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Date: 09 May 2013
From:Abdellah CHEKAYRI <A.Chekayri at aui.ma>
Subject:Program for 6th International ALS at Al-Akhawain, Morocco

6th International Arabic Linguistics Symposium
June 26-28, 2013
Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco

Schedule

Wednesday June 26
14 :00-15 :00           ALS registration

15 :00-15 :30           Welcome

15:30-16:30             Plenary session: Keynote Speaker: Professor
Abdelkader Fassi Fihri
‘‘Arabic linguistic voices: trends and prospects’’

16 :30-16 :00           Break

17:00-19:30     Session 1: Chair: Dr. Mohamed Dahbi

Implications of the Loss of the Definite Article in Sason Arabic
Akkuº, Faruk,  Boðaziçi University, Linguistics Program
Psychological predicates in Arabic
Alotaibi, Yasir, Alzaidi, Mohammed, Camilleri, Maris, Elsadek, Shaimaa, &
Sadler, Louisa,   University of Essex
A cross dialectal view of the Dative Alternation
Alotaibi, Yasir, Alzaidi, Mohammed, Camilleri, Maris, Elsadek, Shaimaa, &
Sadler, Louisa,   University of Essex
The Structure of Superlatives in Syrian Arabic
Hallman, Peter,   University of Vienna
Negative concord as syntactic agreement: The case of Egyptian and Moroccan
Arabic
Ouali, Hamid & Soltan, Usama,   University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee &
Middlebury College

20:00           Special Diner: Venue: AUI Restaurant

Thursday June 27

8 :30-9 :00     ALS registration

9 :00-10 :00    Plenary session : Keynote speaker : Professor Keith
Walters
   Title ‘‘TBA’’

10 :00-12 :30   Session 2: Chair: Dr. Moncef Lahlou

Repetition of content and form in Arab press news
Jaworska, Karolina,   University of Silesia in Katowice
Diglossia in Kuwaiti Newspapers
Alruwayeh, Marwah,   Newcastle University
Definiteness Marking in Moroccan Arabic: Contact, Divergence and Semantic
Change
Turner, Mike,   The University of Texas at Austin
Prosodic encoding of focus in sentence-initial, penultimate and final
position in Hijazi Arabic (HA)
ALZAIDI, Muhammad,   University of Essex
The status of Daad in a southwest Arabian dialect
Al-Qahtani Khairia & Al-Wer Enam,   University of Essex

12 :30-14 :00   Lunch : Venue: AUI Restaurant

14 :00-15 :00   Session 3: Chair: Dr. Violetta Cavalli-Sforza

A multi-tier annotation regimen for Arabic ammiya
Taylor, Stephen,   Fitchburg State University
Arabic Lexical Paradigms Acquisition; An Unsupervised AGT Based Approach
Aliane, Hassina,   Research Center on Scientific and Technical
Information, Algiers, Algeria

15:30   Departure to Fez + guided tour in the Old Medina

20:30   Special Moroccan dinner in Fez

Friday June 28

9 :00-11 :00    Session 4: Chair: Dr. Reem Khamis-Dakwar

Subject-Verb Agreement Asymmetry in Arabic: Insight from ERPs
Muralikrishnan, R, Idrissi, Ali, & Al Kaabi, Meera,   New York University
- Abu Dhabi, UAE University & New York University
Sentential Negation in heritage Arabic
Albirini, Abdulkafi & Benmamoun, Elabbas,   Utah State University &
University of Illinois
The breakdown Functional categories in agrammatism: Evidence from Arabic
Diouni, Samir; Faris, El Alaoui; Etahri, Latifa, & Karimallah, Kabbour
Chouaib Doukkali University, Faculty of Letters & Human Sciences-EL
Jadida; Service de Neurologie A et Neuropsychologie, Hôpital des
Spécialités, Rabat, Maroc; Service de Neurologie A et Neuropsychologie
Hôpital des Spécialités, Rabat, Maroc;  Faculty of Letters & Human
Sciences, Université Hassan II, Casablanca.
Cognitive Neuropsychological Study of a Case of Pure Acquired Agraphia in
Arabic Writing
El Alaoui Faris, Mustapha & Taiebine Mohamed,   Department of
Neuropsychology Hôpital des Spécialités Mohamed V-Souissi Rabat &
Department of Neuropsychology Mohamed V-University Rabat

11:00-11:15     Break

11:15-13:00     Session 5: Chair: Dr. Abbas Benmamoun

Semantic and Syntactic properties of two event nominal expressions in
Arabic
Tayalati, Fayssal,   Universite de Lille-CNRS
Arabic-L1 and French-L2: The verb systems
Chatar-Moumni, Nizha,   Université Paris Descartes,
Temporal Interpretation in Standard Arabic
Al-Aqarbeh, Rania,   Mu'tah University in Jordan

13 :00-15 :00   Prayer time : AUI Mosque / Lunch : Venue AUI Restaurant

15 :00-16 :00   Plenary session : Keynote speaker : Professor Leila
Messaoudi
‘‘Sociolinguistique urbaine. Quelles perspectives au Maroc?’’

16 :00-16-15    Break

16 :15-18 :00   Session 6: Chair: Dr. Ahmed Kabel

When a president loses his speech, the people capture speech
Boussofara, Naima,   University of Kansas
“Good Arabic, Bad Arabic”: Representations of Different National and
Regional Arabic Varieties
Hachimi, Atiqa,   University of Toronto
How Different are Arabic Dialects from Each Other and from Classical
Arabic?
Benmamoun, Elabbas & Hasegawa, Johnson, Mark,   University of Illinois
Orthography as Literacy Practice
Chekayri, Abdellah,   Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco

18:00-18:30     Wrap up session

For information about the conference program, accommodations, and travel,
please visit the conference website:
http://www.aui.ma/en/events/event/149-the-6th-international-arabic-linguistics-symposium.html

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Dr. Abdellah CHEKAYRI
Associate Professor
New book: "An Introduction to Moroccan Arabic and Culture" :
http://www.press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?id=9781589016934
Arabic Language and North African Studies Program Coordinator
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
http://citi.aui.ma/shss/abdellah_chekayri
PO. Box. 1848, Ifrane 53000, Morocc

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