.
Qafisheh, H. (1990): “The phonology of San’ani Arabic”, Journal of King Saud University, 2:2, 167-182.
Rossi, Ettore (1938): “Appunti di dialettologia del Yemen”. Rivista degli Studi Orientali,
            17.230-265.
Rossi, Ettore (1939): L’Arabo parlato a Sana‘â’. Grammatica. Testi. Lessico. Rome: Istituto
            per l’Oriente.
Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude (1996): “Le fonctionnement de certains verbs de mouvement
            dans des dialectes de la Tihama du Yémen”, in Cremona et al. (eds.), 1996, 227-235.
Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude (1996): “The Negation in some Arabic Dialects of the
            Tihama of the Yemen”, in Eid and Parkinson (eds.), 1996, 207-221.
Watson, Janet (1993): A Syntax of San’ani Arabic. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz.
 
Regards,
 
D. Newman

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Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature

The School of International Letters and Cultures invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature beginning August 16, 2011. The successful candidate should have a Ph.D. in Arabic Literature (or Arabic Studies with a concentration in Arabic Literature) or related discipline at the time of appointment. Preference will be given to candidates with training in Classical Arabic Literature. Native or near-native proficiency in Arabic and English and evidence of excellence in teaching at the college level are required.

Applicants must be able to teach regular and online introductory and upper-division courses in Arabic Literature, as well as specialized courses in their area of expertise. Candidates will be expected to contribute to the teaching, research, and service missions of SILC and ASU.

Application Deadline:
Deadline is November 19, 2010; if not filled, bimonthly thereafter until search is closed.

Application Package:
Please send a letter of application detailing research and teaching interests, publications, current CV, three recent letters of reference (to be sent directly), two recent teaching evaluations, and a scholarly writing sample.

Send Application Materials To:
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1) Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: Nizar Habash <habash at ccls.columbia.edu>
Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

Hello all --
	This is related to the topic (but perhaps from a less serious research point of view).  I have been working as a hobby on an artificial (aka constructed) language that is a mix of Arabic and Hebrew (a sort of Semitic esperanto I named Semiti/Semitish).  The core vocabulary of this language relies on cognates, borrowings  and relatable forms in Arabic and Hebrew. The dictionary includes around 1,700 terms.  An early sample of the dictionary is online together with a phrase book (see http://www.palisra.com/).  More work on this (including phonology, morphology  and syntax descriptions) is ongoing and I hope to make it all publicly available when it is ready.  

regards,
Nizar
http://www.nizarhabash.com/

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:00:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:ARAM Society 32nd International Conference
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1) Subject: ARAM Society 32nd International Conference

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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies <aram at orinst.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: ARAM Society 32nd International Conference

Dear Colleague,

ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing a yearly conference on the Christian Levant and its Thirty Second International Conference aims to study the "Western Missions in the Levant" (including Iran, Iraq & Egypt), to be held at the Oriental Institute, the University of Oxford, 18-20 July 2011. The conference will start on Monday July 18 at 9am, finishing on Wednesday July 20 at 6pm. Please note the new date.

Papers: Each talk is limited to 30 minutes with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. It would help us greatly if the speaker keeps to the time allocated in order to allow the other speakers sufficient time to address the Conference. If however a speaker feels that 30 minutes is not enough time for his/her topic, an extended version of his/her paper can be published in the book of the Symposium, while the 30 minute limit will be retained for the presentation of his/her paper at the Conference itself.
All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review.

Abstract: The Organising Committee of the Conference would like to receive your abstract before the end this calendar year 2010. We will confirm that we have accepted your proposal on receipt of an abstract, which should be in the region of 500 words long with a bibliography of the primary sources that will be discussed. We need you CV if you are a new contributor to the Aram conferences.

Academic Research: Papers will be accepted from accredited academics in the field, and please note that the Organising Committee of the Conference will be very strict in only accepting papers relevant to the main theme of the conference. We cannot accept papers already published, and all political interventions on current Middle Eastern politics are forbidden in any Aram conference. 

Handouts: You should prepare your own handouts, and 40-50 copies will be enough for your audience. 

The Levant is a designation for the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean (from French “lever” “to rise” (i.e., the sun), primarily Asia Minor and Syria-Palestine but often the entire coastlands from Asia Minor to Egypt. (The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary, page 652. See also “Levant” in The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Archaeology in the Near East, pages 350-351). Moreover, Levantine Christianity, namely Syriac-Aramaic Christianity, has always added Iraq and Iran to the geographical map of the Levant, and it is also our own definition in the Aram Society. 

If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd:
Aram Society, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England. Tel. 01865-514041, Fax. 01865-516824, Email: aram at orinst.ox.ac.uk

Aram Secretary
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic morphological pattern generator
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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Arabic morphological pattern generator

I wrote something like that in DATR about 10 years ago when I was at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
I will try to dig it up and send it to you.  
I tried to morph it into a diacritic recovery filter …  It might take me a minute or so to wrap around what I did and describe how to use it generate all the patterns given a root.  I might even need to do something to expose that to a command line interface.
 
Andy Freeman
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic NLP/MT Research Fellow and Programmer Jobs
 at U of Wolverhampton
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1) Subject: Arabic NLP/MT Research Fellow and Programmer Jobs at U of Wolverhampton

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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: Lucia Specia <lspecia at gmail.com>
Subject: Arabic NLP/MT Research Fellow and Programmer Jobs at U of Wolverhampton

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Research Fellow: Arabic NLP/MT
Closing date: Nov, 30 2010
Fixed term contract: 12 months 
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The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/), University of Wolverhampton, invites applications for a research fellowship in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing. The candidate will be expected to carry out research in the topic of evaluation of Arabic-English machine translation. He/she will contribute to the collection of data, proposal, design and evaluation of quality estimation approaches. He/she may also contribute to the implementation of the proposed approaches, which will be performed by an experienced programmer.

A successful applicant must:
- Have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related areas.
- Be a native or fluent speaker of Arabic or have sufficient knowledge of the language proved by previous research related to the language.
- Have experience in Computational Linguistics / Natural Language Processing, particularly the area of Machine Translation evaluation. A PhD in the field is ideal, but masters level or work experience are also acceptable.
- Be eligible to work in the UK, as the job requires an immediate start. Part-time applications from candidates currently studying in the UK will also be considered.

The starting date is early December 2010.

The application deadline is November 30, 2010.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to:

Dr. Lucia Specia
l.specia at wlv.ac.uk

Applications must include:

1) A curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, course covered, publications, relevant work experience, and names of 3 referees that could be contacted if necessary.

2) A 1-page cover letter with statement of research experience, indicating why you are interested in this position and why you consider your experience is relevant.

3) A job application form that can be downloaded from: http://www2.wlv.ac.uk/pers/jobdetails/pers_jobapp_word_oct10.doc

The successful candidate will work with the Computational Linguistics group. Established by Prof. Ruslan Mitkov in 1998, the Research Group in Computational Linguistics is highly successful, delivering cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic summarisation, question answering, lexical knowledge acquisition, text categorisation, named entity recognition, information extraction, corpus construction and annotation, automatic terminology processing, multilingual processing, and multiple-choice question generation. To a large extent, this research has been undertaken in projects funded by major EU and UK funding bodies and commercial partners.

The results from the latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on 17 December 2008 confirm the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research group was entered in Unit of Assessment "Linguistics" and Wolverhampton was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities. According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton is one of the top 6 best in the UK.

Informal inquiries and electronic applications can be sent by email to:

Lucia Specia
Senior Lecturer
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
E-mail: l.specia at wlv.ac.uk

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Programmer: Arabic NLP/MT
Closing date: Nov, 30 2010
Fixed term contract: 7-12 months
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Research Group in Computational Linguistics
(http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/), University of Wolverhampton, invites
applications for a programmer position to work in a project on Arabic
Natural Language Processing. The candidate will be expected to support
a research group on the development of evaluation tools for
Arabic-English machine translation.

A successful applicant must:
- Have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computer
Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computational
Linguistics, or related areas.
- Have work experience in programming, particularly in C++, although
other languages may be acceptable.
- Be eligible to work in the UK, as the job requires an immediate
start. Part-time applications from candidates currently studying in
the UK will also be considered.

The starting date is early December 2010.

The application deadline is November 30, 2010.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to:

Dr. Lucia Specia
l.specia at wlv.ac.uk

Applications must include:

1) A curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, course covered,
relevant work experience, and names of 3 referees that could be
contacted if necessary.

2) A 1-page cover letter with statement of research experience,
indicating why you are interested in this position and why you
consider your experience is relevant.

3) A job application form that can be downloaded from:
http://www2.wlv.ac.uk/pers/jobdetails/pers_jobapp_word_oct10.doc

The successful candidate will work with the Computational Linguistics
group. Established by Prof. Ruslan Mitkov in 1998, the Research Group
in Computational Linguistics is a highly successful one, delivering
cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora
resolution, automatic summarisation, question answering, lexical
knowledge acquisition, text categorisation, named entity recognition,
information extraction, corpus construction and annotation, automatic
terminology processing, multilingual processing, and multiple-choice
question generation. To a large extent, this research has been
undertaken in projects funded by major EU and UK funding bodies and
commercial partners.

The results from the latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on
17 December 2008 confirm the Research Group in Computational
Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research
group was entered in Unit of Assessment "Linguistics" and
Wolverhampton was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities. According
to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research
Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton
is one of the top 6 best in the UK.

Informal inquiries and electronic applications can be sent by email to:

Lucia Specia
Senior Lecturer
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
E-mail: l.specia at wlv.ac.uk
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arab Academy Study Abroad Programs
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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: Nicole Hansen <nicole at arabacademy.com>
Subject: Arab Academy Study Abroad Programs

Many Arabic-L subscribers know that Arab Academy in Cairo was a pioneer in delivering online Arabic programs since 1997. We have also offered study abroad programs since 2002 and are currently expanding to serve individuals and universities seeking programs that provide students with proficiency in Arabic in the shortest possible time while engaging with Arab culture. We have added new semester, year and summer study abroad programs for individuals, which will include an integrated program of cultural outings accompanied by our Arabic teachers giving students a chance to practice Arabic both inside and outside the classroom. We have set up a new Web site with expanded information about these programs:
http://www.arabicincairo.com/individuals

We also partner with a number of universities and colleges to deliver faculty-led study abroad programs. You can learn more about these programs here:
http://www.arabicincairo.com/universities

Students and institutions choose Arab Academy for intensive Arabic study abroad programs because of our:
Central location in Garden City in downtown Cairo
Small classes conducted entirely in Arabic at all levels
Arabic Language Placement Test to ensure accurate course placement
Integration of language curriculum with practical and cultural experiences
Detailed weekly feedback to students
Different rigorously trained teachers each hour
Our study abroad institutional client list has included:
Duke University
US Air Force Academy
Georgia Tech University
AFS NSLI-Y Program
Manchester University (UK)
Defense Language Institute
Howard Community College

We are also pleased to announce that we can now can offer transferable academic credit through Arab Academy’s Institution of Record, Deraya University. Deraya University is an Egyptian private university established under Presidential Decree 91/2010.

As director of marketing and program development at Arab Academy, I will be attending the upcoming MESA meetings in San Diego and would like to invite list members to stop by our booth (#67) to discuss how we can provide or help you design an amazing study abroad program that will suit your students' needs and ambitions. You can also email me to set up an appointment during the MESA meetings or a phone consultation.

Dr. Nicole Hansen
Director of Marketing and Program Development
Arab Academy (since 1997)
3 Alif Kamil ElShinnawi Street
Garden City 11451, Cairo, Egypt
cell: +20 11 766 1326
Web sites: http://www.arabicincairo.com http://www.arabacademy.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Arab-Academy/291637344900
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:55:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Query on Arabic yes/no questions
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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Query on Arabic yes/no questions

[This was posted on LINGUIST, but I thought some of you might like to answer.  Please respond directly to May, but I will also post your answers to the list if you like.--dil]

My name is May Mahdi Al-Ramadan, from Saudi Arabia. I am a lecturer 
and I am studying for a PhD in Applied Linguistics in King Saud 
University in Riyadh. 

I am working on a paper about the formation of Yes/No questions in 
Arabic. What interests me about this subject is the claim that I read in 
Carnie (2007) that complementizer particles and subject/verb inversion 
are in complementary distribution. He states that languages can either 
have this or that but not both. In Standard Arabic, a complementizer 
(Hal) is used at the beginning of yes/no questions. The verb precedes 
the subject in Standard Arabic in both sentences and questions. An 
example for this is as follows:

1) Hal  thahaba   abouka?
  C    went      father-your
  "Did your father go?" 

In Saudi Arabic, on the other hand, the complementizer is dropped. 
Subject/verb inversion is used instead. An example:

2) Obouk          raH?
  Father-your    went
  "Did your father go?"

My question is that, how is it possible to incorporate the view that 
complementizers vs. subject/verb inversion are in complementary 
distribution into the analysis of Arabic that obviously has both methods 
of forming questions? Or possibly is it more valid to assume that the 
two varieties of Arabic are distinct and no generalization can be made 
with reference to both of them?   

I would appreciate any suggestions and resources from the List!

Thank you so much,

May Mahdi Al-Ramadan

Reference:

Carnie, A (2007). Syntax: A Generative Introduction. Blackwell 
Publishing. 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:55:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New LDC Arabic treebank offering
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1) Subject: New LDC Arabic treebank offering

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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: Linguistic Data Consortium <ldc at ldc.upenn.edu>
Subject: New LDC Arabic treebank offering

(1) Arabic Treebank: Part 1 v 4.1 was developed at LDC. It consists of 734 newswire  stories from Agence France Presse with part-of-speech , morphology, gloss and syntactic treebank annotation in accordance with the Penn Arabic Treebank (PATB) Guidelines developed in 2008 and 2009. This release represents a significant revision of LDC's previous ATB1 publications: Arabic Treebank: Part 1 v 2.0 (LDC2003T06) and Arabic Treebank: Part 1 v 3.0 (POS with full vocalization + syntactic analysis) (LDC2005T02). 

The ongoing PATB project supports research in Arabic-language natural language processing and human language technology development. The methodology and work leading to the release of this publication are described in detail in the documentation accompanying this corpus and in two research papers: Enhancing the Arabic Treebank: A Collaborative Effort toward New Annotation Guidelines and Consistent and Flexible Integration of Morphological Annotation in the Arabic Treebank. 

ATB1 v 4.1 contains a total of 145,386 tokens before clitics are split, and 167,280 tokens after clitics are separated for the treebank annotation.  Arabic Treebank: Part 1 v 4.1 is distributed on one DVD-ROM.

2010 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of this corpus.  2010 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for US$4500.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Book: Introductory Conversational Arabic,
 MSA and Iraqi
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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: Ghayda Al Ali <gaa011 at yahoo.com>
Subject: New Book: Introductory Conversational Arabic, MSA and Iraqi

Dear Rasha Abbas Mahmoud,
I have just completed an introductory Arabic language textbook covering conversational Arabic using Modern Arabic Standard as well as the Iraqi dialect. Text, music, video and video animation materials focus on practical grammar and vocabulary used in real life situations, and includes details of Iraqi life, culture and tradition to sustain student interest. Video is recorded in Baghdad using native Iraqi Arabic speakers/Gulf . You can contact me gaa011 at yahoo.com

Ghayda Al Ali 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Concordancer that handles Arabic Script
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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: Majdi Sawalha <scmss at leeds.ac.uk>
Subject: Concordancer that handles Arabic Script

Ashraf, 

the aConCord is a concordance designed for arabic. and the Arabic contemporary arabic is free source corpus. you can find more information on Arabic NLP research group at the university of leeds. 
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic

Majdi
================
Majdi Sawalha,   mağdī ṣawālḥah
School of Computing,
University of Leeds.
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/sawalha

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Middlebury Arabic School Fellowships for Summer 2011
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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: "Caldwell, Nelson C." <caldwell at middlebury.edu>
Subject: Middlebury Arabic School Fellowships for Summer 2011

Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages – Full Scholarships Available for Intensive Arabic Language Study at the Middlebury Summer Language Schools. We are pleased to announce the continuation of the Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace for the fifth year in a row. The fellowship will cover the full cost of one summer of language study, from the beginner to the graduate level , in any of six languages, including Arabic. For more information, please visit http://go.middlebury.edu/ls/kwd. 
  
Middlebury Arabic School to Celebrate Third Summer at Mills in 2011 – For the third summer, the Arabic School will take place exclusively at our West Coast site, at Mills College, in Oakland, California. For more information on the Arabic School at Mills, please visit http://go.middlebury.edu/ls/arabic. 
  
Need-based Financial Aid Available to All Students – 42% of summer 2010 Language Schools students received a financial aid award, and the average award granted was $5,454. To learn more about financial aid, visit http://go.middlebury.edu/ls/finaid/. 
  
For complete information on all Language Schools programs and to apply online – Visit http://go.middlebury.edu/ls/. 
 

Middlebury College Language Schools 
Middlebury College 
Sunderland Language Center 
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Middlebury, VT 05753 
802.443.5510 
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Gerlach Books - Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies <orders at gerlach-books.de>
Subject: Gerlach Books

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:25 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic yes/no questions
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2) Subject: Arabic yes/no questions
2) Subject: Arabic yes/no questions

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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Alexander Magidow <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject: Arabic yes/no questions

[moderator's note: Alex is right.  Here is the missing contact info: May Mahdi Al-Ramadan <mal_ramadan at hotmail.com>; I will go ahead and forward these messages to her.  dil)

Hey Dil,

I don't think you included the contact info for May in the message quoted below, so I'm sending this to you directly.

First, I don't think "hal" is a complementizer in the sense that it is used elsewhere in the language to introduce complements. I would argue that it is a polarity question marker, something attested quite widely in the world's languages.  Obviously a generative explanation might confuse the two, since in such an analysis this marker might occur in the CP (complementizer-phrase) position, based on what I remember of G&B style syntax (and therefore conflict with movement to CP by verbs for purposes of inversion). However, strictly functionally speaking, there is a difference between a complementizer and an interrogative particle. 

In any case, a good place to start would be König, Ekkehard and Petere Siemund. 2007. `Speech act distinctions in grammar' in Shopen, Timothy (ed). Language Typology and Linguistic Description, 2nd edition, in Vol 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. They have a nice section devoted to the typology of polar interrogatives, and actually say "Interrogative particles also occur in constituent interrogatives [e.g. polar interrogatives marked by a change in constituent order from declarative clauses], but mostly optionally so (p.14)" This would appear to contradict Carnie.  If May does not have access to that work, I can email her a PDF. 

Also, it's interesting to note that Moroccan Arabic has innovated an interrogative particle("wash"), though I don't believe there's constituent inversion as well. Masri "huwa" ("huwwa ma-fii-sh hadd guwwa?" 'is there nobody inside?'[Hinds-Badawi p. 918]) might also be argued to be some form of interrogative particle. 

You can feel free to repost this to the list also.

Alex Magidow

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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Brian Huebner <bhuebner2 at gmail.com>
Subject: Arabic yes/no questions

That's a question? ;)

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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Muhamed Al Khalil <oryxius at gmail.com>
Subject: Arabic yes/no questions

Dear May,

The analogy between inversion in yes/no question forming in Arabic and English (and other languages) is a bit misleading. Arabic applies no inversion in yes/no question forming: 

هل أحضر الطالب الكتاب؟
أحضر الطالب الكتاب؟
الطالب أحضر الكتاب؟

If you remove هل and the question marks, you get three affirmative sentences (either nominal or verbal, with no significant difference between them apart from emphasis). In the case of the questions without هل , the interrogative is indicated by intonation only. The seeming "inversion" in Arabic is in fact an acceptable syntactical order for the sentence regardless of whether it is affirmative, interrogative, or negative for that matter. In a sense, Carnie is right: Arabic's yes/no questions do not use inversion, only the particles أ، هل or intonation. 

Hope this helps. 

Muhamed Osman Al Khalil, Ph.D.
Director of Arabic Studies
New York University Abu Dhabi

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Final CFP Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: "Hardie, Andrew" <a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: Final CFP Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics

Second (and final) call for papers...

=====================================
WORKSHOP ON ARABIC CORPUS LINGUISTICS
=====================================

11th and 12th April 2011
Lancaster University, UK

Keynote speakers:
Eric Atwell, University of Leeds 
Tony McEnery, Lancaster University


===============
CALL FOR PAPERS
===============


Over the past few years, research into the Arabic language 
using corpora and corpus methods has moved from a new 
direction to an active field, with work advancing rapidly on 
many different fronts of both corpus linguistics and 
computational linguistics. To create a venue where these 
different directions on corpus research into Arabic can be 
brought together to explore progress in the field, the UCREL 
research centre at Lancaster University will host a 
Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics in April 2011.

We are now inviting abstracts for this workshop. 
Presentations either describing finished research or reporting 
work in progress are welcome. The scope of the workshop 
encompasses both (a) the design, construction and 
annotation of Arabic corpora, and (b) the use of corpora 
in research on the Arabic language - in any relevant area, 
including (but not limited to!) lexis and lexicography, syntax, 
collocation, NLP systems and analysis tools, contrastive and 
historical studies, stylistics, and discourse analysis.

Presentations are invited on any of these areas, or on any 
other topic related to the study of Arabic-language corpora. 
Submissions from postgraduate students are especially 
welcome.

Abstracts should be 400 words or less; presentations will be 
in the usual format (20 minutes for the presentation and 10 
minutes for questions). Please submit abstracts by email to 
Andrew Hardie (a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk). Acceptable formats 
are PDF, Microsoft Word .doc(x), plain text, RTF, HTML, or 
OpenDocument text (.odt). Please use Unicode characters for 
any Arabic text examples. All abstracts should be in English 
rather than Arabic; English will be the language of the workshop. 

Dates:
* Closing date for abstracts: Monday December 6th 2010.
* Responses to abstract submission: before Monday December 13th 2010.
* Registration open from: Monday December 13th 2010.
* Event: Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th April 2011.

On the web: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/event/3406/ 

Please feel free to circulate this CfP further.
We apologise for any cross-posting.

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on semantic approaches to MSA verbs
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Paula Santillán <psgrimm at casaarabe-ieam.es>
Subject: Needs refs on semantic approaches to MSA verbs

Hi all,
 
I would appreciate references (apart from Justice 1987 and Al Qahtani 2004 and 2007) on studies with a semantic approach to the verb in MSA.
 
Is there any semantic classification of verbs beyond the traditional af3aal al-dhimm/al-rajaa/al-shuruu3/al-quluub/al-madah/al-iraada/al-Dhunn/Etc… list?
 
Thanks a lot beforehand,
 
Paula S. G.
 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:West Chester University Job
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: "Williams, Jerome" <JWilliams2 at wcupa.edu>
Subject: West Chester University Job

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Arabic
School:  College of Arts and Sciences

Description: Join a vibrant campus community whose excellence is reflected
in its diversity and student success. West Chester University is seeking
applicants for an Assistant Professor of Arabic. Highly competitive salary
and benefits.

Requirements: Doctorate preferred in Arabic language/literature/culture, or
a related field (ABD candidates will be considered with clear plan for
doctorate completion). Required expertise in teaching modern standard Arabic
language and culture. The candidate will be expected to work in the area of
online/distance education, in addition to traditional instruction. Preferred
secondary area of expertise in linguistics, another language or a related
discipline. The successful candidate should demonstrate a strong commitment
to and evidence of excellence in Arabic language teaching and competence in
the use of instructional technology. Native or near-native fluency in Arabic
and English. Evidence of strong research potential, and familiarity with
current trends in pedagogy, and experience in program development.
Finalists must successfully complete on-site interview process and teaching
demonstration. Position begins August 15, 2011.

Candidates Should Submit: Please send letter of application, C.V., teaching
portfolio (statement of teaching philosophy, summary student evaluations,
and sample original teaching materials), and three letters of recommendation
to: 

Dr. Jerry Williams
Department of Languages and Cultures
Main Hall 109
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383.

Initial screening of applicants will begin on November 15, 2010 and continue
until the position is filled.

Developing and sustaining a diverse faculty and staff advances WCU’s
educational mission and strategic Plan for Excellence.  West Chester
University is an Affirmative Action – Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and
Minorities are encouraged to apply.

The filling of this position is contingent upon available funding. All
offers of employment are subject to and contingent upon satisfactory
completion of all pre-employment criminal background and consumer reporting
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:40 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New eJournal for MIddle East Studies
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Sharqiyya <sharqiya at post.tau.ac.il>
Subject: New eJournal for MIddle East Studies

Dear Colleague,

The Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI) and the Middle East and African History Department at Tel Aviv University are happy to launch a new E-Journal for Middle Eastern Studies, called Sharqiyya. We plan to publish the the E-Journal twice a year; the first issue can already be downloaded from the following link:

Edited by graduate students and supervised by faculty, Sharqiyya is a somewhat different kind of publication, featuring 3-4 articles per issue (about 3,000 words each), plus sections on the Internet, cinema, satire, and poetics. In the words of the Editors:

Sharqiyya is unique in that it draws on contributions by faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars, who all share a passion for Middle Eastern histories and cultures, and whose work is informed by first-hand knowledge of the region’s languages and sources.

The Editorial Board invites contributors from around the world and the MENA region to offer us short articles in English for publication in Sharqiyya. All submissions must be sent to the Editors by email at sharqiya at post.tau.ac.il. Please feel free to comment or make suggestions in order to improve the journal.

Link to the download page:
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:University of Virginia Job
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: "Said Ramadan, Abdulkareem (as4nn)" <as4nn at eservices.virginia.edu>
Subject: University of Virginia Job

University of Virginia
Modern Standard Arabic/Lecturer
The Arabic language program in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia invites applications for a full-time Lecturer in Modern Standard Arabic, to begin August 25, 2011. The teaching load is three courses per semester.
 
Required qualifications:
1. Native or near-native proficiency in Arabic.
2. MA in Arabic language or a related field.
 
Preferred qualifications:
1. PhD in Arabic language or a related field.
2. Strong competence in Arabic grammar.
3. Demonstrated skill in second-language teaching.
4. Ability to teach Arabic language classes at elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels.
5. Ability to teach other courses that contribute to the Arabic program.
 
To apply, submit a candidate profile on-line through https://jobs.virginia.edu, and electronically attach a CV, cover letter, a statement of teaching pedagogy, a representative sample of course evaluations as evidence of teaching effectiveness (attach to Writing Sample 1), and sample of prior course syllabi (attach to Writing Sample 2). Search for posting number 0606465.
 
In addition, please arrange for three confidential letters of recommendation to be submitted on your behalf to: Arabic Lecturer Search Committee, MESALC, PO Box 400781, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 22904-4781.
 
Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the MESA conference in San Diego, November 18-21, 2010, and interested applicants are warmly invited to speak with us there about the position. The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The University is building a culturally diverse faculty and staff, and strongly encourages applications from women and underrepresented minorities. Review of applications by the committee will begin December 13, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled.
 
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs/resources on on-line use of Egyptian
 Arabic
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: eric bartolotti <epricq at gmail.com>
Subject: Needs refs/resources on on-line use of Egyptian Arabic

My name is Eric Bartolotti. I am a senior Middle Eastern Studies major at Middlebury college.  As part of my senior independent research project, I am investigating the usage of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in written form in online settings (such as the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Facebook posts, and blogs). I was wondering if there were any resources that could be of use to me in this area of research.
I thank you very much for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.

Eric Bartolotti

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Nov 23 15:34:33 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:33 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic morphological pattern generator
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Džám-e Džam <dzamedzam at yahoo.com>
Subject: Arabic morphological pattern generator

Dear Maxim,

let me suggest to you the ElixirFM system, which is able to analyze words as found in common Arabic texts, as well as generate inflected and derived word forms or list entries from the lexicon. The system includes information about roots and patterns, displays the orthography and phonology of word forms, etc.

There is the ElixirFM Online Interface http://elixir-fm.sourceforge.net/ that you can try out. If you need to use ElixirFM for processing some larger linguistic data, the best way is to use ElixirFM as an executable program or a programming library.

Please see more information at the above link or consult the ElixirFM Wiki http://elixir-fm.wiki.sourceforge.net/ for more details. Feel free to contact me if needed.
 
Best wishes,

Otakar Smrz, Ph.D.
Dzam-e Dzam Language Institute

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:31 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Florida Atlantic University Job
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Michael Horswell <HORSWELL at fau.edu>
Subject: Florida Atlantic University Job

Dear colleagues,
 
Please distribute this job announcement.
 
The Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature at Florida Atlantic University invites applications for a tenure- track position in Arabic and Linguistics. Ph.D. in Arabic or Linguistics required by time of appointment, August, 2011. Area of research specialization is open, but the ideal candidate will be able to lead the development of an Arabic language program as well as contribute to the BA and MA programs in Linguistics and have the ability to teach a broad range of undergraduate and graduate linguistics courses. Near-native fluency in Arabic and a proven record of excellence in teaching and scholarship required. FAU offers a variety of other interdisciplinary programs at the BA, MA, and PhD levels, and has a growing faculty specializing in Middle East studies.
 
Application materials must be submitted electronically including: on-line Faculty, Administrative, Managerial & Professional Position application, cover letter, curriculum vitae, official transcript, sample of scholarly work, and three letters of recommendation to https://jobs.fau.edu. Reference the position number 991544. Review of applications will begin on December 10, 2010, and continue until the position is filled. Credentials will be subject to Florida Public Records Law. Individuals requiring accommodation call 561-297-2216 (1-800-955-8771 TTY). A background check is required for the candidate selected for this position. For further inquiries contact Dr. Michael J. Horswell, Chair, LLCL (Horswell at fau.edu) or visit our departmental website at www.fau.edu/LLCL. FAU is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Institution that actively encourages applications from women and minorities in keeping with its policy of promoting diversity throughout the institution.
 
Thank you,
 
Michael Horswell
 
Michael J. Horswell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
and Latin American Literature
Chair, Department of Languages, Linguistics,
and Comparative Literature
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road, PO Box 3091
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561)297-3863 TEL
(561) 297-2657 FAX
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:42 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ACIE program in Alexandria, Egypt
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: 
Subject: 

American Councils for International Education is pleased to announce that the online application for the Arabic Overseas Undergraduate Program in Alexandria, Egypt is live.
This program is designed for undergraduate students in the US, at the intermediate level of Arabic. To apply, please visit us at: http://apps.americancouncils.org/AOP
 
Program Dates:
May 23rd, 2011 – July 23rd, 2011
 
Program Components:
20 hours a week of MSA, ECA, and Media classes;
4 hours a week of Conversational Partners to improve ECA;
2-3 overnight excursions;
Cultural enrichment activities
 
Benefits:
Summer Credits from Bryn Mawr College;
Pre-departure orientation in Washington, DC;
Round-trip International Airfare from Washington, DC
Live in the dorms with an Egyptian student
 
Application Deadline:
February 16th, 2011
 
Program Cost: $8,600 including pre-departure orientation, airfare, insurance, tuition, room and board
 
For more information, please contact Rafah Helal at: helal at actr.org
 
Rafah Helal
Senior Program Officer
Arabic Overseas Programs
American Councils for International Education
1828 L Street, N.W. Suite 1200
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-833-7522 Office
202-833-7523 Fax
www.americancouncils.org

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From: Richard Durkan <rdurkan at hotmail.com>
Subject: needs studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

Does anyone know of any study of cognates of Arabic in other Semitic languages, especially Hebrew?
 
Richard Durkan

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Two corpora for text categorization and other tasks
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From: reposted from CORPORA
Subject: Two corpora for text categorization and other tasks

Dear Colleagues,
 
You can download two arabic corpora "Khaleej-2004" and "watan-2004" to use them in Natural Language Processing and particularly for text categorization and topic identification. This is the link: http://sites.google.com/site/mouradabbas9/
 
Good luck.
 
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:AALIM Spring Deadline
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Date: 03 Nov 2010
From: Driss Cherkaoui <aalimorocco at yahoo.com>
Subject: AALIM Spring Deadline

The deadline for application to the intensive Arabic spring semester program at AALIM, the Arab American Language Institute in Morocco, is December 1, 2010. Application forms on the website, www.aalimorocco.com. IBN KHALDOUN SCHOLARSHIP available for up to $3000 tuition reduction. 

Spring semester 2011, 13-week intensive Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) program includes:

Academic component

- 3 classroom hours per day, Monday through Friday, of MSA 15 hours/wk

- 1 classroom hour per day, Monday through Friday, of Darija 5 hours/wk

- Introduction to North African Culture, an interactive MSA class 2 hours/wk

  (Tuesday and Thursday afternoon)

- Directed MSA conversation class (Monday and Friday afternoon) 2 hours/wk

- Movie club (Arabic films) or cultural activity (Wed. afternoon) 2 hours/wk


Total, NOT counting the cultural activities/movies: 312 contact hours/13 weeks

Room and board (see www.riadidrissi.com)

-       Double occupancy in AALIM partner guest house (riad) in the Medina

-       2 meals/day: breakfast and main mid-day meal

-       5 Friday mid-day meals with Moroccan families

Other

-       Orientation tour of Meknes

-       Educational materials, not including textbooks

-       Outside of class teaching assistant

-       Office hours with professors, 3 hours/wk

-       Day trip to the Roman ruins of Volubilis and the village of Moulay Idriss

-       Day trip to Azrou

-       Certificate of program completion

-       Documentation at no charge for university credit if requested

-       Final party

Not included

-       R/T airfare to Morocco

-       Airport pick-up and/or drop-off (available at additional cost)

-       Third daily meal

-       Medical expenses or insurance

-       Personal expenses

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New TAFL Volume
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Date: 03 Nov 2010
From: Paula Santill?n <psgrimm at casaarabe-ieam.es>
Subject: New TAFL Volume

Victoria Aguilar
ENSE?ANZA Y APRENDIZAJE DE LA LENGUA ?RABE

Over the last twenty years, the desire and the need to get closer to the Arab societies, both in the Arab and the non Arab worlds, have been accompanied not only by an increase in the number of students and teachers of the language but also by a proliferation of methods, materials, congresses and forums for discussion about the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL). Yet in spite of the ground that has been gained, a large area remains to be conquered.
 
This volume includes some of the most representative contributions to Arabele09, the first international congress on TAFL celebrated in Spain in the 21st century, which hosted over 150 participants coming from 15 countries.
 
For more information about this volume visit: http://tinyurl.com/34ey267
 
 
Paula Santill?n Grimm
Adjunta - Responsable del Centro de Lengua ?rabe
Casa ?rabe-IEAM

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Nov  3 16:33:51 2010
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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Corpus of Spoken Arabic
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Date: 03 Nov 2010
From: Melissa Barkat-Defradas <melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr>
Subject: Corpus of Spoken Arabic

Dear Za?nab,

I do have a corpus (digitized 22Khz 16 bits mono) produced by native speakers of several arabic dialects (both western and eastern dialects). It is based on free translations of the story The North Wind and the Sun, which was first developed by the International Association of Phonetics and exists now in several languages (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Wind_and_the_Sun). A second corpus consists in free narrations of the Frog Story (which exists  as well in several languages - including English)

You can have a look to the data on http://www.praxiling.fr/corpuspluriels/corpus/axe-de-recherche/parlers-vernaculaires-arabophones-sur-the-frog-story#more-8

I can send you a  free copy of that data. The only condition to use it, is to quote the corpus' name (AraBer database) as well as my name and lab. 

Best wishes,
--
Dr. Melissa Barkat-Defradas
Charg? de Recherches / Research Scientist
Laboratoire Praxiling UMR 5267 
CNRS / Universit? de Montpellier
Tel : + 00 33 (0)4 67 14 58 41 (ou 61 secr?tariat)
Fax : + 00 33 (0)4 67 14 58 68
e-mail : melissa.barkat at univ-montp3.fr
website : http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/praxiling/ 

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Montana Job
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Date: 03 Nov 2010
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Subject: U of Montana Job

University or Organization: University of Montana 
Department: Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center
Job Location: Montana, USA 
Job Rank: Assistant Professor  

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Description:

The Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center under the Department of
Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of
Montana, Missoula, MT, invites applications for a full time, tenure-track
position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Arabic language and
linguistics, commencing Fall 2011.

Applicants should hold a doctorate degree in Arabic or a related field and
have demonstrated excellence in scholarship, grant writing and teaching at
the undergraduate level. Candidates should have native, or native-like
proficiency in one dialect of Arabic with advanced mastery of Modern
Standard Arabic. Strong interpersonal and communication skills in English
and Arabic are essential. Preferred skills include grant proposal writing
and computer skills. Responsibilities include teaching Arabic courses at
the elementary, intermediate and/or advanced level(s), leading the process
of revising the Arabic language curriculum, and participating in writing
grant proposals. Other responsibilities include engaging in scholarly and
college service activities and advising students. As the Arabic program
grows, willingness to teach interdisciplinary courses related to Arabic
linguistics and/or literature is preferred.

Applicants should submit (1) a letter of interest, (2) a statement of
teaching philosophy, (3) a curriculum vitae, (4) an official copy of
transcripts, and (5) a list of names and contact information for three
references. Please address correspondence with the subject line: "Assistant
Professor in Arabic and Linguistics" to the address below. The deadline for
submitting all the application materials is Friday, December 3, 2010. For
more information, please visit the application URL below.

AA/EEO/ADA/Veterans Preference Employer


Application Deadline: 03-Dec-2010 
Mailing Address for Applications: 
	Dr. Ardeshir Kia, Arabic Search Committee Chair 
	Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center 
	The University of Montana 
	Missoula, MT 59812 
	USA  
Web Address for Applications: http://www.umt.edu/cap 
Contact Information
	Human Resources 
	Email: none at given.com 

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:needs articles on Egyptian Arabic passives
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Date: 03 Nov 2010
From: Farzan Zaheed <farzanzaheed at yahoo.com>
Subject: needs articles on Egyptian Arabic passives

Hello Everyone,
Does anybody know of any articles on the passive verb in Egyptian Arabic? I mean verbs that begin with the prefix 'it-' in the perfective such as:
masik - itmasik
fahhim - itfahhim
qaabal - itqaabal  (This is not a passive but I was interested in any verb that begins with 'it-' whether passive or not).

These verbs are usually termed passive verbs (although this might not be the most accurate description). The are also sometimes called t-stem verbs (by Woidich).

If anybody knows of anything outside of the the comprehensive grammars of EA, especially journal articles or dissertations on the subject I'd really appreciate the info.

Thanks so much,
Farzan Zaheed
University of Texas at Austin.

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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:12:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Cal State San Bernadino Job
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Date: 05 Nov 2010
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Cal State San Bernadino Job

University or Organization: California State University, San Bernardino 
Department: World Languages & Literatures
Job Location: California, USA 
Web Address: http://flan.csusb.edu
Job Rank: Assistant Professor  

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Description:

The department is looking for energetic and enterprising candidates who
will contribute to the growth of the Arabic program. Experience in writing
curriculum and in seeking grant funding highly desirable. Knowledge of
ACTFL Standards, OPI Training and assessment also desirable. Native or near
native proficiency in Arabic required. PhD in Arabic language or related
field required. Experience in student-centered teaching and the ability to
relate well to a diverse, multi-ethnic student body are essential. 

Preferred candidates will be expected to meet the traditional requirements
of excellence in teaching, active scholarly and professional work, and
service to the University and community. In addition, new faculty are
encouraged to develop and participate in activities that support the
University's strategic plan. This plan emphasizes three areas: a) teaching
and learning excellence; b) student access, retention, and success; c)
excellence in research and creative activities; d) campus community; e)
community engagement; and f) infrastructure.


Application Deadline: 01-Dec-2010 
Mailing Address for Applications:
	Dr. Terri Nelson 
	5500 Univeristy Pkwy 
	World Languages Dept UH-314 
	San Bernardino, CA 92407 
	USA  
Contact Information:
	Cynthia Moss 
	Email: cmoss at csusb.edu 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:12:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other
 Semitic languages
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Date: 05 Nov 2010
From: Slavom?r ??pl? <bulbulthegreat at gmail.com>
Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

Dear Richard,

Martin Zammit's "A Comparative Lexical Study of Qur'?nic Arabic" seems
like a good candidate:

http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=9307

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Date: 05 Nov 2010
From: Robert Ricks <rsricks at gmail.com>
Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, but Martin Zammit's Comparative Lexical Study of Qur'anic Arabic contains information about Semitic cognates for Qur'anic lexical items.

Robert

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Date: 05 Nov 2010
From:  david.wilmsen at GMAIL.COM
Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

You can find comparisons of Arabic and Hebrew in these works. Some of these
are indispensable references. I find Lipinski to be the most valuable
overall, but you ignore Brockelmann at your peril:

Bennett, Patrick R. 1998. *Comparative Semitic Linguistics*: A Manual. Winona
Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Bergstrasser, Gotthelf. 1995. *Introduction to the Semitic Languages: Text
Specimens and Grammatical Sketches* (translated by Peter T. Daniels). Winona
Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Bravmann, Meir M. 1977. *Studies in Semitic Philology*. Leiden : E.J. Brill,
1977.

Brockelmann, Carl. 1908-13. *Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der
semitischen Sprachen*. Berlin: Reuther & Reichard

Hetzron, Robert, ed. 2006. *The Semitic Languages*. London, New York:
Routledge.

Lipinski, Edward. 2001. *Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar
*. Leuven: Peeters.

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

Moscati, Sabation, Anton Spitaler, Edwar Ullendorf, and Wolfram von Soden.
1964. *An Introduction to the Comarative Grammar of the Semitic Languages*.
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

O'Leary, De Lacy. 1923. *Comparative grammar of the Semitic languages*.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.

Rubin, Aaron D. 2005 *Studies in Semitic Grammaticalization*. Winona Lake,
IN: Eisenbrauns.

Shraybom-Shivtiel, Shlomit (2001). ?The Development of the Coining System in
Hebrew and Arabic and the problem of Compounding Words,? in Judith
Rosenhouse and Ami Elad-Bouskila, (ed.) (2001) *Linguistic and Cultural
Studies on Arabic and Hebrew*. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrasowitz, 193?211.

David Wilmsen
Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut

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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:12:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:e-Arabic Teachers Digest #001 (Oct 2010)
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Date: 05 Nov 2010
From: Mourad Diouri <mourad.diouri at e-arabic.com>
Subject: e-Arabic Teachers Digest #001 (Oct 2010)

[This message was, as you can imagine, nicely formatted and colored, but Arabic-L currently can only post unformatted messages.  Sorry about that. -dil]

*************Please forward to interested colleagues***********

Abbreviations: ALT: (Arabic Language Teaching),  TAFL (Teaching Arabic As a Foreign Language)
Dear Arabic Teachers,

I hope this update finds you in the best state of health and at the peak of your teaching career.

This is the first e-Arabic Teachers Digest which is a dedicated monthly service to support anyone involved in the field of ALT and would like to stay up to date with the latest developments in the field.   In a nutshell, there are six important updates to share with you this month:

e-Arabic Teachers Portal
EVENTS Directory & Calendar
NEWS Articles Directory
Professional Networks & Groups
Mailing Lists Directory
e-Learning Tools & Technologies
A copy of this digest is available online at the e-Arabic Teachers Portal: v-arabic.com/digest-001

If you wish to share an up-to-date item related to TAFL, please go the page Share & Contribute (http://goo.gl/C2Ps)

e-Arabic Teachers Portal

In response to a repeated request from Arabic teachers, I have designed this portal which is a gateway to a growing pool of resources , tools and ideas organised and indexed into categories to help you enhance your teaching practice of AFL (Arabic as a Foreign Language). The (eATP) is still under construction. For now, you may browse the following pages:

Events Directory & Calendar

With the ever-changing field of ALT, many institutions organise  a variety of events to support anyone involved in teaching or researching the Arabic language. Keeping up to date with the latest events is sometimes near-impossible! To help you keep track of the latest events from around the world, we have created a directory of events and an interactive Calendar. The type of events that will appear in this directory/calendar are:

Conferences
CPD Training Programs
Seminars & Workshops
Online Training courses
Symposiums
Exhibitions
If you wish to stay in touch with the latest and forthcoming events, I?d recommend that you subscribe to any of the following:

Calendar (Google, iCal, Outlook)
Email alerts
RSS feed
Here is a selection of the latest events:

Conference | 4th MoLaCo conference for teachers of Arabic, French, Italian and Spanish, London, UK (http://bit.ly/b5AY69) 
Conference  | The Challenges of Teaching Arabic in the 21st Century 9-10th Feb 2011, Carnegie Mellon University,  Qatar (http://goo.gl/kRfj) 
Conference | Arabic Language and the Internet Conference Dec 2010, Tunisia ( http://bit.ly/aWdM8r) 
Visit the Events Directory at: http://goo.gl/mZIJ

NEWS Articles Directory

The news articles, both in Arabic and English, listed in this page are weblinks to external sites which I regularly come across online. These links are then bookmarked and archived in this page for future reference.

Here is a selection of the latest news:

NEWS | ???? ????? ?????? ??????? ??????? | Middle East Online
NEWS | ??? ????? ??????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ?????? | Middle East Online
NEWS | Reading Arabic "hard for brain" BBC NEWS
Visit the NEWS directory at :http://goo.gl/dgSQ

Professional & Social Networks & Groups

Another way to help you stay up to date with events, news and developments in the field of ALT as well as networking with fellow-minded professionals, you may join the following:

Professional Networks
Professional Organisations
Social/Facebook Groups
If you are familiar with other networks, organisations, etc? that are not included in this directory, please get in touch.

Visit the directory at:  http://goo.gl/o8RX

Mailing & Discussion Lists

Likewise, to help you stay up to date with events, news and developments in the field of TAFL, you may also wish to subscribe to any of the mailing-lists listed in the directory. These mailing lists are dedicated to teaching professionals in:

Arabic language
Arabic Linguistics
Arabic Literature
If you are familiar with other mailing-lists that are not included in this directory, please get in touch.

Visit the directory at:http://goo.gl/o8RX

e-Learning Tools & Technologies

The e-Learning Tools & Technologies directory is still under development and will be available soon to support ALT professionals interested to integrate technology in their classroom teaching.

URL: http://goo.gl/V2AM

Finally, don't forget to:
Follow us at: Facebook, Twitter
Join the eATP
If you have any questions about this digest, please feel free to leave a comment below.

Best Regards
Mourad Diouri  | ???? ???????
e-Learning Lecturer in Arabic Studies
Centre for the Ad. Study of the Arab World | University of Edinburgh
e: mourad.diouri at e-arabic.com
w: eArabic Learners Portal : e-Arabic.com
w: eArabic Teachers Portal : v-Arabic.com
w: As the Arabs Say... v-Arabic.com/aas

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Invitation to Participate in Arabic Sociolinguistic
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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: Jason Schroepfer <j_schroepfer at yahoo.com>
Subject: Invitation to Participate in Arabic Sociolinguistic Research

Hello,

My name is Jason Schroepfer with the University of Texas and I am conducting an IRB approved sociolinguistic research on Arabic.  This is an invitation to participate in it if you would like.  To participate, one must be a native speaker of Arabic that was raised in an Arab country.  If you want to participate fill out the survey here:

https://sites.google.com/site/arabicattitudes/home  

It shouldn't take but 20 minutes for the whole survey.  

Thank you!

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Gulf dialect studies
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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: Rasha Abbas Mahmoud <rasha.abbas at qu.edu.qa>
Subject: Needs Gulf dialect studies

 Hello Everyone,
Does anybody know of any articles or studies on the Gulf Dialect besides the ones done by Dr. Clive Holes?
If anybody knows of anything , especially journal articles, thesis or dissertations on the subject I'd really appreciate the info.
Thank you!


Rasha Abbas Mahmoud 
Arabic Program for Non-Native Speakers 
College of Arts and Sciences 
Qatar University. 
Tel: +974-4403-4589 
Fax: +974-4493-4063

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:35:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Standards Based Arabic K-12 Instruction (New Book)
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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: Hanada Taha-Thomure <hanada at arabexpertise.com>
Subject: Standards Based Arabic K-12 Instruction (New Book)

Salam Dear All,
 
ArabExpertise has just released a new book (in Arabic) titled: "Standards Based Instruction in the Arabic Classroom".  The book is meant to be a  resource for teachers that includes: Arabic Language Standards, Benchmarks, Performance Indicators (grades K-12), samples of rubrics and standards based lesson in addition to sight words (grades K-5).
 
To order a copy of the book, please contact:
sales at arabexpertise.com
 
and visit: www.arabexpertise.com
 
Tahiyyati, hanada

Dr. Hanada Taha-Thomure, Associate Dean,
Bahrain Teachers College, University of Bahrain,
P. O. Box 32038, Manama
Kingdom of Bahrain
Office: +973 17448986  Mobile: +973 39921392
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:07 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs contact info at Cairo and Ain Shams
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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: paul roochnik <proochnikllc at yahoo.com>
Subject: Needs contact info at Cairo and Ain Shams universities

Dear Friends,
I would like to contact the highest officials at the Universities of Cairo & Ain Shams.  This concerns the possibility of sending a group of American students to one of those universities for brief but intensive studies.  Would you happen to know the names and contact information (email address & direct telephone number) for the President and/or Vice President at these fine universities?  Thanks very much.
Cheers,
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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Nov 11 16:36:03 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books on Quran, Sunna, etc.
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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: Gerlach Books - Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies <orders at gerlach-books.de>
Subject: Gerlach Books on Quran, Sunna, etc.

Antiquarian Books: Qur'an, Sunna, Hadith Studies

Until 23rd November we offer 61 single copies of antiquarian books on Qur'an, Sunna, Hadith Studies with up to 20% discount. For more information please have a look at the title list which you can download from this site:

http://mysql.snafu.de/khg/gerlach_books/books_offers.php

Some of them bear light traces of wear (signature, ex libris). The overall condition of the books is mostly very good or at least good.

Our offer:
- purchase of single antiquarian copies (first come, first serve)
- 10% discount for any single book
- 20% discount when ordering 10 or more books
- plus shipping charges (surface or air mail delivery)
- European VAT included
- pre-payment by bank transfer or credit card preferred
  (institutional customers by open account)
- this offer is valid until 23rd November 2010 only

Looking forward to your orders.

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:08 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:ALS in Alex reminder
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Date: 11 Nov 2010
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Subject: ALS in Alex reminder

4th International Arabic Linguistics Symposium 
Short Title: ALS 2010 

Date: 11-Dec-2010 - 12-Dec-2010 
Location: Alexandria, Egypt 
Contact: Organizing Commitee 
Contact Email: webmaster at foa.edu.eg 
Meeting URL: http://www.foa.edu.eg/als2010/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Meeting Description: 

The Arabic Linguistics Society and Alexandria University are pleased to announce the 4th International Arabic Linguistics Symposium to be held at Alexandria University, Egypt, December 11-12, 2010.

Topics deal with theoretic and applied issues of Arabic Linguistics. Including:
- Linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics), 
- Applied linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Discourse analysis
- Historical linguistics
- Corpus linguistics
- Computational linguistics 

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Arabic morphological pattern generator
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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: Maxim Romanov <romanov at umich.edu>
Subject: Needs Arabic morphological pattern generator

Dear members of the list,

I am trying to find a morphological pattern generator for Arabic, which can generate all possible (or probable) word forms from a given root (roots) including all possible prefixes and suffixes. I wonder if anything like that exists? Perhaps there are descriptions (algorithms) for things like this. Or, maybe, there is something else you aware of that can take a any word and guess from which roots it can possible be derived. 

All suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Maxim G. Romanov

PhD Candidate in Arabic & Islamic Studies
Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:12 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other
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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: Mike Schub <m7schub at aol.de>
Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

A propos:  to this stodgy melange, please add, just for fun, the hilarious index to 
John Allegro's sempiternal *The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross*.  [If you can get it.]
Mike Schub  <m7schub at aol.com>       

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:10 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Human Language Technology for Development Conf in
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Full Title: Conference on Human Language Technology for Development 
Short Title: HLTD 2011 

Date: 02-May-2011 - 05-May-2011
Location: Alexandria, Egypt 
Contact Person: Sarmad Hussain
Meeting Email: sarmad at cantab.net
Web Site: http://www.hltd.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; 
Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-Feb-2011 

Meeting Description:

Human Language Technology (HLT) is a growing field of research and 
development, converging multiple disciplines including computer science, 
engineering, linguistics, sociology and cognitive sciences, striving to 
develop a natural, easy and effective user interaction.  HLT, including 
localization, is particularly relevant for addressing access to information by 
the disadvantaged communities, including the illiterate, the rural poor, and 
the physically challenged population, especially in the developing countries.  

The Conference aims to promote interaction among researchers and 
professionals working on language technology, language computing 
industry, civil society engaged with deployment of language technology to 
end-users, and policy makers planning the use of HLT in national 
development projects.  It aims to provide a single platform to engage these 
stakeholders in a dialogue over a wide range of relevant issues, to show-
case state-of-practice in HLT and its use in development, and to identify 
needs and priorities of the end-users.  It is hoped that the Conference will 
highlight HLTD challenges in the developing regions, especially in Asia and 
Africa. 

Call For Papers

Conference Topics:
Original unpublished research papers are invited for two tracks: (i) HLT 
Development track, focusing on engineering challenges and solutions for 
HLT, and (ii) HLT Use track, focusing on challenges and models for 
dissemination and adoption of HLT.  Specific topics include, but are not 
limited to, the following areas, with special focuses on Asia and Africa. 

HTL Development:
Linguistics and linguistic resources
Language computing standards
Localization
HLT (MT, TTS, ASR, OCR, IR, Dialogue systems)
HLT technology, people and process challenges
Commercialization models 
Technology policy

HLT Use:
Education
Health
Governance
Rural development
Accessibility
Culture
Language and culture policy

In addition, proposals are also invited for workshops, tutorials and 
product/project demonstrations.  

Submission details are available at the Conference website www.HLTD.org.

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline:		
7th Feb., 2011 
Acceptance Notification: 7th Mar., 2011 
Camera ready paper: 23rd Mar., 2011 
Conference dates: 2nd - 5th May, 2011

Venue:
The Conference will be held at Bibliotheca Alexandrina at Alexandria, Egypt 
(http://www.bibalex.org). 

Travel and Registration Grants:
A small number of grants are available on a competitive basis for travel 
support and Conference registration fees for authors.  Further details are 
available from the Conference website.

Technical Committee:
Dr. Adel El Zaim, International Development Research Centre, Middle East 
Office, Egypt
Dr. Ananya Raihan, D.NET, Bangladesh
Dr. Chafic Mokbel, Balamand University, Lebanon
Dr. Chai Wutiwiwatchai, NECTEC, Thailand
Mr. Dwayne Bailey, Zuza Software Foundation, South Africa (co-chair)
Mr. Donanl Z. Osborn, African Network for Localization, USA
Dr. Florence Tushabe, Univ., Uganda 
Dr. Guy De Pauw, Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium 
Dr. Hammam Riza, Agency for the Assessment and Application of 
Technology, Indonesia
Dr. Key-Sun Choi, Korean Advance Institute of Science and Technology, 
South Korea
Dr. Lamine Aouad, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland
Dr. Lisa Moore, Unicode Consortium, USA
Dr. Magdy Nagi, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt 
Ms. Manal Amin, Arabize, Egypt 
Dr. Miriam Butt, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany
Dr. Mirna Adriani, Univ. of Indonesia
Dr. Mumit Khan, BRAC Univ., Bangladesh
Dr. Peter Waiganjo Wagacha, Univ. of Nairobi, Kenya
Dr. Rajeev Sangal, International Institute of Information Technology, 
Hyderabad, India
Dr. Roni Rosenfield, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe, Univ. of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka
Dr. Satoshi Nakamura, National Institute of Information and Communication 
Technology, Japan
Dr. Sarmad Hussain, Univ. of Engr. and Tech., Pakistan (co-chair)
Mr. Solomon Gizaw, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland 
Dr. Steven Bird, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Tim Unwin, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, Univ. of London, UK
Dr. Tunde Adegbola, African Languages Technology Initiative, Lagos, 
Nigeria 
Dr. Virach Sornlertlamvanich, NECTEC, Thailand
Dr. Wanjiku Ng'ang'a, Univ. of Nairobi, Kenya 

Oragnizing Committee:
Dr. Adel El Zaim, International Development Research Centre, Middle East 
Office, Egypt (chair)
Dr. Ananya Raihan, D.NET, Bangladesh
Mr. Dwayne Bailey, Zuza Software Foundation, South Africa 
Dr. Magdy Nagi, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt 
Ms. Manal Amin, Arabize, Egypt 
Ms. Maria Ng Lee Hoon, International Development Research Centre, SE&E 
Asia Office, Singapore
Dr. Peter Waiganjo Wagacha, Univ. of Nairobi, Kenya
Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe, Univ. of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka
Dr. Sarmad Hussain, Center for Language Engineering, KICS, Univ. of Engr. 
and Tech., Pakistan 

About the Organizers:
The Conference is jointly organized by the PAN Localization Network (PAN 
L10n, www.PANL10n.net) of Asia and the African Network for Localization 
(ANLoc, www.africanlocalisation.net).  It is supported by Canada's 
International Development Research Centre (IDRC, www.idrc.ca). 

PAN L10n is network of Asian professionals and organizations, collectively 
working to develop local language computing capacity and its use across 
developing Asian countries, since 2003.  It has been developing linguistic 
resources, language technology, human resource capacity and relevant 
language computing policy in the region.  It has also been active in 
disseminating language technology to end users, and investigating effective 
training and adoption models.  The network is coordinated by the Center for 
Language Engineering (www.cle.org.pk), Al-Khawarizmi Institute of 
Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan.

ANLoc has the vision to empower Africans to participate in the digital age by 
removing 'the last inch' barriers to language usage.  The project is working 
towards overcoming this by creating a network of African language 
localizers who through various projects are developing translation and 
localization tools, linguistic resources, standards and software in several 
African languages. Building local capacities and disseminating knowledge 
are also essential for achieving the mission.  The network is coordinated by 
Zuza Software Foundation (www.translate.org.za) in South Africa.

PAN L10n and ANLoc are funded by the International Development 
Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.

About the Host Institution:
The new library of Alexandria, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, aims to be a center 
of excellence in the production and dissemination of knowledge and to be a 
place of dialogue, learning and understanding between cultures and 
peoples.


For Further Queries:
Asia coordinator: Sarmad Hussain, sarmad at cantab.net
Africa coordinator: Dwayne Bailey, dwayne at translate.org.za 
Egypt coordinator: Manal Amin, Manal.Amin at arabize.com.eg
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:36:14 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:grammaticalization
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Date: 11 Nov 2010
From: David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject: grammaticalization

I find the statement of our colleague about grammaticalization to the effect that "this process is not applicable in the Arabic language" to be very curious (although I recognize the source of its motivation).

First, grammaticalization processes have surely occurred in Arabic over its long history (and prehistory). As such, it is appropriate for us to search for a suitable equivalent for the term 'grammaticaliztion' in Arabic, that we may be able to speak about such historical processes without being obliged always to borrow the European language term (in this case, originally French) when speaking Arabic.

I hasten to add that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with using borrowed technical terms - we are all members of an international community and as such may borrow each others' terms when those are more apt than our own. But it would certainly assist those of us who are teaching students whose native language is Arabic to have a set of agreed upon Arabic terms to use with students who are just entering into our community of scholars. One problem with such terms in Arabic is that there seems to be no consensus amongst scholars and other users over the adoption of technical terminology, and even if there were, such terms often remain opaque. Just consider the discussions that break out occasionally over this forum about the Arabic equivalents of various technical terms! It does little good to teach them to students if students themselves find them opaque and no one else understands them.

Second, grammaticalization processes must surely continue to take place in Arabic as a whole, certainly within the spoken vernaculars, which are, after all, also a part of the entity to which we refer when we speak of "Arabic."

What is more, the process can be seen to have taken place in the development of written Arabic. For example, the word ??? has in some contexts lost (or as those concerned with grammaticalization say, it has undergone the ?semantic bleaching? of) its original meaning of 'soul' or 'breath' and is now used to mean 'the same' as in ??? ????? 'the same thing.' This clear case of grammaticalization is discussed in the book Studies in Semitic Grammaticalization by Aaron D. Rubin (Harvard Semitic Series, vol. 57. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2005, p. 19), who says that the ?shift of a noun referring to the body or part of the body into a reflexive pronoun ?self?? is quite common in Semitic, as indeed it is across world languages. 

While some purists decry the construction, it is nevertheless used and found to be quite acceptable by many modern authors, such as Ghassan Kanafani, Naguib Mahfouz, Ahlam al-Mustaghenmi and many others, including that paragon of modern Arabic stylists Taha Hussein.

That some modern-day purists decry such usage must indicate that some change has taken place and that the construction would be encountered less often in earlier but still familiar texts. 

To satisfy myself about just this issue, which, I admit, has piqued my curiosity since I first heard it mentioned ages ago while sitting at the feet of my then Arabic teacher ????? ???? of Yarmouk University of Jordan, I searched arabiCorpus (http://arabicorpus.byu.edu) for the phrase ??? ?? in the premodern and the modern literature databases (representing texts from all of the writers mentioned above and many more). After eliminating false hits like ????? ??????? and ???? ??????? , the results are as follows:

In the premodern database (comprising 912,996 words), the construction appears 103 times.

In the modern literature database (403,901 words), it appears 272 times.

That is, in a modern literature database less than half the size of that constituting the premodern database, the construction appears almost three times as often. 

Using the Quran database (for what it's worth, 84,532 words) as a base line (where the construction appears exactly 0 times), we can see that the grammaticalization of ??? proceeded apace from sometime after the 1st century hijri, becoming increasingly more common between the medieval and modern eras of Arabic writing. 

That a process of grammaticalization has clearly occurred, even it if has not gone to completion, is evident in that the function of the word ??? has shifted and its inflectional categories when used to mean ?the same? have been bleached to a certain extent. For one may use the plural ???? with words like ??? or its derivations, but one may not say something like ???? ????? ** or ???? ??????? ** to mean ?the same things.? DeLancey discusses precisely this sort of bleaching and functional shift with respect to the English words ?top? and ?finish? in an article that may be found on his webpage: http://pages.uoregon.edu/delancey/papers/glt.html

In this instance at least, a discussion of grammaticaliztion is indeed applicable to the history of and current usage in the Arabic language. 

This, then, contradicts our colleague's even more curious assertion that "any new grammatical change in Arabic is not acceptable." For, whether or not there is a continued grammaticalization of ??? , other processes of grammatical change do indeed take place even in written Arabic (which is the variety to which he seems to be limiting his statement). One such change, that I myself find grating on the ear, is the non-canonical formation of, if you will, a double valence i??fa, or what Badawi, Carter and Gulley (Modern Written Arabic: A comprehensive grammar. London: Routledge, p. 136) call ?multiple annexation,? by collapsing what at one time and in higher style is still  written as two i??fas. To illustrate, I cite a very tongue-in-cheek example adduced by one of my translation teachers, ????? ???? ?????? (now, alas, deceased ???? ?????). He said:

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

Excuse the crudity of expression; this was a mnemonic invented by ????? ???? for inculcating in his students how the i??fa is generally formed in more elevated registers; he meant it to be humorous so that it stayed in the mind (at which it proved quite effective with me!). Simply that he had to use the mnemonic at all, and, as he was wont to say, had to repeat it a hundred times, should provide ample indication that the construction is found to be acceptable by college-educated native writers of Arabic. Indeed, the construction ???? ????? ?????  - if not the actual words - can be found very often in current Arabic writing, especially in newspapers. 

About the process, Badawi, Carter, and Gulley say, ?Although in CA [i.e., Classical Arabic] only one element normally occupies the first position, MWA [Modern Written Arabic] is extending the possibilities,? adding that (p. 138), ?MWA is increasingly making use of binomial (or indeed now polynomial) annexation, in which two or more 1st elements are coordinated (by any of the coordinators) before annexation the 2nd element.?

Badawi, Carter and Gulley (137-8) adduce many examples of this, including the binomial annexation ??? ????? ?????? , which purists would maintain should be ??? ?????? ??????? and I myself, although not a purist, prefer. When they get to polynomial annexation, however, the process becomes harder to dispute, for while we can easily rewrite a phrase such as ????? ????? ?????? ???? ??????? to read ????? ????????? ?????? ??????? , it is difficult to change a rather unlovely name like ???? ????? ?????? ??? to ???? ????? ??? ???????? without introducing ambiguity, sounding foolishly pedantic, and doing violence to the name of the institution in question itself. 

Therefore, pace our colleague, by the principle that usage defines acceptability, such constructions are apparently an acceptable grammatical change to have occurred recently, let us say within the last fifty years, in written Arabic

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

If a language has ceased to undergo grammaticalization and grammatical change, it is probably dying or already dead.
 
David Wilmsen
Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut

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Dear all,

I am interested in doing some work on Arabic corpus linguistics and would like to know about available concordancers that can handle the Arabic script successfully.

I would also appreciate any information on available Arabic corpora that can be downloaded and used for research/teaching purposes.

Thanks and best wishes,

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I had simply asked for the term for translation purposes. Thanks, incidentally, to all the contributors. Not only did I have a large selection from which to choose, I also picked up a few new reference works as well! Thanks again.

As long as we're on this, though, if we are going to pretend that Classical Arabic is the only language which hasn't undergone linguistic change diachronically (and the arguments against that, as David so eloquently wrote, are legion), that certainly isn't the case for spoken Arabics. The use of raaH as a future auxiliary, or "3am" as an present progressive marker are, among many others, plenty of evidence of grammaticization. 

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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: Ernest McCarus <enm at umich.edu>
Subject: Gulf Arabic dialect studies

Prof. Hamdi A. Qafisheh has produced the following books on Gulf Arabic:

A BASIC COURSE IN GULF ARABIC, The University of Arizona Press and 
Librairie du Liban, 1975

GULF ARABIC. INTERMEDIATE LEVEL, The University of Arizona Press, 1979

A SHORT REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF GULF ARABIC. The University of Arizona Press, 
1977.

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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: Maria Persson <maria.persson at lingfil.uu.se>
Subject: Gulf Arabic dialect studies

Dear Rasha Abbas Mahmoud,
 
I?m happy to hear about your interest in Gulf Arabic. Here are a few titles that immediately spring to my mind. For your reference, I also include the titles of some research papers ? including one paper presented at your own university last year. Although you might not be able to read those papers (many of them are in Swedish) you may still get an idea of what I?ve been working on and see if there are any shared areas of interest. I would be very happy to discuss any related topic with you if you?d like to do so.
 
Best wishes,
Maria Persson
Lund and Uppsala Universities, Sweden.
 
 
References on Gulf Arabic
Abboud, Peter Fouad. 1964. The Syntax of Najdi Arabic. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International
 
Brockett, A. A. 1985. The spoken Arabic of Kh?b?ra on the B?tina of Oman. Manchester: Journal of Semitic Studies, University of Manchester
 
Brustad, Kristen E. 2000. The syntax of spoken Arabic: a comparative study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian and Kuwaiti dialects. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
 
Feghali, Habaka J. 2004. Gulf Arabic. The Dialects of Riyadh and Eastern Saudi Arabia. Grammar, Dialogues and Lexicon. Springfield: Dunwoody Press
  
Ingham, Bruce. 1994. Najdi Arabic: central Arabian. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
 
Johnstone, T.M, 1967. Eastern Arabian Dialect Studies. London: Oxford University Press
 
Al-Ma?t?q, ?ar?fa. 1986. Lah?at al-?a?m?n fi l-Kuwait. Dir?sa lu?awiyya. Doha: Markaz at-tur?? a?-?a?bi li-duwal al-?al?? al-?arabiyya
 
Persson, Maria. 2008. ?The Role of the b-prefix in Gulf Arabic dialects as a marker of future, intent and/or irrealis? in Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies vol 8/4, 26-52 (2008). http://www.uib.no/jais/docs/vol8/v8_4_Persson_26_52.pdf
???.  2009. ?Circumstantial qualifiers in Gulf Arabic dialects,? in Isaksson, Bo; Kammensj?, Hel?ne and Persson Maria. 2009. Circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic: The case of Arabic and Hebrew. ed. Bo Isaksson. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 206-289.
 
Qafisheh, Hamdi A. 1977. A short reference grammar of Gulf Arabic. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press
 
Reinhardt, Carl. 1894. Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ?Om?n und Zanzibar. Stuttgart/Berlin: W. Spemann

Al-Tajir, M.A. 1982. Language and linguistic origins in Bahrain. The Baharnah Dialect of Arabic. London: Kegan Paul International
  
Conference papers
?A Comparative Study of the Active Participle in Rural and Urban Dialects of the Gulf Region? Paper written by Maria Persson and Domenyk Eades. Presented by Eades at the 2nd International Conference, Dept. of English, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, 10-12/3 2010.
 
 ?Circumstantial Qualifiers in Gulf Arabic Dialects? Presented at Linguistics in the Gulf II, Qatar University, Doha, 11-12/3 2009
 
?Omst?ndighetsbest?mningar: Adverbiella uttryck och bakgrundsmark?rer p? olika spr?kliga niv?er i Gulfarabiska dialekter? (Circumstantial qualifiers: Adverbial  expressions and background indicators at different language levels in Gulf Arabic Dialects). Paper presented at Grammatik i Fokus, Lund University, Sweden 5-6/2 2009.
 
 ?An interesting typological compromise. Report from a corpus based study of modal and aspectual markers in Gulf Arabic dialects?. Presented at AIDA 8, Essex University, Colchester 28-31/8 2008.
 
 ?Progressiv och habituell aspekt i gulfarabiska?. (Progressive and habitual aspect in Gulf Arabic). Presented at Nordiska semitistsymposiet, Kivik, Sweden 13-16/8 2008.
 
 ?Det gulfarabiska b-prefixet ? en irrealismark?r snarare ?n mark?r f?r futurum/intention? (The Gulf Arabic b-prefix ? a marker of irrealis rather than future/intention). Presented at Grammatik i Fokus,Lund University, Sweden 7-8/2 2008.
 
 ??Jag ville jag vore? i Arabia land ? om n?gra s?tt att uttrycka futurum i gulfarabisk dialekt? (?I wish I were? in Arabia ? on some ways of expressing the future in  Gulf Arabic dialects). Presented at Nordiska semitistsymposiet, Kivik, Sweden 2-4/8 2006.
 
?The AP in Gulf Arabic?. Presented at the Nordic-Arab Research Conference on Arabic Literature and Linguistics, Alexandria, 13-15/4 2005

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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: Stephen Franke <shfranke at hotmail.com>
Subject: Gulf Arabic dialect studies

Greetings... taHaiya Tayyiba wa 3badhaa...ahalan wa sahalan....

I refer to your query in the Arabic-L list for materials about Gulf Arabic (GA) dialects.

Hope these prove useful:

Dissertation at a university in UK (I cannot recall the institution) on the Emirati dialect of GA by Dr. Myriam Bishkek.

Best I recall, she is on faculty in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at UAE University (UAEU) in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, and she would most probably know about other Emirati academics who have done related linguistic studies. Her lectures to a group of US linguists studying the "lower Gulf" (Emirati) dialect in 1995 under an interdepartmental language and area studies immersion program hosted by UAEU were excellent (I was liaison and escort for the group).

Eastern Arabic Dialect Studies, T. M. Johnstone, 
London Oriental Series vol. 17, London: Oxford U. Press, 1967
[The University of Riyadh -- now King Saud University (KSU) -- published an Arabic edition, circa 1971; I found a copy in the stacks of the main library at KSU when I was a guest lecturer in 1991.]

Saudi Arabian Dialects, Theodore Prochazka, Jr.
Library of Arabic Linguistics Monograph  no. 8, 
London: Kegan Paul International, 1988
(Coverage includes the dialects in Eastern Province around al-Hasa)

Books, articles, and presentations by Dr. Bruce Ingham, SOAS, London
I will look for my PDF of one of his SOAS papers on features of the Mesopotamian / "upper Gulf" dialect common in southern Iraq and Kuwait, and can send that, if it may fit your research interest.

I think an Omani graduate student at The U of Texas at Austin did his dissertation on the coastal dialect of [Gulf-facing, around Ra's Musandam] of Omani Arabic, and another Omani elsewhere in the US did his dissertation on the dialect of Omani Arabic spoken in the interior town of al-Buraymi.

Look forward to seeing responses by other list members.

Khair, in shaa' Allah.

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: NEWMAN D.L. <daniel.newman at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Gulf Arabic dialect studies

Hello,
 
There is a multitude of resources on dialects in the Arabian Peninsula. In addition to the (by no means exhaustive!) list of resources below, a good starting point is the Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics for entries on individual countries/regions.
 
GENERAL (Saudi Arabian Dialects)
 
Abboud, Peter Fouad (1964): The Syntax of Najdi Arabic, Unpubl. PhD thesis, University of
            Texas.
Al-Azraqi, Munirah (1998): Aspects of the syntax of the dialect of Abha (South-west Saudi
            Arabia), Unpubl. Ph.D. diss., University of Durham.
Al-Hazmi, A. (1975):  A critical and comparative study of the spoken Arabic of the ?arb
            tribe in Saudi Arabia, Unpubl. Ph.D. diss., University of Leeds.
Ingham, Bruce (1971): ?Some characteristics of Meccan speech?. Bulletin of the School of
            Oriental and African Studies 34.273?297.
Ingham, Bruce (1982): Northeast Arabian dialects. London: Kegan Paul International.
Ingham, B. (1986): ?Notes on the dialect of the Al Murrah of Eastern and Southern Arabia?,
            Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 49.271?291.
Ingham, B. (1986): Bedouin of northern Arabia: Traditions of the Al-Dhafir, London and
            New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Ingham, B. (1994):  Najdi Arabic: Central Arabian, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J.
            Benjamins.
Jastrow, Otto (1980): ?Die Dialekte der Arabischen Halbinseln?, in W. Fischer,
            O. Jastrow (eds), Handbuch Der arabischen Dialekte. Mit Beitr?gen von
            P. Behnstedt, H. Grotzfeld, B. Ingham, A. Sabuni, P. Schabert, H.R.
            Singer, L. Tsotskhadze und M. Woidich, ed. By, 103-129, Wiesbaden: O.
            Harrassowitz.
Johnstone, T. M. (1963): ?The Affrication of Kaf and Gaf in the Arabic Dialects of the     Arabian Peninsula?, Journal of Semitic Studies, 8:210-226.
Johnstone, T. M. (1965): ?The Sound Change ?j > y? in the Arabic Dialects of Peninsular   Arabia?, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 28(2):233-241.
Johnstone, T. M. (1967): Eastern Arabian Dialect Studies, in London Oriental Series 17,    London: Oxford University Press.
Kurpershoek, Marcel (1994-2005): Oral poetry and narratives from Central Arabia, 5 vols, Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Nadwi, Abdullah Abbas (1968): A Study of the Arabic Dialects of the Belad Ghamid
            and Zahran region of Saudi Arabia on the Basis of Original Field Recording and an
            Examination of the Relationship to the Neighbouring Regions, Unpubl. PhD diss.,
            University of Leeds.
Prochazka, Theodore (1988): Saudi Arabian dialects, London: Kegan Paul International.
Prochazka, T. (1988): ?The spoken Arabic of al-Th?r in al-?asa?. Zeitschrift f?r Arabische
            Linguistik, 18.59?76.
Prochazka, T. (1990): ?The spoken Arabic of al-Qa??f?, Zeitschrift f?r Arabische Linguistik,
            21.63?70.
Prochazka, T. (1991): ?Notes on the spoken Arabic of Tih?mat Beni Shihr?, Zeitschrift f?r
            Arabische Linguistik , 23.99?101.
Qafisheh, Hamdi (1980): Basic Course in Gulf Arabic, International Book Centre.
Qafisheh, H. (1997): Advanced Gulf Arabic, Beirut: Librairie du Liban.
Rosenhouse, Judith (1984): The Bedouin Arabic Dialects: General Problems and a Close Analysis of North Israel Bedouin Dialects, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
Sieny, Mahmoud Esma?il (1972): The Syntax of Urban Hijazi Arabic, Unpubl. PhD diss.,
            Georgetown University. [=London: Longman; Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1978].
Schreiber, Giselher (1970): Der arabische Dialekt von Mekka: Abri? der Grammatik mit
            Texten und Glossar, Ph.D. diss., University of M?nster.
Smart, Jack (1990): ?Pidginization in Gulf Arabic: A first report?,  Anthropological
            Linguistics, 32.83?119.
 
KUWAITI
 
Alharbi, Lafi M. (1991): Formal Analysis of Intonation: The Case of the Kuwaiti Dialect Of
            Arabic, Unpubl. PhD diss., Heriot?Watt University.
Al-Najjar, Balkees (1984): The Syntax and Semantics of Verbal Aspect in Kuwaiti Arabic, Unpubl. Ph.D. Diss., University of Utah.
Al-Qenaie, Shamlan D. (2007): The Syllabic Structure of Kuwaiti Arabic, Unpubl. MA diss.,
            University of Manchester.
Al-Sab?an, Layla (2002): Tat?awwur al-lahja al-Kuwaytiyya: Dir?sa wa Tah?l?l, Kuwait:
            Kuwait University.
Elgibali, Alaa (1985): Towards a Sociolinguistic Analysis of Language Variation in Arabic:
            Cairene and Kuwaiti Dialects, Unpubl. Ph.D. Diss., University of Pittsburgh.
Elgibali, Alaa (1993): ?Stability and Language Variation in Arabic: Cairene and     Kuwaiti
            Arabic?, in M. Eid & C. Holes (eds.), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics. Papers from the Fifth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic  Theory, 5:75-96, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Johnstone, T.M. (1961): ?Some characteristics of the D?siri dialect of Arabic as spoken in
            Kuwait?, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 24.249?297.
Johnstone (1964): ?Further studies on the D?siri dialect of Arabic as spoken in Kuwait?,
            Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 27.77?113.
Yassin, Mahmoud Aziz F. (1977): ?Bi-polar Terms of Address in Kuwaiti Arabic?, Bulletin
            of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 40(2):297-301.
  
OMANI
 
Brockett, Adrian (1985): The spoken Arabic of Kh?b?ra on the B?tina of Oman. (= Journal
            of Semitic Studies Monograph, VII.) Manchester: University of Manchester.
Galloway, Douglas (1977): An introduction to the spoken Arabic of Oman. Unpubl.
 mimeograph, University of St. Andrews.
Glover, Bonnie Carol (1988): The Morphonology of Muscat Arabic, Unpubl. PhD diss.
            University of California.
Ingham, Bruce (1986): ?Notes on the ?l-Murra of eastern and southern Arabia?. Bulletin of
            the School of Oriental and African Studies, 49.271?291.
Jayakar, Atmaram (1889): ?The Omanee dialect of Arabic?, Journal of the Royal Asiatic
            Society, 649?687, 811?889.
Jayakar, A. (1902): ?The Shihee dialect of Arabic?, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society,
            246?277.
Reinhardt, Carl (1894): Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in Oman und Zanzibar. Stuttgart/
            Berlin (Repr., Amsterdam: APA Oriental Press, 1972.)
Rhodokanakis, Nikolaus (1908, 1911): Der vulg?rarabische Dialekt im ??of?r (Zfar), Vienna:
            Alfred H?lder.
Shaaban, Kassim Ali (1977): The Phonology of Omani Arabic, Unpubl. PhD diss., The
            University of Texas at Austin.
Thomas, Bertram (1930): ?The Kumzari dialect of the Shihuh tribe, Arabia, and a
            vocabulary?, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 785?854.
Webster, Roger (1991): ?Notes on the dialect and the way of life of the ?l-Wah?ba Bedouin
            of Oman?, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 54.473?485.
 
QATARI
 
Bukshaisha, F. A. M. (1985): An Experimental Phonetic Study of Some Aspects of Qatari   Arabic, Doctoral dissertation, University of Edinburgh.
 
YEMENI
 
Behnstedt, Peter (1985): Die Nordjemenitischen Dialekte. Teil I: Atlas,Wiesbaden: L.
            Reichert.
Behnstedt, Peter (1987): Die Dialekte der Gegend von ?a?dah (Nord-Jemen),Wiesbaden: O.
            Harrassowitz.
Behnstedt, Peter (1992): Die nordjemetische Dialekte. Teil 2 : Glossar Alif ?D?l.Wiesbaden:
            L. Reichert.
Behnstedt, Peter (2001): ?Notes on the Arabic Dialects of Eastern North-Yemen?, Linguistic
            and Cultural Studies on Arabic and Hebrew. Essays Presented to Professor Moshe
            Piamenta for his Eightieth Birthday, ed. by    Judith Rosenhouse & Ami Elad-
            Bouskila, 23-40,Wiesbaden: O.  Harrassowitz.
Bettini, Lidia (1985): ?Note sull?arabo parlato al Barradan (Yemen del Nord)?, Studi
            Yemeniti, Quaderni di Semitistica 14, ed. by Fronzaroli, Pelio, 117-  159, Firenze:
            Istituto di linguistica e di lingue orientali, Universit? di Firenze.
Diem, Werner (1973): Skizzen Jemenitischer Dialekte. Beyrouth: F. Steiner.
Emerson, L.H.S. & S.M.A. Ghanem (1943): Aden Arabic Grammar. Aden: The British
            Council, Al-Maaref Press.
Landberg, Carlo de (1901): Etudes sur les dialectes de l?Arabie M?ridionale, Premier
            volume: Hadrama?t. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Landberg, Carlo de (1905): Etudes sur les dialectes de l?Arabie M?ridionale. Deuxi?me
            volume: Dat?nah. Premi?re partie. Textes et traduction, Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Landberg, Carlo de (1909): Etude sur les dialectes de l?Arabie m?ridionale. Vol. II : Dat?nah,
            Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Landberg, Carlo de (1913): Etudes sur les dialectes de l?Arabie M?ridionale. Dat?nah.
            Troisi?me partie. Commentaire des textes po?tiques. Articles Detaches et Indices,
            Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Landberg, Carlo de (1920-43): Glossaire Dat?nois. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Na?m-Sanbar, Samia (1994): ?Contribution ? l??tude de l?accent y?m?nite: Le parler des
            femmes de l?ancienne g?n?ration?. Zeitschrift f?r ArabischeLinguistik, 27.65-89.
Piamenta, Moshe (1990-91): Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic (2 vol.), Leiden:
            E.J. Brill.
Prochazka, Theodore Jr.  (1987): ?Remarks on the spoken Arabic of Zab&#1048787;d?, Zeitschrift f?r
            arabische Linguistik, 17.58-68.
Qafisheh, Hamdi (1982): Yemeni Arabic, International Book Centre.
Qafisheh, H. (1990): ?The phonology of San?ani Arabic?, Journal of King Saud University, 2:2, 167-182.
Rossi, Ettore (1938): ?Appunti di dialettologia del Yemen?. Rivista degli Studi Orientali,
            17.230-265.
Rossi, Ettore (1939): L?Arabo parlato a Sana???. Grammatica. Testi. Lessico. Rome: Istituto
            per l?Oriente.
Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude (1996): ?Le fonctionnement de certains verbs de mouvement
            dans des dialectes de la Tihama du Y?men?, in Cremona et al. (eds.), 1996, 227-235.
Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude (1996): ?The Negation in some Arabic Dialects of the
            Tihama of the Yemen?, in Eid and Parkinson (eds.), 1996, 207-221.
Watson, Janet (1993): A Syntax of San?ani Arabic. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz.
 
Regards,
 
D. Newman

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Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature

The School of International Letters and Cultures invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature beginning August 16, 2011. The successful candidate should have a Ph.D. in Arabic Literature (or Arabic Studies with a concentration in Arabic Literature) or related discipline at the time of appointment. Preference will be given to candidates with training in Classical Arabic Literature. Native or near-native proficiency in Arabic and English and evidence of excellence in teaching at the college level are required.

Applicants must be able to teach regular and online introductory and upper-division courses in Arabic Literature, as well as specialized courses in their area of expertise. Candidates will be expected to contribute to the teaching, research, and service missions of SILC and ASU.

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1) Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: Nizar Habash <habash at ccls.columbia.edu>
Subject: Studies on cognates of Arabic words in other Semitic languages

Hello all --
	This is related to the topic (but perhaps from a less serious research point of view).  I have been working as a hobby on an artificial (aka constructed) language that is a mix of Arabic and Hebrew (a sort of Semitic esperanto I named Semiti/Semitish).  The core vocabulary of this language relies on cognates, borrowings  and relatable forms in Arabic and Hebrew. The dictionary includes around 1,700 terms.  An early sample of the dictionary is online together with a phrase book (see http://www.palisra.com/).  More work on this (including phonology, morphology  and syntax descriptions) is ongoing and I hope to make it all publicly available when it is ready.  

regards,
Nizar
http://www.nizarhabash.com/

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:00:11 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:ARAM Society 32nd International Conference
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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies <aram at orinst.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: ARAM Society 32nd International Conference

Dear Colleague,

ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing a yearly conference on the Christian Levant and its Thirty Second International Conference aims to study the "Western Missions in the Levant" (including Iran, Iraq & Egypt), to be held at the Oriental Institute, the University of Oxford, 18-20 July 2011. The conference will start on Monday July 18 at 9am, finishing on Wednesday July 20 at 6pm. Please note the new date.

Papers: Each talk is limited to 30 minutes with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. It would help us greatly if the speaker keeps to the time allocated in order to allow the other speakers sufficient time to address the Conference. If however a speaker feels that 30 minutes is not enough time for his/her topic, an extended version of his/her paper can be published in the book of the Symposium, while the 30 minute limit will be retained for the presentation of his/her paper at the Conference itself.
All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review.

Abstract: The Organising Committee of the Conference would like to receive your abstract before the end this calendar year 2010. We will confirm that we have accepted your proposal on receipt of an abstract, which should be in the region of 500 words long with a bibliography of the primary sources that will be discussed. We need you CV if you are a new contributor to the Aram conferences.

Academic Research: Papers will be accepted from accredited academics in the field, and please note that the Organising Committee of the Conference will be very strict in only accepting papers relevant to the main theme of the conference. We cannot accept papers already published, and all political interventions on current Middle Eastern politics are forbidden in any Aram conference. 

Handouts: You should prepare your own handouts, and 40-50 copies will be enough for your audience. 

The Levant is a designation for the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean (from French ?lever? ?to rise? (i.e., the sun), primarily Asia Minor and Syria-Palestine but often the entire coastlands from Asia Minor to Egypt. (The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary, page 652. See also ?Levant? in The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Archaeology in the Near East, pages 350-351). Moreover, Levantine Christianity, namely Syriac-Aramaic Christianity, has always added Iraq and Iran to the geographical map of the Levant, and it is also our own definition in the Aram Society. 

If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd:
Aram Society, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England. Tel. 01865-514041, Fax. 01865-516824, Email: aram at orinst.ox.ac.uk

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:03 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic morphological pattern generator
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1) Subject: Arabic morphological pattern generator

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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Arabic morphological pattern generator

I wrote something like that in DATR about 10 years ago when I was at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
I will try to dig it up and send it to you.  
I tried to morph it into a diacritic recovery filter ?  It might take me a minute or so to wrap around what I did and describe how to use it generate all the patterns given a root.  I might even need to do something to expose that to a command line interface.
 
Andy Freeman
(206)225-0386

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:00 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic NLP/MT Research Fellow and Programmer Jobs
 at U of Wolverhampton
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1) Subject: Arabic NLP/MT Research Fellow and Programmer Jobs at U of Wolverhampton

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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: Lucia Specia <lspecia at gmail.com>
Subject: Arabic NLP/MT Research Fellow and Programmer Jobs at U of Wolverhampton

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Research Fellow: Arabic NLP/MT
Closing date: Nov, 30 2010
Fixed term contract: 12 months 
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The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/), University of Wolverhampton, invites applications for a research fellowship in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing. The candidate will be expected to carry out research in the topic of evaluation of Arabic-English machine translation. He/she will contribute to the collection of data, proposal, design and evaluation of quality estimation approaches. He/she may also contribute to the implementation of the proposed approaches, which will be performed by an experienced programmer.

A successful applicant must:
- Have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related areas.
- Be a native or fluent speaker of Arabic or have sufficient knowledge of the language proved by previous research related to the language.
- Have experience in Computational Linguistics / Natural Language Processing, particularly the area of Machine Translation evaluation. A PhD in the field is ideal, but masters level or work experience are also acceptable.
- Be eligible to work in the UK, as the job requires an immediate start. Part-time applications from candidates currently studying in the UK will also be considered.

The starting date is early December 2010.

The application deadline is November 30, 2010.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to:

Dr. Lucia Specia
l.specia at wlv.ac.uk

Applications must include:

1) A curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, course covered, publications, relevant work experience, and names of 3 referees that could be contacted if necessary.

2) A 1-page cover letter with statement of research experience, indicating why you are interested in this position and why you consider your experience is relevant.

3) A job application form that can be downloaded from: http://www2.wlv.ac.uk/pers/jobdetails/pers_jobapp_word_oct10.doc

The successful candidate will work with the Computational Linguistics group. Established by Prof. Ruslan Mitkov in 1998, the Research Group in Computational Linguistics is highly successful, delivering cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic summarisation, question answering, lexical knowledge acquisition, text categorisation, named entity recognition, information extraction, corpus construction and annotation, automatic terminology processing, multilingual processing, and multiple-choice question generation. To a large extent, this research has been undertaken in projects funded by major EU and UK funding bodies and commercial partners.

The results from the latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on 17 December 2008 confirm the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research group was entered in Unit of Assessment "Linguistics" and Wolverhampton was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities. According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton is one of the top 6 best in the UK.

Informal inquiries and electronic applications can be sent by email to:

Lucia Specia
Senior Lecturer
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
E-mail: l.specia at wlv.ac.uk

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Programmer: Arabic NLP/MT
Closing date: Nov, 30 2010
Fixed term contract: 7-12 months
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Research Group in Computational Linguistics
(http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/), University of Wolverhampton, invites
applications for a programmer position to work in a project on Arabic
Natural Language Processing. The candidate will be expected to support
a research group on the development of evaluation tools for
Arabic-English machine translation.

A successful applicant must:
- Have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computer
Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computational
Linguistics, or related areas.
- Have work experience in programming, particularly in C++, although
other languages may be acceptable.
- Be eligible to work in the UK, as the job requires an immediate
start. Part-time applications from candidates currently studying in
the UK will also be considered.

The starting date is early December 2010.

The application deadline is November 30, 2010.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to:

Dr. Lucia Specia
l.specia at wlv.ac.uk

Applications must include:

1) A curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, course covered,
relevant work experience, and names of 3 referees that could be
contacted if necessary.

2) A 1-page cover letter with statement of research experience,
indicating why you are interested in this position and why you
consider your experience is relevant.

3) A job application form that can be downloaded from:
http://www2.wlv.ac.uk/pers/jobdetails/pers_jobapp_word_oct10.doc

The successful candidate will work with the Computational Linguistics
group. Established by Prof. Ruslan Mitkov in 1998, the Research Group
in Computational Linguistics is a highly successful one, delivering
cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora
resolution, automatic summarisation, question answering, lexical
knowledge acquisition, text categorisation, named entity recognition,
information extraction, corpus construction and annotation, automatic
terminology processing, multilingual processing, and multiple-choice
question generation. To a large extent, this research has been
undertaken in projects funded by major EU and UK funding bodies and
commercial partners.

The results from the latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on
17 December 2008 confirm the Research Group in Computational
Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research
group was entered in Unit of Assessment "Linguistics" and
Wolverhampton was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities. According
to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research
Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton
is one of the top 6 best in the UK.

Informal inquiries and electronic applications can be sent by email to:

Lucia Specia
Senior Lecturer
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
E-mail: l.specia at wlv.ac.uk
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:01 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arab Academy Study Abroad Programs
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1) Subject: Arab Academy Study Abroad Programs

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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: Nicole Hansen <nicole at arabacademy.com>
Subject: Arab Academy Study Abroad Programs

Many Arabic-L subscribers know that Arab Academy in Cairo was a pioneer in delivering online Arabic programs since 1997. We have also offered study abroad programs since 2002 and are currently expanding to serve individuals and universities seeking programs that provide students with proficiency in Arabic in the shortest possible time while engaging with Arab culture. We have added new semester, year and summer study abroad programs for individuals, which will include an integrated program of cultural outings accompanied by our Arabic teachers giving students a chance to practice Arabic both inside and outside the classroom. We have set up a new Web site with expanded information about these programs:
http://www.arabicincairo.com/individuals

We also partner with a number of universities and colleges to deliver faculty-led study abroad programs. You can learn more about these programs here:
http://www.arabicincairo.com/universities

Students and institutions choose Arab Academy for intensive Arabic study abroad programs because of our:
Central location in Garden City in downtown Cairo
Small classes conducted entirely in Arabic at all levels
Arabic Language Placement Test to ensure accurate course placement
Integration of language curriculum with practical and cultural experiences
Detailed weekly feedback to students
Different rigorously trained teachers each hour
Our study abroad institutional client list has included:
Duke University
US Air Force Academy
Georgia Tech University
AFS NSLI-Y Program
Manchester University (UK)
Defense Language Institute
Howard Community College

We are also pleased to announce that we can now can offer transferable academic credit through Arab Academy?s Institution of Record, Deraya University. Deraya University is an Egyptian private university established under Presidential Decree 91/2010.

As director of marketing and program development at Arab Academy, I will be attending the upcoming MESA meetings in San Diego and would like to invite list members to stop by our booth (#67) to discuss how we can provide or help you design an amazing study abroad program that will suit your students' needs and ambitions. You can also email me to set up an appointment during the MESA meetings or a phone consultation.

Dr. Nicole Hansen
Director of Marketing and Program Development
Arab Academy (since 1997)
3 Alif Kamil ElShinnawi Street
Garden City 11451, Cairo, Egypt
cell: +20 11 766 1326
Web sites: http://www.arabicincairo.com http://www.arabacademy.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Arab-Academy/291637344900
Visit our booth (#67) at the Middle East Studies Association meeting in San Diego: http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/annual/book_flr_plan.htmt

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:55:57 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Query on Arabic yes/no questions
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1) Subject: Query on Arabic yes/no questions

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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Query on Arabic yes/no questions

[This was posted on LINGUIST, but I thought some of you might like to answer.  Please respond directly to May, but I will also post your answers to the list if you like.--dil]

My name is May Mahdi Al-Ramadan, from Saudi Arabia. I am a lecturer 
and I am studying for a PhD in Applied Linguistics in King Saud 
University in Riyadh. 

I am working on a paper about the formation of Yes/No questions in 
Arabic. What interests me about this subject is the claim that I read in 
Carnie (2007) that complementizer particles and subject/verb inversion 
are in complementary distribution. He states that languages can either 
have this or that but not both. In Standard Arabic, a complementizer 
(Hal) is used at the beginning of yes/no questions. The verb precedes 
the subject in Standard Arabic in both sentences and questions. An 
example for this is as follows:

1) Hal  thahaba   abouka?
  C    went      father-your
  "Did your father go?" 

In Saudi Arabic, on the other hand, the complementizer is dropped. 
Subject/verb inversion is used instead. An example:

2) Obouk          raH?
  Father-your    went
  "Did your father go?"

My question is that, how is it possible to incorporate the view that 
complementizers vs. subject/verb inversion are in complementary 
distribution into the analysis of Arabic that obviously has both methods 
of forming questions? Or possibly is it more valid to assume that the 
two varieties of Arabic are distinct and no generalization can be made 
with reference to both of them?   

I would appreciate any suggestions and resources from the List!

Thank you so much,

May Mahdi Al-Ramadan

Reference:

Carnie, A (2007). Syntax: A Generative Introduction. Blackwell 
Publishing. 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:55:59 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New LDC Arabic treebank offering
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1) Subject: New LDC Arabic treebank offering

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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: Linguistic Data Consortium <ldc at ldc.upenn.edu>
Subject: New LDC Arabic treebank offering

(1) Arabic Treebank: Part 1 v 4.1 was developed at LDC. It consists of 734 newswire  stories from Agence France Presse with part-of-speech , morphology, gloss and syntactic treebank annotation in accordance with the Penn Arabic Treebank (PATB) Guidelines developed in 2008 and 2009. This release represents a significant revision of LDC's previous ATB1 publications: Arabic Treebank: Part 1 v 2.0 (LDC2003T06) and Arabic Treebank: Part 1 v 3.0 (POS with full vocalization + syntactic analysis) (LDC2005T02). 

The ongoing PATB project supports research in Arabic-language natural language processing and human language technology development. The methodology and work leading to the release of this publication are described in detail in the documentation accompanying this corpus and in two research papers: Enhancing the Arabic Treebank: A Collaborative Effort toward New Annotation Guidelines and Consistent and Flexible Integration of Morphological Annotation in the Arabic Treebank. 

ATB1 v 4.1 contains a total of 145,386 tokens before clitics are split, and 167,280 tokens after clitics are separated for the treebank annotation.  Arabic Treebank: Part 1 v 4.1 is distributed on one DVD-ROM.

2010 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of this corpus.  2010 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for US$4500.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:06 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Book: Introductory Conversational Arabic,
 MSA and Iraqi
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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: Ghayda Al Ali <gaa011 at yahoo.com>
Subject: New Book: Introductory Conversational Arabic, MSA and Iraqi

Dear Rasha Abbas Mahmoud,
I have just completed an introductory Arabic language textbook covering conversational Arabic using Modern Arabic Standard as well as the Iraqi dialect. Text, music, video and video animation materials focus on practical grammar and vocabulary used in real life situations, and includes details of Iraqi life, culture and tradition to sustain student interest. Video is recorded in Baghdad using native Iraqi Arabic speakers/Gulf . You can contact me gaa011 at yahoo.com

Ghayda Al Ali 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:04 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Concordancer that handles Arabic Script
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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: Majdi Sawalha <scmss at leeds.ac.uk>
Subject: Concordancer that handles Arabic Script

Ashraf, 

the aConCord is a concordance designed for arabic. and the Arabic contemporary arabic is free source corpus. you can find more information on Arabic NLP research group at the university of leeds. 
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic

Majdi
================
Majdi Sawalha,   ma?d? ?aw?l?ah
School of Computing,
University of Leeds.
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/sawalha

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:02 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Middlebury Arabic School Fellowships for Summer 2011
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Date: 17 Nov 2010
From: "Caldwell, Nelson C." <caldwell at middlebury.edu>
Subject: Middlebury Arabic School Fellowships for Summer 2011

Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages ? Full Scholarships Available for Intensive Arabic Language Study at the Middlebury Summer Language Schools. We are pleased to announce the continuation of the Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace for the fifth year in a row. The fellowship will cover the full cost of one summer of language study, from the beginner to the graduate level , in any of six languages, including Arabic. For more information, please visit http://go.middlebury.edu/ls/kwd. 
  
Middlebury Arabic School to Celebrate Third Summer at Mills in 2011 ? For the third summer, the Arabic School will take place exclusively at our West Coast site, at Mills College, in Oakland, California. For more information on the Arabic School at Mills, please visit http://go.middlebury.edu/ls/arabic. 
  
Need-based Financial Aid Available to All Students ? 42% of summer 2010 Language Schools students received a financial aid award, and the average award granted was $5,454. To learn more about financial aid, visit http://go.middlebury.edu/ls/finaid/. 
  
For complete information on all Language Schools programs and to apply online ? Visit http://go.middlebury.edu/ls/. 
 

Middlebury College Language Schools 
Middlebury College 
Sunderland Language Center 
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Middlebury, VT 05753 
802.443.5510 
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:27 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Books
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Gerlach Books - Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies <orders at gerlach-books.de>
Subject: Gerlach Books

Due to Eid al-Adha we received a lot of requests to extend this offer. To comply with these requests we therefore extend our offer until the 7th December 2010:


All Publications by Professor Fuat Sezgin and his Frankfurt based Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science (Institut fuer Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften).

The extensive series of publication start+ed in 1982. Various aspects of Islamic history, philosophy, humanities as well as medicine and natural sciences are covered by the more than 680 volumes.

Below is an overview showing the numbers of volumes and prices for each series.
A detailed list of all titles for each series can be downloaded from here:
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(1) Zeitschrift f?r Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften / Joiurnal of the History of Arabic-Islamic Science
18 Volumes - EUR 1,960

(2) Series: Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums & Special Issues
17 Volumes - EUR 1,416

(3) Series: Bibliographie der deutschsprachigen Arabistik und Islamkunde
Part A: Texts and Studies - 26 Volumes - EUR 2,407

(4) Series: Bibliographie der deutschsprachigen Arabistik und Islamkunde
Part B: Reprints - 23 Volumes - EUR 1,590

(5) Series: Bibliographie der deutschsprachigen Arabistik und Islamkunde
Part C: Facsimile Editions of Arabic Manuscripts
97 Volumes - EUR 8,097

(6) Series: Islamic Architecture
16 Volumes - EUR 1,213

(7) Series: Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy
96 Volumes - EUR 5,058

(8) Series: The Islamic World in Foreign Travel Accounts
52 Volumes - EUR 3,062

(9) Series: Islamic Geography
91 Volumes - EUR 7,031

(10) Series: Historiography and Classification of Science in Islam
60 Volumes - EUR 3,809

(11) Series: Islamic Medicine
95 Volumes - EUR 4,684

(12) Series: Islamic Philosophy
84 Volumes - EUR 4,894

(13) Series: Natural Sciences in Islam
10 Volumes - EUR 642

(14) Series: The Science of Music in Islam
4 Volumes - EUR 271

Our offer:
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- Shipping charges (surface or air mail delivery) will be added
- European VAT will be added (if applicable only)
- Institutional customers by open account
- This offer is valid until 7th December 2010 only


Looking forward to your orders.

Best regards from Berlin

(Ms) Dagmar Konrad



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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:25 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic yes/no questions
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2) Subject: Arabic yes/no questions
2) Subject: Arabic yes/no questions

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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Alexander Magidow <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject: Arabic yes/no questions

[moderator's note: Alex is right.  Here is the missing contact info: May Mahdi Al-Ramadan <mal_ramadan at hotmail.com>; I will go ahead and forward these messages to her.  dil)

Hey Dil,

I don't think you included the contact info for May in the message quoted below, so I'm sending this to you directly.

First, I don't think "hal" is a complementizer in the sense that it is used elsewhere in the language to introduce complements. I would argue that it is a polarity question marker, something attested quite widely in the world's languages.  Obviously a generative explanation might confuse the two, since in such an analysis this marker might occur in the CP (complementizer-phrase) position, based on what I remember of G&B style syntax (and therefore conflict with movement to CP by verbs for purposes of inversion). However, strictly functionally speaking, there is a difference between a complementizer and an interrogative particle. 

In any case, a good place to start would be K?nig, Ekkehard and Petere Siemund. 2007. `Speech act distinctions in grammar' in Shopen, Timothy (ed). Language Typology and Linguistic Description, 2nd edition, in Vol 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. They have a nice section devoted to the typology of polar interrogatives, and actually say "Interrogative particles also occur in constituent interrogatives [e.g. polar interrogatives marked by a change in constituent order from declarative clauses], but mostly optionally so (p.14)" This would appear to contradict Carnie.  If May does not have access to that work, I can email her a PDF. 

Also, it's interesting to note that Moroccan Arabic has innovated an interrogative particle("wash"), though I don't believe there's constituent inversion as well. Masri "huwa" ("huwwa ma-fii-sh hadd guwwa?" 'is there nobody inside?'[Hinds-Badawi p. 918]) might also be argued to be some form of interrogative particle. 

You can feel free to repost this to the list also.

Alex Magidow

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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Brian Huebner <bhuebner2 at gmail.com>
Subject: Arabic yes/no questions

That's a question? ;)

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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Muhamed Al Khalil <oryxius at gmail.com>
Subject: Arabic yes/no questions

Dear May,

The analogy between inversion in yes/no question forming in Arabic and English (and other languages) is a bit misleading. Arabic applies no inversion in yes/no question forming: 

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

If you remove ?? and the question marks, you get three affirmative sentences (either nominal or verbal, with no significant difference between them apart from emphasis). In the case of the questions without ?? , the interrogative is indicated by intonation only. The seeming "inversion" in Arabic is in fact an acceptable syntactical order for the sentence regardless of whether it is affirmative, interrogative, or negative for that matter. In a sense, Carnie is right: Arabic's yes/no questions do not use inversion, only the particles ?? ?? or intonation. 

Hope this helps. 

Muhamed Osman Al Khalil, Ph.D.
Director of Arabic Studies
New York University Abu Dhabi

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:34 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Final CFP Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: "Hardie, Andrew" <a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: Final CFP Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics

Second (and final) call for papers...

=====================================
WORKSHOP ON ARABIC CORPUS LINGUISTICS
=====================================

11th and 12th April 2011
Lancaster University, UK

Keynote speakers:
Eric Atwell, University of Leeds 
Tony McEnery, Lancaster University


===============
CALL FOR PAPERS
===============


Over the past few years, research into the Arabic language 
using corpora and corpus methods has moved from a new 
direction to an active field, with work advancing rapidly on 
many different fronts of both corpus linguistics and 
computational linguistics. To create a venue where these 
different directions on corpus research into Arabic can be 
brought together to explore progress in the field, the UCREL 
research centre at Lancaster University will host a 
Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics in April 2011.

We are now inviting abstracts for this workshop. 
Presentations either describing finished research or reporting 
work in progress are welcome. The scope of the workshop 
encompasses both (a) the design, construction and 
annotation of Arabic corpora, and (b) the use of corpora 
in research on the Arabic language - in any relevant area, 
including (but not limited to!) lexis and lexicography, syntax, 
collocation, NLP systems and analysis tools, contrastive and 
historical studies, stylistics, and discourse analysis.

Presentations are invited on any of these areas, or on any 
other topic related to the study of Arabic-language corpora. 
Submissions from postgraduate students are especially 
welcome.

Abstracts should be 400 words or less; presentations will be 
in the usual format (20 minutes for the presentation and 10 
minutes for questions). Please submit abstracts by email to 
Andrew Hardie (a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk). Acceptable formats 
are PDF, Microsoft Word .doc(x), plain text, RTF, HTML, or 
OpenDocument text (.odt). Please use Unicode characters for 
any Arabic text examples. All abstracts should be in English 
rather than Arabic; English will be the language of the workshop. 

Dates:
* Closing date for abstracts: Monday December 6th 2010.
* Responses to abstract submission: before Monday December 13th 2010.
* Registration open from: Monday December 13th 2010.
* Event: Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th April 2011.

On the web: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/event/3406/ 

Please feel free to circulate this CfP further.
We apologise for any cross-posting.

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:36 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on semantic approaches to MSA verbs
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Paula Santill?n <psgrimm at casaarabe-ieam.es>
Subject: Needs refs on semantic approaches to MSA verbs

Hi all,
 
I would appreciate references (apart from Justice 1987 and Al Qahtani 2004 and 2007) on studies with a semantic approach to the verb in MSA.
 
Is there any semantic classification of verbs beyond the traditional af3aal al-dhimm/al-rajaa/al-shuruu3/al-quluub/al-madah/al-iraada/al-Dhunn/Etc? list?
 
Thanks a lot beforehand,
 
Paula S. G.
 

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:38 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:West Chester University Job
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: "Williams, Jerome" <JWilliams2 at wcupa.edu>
Subject: West Chester University Job

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Arabic
School:  College of Arts and Sciences

Description: Join a vibrant campus community whose excellence is reflected
in its diversity and student success. West Chester University is seeking
applicants for an Assistant Professor of Arabic. Highly competitive salary
and benefits.

Requirements: Doctorate preferred in Arabic language/literature/culture, or
a related field (ABD candidates will be considered with clear plan for
doctorate completion). Required expertise in teaching modern standard Arabic
language and culture. The candidate will be expected to work in the area of
online/distance education, in addition to traditional instruction. Preferred
secondary area of expertise in linguistics, another language or a related
discipline. The successful candidate should demonstrate a strong commitment
to and evidence of excellence in Arabic language teaching and competence in
the use of instructional technology. Native or near-native fluency in Arabic
and English. Evidence of strong research potential, and familiarity with
current trends in pedagogy, and experience in program development.
Finalists must successfully complete on-site interview process and teaching
demonstration. Position begins August 15, 2011.

Candidates Should Submit: Please send letter of application, C.V., teaching
portfolio (statement of teaching philosophy, summary student evaluations,
and sample original teaching materials), and three letters of recommendation
to: 

Dr. Jerry Williams
Department of Languages and Cultures
Main Hall 109
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383.

Initial screening of applicants will begin on November 15, 2010 and continue
until the position is filled.

Developing and sustaining a diverse faculty and staff advances WCU?s
educational mission and strategic Plan for Excellence.  West Chester
University is an Affirmative Action ? Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and
Minorities are encouraged to apply.

The filling of this position is contingent upon available funding. All
offers of employment are subject to and contingent upon satisfactory
completion of all pre-employment criminal background and consumer reporting
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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Nov 23 15:34:40 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:40 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:New eJournal for MIddle East Studies
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Sharqiyya <sharqiya at post.tau.ac.il>
Subject: New eJournal for MIddle East Studies

Dear Colleague,

The Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI) and the Middle East and African History Department at Tel Aviv University are happy to launch a new E-Journal for Middle Eastern Studies, called Sharqiyya. We plan to publish the the E-Journal twice a year; the first issue can already be downloaded from the following link:

Edited by graduate students and supervised by faculty, Sharqiyya is a somewhat different kind of publication, featuring 3-4 articles per issue (about 3,000 words each), plus sections on the Internet, cinema, satire, and poetics. In the words of the Editors:

Sharqiyya is unique in that it draws on contributions by faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars, who all share a passion for Middle Eastern histories and cultures, and whose work is informed by first-hand knowledge of the region?s languages and sources.

The Editorial Board invites contributors from around the world and the MENA region to offer us short articles in English for publication in Sharqiyya. All submissions must be sent to the Editors by email at sharqiya at post.tau.ac.il. Please feel free to comment or make suggestions in order to improve the journal.

Link to the download page:
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:28 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:University of Virginia Job
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: "Said Ramadan, Abdulkareem (as4nn)" <as4nn at eservices.virginia.edu>
Subject: University of Virginia Job

University of Virginia
Modern Standard Arabic/Lecturer
The Arabic language program in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia invites applications for a full-time Lecturer in Modern Standard Arabic, to begin August 25, 2011. The teaching load is three courses per semester.
 
Required qualifications:
1. Native or near-native proficiency in Arabic.
2. MA in Arabic language or a related field.
 
Preferred qualifications:
1. PhD in Arabic language or a related field.
2. Strong competence in Arabic grammar.
3. Demonstrated skill in second-language teaching.
4. Ability to teach Arabic language classes at elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels.
5. Ability to teach other courses that contribute to the Arabic program.
 
To apply, submit a candidate profile on-line through https://jobs.virginia.edu, and electronically attach a CV, cover letter, a statement of teaching pedagogy, a representative sample of course evaluations as evidence of teaching effectiveness (attach to Writing Sample 1), and sample of prior course syllabi (attach to Writing Sample 2). Search for posting number 0606465.
 
In addition, please arrange for three confidential letters of recommendation to be submitted on your behalf to: Arabic Lecturer Search Committee, MESALC, PO Box 400781, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 22904-4781.
 
Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the MESA conference in San Diego, November 18-21, 2010, and interested applicants are warmly invited to speak with us there about the position. The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The University is building a culturally diverse faculty and staff, and strongly encourages applications from women and underrepresented minorities. Review of applications by the committee will begin December 13, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled.
 
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:30 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs/resources on on-line use of Egyptian
 Arabic
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: eric bartolotti <epricq at gmail.com>
Subject: Needs refs/resources on on-line use of Egyptian Arabic

My name is Eric Bartolotti. I am a senior Middle Eastern Studies major at Middlebury college.  As part of my senior independent research project, I am investigating the usage of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in written form in online settings (such as the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Facebook posts, and blogs). I was wondering if there were any resources that could be of use to me in this area of research.
I thank you very much for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.

Eric Bartolotti

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Nov 23 15:34:33 2010
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:33 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic morphological pattern generator
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: D??m-e D?am <dzamedzam at yahoo.com>
Subject: Arabic morphological pattern generator

Dear Maxim,

let me suggest to you the ElixirFM system, which is able to analyze words as found in common Arabic texts, as well as generate inflected and derived word forms or list entries from the lexicon. The system includes information about roots and patterns, displays the orthography and phonology of word forms, etc.

There is the ElixirFM Online Interface http://elixir-fm.sourceforge.net/ that you can try out. If you need to use ElixirFM for processing some larger linguistic data, the best way is to use ElixirFM as an executable program or a programming library.

Please see more information at the above link or consult the ElixirFM Wiki http://elixir-fm.wiki.sourceforge.net/ for more details. Feel free to contact me if needed.
 
Best wishes,

Otakar Smrz, Ph.D.
Dzam-e Dzam Language Institute

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:31 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Florida Atlantic University Job
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: Michael Horswell <HORSWELL at fau.edu>
Subject: Florida Atlantic University Job

Dear colleagues,
 
Please distribute this job announcement.
 
The Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature at Florida Atlantic University invites applications for a tenure- track position in Arabic and Linguistics. Ph.D. in Arabic or Linguistics required by time of appointment, August, 2011. Area of research specialization is open, but the ideal candidate will be able to lead the development of an Arabic language program as well as contribute to the BA and MA programs in Linguistics and have the ability to teach a broad range of undergraduate and graduate linguistics courses. Near-native fluency in Arabic and a proven record of excellence in teaching and scholarship required. FAU offers a variety of other interdisciplinary programs at the BA, MA, and PhD levels, and has a growing faculty specializing in Middle East studies.
 
Application materials must be submitted electronically including: on-line Faculty, Administrative, Managerial & Professional Position application, cover letter, curriculum vitae, official transcript, sample of scholarly work, and three letters of recommendation to https://jobs.fau.edu. Reference the position number 991544. Review of applications will begin on December 10, 2010, and continue until the position is filled. Credentials will be subject to Florida Public Records Law. Individuals requiring accommodation call 561-297-2216 (1-800-955-8771 TTY). A background check is required for the candidate selected for this position. For further inquiries contact Dr. Michael J. Horswell, Chair, LLCL (Horswell at fau.edu) or visit our departmental website at www.fau.edu/LLCL. FAU is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Institution that actively encourages applications from women and minorities in keeping with its policy of promoting diversity throughout the institution.
 
Thank you,
 
Michael Horswell
 
Michael J. Horswell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
and Latin American Literature
Chair, Department of Languages, Linguistics,
and Comparative Literature
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road, PO Box 3091
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561)297-3863 TEL
(561) 297-2657 FAX
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:34:42 -0700
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ACIE program in Alexandria, Egypt
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Date: 23 Nov 2010
From: 
Subject: 

American Councils for International Education is pleased to announce that the online application for the Arabic Overseas Undergraduate Program in Alexandria, Egypt is live.
This program is designed for undergraduate students in the US, at the intermediate level of Arabic. To apply, please visit us at: http://apps.americancouncils.org/AOP
 
Program Dates:
May 23rd, 2011 ? July 23rd, 2011
 
Program Components:
20 hours a week of MSA, ECA, and Media classes;
4 hours a week of Conversational Partners to improve ECA;
2-3 overnight excursions;
Cultural enrichment activities
 
Benefits:
Summer Credits from Bryn Mawr College;
Pre-departure orientation in Washington, DC;
Round-trip International Airfare from Washington, DC
Live in the dorms with an Egyptian student
 
Application Deadline:
February 16th, 2011
 
Program Cost: $8,600 including pre-departure orientation, airfare, insurance, tuition, room and board
 
For more information, please contact Rafah Helal at: helal at actr.org
 
Rafah Helal
Senior Program Officer
Arabic Overseas Programs
American Councils for International Education
1828 L Street, N.W. Suite 1200
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-833-7522 Office
202-833-7523 Fax
www.americancouncils.org

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