From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 2 15:24:07 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:24:07 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Book:Sudanese Arabico-English Dictionary Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: New Book:Sudanese Arabico-English Dictionary -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Apr 2014 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: New Book:Sudanese Arabico-English Dictionary AUTHOR(S): Tamis, Rianne; Persson, Janet TITLE: Sudanese Arabic—English / English—Sudanese Arabic: A Concise Dictionary SERIES: Publications in Linguistics #150 YEAR: 2013 PUBLISHER: SIL International Publications ISBN13: 9781556712722 ANNOUNCED IN: http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-608.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 2 15:24:10 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:24:10 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jordan Language Academy programs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Jordan Language Academy programs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Apr 2014 From: Manal Dabit Subject: Jordan Language Academy programs Jordan Language Academy has the pleasure to renew its invitation to your students to join our Intensive Programs in Arabic language and culture for SUMMER 2014 (http://www.jordanla.com/2014/Summer_Flyer_2014.pdf), semester I, semester II and our winter intensive programs ( http://www.jordanla.com/2014/Calendar_2014-2015.pdf). We will be very grateful if you forward this e-mail to your students and colleagues who are interested in Arabic language or translation courses. If you need any further information please do not hesitate to contact us. To view our 2014/2015 Academic CALENDAR, http://www.jordanla.com/2014/Calendar_2014-2015.pdf. Looking forward to welcome you and your students at Jordan Language Academy. Yours, Manal Dabit Jordan Language Academy Tel: +962-6-5820985 Fax: +962-6-5820986 Mobile: +962-779-502220 www.jordanla.com courses at jordanla.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 2 15:24:15 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:24:15 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Noor Majan Institute Summer programs in Oman Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Noor Majan Institute Summer programs in Oman -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Apr 2014 From: info at noormajan-institute.com Subject: Noor Majan Institute Summer programs in Oman Arabian Summer Are you still looking for an unforgettable summer experience? Sign up for one of Noor Majan Training Institute’s sought after summer intensive courses! Our intensive Arabic courses in June and August offer challenging and productive Arabic studies in a friendly and supportive learning environment, in a small Omani town soaked with Oman’s rich and unique tradition. In Ibri, as rarely found in the Gulf, Arabic is still the language of day-to-day communication and the only language of instruction at our institute. Experience Arabic language and culture up close and use your summer to boost your MSA skills and media literacy while becoming more fluent and confident in both Fusha and dialect conversation! Course overview Course Dates Levels Hours of instruction Fees June June 1 – 26, 2014 Intermediate, Advanced II 80 770 OMR August August 3 – 28, 2014 Beginner, Advanced I 80 770 OMR The course fees include tuition, course materials, accommodation, airport transfers, daily transportation between home and institute, lunches on weekdays and excursions. To register please use our online registration form at http://www.noormajan-institute.com/index.php/registration-form/form/3. For further information please contact Samira Selle at samira.selle at noormajan-institute.com We’re looking forward to welcoming you to our international and diverse student body! See you this summer in sha Allah! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 2 15:24:18 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:24:18 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CIL Summer programs in Oman Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: CIL Summer programs in Oman -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Apr 2014 From: Judi Garfinkel Subject: CIL Summer programs in Oman Dear Colleagues, The Center for International Learning, the only program legally authorized to offer study abroad programs in Muscat, has expanded its summer intake to 155 students for its various summer scholarship programs, and has filled 131 seats to date. CIL is the most experienced Arabic program in Oman for US, UK and European students, with eight full-time faculty teaching at all proficiency levels, and scholarships still available. CIL is considered to have the strongest Arabic programs in the region, and its president and academic dean is former Harvard professor, Dr. J. Larry Brown. CIL also offers Arabic and study abroad programs during the fall and spring semesters. For information and application forms see www.omancenter.org < http://www.omancenter.org>. Kind regards, -- Judi Garfinkel, M.P.H. Associate Dean for Programs Center for International Learning Box 2644, PC 111 Muscat Sultanate of Oman Mobile: +968 9960 5159 www.omancenter.org www.facebook.com/CenterForInternationalLearning -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 2 15:24:12 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:24:12 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabeya Institute Summer Courses in Egypt Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Arabeya Institute Summer Courses in Egypt -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Apr 2014 From: jameslatta at arabeya.org Subject: Arabeya Institute Summer Courses in Egypt Hello, my name is James Latta and I am from the Arabeya Institute, an Arabic language school located in Cairo. We would like to introduce ourselves to you and tell you about our school and its student programs. At Arabeya, we offer a wide range of courses for those wishing to learn or improve their Arabic, whether in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA). We offer classes and courses for every level in proficiency, as well as programs specially tailored to subjects of interest, such as media studies, diplomacy, business communications, literature, and calligraphy. Additionally, we also offer online Arabic classes via Skype, an integral part of our program that we began several years in cooperation with Northeastern University’s Arabic department, and which we know offer to all our students. For several years, we have had the pleasure of hosting large groups of students from the Maryland, Northeastern, Harvard, Boston, and Cambridge universities, alongside several ROTC programs, for our Summer Study Abroad programs, which were designed to introduce students to the rich language, culture, and history of Egypt. Outside of our summer programs, the Arabeya School offers a number of intensive seasonal courses throughout the year, which enterprising students can attend during semester breaks to enrich their knowledge of our language and culture. Scholarships and discounts are available for several of these programs. Please take a look at our website for information on our upcoming spring and summer programs. Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us directly at: info at arabeya.org Best regards, James Latta Arabeya Arabic Language Institute Main Office: Address: 19 Mansurra st, from Omar Tosson, Ahmed Orabi Mohandesin Giza, Egypt Tel: (+202) 330 224 79 Second branch: Address: 13 Tahrir Sq. Downtown, Cairo, Egypt Tel: (+202) 257 897 32 Email: info at arabeya.org Web: www.arabeya.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 2 15:24:05 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:24:05 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Survey on High School level Arabic materials Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Survey on High School level Arabic materials -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Apr 2014 From: Madison Marks Subject: Two QFI Teacher Fellows are conducting research on Arabic language materials in high school classrooms in the U.S. They have requested that high school Arabic teachers take this short survey (see below). Thank you! Madison Marks Arabic Language and Culture Program, Qatar Foundation International *--* *Greetings!My name is Priscilla Cunha, and I am currently pursuing a Masters degree in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language at UT-Austin.I am conducting a research project in order to develop materials to teach Arabic as a foreign language more effectively in high school language programs in the US, and in order to achieve this I need your input! I invite you to participate in a short survey that will help define the attributes of successful Arabic teaching materials as well as ways in which these materials could be improved.This survey is completely anonymous and will take approximately 15 minutes of your time.* *https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/G7HV5LF * *Alf shukr in advance for participation and support!Regards,Priscilla Cunha* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 2 15:24:22 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:24:22 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, Qatar Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, Qatar -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Apr 2014 From: Nizar Habash Subject: Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, Qatar ======================================================= First Call for Papers and Participation EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing Including Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction Apologies for multiple postings Please distribute to colleagues ======================================================= First Call for Papers and Participation Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014 Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014 Shared task registration deadline: July 1, 2014 ======================================================= ==================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ==================== There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP). Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the Arab World and in association with international conferences, e.g., the conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools (MEDAR-2009, NEMLAR-2004), the workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (LREC 2010, EACL 2009, ACL 2007, ACL 2005, ACL 2002, ACL 1998), the workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (MTSummit XII 2009, LSA 2007, COLING 2004), the International Symposium on Computer and Arabic Language (ISCAL 2009, ISCAL 2007), the Colloque International sur le Traitement Automatique de la Langue Arabe (CITALA 2007), the International Symposium on Processing of Arabic (Tunisia 2002), the workshop on Arabic Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), and the workshop on Arabic Language Processing (ACL -2001), among others. This workshop proposal follows in the footsteps of these efforts to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work. This workshop is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic NLP in the Arab World and the West. We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: * Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. * Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc. * Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc. Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or mixed. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. Submissions are expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references. Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text error correction (details below). =========== SHARED TASK =========== As part of the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014 (to be held in Doha, Qatar), we will conduct a shared task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction. We designed this task in the traditions of high profile shared tasks in natural language processing such as CONLLÕs grammar/error detection and correction shared tasks in 2011-2013 and numerous machine translation campaigns by NIST/WMT/MEDAR, among others. The task relies on resources created under the Qatar Arabic Language Bank (QALB) project (currently over 1M words of manually corrected Arabic text). A participating system in this shared task will be given Modern Standard Arabic texts, which are to be automatically corrected. The provided input will be provided in Arabic script and in a standard Romanization scheme, and will be annotated for part-of-speech (in three different granularities), clitics (which appear in 20% of Arabic words), lemmas, English glosses, and dependency tree relations. All of the input text will be preprocessed in a common way to make sure all participants have access to all of these features at no additional overhead novelty cost. An XML format will be used to encode all of this information. A participating system then returns a corrected version of the Arabic text that is one sentence per line in an XML format. The task is focused on correction as opposed to identification. There will not be an error identification task per se. Participants need to register. Once registered, all participating teams will be provided with a common training data set, which includes common preprocessed input and corrected output. A common development set will also be provided. A blind test data set will be used to evaluate the output of the participating teams. An evaluation script will be provided to all the teams. Participants are expected to author a short paper (4 pages + 2 for references) describing their approach, resources and experiments. The paper needs to follow the standard format of EMNLP conference. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Shared task registration period: April8, 2014 through July 1, 2014 Shared task test release: July 7, 2014 Shared task system output collection: July 18, 2014 Submission deadline (Workshop and shared task papers): July 26, 2014 Author notification: August 26, 2014 Camera Ready: September 15, 2014 Workshop: October 25, 2014 ========== ORGANIZERS ========== Program Co-chairs Nizar Habash, Columbia University Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute Publication Co-chairs Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Website Committee Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute Noura Farra, Columbia University Shared Task Committee Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Alla Rozovskaya, Columbia University Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Nizar Habash, Columbia University (advisory) Program Committee Members (TBA in Second Call) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:29 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:29 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Windows 7 and Arabic problem Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Windows 7 and Arabic problem -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Paul Roochnik Subject: Windows 7 and Arabic problem Dear Friends, I am having a weird technology problem; maybe somebody out there can help me. Here it is: My computer at school runs the Windows 7 operating system. When I try to type Arabic in MS Word, I must first hit the space bar or the Enter key a couple times before I can type any Arabic letters. Of course this seriously damages my productivity, because I must then delete the extra spaces. The technology gurus at my school have tried all levels of re-installation but nothing works. They even replaced my computer... and the second one has the same problem as the first! By the way, this problem does not affect English. And just for fun, I experimented with Thai, Russian, and Hebrew keyboards: all had the same problem as Arabic. Has anyone else encountered this glitch? Any ideas? Cheers, Abu Sammy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:06 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:06 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Exam for CAASIC at AUC set for April 28th Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Exam for CAASIC at AUC set for April 28th -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Dalal Aboelseoud Subject: Exam for CAASIC at AUC set for April 28th *The Arabic Language Instruction Department at AUC announces that the writing exam for the Center of Advanced Arabic Studies in Cairo (CAASIC) will be held on the 28th of April, 2014. Accordingly, we take this opportunity to urge you to **immerse yourself in Advanced Arabic language study, **benefiting from AUC's state-of-the-art facilities, top-notch faculty, **content-based learning and community tasks. **Join the all-year CAASIC program, with reduced fees.* *Send your applications before April the 28th. * *For more information about the program, visit the following site: http://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/ALI/CAASIC/Pages/default.aspx * -- Dalal Abo El Seoud, Chair Department of Arabic Language Instruction Academy of Liberal Arts American University in Cairo -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:18:59 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:18:59 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Maryland Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: U of Maryland Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Valerie Anishchenkova Subject: U of Maryland Summer Program Dear Colleagues in Arabic and Persian Studies, The University of Maryland invites your students to participate in the UMD Summer Language Institute in Arabic and Persian this Summer 2014. We wanted to reach out to you directly about this opportunity, as fellow educators who strive to promote the teaching of critical languages and cultures. With low flat rate tuition for both in and out-of-state students (just $6,000 for 9.5 weeks), small class sizes, and dedicated faculty, this is a great way for your students to get a head start on language learning, to maintain their language over the summer, or to take courses in a language or at a level that may not be possible at their home university. UMD Summer Language Institute highlights: · One full academic year (12 credits) of language learning in one intensive summer · Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced instruction in small and carefully tailored classes capped at appr. 12 students per class · Language partners for additional support, one-on-one speaking practice, and tutoring · Varied and interesting hands-on cultural events and field trips, making the most of our proximity to Washington, DC · More than 35 hours of in-language coursework, language partners, and cultural activities per week · Competitive scholarships available to help offset the cost of attendance · FLAS funding eligible Additional information about our Arabic and Persian Summer Institutes can be found at our website: http://sllc.umd.edu/special-programs/summerinstitute. I also encourage you to watch our short video about what makes our program unique. Please contact us with any questions you may have at umdsi at umd.edu, and thank you for taking the time to learn more about our programs. Yours sincerely, Valerie Anishchenkova Director of Arabic Programs University of Maryland ___________________________________ UMD Summer Language Institute School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures University of Maryland 301-405-9266 / umdsi at umd.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:27 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:27 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Horizons of Islamic Theology Conference in Frankfurt Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Horizons of Islamic Theology Conference in Frankfurt -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: "Brustad, Kristen" Subject: Horizons of Islamic Theology Conference in Frankfurt Call for papers: The Zentrum für Islamische Studien (Center for Islamic Studies) at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is pleased to announce the congress Horizonte der islamischen Theologie (Horizons of Islamic Theology) to be held from Monday 1 to Friday 5 September 2014 at the University of Frankfurt. The study of Near and Middle East past and present as well as the study of the philologia sacra demands an ever-growing expert knowledge of the methods and theories of history, sociology and literature. In most academic institutions, however, the study of these fields is considered separate disciplines. As a consequence, Arabists and scholars of Islamic studies will normally study Classical Arabic to a certain level but rarely acquaint themselves with other Semitic languages, despite their importance with regard to the Biblical background of the Koran as well as the linguistic and cultural setting of the Koran and Early Islam. The section “Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies”, organized by Daniel Birnstiel (Frankfurt) and Na’ama Pat-El (University of Texas, Austin), attempts to highlight the benefits of a linguistic and comparative engagement of Arabic with other regional languages and societies for an improved understanding of Early Islam and its literary heritage. Already in 1923 in the introduction to his Arabische Syntax, Herrmann Reckendorf identified the investigation of Arabic Syntax from a historical perspective as one of the most pressing tasks of Arabic studies. Nevertheless, only a small number of corpus-based studies attempting to solve grammatical questions and difficulties have been published to date. This panel is dedicated to the presentation of new research in the field of Arabic syntax. We invite submissions to two panels “New Insights in Historical Arabic Syntax” and “Arabic and Semitic: How archaic is the fuṣḥā?”. Please submit abstracts no longer than 300 words to Dr. Daniel Birnstiel ( birnstiel at em.uni-frankfurt.de) and Dr. Na’ama Pat-El (npatel at austin.utexas.edu), accompanied by a short bio, by June 30 2014. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:02 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:02 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Two-year Visiting Arabic Position at Middlebury Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:Two-year Visiting Arabic Position at Middlebury -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: "Soltan, Usama" Subject: JOBS:Two-year Visiting Arabic Position at Middlebury Two-year Visiting Position in Arabic The Arabic Program at Middlebury College announces an opening for a two-year full-time visiting position at the Assistant Professor or Instructor level, beginning Fall 2014. Superior language proficiency in both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and English is required, and native or native-like proficiency in at least one Arabic dialect is strongly preferred. An M.A degree is required, but candidates with a PhD or ABD status are strongly preferred. The area of scholarly specialization is open. Candidates who hold a PhD will be appointed at the Visiting Assistant Professor level, and candidates with an MA degree or ABD status will be appointed at the Visiting Instructor level. The successful candidate will teach MSA courses at all levels, from beginning to advanced levels, and take part in the Arabic Program's regular activities. Candidates must have prior experience teaching MSA at the college level, preferably in a liberal arts college setting, and in accordance with the proficiency-based communicative approach to Arabic language pedagogy. Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in faculty teaching and research. An Equal Opportunity Employer, the College is committed to hiring a diverse faculty as we work to foster innovation in our curriculum and to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our increasingly diverse student body. Middlebury College uses Interfolio to collect faculty job applications electronically. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. Through Interfolio, candidates should submit a letter of application addressed to members of the Arabic search committee. The letter must include a section addressing the candidate's approach to Arabic language teaching, his/her prior experience teaching MSA, and a short statement regarding research interests. In addition, applications should include: an updated curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, and three current letters of recommendation (at least two of which must speak to teaching ability/promise). Inquiries regarding this position should be directed to Usama Soltan, Associate Professor of Arabic, at usoltan at middlebury.edu. Review of applications begins April 7, 2014, and will continue until the position is filled. To apply, please follow this link: http://apply.interfolio.com/24763. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:14 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:14 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:CFP Egypt in/and Literature at 2014 RMMLA Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:CFP Egypt in/and Literature at 2014 RMMLA -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Doaa Omran Subject: CFP Egypt in/and Literature at 2014 RMMLA Dear Ms/SirI am a PhD student in the University of New Mexico, USA and I am doing my research in Medieval literature. I also have an MA in comparative literature from the USA as well as a BA in English literature from Alexandria University. I have been attending the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) convention for the past two years. I presented my work twice there as well as being a panelist in the 2013 convention. This year I thought of initiating something new; a panel on "Egypt in/and Literature". I proposed that to the conference committee and it got approved. The 2014 RMMLA conference will be held in Idaho state between 9th-11th October 2014. I am emailing you to circulate the word for those willing to submit an abstract to me by email Domran at unm.edu. I want to have a successful session and am looking for good abstracts. That is definitely a good chance to participate in international academic dialogue. Good papers stand a good chance of being nominated for publication in the RMMLA convention journal and might be published. Here is the conference webpagehttp:// rmmla.innoved.org/call/default.asp< https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Frmmla%2Einnoved%2Eorg%2Fcall%2Fdefault%2Easp&urlhash=Nk1J > I would be extremely grateful if you would kindly pass the word. The deadline for sending a 300-500 word abstracts is Sunday April 20th. thanks in advance for your co-operation. sincerely * Reply All< https://www.linkedin.com/inbox/#action?mboxItemGID=S601293760_120&actionType=replyAllMEBC&csrfToken=ajax%3A3231156869683671318&trk=inbox_detail-comm-msg-replyall_bt >? Doaa Omran Teaching Assistant Doctoral Student English Department University of New Mexico Domran at unm.edu and Doaa77Omran at gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:25 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:25 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Arabic to English Translation MA Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Arabic to English Translation MA -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Lorena A Terando terando at uwm.edu Subject: U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Arabic to English Translation MA Hello, Caroline Seymour Jorn recommended your Arabic language listserv as a venue to spread the word about our MA in Arabic to English translation at University of WI - Milwaukee. Many professional translators begin training early in their careers, focusing their undergraduate work on translation-related skills; most go on to complete an MA in Translation or a related field before they go on to the job market. Once they do hit the job market, it doesn’t take long before they are gainfully employed. UW-Milwaukee’s Graduate Program offers translation study in Arabic to English. Students have the option between the 24-credit graduate certificate in translation and the 30-credit Masters of Arts with a concentration in Translation. Both can be earned in two academic years. It is still possible to begin study in academic year 2014-15; if interested, please see our web site at http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/translation/admissions/exam.cfm for information on admissions processes and our qualifying exam. The program is entirely online. You can like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/uwmtranslation. If you have questions, please contact me at terando at uwm.edu. Many thanks for your consideration, Lorena --- Lorena Terando Associate Professor of Translation Chair, Translation & Interpreting Studies UW – Milwaukee Curtin Hall 807 P.O. Box 413; 3243 N. Downer Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53201 tel: 414-229-5968 fax: 414-229-2939 www.uwm.edu/letsci/Translation -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:11 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:11 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:U of Arizona PT Replacement position Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:U of Arizona PT Replacement position -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Farwaneh, Samira Subject: JOBS:U of Arizona PT Replacement position Dear Arabic-L Members, I will be on research leave 2014-2015; the UA provided some funds for a part-time replacement position to teach fourth year MSA two semesters and two classes on Arabic linguistics. If you know anyone just graduated or an ABD about to graduate looking for a position to use as a springboard to better more permanent positions please encourage them to apply. Below is the announcement as it appears on the MESA bulletin. Thanks. Samira Farwaneh The University of Arizona Post Date March 25, 2014 Lecturer in Arabic Linguistics (one-year appointment, half-time) The School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) at the University of Arizona is seeking a one-year half-time Lecturer in Arabic Linguistics, starting August 18, 2014. The successful candidate will teach two undergraduate courses per semester, one of which will be 4th year Arabic (Fall and Spring), the other two courses will be in Arabic structural linguistics or sociolinguistics, particularly Language and Society (MENA 330). This one-year position is benefits-eligible and non-renewable. The School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona is home to a vibrant academic community, consisting of twelve core faculty members and over forty graduate students, more than half of whom are in the PhD program. It coordinates activities with the Title VI-funded Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Middle East Studies Association of North America, and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, all of which are located on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. For more about MENAS, see http://menas.arizona.edu/. Initial duties shall consist of: *Teaching two courses per semester, one of which will be 4th year Arabic (spring and fall), the other course will be in Arabic structural linguistics or Arabic sociolinguistics; *Assist with cultural enrichment activities for Arabic program. Qualifications: *PhD at time of appointment in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, or a related field. *Teaching experience *Expertise in subject area. *Candidates must have demonstrated expertise in Arabic Linguistics, relevant teaching experience, and a commitment to undergraduate education. Application Instructions: The complete application packet consists of a letter of interest, CV, and the names and contact information of three academic references. Applicants are welcome to submit supporting evidence of teaching excellence. The application, letter of interest and CV must be submitted online. The link follows: www.uacareertrack.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=211242 Additional supporting documents can be emailed to Miriam Saleh, Administrative Associate, at mcsaleh at email.arizona.edu. Review of applications will begin April 14, 2014 and continue until the position is filled. ___________________________________________________________________________ Samira Farwaneh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Arabic Language and Linguistics Director of Graduate Studies, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, P.O. Box 210158B; L. F. Marshall #440, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0158B Phone: (520) 621-8629; Fax: (520) 621-2333 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:22 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:22 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Al Akhawayn Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Al Akhawayn Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Meriem Sahli Subject: Al Akhawayn Summer Program Summer 2014 in Morocco Spend your summer learning Arabic language and culture in the beautiful area of the Atlas mountains at Al Akhawayn University. Arabic Language & North African Studies Program Components · College credit · Cultural and linguistic immersion · Study of North African issues . Service-learning program · Field trips · Family homestay weekend . Tutoring sessions A year of Arabic in 8 weeks or a semester in 4 weeks with internationally experienced faculty and oral proficiency certified testers Session 1: June 2 – June 27, 2014 and / or session 2: June 30 – July 25, 2014 Application deadline: April 30, 2014 coordinator of the program: Dr. Mohammed Bounajma m.bounejma at aui.ma Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane Hassan II Avenue, 53000 Ifrane, Morocco Tel: (+212)-535- 862-427/012 Fax : (+212)-535-862-977 Email: arabic at aui.ma www.aui.ma/arabic ________________________________________________ Meriem Sahli Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane ( AUI ) P.O.Box 104, Avenue Hassan II, Ifrane 53000, Morocco Tlf: (212) 35 86 24 70 E-mail: m.sahli at aui.ma meriemsahli at gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:04 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:04 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Dissertation:Phonological Outcomes of Contact in Palestinian Arabic of Jaffa Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: New Dissertation:Phonological Outcomes of Contact in Palestinian Arabic of Jaffa -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Uri Horesh Subject: New Dissertation:Phonological Outcomes of Contact in Palestinian Arabic of Jaffa Institution: University of Essex Program: MPhil/PhD in Linguistics Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2014 Author: Uri Horesh Dissertation Title: Phonological outcomes of language contact in the Palestinian Arabic dialect of Jaffa Dissertation URL: http://bit.ly/horeshphd Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Phonology Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Arabic, South Levantine (ajp) Hebrew (heb) Dissertation Director(s): Enam Al-Wer Dissertation Abstract: This is a thesis in variationist sociolinguistics. It attempts to make a contribution to the study of a dialect of Arabic—Palestinian Arabic—spoken in a region where the population is gradually becoming engulfed in a language, which was once quite similar to Arabic, namely Hebrew, but has undergone drastic changes, particularly in its phonological structure, as a result of contact with European languages. Now, Modern Hebrew is acting as a colonizing language vis-à-vis Palestinian Arabic, and in this study we are exploring the effects the contact between the two languages on the phonology of Arabic in the town of Jaffa, where Arabic-speaking Palestinians and Hebrew-speaking Israeli Jews reside, perhaps not in harmony, but nonetheless in the same urban space. Employing quantitative methods for one linguistic variable and a sociohistorical analysis for another, we make the case that the two variables observed in this study are but a fragment of the entire complex. Examples from the data collected are provided and briefly analyzed, some of which are from other domains of the language, and these will be further explored at a later date. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:17 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:17 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:4th International Conf on Language Documentation and Conservation CFP Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: 4th International Conf on Language Documentation and Conservation CFP -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: National Foreign Language Resource Center Subject: 4th International Conf on Language Documentation and Conservation CFP 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION & CONSERVATION CALL FOR PROPOSALS: General papers, posters, electronic posters and Sponsored Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation Please read carefully as some information has changed since last year. INTRODUCTION The 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), “Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application,” will be held February 26-March 1, 2015, at the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. The conference is hosted by the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and is sponsored in part by the US National Science Foundation. The program for this 3 ½ day conference will feature two keynote talks, an integrated series of Master Classes on the documentation of linguistic structures, and a series of Sponsored Special Sessions on pedagogy in language conservation. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawai‘i) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will immediately follow the conference. The theme of the 4th ICLDC, “Enriching Theory, Practice, and Application,” highlights the need to strengthen the links between language documentation (practice), deep understanding of grammatical structure (theory), and methods for teaching endangered languages (application). At this conference, we intend to focus on language documentation as the investigation of grammar and linguistic structure on the one hand, and the development of that investigation into sound pedagogy for endangered languages on the other. We hope you will join us. For more information and links to past conferences, visit our conference website: http://icldc-hawaii.org/ 1. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: GENERAL CONFERENCE TALKS, POSTERS, AND ELECTRONIC POSTERS Proposal deadline: August 31, 2014 Topics We especially welcome abstracts that address the conference theme, “Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application.” Discipline-wide reflection on the relationship between the documentation of grammatical structure and language pedagogy is crucial if the proper documentation and conservation of endangered languages is to be effective. Our aim here is two-fold: to create citizen scientists who can reflect on their language for the purpose of teaching and documenting without being hindered by metalanguage, and to enrich the contributions of linguists to linguistic theory and description via documentation. We are also seeking abstracts on the science of documentation and revitalization. Documentation is usually portrayed as a means of collecting language data, and revitalization is generally seen primarily as a kind of applied work directly benefiting communities. However, each of those domains is a genuine area of research, and we welcome presentations that treat documentation and revitalization not merely as activities, but also as domains requiring discussion, clarification, and theorization in their own right. In addition to the topics above, we warmly welcome abstracts on other subjects in language documentation and conservation, which may include but are not limited to: - Archiving matters - Community experiences of revitalization - Data management - Ethical issues - Language planning - Lexicography and grammar design - Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality - Orthography design - Teaching/learning small languages - Technology in documentation – methods and pitfalls - Topics in areal language documentation - Training in documentation methods – beyond the university - Assessing success in documentation and revitalization strategies Presentation formats Papers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of question time. Posters will be on display throughout the day of presentation. Poster presentations will run during the early afternoon. Poster presentations are recommended for authors who wish to present smaller, more specific topics, or descriptions of particular projects. Electronic posters (e-posters) are opportunities for presentations of software, websites, and other computer-based projects, in an environment that allows face-to-face interaction with the audience. Similar to a traditional poster session, e-poster presenters will use their own laptop computers to display their projects while the audience walks around, watching demonstrations and asking questions. E-poster sessions will take place in the early afternoon in a room with tables and internet access. 2. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SPONSORED SPECIAL SESSIONS ON PEDAGOGY IN LANGUAGE CONSERVATION Proposal deadline: May 31, 2014 Special Session Topics and Format This year, we are inviting proposals for a series of four Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation. Each session will contain four talks and will be focused on a theme relating to the notion of pedagogy for endangered language teaching. Endangered language teaching in the language community is often informed by only the most generic of language pedagogies, and language teachers are often frustrated by the lack of methodologies that go beyond short conversation, basic vocabulary, and constructions that can be taught by methods like Total Physical Response (e.g., Asher 1969). Compounding the problem, these same trained teachers may not have enough linguistic knowledge of the subject language to develop robust teaching materials and programs, while linguists with command of linguistic structure may not have the teaching training required to properly educate students or inform language teachers. In the past we have followed the “Ken Hale” model of training endangered language speakers in linguistics. We have created reference grammars and pedagogical grammars, and most documentation projects include some component for creating teaching materials. What is still lacking from the discipline is a systematic discussion of how to transform documentary materials like annotated corpora and reference grammars into an effective pedagogical workflow for endangered languages (e.g., reference grammar to pedagogical grammar to teaching materials to pedagogical methods to assessment of teaching programs). There is a disconnect between linguistic theory and pedagogical theory, and we aim to bridge this gap during these Special Sessions. Each Special Session on Pedagogy in Language Conservation will consist of four 20-minute presentation slots, with each slot to be followed by a 10 minute question period. One Special Session will occur each day of the conference in the same room and time. A total of four Special Sessions will be invited to present at the ICLDC. Successful proposals will be thematically unified on a particular aspect of pedagogy in language conservation. These may include, but are not limited to: - Acquisition: What can L1 and L2 acquisition studies teach us that is relevant for developing classroom materials and curricula? - Teaching methods: What language teaching methods and activities can be brought to endangered language teachers to enhance language learning and retention? - Understanding and conveying complex grammar: What specific activities in the classroom could be used to teach higher level constructions (e.g., complex clauses, information structure, or particle use)? - Assessment: How can we properly assess teaching programs for radically less commonly taught languages? Sponsorship details Thanks to generous support from the US National Science Foundation, we are able to offer sponsorship in the form of travel assistance in the amount of US$2400 for each selected Special Session. The organizer of each Session will determine how that sum is to be divided among the speakers and will inform the ICLDC Executive Committee; depending on each circumstance, funds will be provided as (partial) flight reimbursements, hotel nights, or per diem payments (to be determined by the ICLDC Executive Committee). 3. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Rules for submission in all categories: - Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the region discussed. - Authors may submit no more than one individual and one co-authored proposal (including participation in a Special Session proposal), or no more than two co-authored proposals. In no case may an author submit more than one individually-authored proposal. - Proposals for the sponsored Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation are due by May 31, 2014, with notification of acceptance by June 30, 2014. - Proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters are due by August 31, 2014, with notification of acceptance by October 1, 2014. - Individual authors whose proposals for the Special Sessions are rejected are welcome to submit their abstracts individually to the call for general proposals. - We will not be accepting any proposals for panel presentations or colloquia beyond the Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation. - Because of limited space, please note that the Abstract Review Committee may ask that some general abstracts submitted as papers be presented as posters or electronic posters instead. - Selected authors will be invited to submit their conference papers to the journal Language Documentation & Conservation for publication. How to prepare your proposal: - For Special Session proposals: Special session organizers must submit their proposal on behalf of the authors included in the session. We ask the organizer to prepare an abstract of no more than 400 words for the Special Session as a whole, and to also submit abstracts of no more than 400 words for each paper in the Session. We also ask for a 50-word summary of the Special Session and of each paper in the session for inclusion in the conference program. All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts on the topic. - For proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters: We ask for abstracts of no more than 400 words for online publication so that conference participants will have a good idea of the content of your paper, and a 50-word summary for inclusion in the conference program. All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts on the topic. - To facilitate blind peer review, please DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME OR AFFILIATION in your abstract or filename. Your proposal should only include your presentation title, abstract, and list of references (if applicable). - If you are including references/citations to your own work in your abstract, please be sure to replace your name(s) with "Author". For example, if you are Ted Smith and you wrote an article in 2009, which you are citing in your file (i.e., Smith (2009) ), you would change it to "Author (2009)." If you are including a list of references at the end, also make sure to anonymize any of your publications similarly as well. - Please note that your reference list is not counted in your 400-word abstract maximum, only the main abstract text. - Please save your abstract as an MS WORD DOCUMENT or PDF FILE. MS Word is preferred. However, if you are using special fonts, special characters, or diagrams in your abstract, a PDF file is recommended to make sure it displays as you intend. - For a FILE NAME, use an abbreviated version of your title. For example, if your presentation title is "Revitalizing Hawaiian for the next generation: Social media tools," your filename might be "Revitalizing_Hawaiian.doc" or "Revitalizing_Hawaiian_social_media.pdf" To submit an online proposal, visit http://www.icldc4.icldc-hawaii.org and click on "Call For Proposals." Proposal review criteria - Appropriateness of the Topic: Does the paper/poster address the themes of the conference or Special Session? - Presentation: Is the abstract well-written? Does it suggest that the paper/poster will be well organized and clearly presented? - Importance of the Topic: Is this an important topic within the area? Is the paper/poster likely to make an original contribution to knowledge in the field? Will it stimulate discussion? - Contribution to the discipline: For talks, does the presentation make a methodological or theoretical contribution to the discipline? If not (e.g., project descriptions), could the presentation be submitted as a poster or electronic poster? 4. TIMELINE - April 1, 2014: Call for Proposals announced - May 31, 2014: Proposals for Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation deadline - June 30, 2014: Notification of acceptance to Special Sessions - August 31, 2014: Proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters deadline - October 1, 2014: Notification of acceptance for general papers, posters, and electronic posters - October 1, 2014: Early registration opens - January 15, 2015: Early registration deadline - February 26-March 1, 2015: 4th ICLDC 5. SCHOLARSHIPS To help defray travel expenses to come and present at the conference, scholarships of up to US$1,500 will be awarded to the six best abstracts by (i) students and/or (ii) members of an endangered language community who are actively working to document their heritage language and who are not employed by a college or university. If you are eligible and wish to be considered for a scholarship, please select the appropriate "Yes" button on the proposal submission form. This is applicable to regular conference papers only (not to the Special Sessions). NOTE: Please be advised that these scholarships are considered taxable income under U.S. tax laws. U.S. citizens and permanent residents can expect to receive a 1099 form to figure into their annual tax return for 2015. Non-U.S. citizens/residents may have the applicable taxable amount (typically 30%) deducted from the scholarship check prior to receipt. Questions? Feel free to contact us at icldc at hawaii.edu Andrea L. Berez, Victoria Anderson, and Jim Yoshioka 4th ICLDC Executive Committee -- Jim Yoshioka Program Coordinator ************************************************************ *National Foreign Language Resource Center* University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa 1859 East-West Road #106 Honolulu, HI 96822-2322 Phone: 808-956-9424 Email: nflrc at hawaii.edu Website: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu NFLRC Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/NFLRC/ NFLRC Twitter page: http://www.twitter.com/NFLRC/ NFLRC YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/nflrchawaii ************************************************************ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 16 14:44:14 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:44:14 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Digital Islamic Humanities Workshop at Brown University Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 15 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Digital Islamic Humanities Workshop at Brown University -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 15 Apr 2014 From: Maggie Nassif Subject: Digital Islamic Humanities Workshop at Brown University Textual Corpora and the Digital Islamic Humanities: A Workshop October 17-18, 2014 | Brown University Call for Applications The Middle East Studies Initiative at Brown University is pleased to announce a two-day workshop on October 17-18, 2014, which will be devoted to digital textual corpora. Online libraries and digital repositories such as al-Maktaba al-Shamela and al-Warraq – which contain thousands of texts and hundreds of millions of words – are transforming the study of Islamic literatures and history. This workshop will comprise a series of introductory sessions on various digital tools and methodologies (e.g. geo-referencing, text encoding and processing, graph visualization, and other topics) aimed to provide scholars of the Islamic world with an orientation to the valuable research possibilities afforded by these tools. No prior experience is necessary to apply. The sessions will be highly interactive and introductory in nature. There will be a poster session for more advanced participants to showcase their work designing, developing, and utilizing textual corpora. This event builds on the success of last year’s landmark conference on “The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies,” which was held at Brown in October 2013. The workshop is generously supported by the Brown Humanities Research & Teaching Initiative. Applications: We welcome applications from faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students in diverse disciplines. Interested candidates are kindly requested to submit: (1) a brief statement of their interest in the workshop and any relevant experience in the digital humanities; (2) an up-to-date CV. Applicants who would like to present their work in the poster session should also submit a brief abstract that describes the project that will be presented. Applications should be submitted via email to digitalhumanitiesconference at gmail.com. The deadline for applications is May 15, 2014, and successful applicants will be notified by early June. All participants must pay for their own travel expenses, but limited funding may be available to cover hotel accommodations, with priority given to graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Brown University is located in Providence, Rhode Island, one hour south of Boston and easily accessible by train and plane. For any questions, please contact Dr. Elias Muhanna at the email address above. Additional information will soon be available on the project website (http://islamichumanities.org). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 15 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 16 14:44:23 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:44:23 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:U of Oregon Non-tenure Track Arabic Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 15 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:U of Oregon Non-tenure Track Arabic Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 15 Apr 2014 From: Hanan M Ahmad Subject: JOBS:U of Oregon Non-tenure Track Arabic Job University of Oregon Post Date April 10, 2014 Full-time Instructor of Arabic The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon invites applications for a full-time Instructor of Arabic. The successful applicant will teach undergraduate language classes in Modern Standard Arabic at the first-, second-, and third-year levels. The position is a nine-month, fixed term, non-tenure-track contract, with the possibility of repeated renewal and eventual promotion to a senior instructor position, contingent on excellent performance and instructional need. Salary is commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits, see:http://hr.uoregon.edu/benefits/. Our multi-sectioned programs value creative teachers who work well in a collaborative environment. The successful candidate will have the ability to work with faculty, staff, and students from diverse backgrounds in a North American academic setting. Required qualifications include: M.A. in Arabic, Foreign Language Education, or a closely related field; professional-level proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic and English; ability and willingness to teach introductory and intermediate courses in Modern Standard Arabic; and ability to work collaboratively as a member of an instructional team. For a full position announcement see http://hr.uoregon.edu/jobs. Preference will be given to candidates with a record of excellence in university-level language teaching; previous teaching experience at a North American institution of higher education; knowledge of current methods of Arabic language pedagogy, including the communicative approach; thorough knowledge of Arabic grammar; and experience in curriculum development, proficiency assessment, or other areas of program development. Interest in and ability to teach classes on Arab culture and cinema desirable. To apply, please submit a letter of application, CV, and three letters of reference to this website:https:// academicjobsonline.org/. The application letter should discuss how the candidate meets the above criteria, his or her educational philosophy, Arabic courses previously taught, and textbooks previously assigned. Application review will commence May 12, 2014, and continue until the position is filled. The University of Oregon is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disability Act. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 15 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 16 14:44:26 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:44:26 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Responses to Windows 7 Arabic problem Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 15 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Responses to Windows 7 Arabic problem 2) Subject: Responses to Windows 7 Arabic problem -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 15 Apr 2014 From: Gerhard Wedel Subject: Responses to Windows 7 Arabic problem Dear Paul, perhaps you know me from some ICEMCO meetings in UK in the 90ties!? If you want to stop anger I would recommend to use a quite different Office package, e.g.: LibreOffice version 4.2.2 http://www.libreoffice.org/ With its wordprocessor WRITE I write German, English Arabic, Hebrew and Umschrift (transliteration of Semitic languages)! Or if you prefere another free Office : Apache Open Office 4.0.1 http://www.openoffice.org/ So change to a better software and cheer up, Gerhard Wedel, Berlin - Germany P.S. By the way I also use WIN 7 and hope never to change to "playmobile" WIN 8 which dearnges all serious Academics to work! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 15 Apr 2014 From: Virginia Vassar Subject: Responses to Windows 7 Arabic problem I know this doesn't solve the problem, but have you tried using Google drive? I started using it for Arabic and never stopped. It is simple and it works well. I think it will even spell check if you switch the language to Arabic. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 16 14:44:21 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:44:21 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:U of Miami Non-tenure Track Arabic Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 15 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:U of Miami Non-tenure Track Arabic Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 15 Apr 2014 From: "Civantos, Christina" Subject: JOBS:U of Miami Non-tenure Track Arabic Job University of Miami, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is seeking a Lecturer in Arabic for a full-time, non-tenure-track, academic year 2014/15 appointment. The successful candidate will be expected to teach elementary and intermediate Arabic language courses. Superior level proficiency in Arabic and a solid command of English are required. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses and meeting with students for 3 office hours per week per class, and attending faculty meetings as required. Qualifications include a commitment to excellence in Arabic language pedagogy and the candidate must have a minimum of one year of collegiate teaching experience and an M.A. in Arabic literary and cultural studies or linguistics in hand by July 30, 2014. The preferred candidate will have formal training in the teaching of foreign language and specifically in the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Preference will be given to candidates whose materials are received by April 25, 2014. Interested candidates may apply electronically to mll.facultysearch at miami.edu - or mail the application to the address below. (Do not apply online via the university's website.) In either case, the application should consist of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, transcripts, and three letters of recommendation. Dr. George Yudice, Chair of Search Committee University of Miami Department of Modern Languages and Literatures P.O. Box 248093 Coral Gables, FL 33124-2074. Position# 044445. The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical and dental benefits, tuition remission, vacation, paid holidays and much more. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. --------------------------------------------------------- Christina Civantos, PhD Associate Professor Director of Arabic Studies Department of Modern Languages & Literatures University of Miami http://www.as.miami.edu/mll/people/ChristinaCivantos ccivantos at miami.edu< https://umail.miami.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=495D1RR6kEScJMPZZf6MC18wLDh-yM8I0yPpeBAxqxvHgnOkbibueoEvCDssQfyn0vWyVKDlRBM.&URL=mailto%3accivantos%40miami.edu > 305-284-4858, ext. 7265 Merrick Bldg. 210-19 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 15 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 16 14:44:29 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:44:29 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Free Summer Arabic Program at Bennett College, Greensboro, NC Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 15 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Free Summer Arabic Program at Bennett College, Greensboro, NC -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 15 Apr 2014 From: Maurice Hines Subject: Free Summer Arabic Program at Bennett College, Greensboro, NC I would like to announce a free Summer Arabic Intensive Program being offered at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina. We will be offering four levels of Arabic taught by Professor Maurice Hines in two sessions. The first session begins May 19th. *SUMMER ARABIC AT BENNETT COLLEGE* (Free & Open to the Public) - Have you always wanted to explore the secrets of one of the coolest languages on the planet? - Do you want a more in depth knowledge of Qur'anic, Modern Standard and Colloquial Arabic? - Do you express yourself with creative projects? This is the summer intensive you've been waiting for! Meeting Times *Session I* May 19th -June 12th - Elementary Arabic I (Mon.-Thurs. 1pm-4pm) Theme: Intro. to Arabic Sounds, Script & Expressions - Intermediate Arabic I (Mon.-Thurs. 5:30pm-8:30pm) Theme: Telling Your Story *Session II* June 30th-July 24th - Elementary Arabic II (Mon.-Thurs. 1pm-4pm) Theme: Express Yourself - Intermediate Arabic II (Mon.-Thurs. 5:30pm-8:30pm) Theme: Working With Arabic For more information contact: mlhines at bennett.edu or gbookman at bennett.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 15 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 23 21:25:39 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:25:39 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Duke University Arabic Instructor Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 23 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:Duke University Arabic Instructor Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Apr 2014 From: Mindy Marcus Subject: JOBS:Duke University Arabic Instructor Job Arabic Instructor at Duke University The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University invites applications for an annually renewable full-time position as an Arabic language instructor beginning Fall 2014. The successful candidate will join the fast growing Arabic program at Duke. The primary responsibilities consist of teaching intermediate and advanced courses, creating teaching materials, designing assessment tools, and organizing and participating in extra-curricular activities. The teaching load is maximum 5 courses per year or 12 contact hours per week, and the starting salary is between $40,000 and $42,000 for nine months, based on experience and qualifications. Candidates should have an M.A. or higher degree in Arabic language and literature, applied linguistics, or a related field, and must have native or near-native fluency in Arabic and fluency in English. Prior experience teaching Arabic at the university level is preferred, and knowledge of instructional technologies, interest in involvement in civic engagement activities and a desire to further pedagogical/professional development are desirable. Application deadline is June 6, 2014 or until the position is filled. Send: 1) a letter of application, 2) curriculum vitae, 3) sample lesson plans and teaching materials, and 4) three letters of reference to Chair of Arabic Instructor Search Committee, Dept. of AMES, Duke University, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708 by mail or email them to amesdept at duke.edu. Duke University is Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 23 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 23 21:25:45 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:25:45 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Jojhns Hopkins U Arabic Lecturer Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 23 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:Jojhns Hopkins U Arabic Lecturer Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Apr 2014 From: Carol Young Subject: JOBS:Jojhns Hopkins U Arabic Lecturer Job Johns Hopkins University, Lecturer in Arabic The Center for Language Education at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a Lecturer in ARABIC for the Academic Year 2014-2015. This is a one-year temporary position, but the successful candidate will have the opportunity to apply for a full-time position that will start in fall, 2015. The position for the academic year 2015-2016 is renewable based on performance. Responsibilities of the successful candidate include teaching a maximum of three levels of all four levels of Arabic (1st year to 4th year Arabic for a total of 12 contact hours per week). Minimum qualifications are: 1. M.A. in Arabic Studies (with specialization in linguistics, applied linguistics or a closely related field) 2. Native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English 3. At least 3 years of experience in teaching Arabic as a foreign language at the university level. 4. Strong grounding in communicative and proficiency-oriented teaching 5. Strong computer literacy (PowerPoint, Excel, etc.). Interested candidates should submit their application and all supporting materials via Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/24808 by May 20th, 2014, and include: 1. Letter of application (cover letter) including statement of teaching philosophy 2. Curriculum vitae 3. Names and email addresses of three references 4. A video demonstration of your teaching including an introduction of yourself in English and Arabic at the beginning of the video. (We do not accept DVDs by surface mail. A YouTube link address with password is acceptable.) Should you have any questions, please e-mail Dr. Yuki Johnson at yuki.johnson at jhu.edu JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER COMMITTED TO RECRUITING, SUPPORTING, AND FOSTERING A DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF OUTSTANDING FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS. 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This material was used as training data in the DARPA GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) program. Parallel aligned treebanks are treebanks annotated with morphological and syntactic structures aligned at the sentence level and the sub-sentence level. Such data sets are useful for natural language processing and related fields, including automatic word alignment system training and evaluation, transfer-rule extraction, word sense disambiguation, translation lexicon extraction and cultural heritage and cross-linguistic studies. With respect to machine translation system development, parallel aligned treebanks may improve system performance with enhanced syntactic parsers, better rules and knowledge about language pairs and reduced word error rate. In this release, the source Arabic data was translated into English. Arabic and English treebank annotations were performed independently. The parallel texts were then word aligned. LDC previously released Arabic-English Parallel Aligned Treebanks as follows: - Newswire - Broadcast News Part 1 - Broadcast News Part 2 This release consists of Arabic source web data (newsgroups, weblogs) collected by LDC in 2004 and 2005. All data is encoded as UTF-8. A count of files, words, tokens and segments is below. Language Files Words Tokens Segments Arabic 162 46,710 69,766 3,178 Note: Word count is based on the untokenized Arabic source, token count is based on the ATB-tokenized Arabic source. The purpose of the GALE word alignment task was to find correspondences between words, phrases or groups of words in a set of parallel texts. Arabic-English word alignment annotation consisted of the following tasks: - Identifying different types of links: translated (correct or incorrect) and not translated (correct or incorrect) - Identifying sentence segments not suitable for annotation, e.g., blank segments, incorrectly-segmented segments, segments with foreign languages - Tagging unmatched words attached to other words or phrases -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 23 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 23 21:25:42 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:25:42 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Book:Book in Sahlawayhi Series on the Arabic Alphabet Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 23 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Apr 2014 From: Ahmed Hassan Khorshid Subject: Dear friends & colleagues, The newest book in the Sahlawayhi series, The Arabic Alphabet, is already out. It's based on the following principles: 1. Based on the philosophy that language learning/ teaching should start orally, it introduces the letters without the diacritic marks in the first stage. Students see pictures (all in color), they have their sounds and they can read without the diacritic marks. So, the sounds will help them understand and master the alphabet. Instead of going from the alphabet to vocab. (unknown to unknown), they go from vocab./sound to letters (known to unknown). 2. In the second stage, when students can read & write the language they already know, they will learn the diacritic marks in order to read & write the language they don't know. 3. The book starts explaining the principles of writing with the first half of the alphabet only. Words chosen in this section are covered by the first half of the alphabet. After mastering the first half, the second is introduced. 4. The book separates printing/ beginners' style (naskh) from advanced hand writing (ruq'a) so that students learn one style at a time. 5. The main type of exercises is tracing. Students trace the words in front of pictures. Then, the order of pictures changes, and students are asked to match words with pictures, which teaches the students to read the first letter or two by eye, and then finish reading words using their background knowledge. 6. This book can be used by children and adults, so long as they start learning Arabic orally. It's available through amazon.com and Amazon's European sites. I hope this book makes learning the Arabic alphabet easier. salaam. -- Ahmed Khorshid Arabic Language Instructor -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 23 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The overall condition of the books is mostly very good or at least good. Our offer: - purchase of single antiquarian copies (first come, first served) - 10% discount for any single book - 25% discount when ordering 5 or more books - plus shipping charges (surface or air mail delivery) - plus 7% VAT (within the EU - if no VAT ID can be supplied only) - our institutional and regular customers can order on open account - first-time customers: credit card or pre-payment by bank transfer preferred - offer is valid until 6 May 2014 only Looking forward to your orders. Best regards from Berlin (Ms) Dagmar Konrad :::::::: FOR YOUR email or fax ORDER (Fax +49 30 3235667) ::::::::: To order please send us an email or a fax. Our order form and title list can be downloaded from here: http://www.gerlach-books.de/books_offers.php GERLACH BOOKS & ONLINE - MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES < www.gerlach-books.de> Heilbronner Strasse 10 D-10711 Berlin (Halensee), Germany TEL +49 30 3249441 FAX +49 30 3235667 MAIL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 23 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 23 21:25:34 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:25:34 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NEW BOOK:Handbook of Arabic Literacy Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 23 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: NEW BOOK:Handbook of Arabic Literacy -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Apr 2014 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: NEW BOOK:Handbook of Arabic Literacy Title: Handbook of Arabic Literacy Subtitle: Insights and Perspectives Series Title: Literacy Studies Publication Year: 2014 Publisher: Springer http://www.springer.com Book URL: http://www.springer.com/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29/book/978-94-017-8544-0 Editor: Elinor Saiegh-Haddad Editor: R. Malatesha Joshi Hardback: ISBN: 9789401785440 Pages: 445 Price: Europe EURO 129.99 Abstract: This book provides a synopsis of recently published empirical research into the acquisition of reading and writing in Arabic. Its particular focus is on the interplay between the linguistic and orthographic structure of Arabic and the development of reading and writing/spelling. In addition, the book addresses the socio-cultural, political, and educational milieu in which Arabic literacy is embedded. It enables readers to appreciate both the implications of empirical research to literacy enhancement, and the challenges and limitations to the applicability of such insights in the Arabic language and literacy context. The book will advance the understanding of the full context of literacy acquisition in Arabic with the very many factors (religious, historical, linguistic, etc.) that interact, and will, hence, contribute to weakening the anglocentricity that dominates discussions of this topic. Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Written In: English (eng) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=70137 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 23 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 23 21:25:28 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:25:28 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Windows 7 Arabic Problem response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 23 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Windows 7 Arabic Problem response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Apr 2014 From: Alec McAllister Subject: Windows 7 Arabic Problem response Dear Abu Sammy, I have never seen this precise problem, but I have seen problems that are analogous. This is very unlikely to be a bug in either Windows 7 (but see P.S. below) or in Word; my university has thousands of people using dozens of languages, and we don’t experience this problem. Therefore, it is more likely to be a side-effect of some other setting. Sometimes it is very difficult to work out exactly which feature is controlling the behaviour of the keyboard, because it can be affected (sometimes indirectly) by different settings in Windows itself, in Office as a whole, and in Word in particular. There have even been cases when third-party software interferes with input. I have never experience it myself, but I have heard that an add-in such as PDF Complete can sometimes have this sort of effect, in which case the solution would be to disable it. It might be worth looking at Control Panel … Region and Language … Keyboards and Languages … Change keyboards … Advanced Key Settings. One or more key sequences might be defined as (a) shortcut(s) to switch between keyboard mappings. In particular, if Chinese input is enabled on your computer, you might find that it is very difficult to switch off the default shortcuts for changing between the various Chinese input methods, and those shortcuts can interfere with input in other languages. (To be precise, it is quite easy to switch the Chinese shortcuts off; the difficult bit is to make them *stay* switched off. It is as if the software says “I understand that you want to use this shortcut for an English or Arabic keyboard, but I insist on using it for Chinese.”) If more than one keyboard is installed for any particular language, it is wise to check whether the default keyboard is really the one that you want. The system might be loading one that doesn’t meet your needs, and then having to load a different one, in the light of whatever characters you type next. It might also be worth looking at the settings within Word. Some of Word’s keyboard shortcuts can have unexpected effects on input, particularly those to do with formatting and Styles, such as Control-Spacebar, which is the default for “Change whatever text is selected back to the default formatting/Style”. If you haven’t got anything selected (or don’t realize that anything is selected), the results of such shortcuts can be a bit baffling. The formatting used in the cursor’s location might itself be a factor. This is a huge oversimplification, but a good mental model is to think that Word stores the formatting information for a paragraph in the (usually invisible) paragraph mark that ends the paragraph. If the cursor is before that mark and you press Return, you create a new paragraph, which inherits the formatting of the previous one; that formatting might affect subsequent input. However, if you press Spacebar to pass the paragraph mark, you don’t create a new paragraph; if there is already a paragraph after that point, its formatting will be unaffected by the formatting of the previous paragraph. I hope this helps. Best wishes, Alec McAllister University of Leeds P.S. We did find a bug in Windows 7; it causes the Arabic (Egypt) keyboard to disappear from the list of available keyboards from time to time, but that bug can’t be causing your problem. It took us seven months to convince Microsoft that the bug existed, but they have now promised to correct it in a routine update. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 23 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 2 15:24:10 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:24:10 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Jordan Language Academy programs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Jordan Language Academy programs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Apr 2014 From: Manal Dabit Subject: Jordan Language Academy programs Jordan Language Academy has the pleasure to renew its invitation to your students to join our Intensive Programs in Arabic language and culture for SUMMER 2014 (http://www.jordanla.com/2014/Summer_Flyer_2014.pdf), semester I, semester II and our winter intensive programs ( http://www.jordanla.com/2014/Calendar_2014-2015.pdf). We will be very grateful if you forward this e-mail to your students and colleagues who are interested in Arabic language or translation courses. If you need any further information please do not hesitate to contact us. To view our 2014/2015 Academic CALENDAR, http://www.jordanla.com/2014/Calendar_2014-2015.pdf. Looking forward to welcome you and your students at Jordan Language Academy. Yours, Manal Dabit Jordan Language Academy Tel: +962-6-5820985 Fax: +962-6-5820986 Mobile: +962-779-502220 www.jordanla.com courses at jordanla.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 2 15:24:15 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:24:15 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Noor Majan Institute Summer programs in Oman Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Noor Majan Institute Summer programs in Oman -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Apr 2014 From: info at noormajan-institute.com Subject: Noor Majan Institute Summer programs in Oman Arabian Summer Are you still looking for an unforgettable summer experience? Sign up for one of Noor Majan Training Institute?s sought after summer intensive courses! Our intensive Arabic courses in June and August offer challenging and productive Arabic studies in a friendly and supportive learning environment, in a small Omani town soaked with Oman?s rich and unique tradition. In Ibri, as rarely found in the Gulf, Arabic is still the language of day-to-day communication and the only language of instruction at our institute. Experience Arabic language and culture up close and use your summer to boost your MSA skills and media literacy while becoming more fluent and confident in both Fusha and dialect conversation! Course overview Course Dates Levels Hours of instruction Fees June June 1 ? 26, 2014 Intermediate, Advanced II 80 770 OMR August August 3 ? 28, 2014 Beginner, Advanced I 80 770 OMR The course fees include tuition, course materials, accommodation, airport transfers, daily transportation between home and institute, lunches on weekdays and excursions. To register please use our online registration form at http://www.noormajan-institute.com/index.php/registration-form/form/3. For further information please contact Samira Selle at samira.selle at noormajan-institute.com We?re looking forward to welcoming you to our international and diverse student body! See you this summer in sha Allah! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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CIL is the most experienced Arabic program in Oman for US, UK and European students, with eight full-time faculty teaching at all proficiency levels, and scholarships still available. CIL is considered to have the strongest Arabic programs in the region, and its president and academic dean is former Harvard professor, Dr. J. Larry Brown. CIL also offers Arabic and study abroad programs during the fall and spring semesters. For information and application forms see www.omancenter.org < http://www.omancenter.org>. Kind regards, -- Judi Garfinkel, M.P.H. Associate Dean for Programs Center for International Learning Box 2644, PC 111 Muscat Sultanate of Oman Mobile: +968 9960 5159 www.omancenter.org www.facebook.com/CenterForInternationalLearning -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 2 15:24:12 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:24:12 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabeya Institute Summer Courses in Egypt Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Arabeya Institute Summer Courses in Egypt -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Apr 2014 From: jameslatta at arabeya.org Subject: Arabeya Institute Summer Courses in Egypt Hello, my name is James Latta and I am from the Arabeya Institute, an Arabic language school located in Cairo. We would like to introduce ourselves to you and tell you about our school and its student programs. At Arabeya, we offer a wide range of courses for those wishing to learn or improve their Arabic, whether in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA). We offer classes and courses for every level in proficiency, as well as programs specially tailored to subjects of interest, such as media studies, diplomacy, business communications, literature, and calligraphy. Additionally, we also offer online Arabic classes via Skype, an integral part of our program that we began several years in cooperation with Northeastern University?s Arabic department, and which we know offer to all our students. For several years, we have had the pleasure of hosting large groups of students from the Maryland, Northeastern, Harvard, Boston, and Cambridge universities, alongside several ROTC programs, for our Summer Study Abroad programs, which were designed to introduce students to the rich language, culture, and history of Egypt. Outside of our summer programs, the Arabeya School offers a number of intensive seasonal courses throughout the year, which enterprising students can attend during semester breaks to enrich their knowledge of our language and culture. Scholarships and discounts are available for several of these programs. Please take a look at our website for information on our upcoming spring and summer programs. Should you have any questions, please don?t hesitate to contact us directly at: info at arabeya.org Best regards, James Latta Arabeya Arabic Language Institute Main Office: Address: 19 Mansurra st, from Omar Tosson, Ahmed Orabi Mohandesin Giza, Egypt Tel: (+202) 330 224 79 Second branch: Address: 13 Tahrir Sq. Downtown, Cairo, Egypt Tel: (+202) 257 897 32 Email: info at arabeya.org Web: www.arabeya.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thank you! Madison Marks Arabic Language and Culture Program, Qatar Foundation International *--* *Greetings!My name is Priscilla Cunha, and I am currently pursuing a Masters degree in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language at UT-Austin.I am conducting a research project in order to develop materials to teach Arabic as a foreign language more effectively in high school language programs in the US, and in order to achieve this I need your input! I invite you to participate in a short survey that will help define the attributes of successful Arabic teaching materials as well as ways in which these materials could be improved.This survey is completely anonymous and will take approximately 15 minutes of your time.* *https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/G7HV5LF * *Alf shukr in advance for participation and support!Regards,Priscilla Cunha* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 2 15:24:22 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:24:22 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, Qatar Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 02 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, Qatar -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 02 Apr 2014 From: Nizar Habash Subject: Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, Qatar ======================================================= First Call for Papers and Participation EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing Including Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction Apologies for multiple postings Please distribute to colleagues ======================================================= First Call for Papers and Participation Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014 Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014 Shared task registration deadline: July 1, 2014 ======================================================= ==================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ==================== There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP). Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the Arab World and in association with international conferences, e.g., the conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools (MEDAR-2009, NEMLAR-2004), the workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (LREC 2010, EACL 2009, ACL 2007, ACL 2005, ACL 2002, ACL 1998), the workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (MTSummit XII 2009, LSA 2007, COLING 2004), the International Symposium on Computer and Arabic Language (ISCAL 2009, ISCAL 2007), the Colloque International sur le Traitement Automatique de la Langue Arabe (CITALA 2007), the International Symposium on Processing of Arabic (Tunisia 2002), the workshop on Arabic Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), and the workshop on Arabic Language Processing (ACL -2001), among others. This workshop proposal follows in the footsteps of these efforts to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work. This workshop is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic NLP in the Arab World and the West. We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: * Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. * Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc. * Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc. Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or mixed. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. Submissions are expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references. Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text error correction (details below). =========== SHARED TASK =========== As part of the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014 (to be held in Doha, Qatar), we will conduct a shared task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction. We designed this task in the traditions of high profile shared tasks in natural language processing such as CONLL?s grammar/error detection and correction shared tasks in 2011-2013 and numerous machine translation campaigns by NIST/WMT/MEDAR, among others. The task relies on resources created under the Qatar Arabic Language Bank (QALB) project (currently over 1M words of manually corrected Arabic text). A participating system in this shared task will be given Modern Standard Arabic texts, which are to be automatically corrected. The provided input will be provided in Arabic script and in a standard Romanization scheme, and will be annotated for part-of-speech (in three different granularities), clitics (which appear in 20% of Arabic words), lemmas, English glosses, and dependency tree relations. All of the input text will be preprocessed in a common way to make sure all participants have access to all of these features at no additional overhead novelty cost. An XML format will be used to encode all of this information. A participating system then returns a corrected version of the Arabic text that is one sentence per line in an XML format. The task is focused on correction as opposed to identification. There will not be an error identification task per se. Participants need to register. Once registered, all participating teams will be provided with a common training data set, which includes common preprocessed input and corrected output. A common development set will also be provided. A blind test data set will be used to evaluate the output of the participating teams. An evaluation script will be provided to all the teams. Participants are expected to author a short paper (4 pages + 2 for references) describing their approach, resources and experiments. The paper needs to follow the standard format of EMNLP conference. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Shared task registration period: April8, 2014 through July 1, 2014 Shared task test release: July 7, 2014 Shared task system output collection: July 18, 2014 Submission deadline (Workshop and shared task papers): July 26, 2014 Author notification: August 26, 2014 Camera Ready: September 15, 2014 Workshop: October 25, 2014 ========== ORGANIZERS ========== Program Co-chairs Nizar Habash, Columbia University Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute Publication Co-chairs Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Website Committee Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute Noura Farra, Columbia University Shared Task Committee Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Alla Rozovskaya, Columbia University Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Nizar Habash, Columbia University (advisory) Program Committee Members (TBA in Second Call) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 02 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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When I try to type Arabic in MS Word, I must first hit the space bar or the Enter key a couple times before I can type any Arabic letters. Of course this seriously damages my productivity, because I must then delete the extra spaces. The technology gurus at my school have tried all levels of re-installation but nothing works. They even replaced my computer... and the second one has the same problem as the first! By the way, this problem does not affect English. And just for fun, I experimented with Thai, Russian, and Hebrew keyboards: all had the same problem as Arabic. Has anyone else encountered this glitch? Any ideas? Cheers, Abu Sammy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:06 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:06 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Exam for CAASIC at AUC set for April 28th Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Exam for CAASIC at AUC set for April 28th -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Dalal Aboelseoud Subject: Exam for CAASIC at AUC set for April 28th *The Arabic Language Instruction Department at AUC announces that the writing exam for the Center of Advanced Arabic Studies in Cairo (CAASIC) will be held on the 28th of April, 2014. Accordingly, we take this opportunity to urge you to **immerse yourself in Advanced Arabic language study, **benefiting from AUC's state-of-the-art facilities, top-notch faculty, **content-based learning and community tasks. **Join the all-year CAASIC program, with reduced fees.* *Send your applications before April the 28th. * *For more information about the program, visit the following site: http://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/ALI/CAASIC/Pages/default.aspx * -- Dalal Abo El Seoud, Chair Department of Arabic Language Instruction Academy of Liberal Arts American University in Cairo -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:18:59 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:18:59 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Maryland Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: U of Maryland Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Valerie Anishchenkova Subject: U of Maryland Summer Program Dear Colleagues in Arabic and Persian Studies, The University of Maryland invites your students to participate in the UMD Summer Language Institute in Arabic and Persian this Summer 2014. We wanted to reach out to you directly about this opportunity, as fellow educators who strive to promote the teaching of critical languages and cultures. With low flat rate tuition for both in and out-of-state students (just $6,000 for 9.5 weeks), small class sizes, and dedicated faculty, this is a great way for your students to get a head start on language learning, to maintain their language over the summer, or to take courses in a language or at a level that may not be possible at their home university. UMD Summer Language Institute highlights: ? One full academic year (12 credits) of language learning in one intensive summer ? Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced instruction in small and carefully tailored classes capped at appr. 12 students per class ? Language partners for additional support, one-on-one speaking practice, and tutoring ? Varied and interesting hands-on cultural events and field trips, making the most of our proximity to Washington, DC ? More than 35 hours of in-language coursework, language partners, and cultural activities per week ? Competitive scholarships available to help offset the cost of attendance ? FLAS funding eligible Additional information about our Arabic and Persian Summer Institutes can be found at our website: http://sllc.umd.edu/special-programs/summerinstitute. I also encourage you to watch our short video about what makes our program unique. Please contact us with any questions you may have at umdsi at umd.edu, and thank you for taking the time to learn more about our programs. Yours sincerely, Valerie Anishchenkova Director of Arabic Programs University of Maryland ___________________________________ UMD Summer Language Institute School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures University of Maryland 301-405-9266 / umdsi at umd.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:27 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:27 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Horizons of Islamic Theology Conference in Frankfurt Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Horizons of Islamic Theology Conference in Frankfurt -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: "Brustad, Kristen" Subject: Horizons of Islamic Theology Conference in Frankfurt Call for papers: The Zentrum f?r Islamische Studien (Center for Islamic Studies) at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is pleased to announce the congress Horizonte der islamischen Theologie (Horizons of Islamic Theology) to be held from Monday 1 to Friday 5 September 2014 at the University of Frankfurt. The study of Near and Middle East past and present as well as the study of the philologia sacra demands an ever-growing expert knowledge of the methods and theories of history, sociology and literature. In most academic institutions, however, the study of these fields is considered separate disciplines. As a consequence, Arabists and scholars of Islamic studies will normally study Classical Arabic to a certain level but rarely acquaint themselves with other Semitic languages, despite their importance with regard to the Biblical background of the Koran as well as the linguistic and cultural setting of the Koran and Early Islam. The section ?Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies?, organized by Daniel Birnstiel (Frankfurt) and Na?ama Pat-El (University of Texas, Austin), attempts to highlight the benefits of a linguistic and comparative engagement of Arabic with other regional languages and societies for an improved understanding of Early Islam and its literary heritage. Already in 1923 in the introduction to his Arabische Syntax, Herrmann Reckendorf identified the investigation of Arabic Syntax from a historical perspective as one of the most pressing tasks of Arabic studies. Nevertheless, only a small number of corpus-based studies attempting to solve grammatical questions and difficulties have been published to date. This panel is dedicated to the presentation of new research in the field of Arabic syntax. We invite submissions to two panels ?New Insights in Historical Arabic Syntax? and ?Arabic and Semitic: How archaic is the fu?????. Please submit abstracts no longer than 300 words to Dr. Daniel Birnstiel ( birnstiel at em.uni-frankfurt.de) and Dr. Na?ama Pat-El (npatel at austin.utexas.edu), accompanied by a short bio, by June 30 2014. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:02 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:02 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Two-year Visiting Arabic Position at Middlebury Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:Two-year Visiting Arabic Position at Middlebury -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: "Soltan, Usama" Subject: JOBS:Two-year Visiting Arabic Position at Middlebury Two-year Visiting Position in Arabic The Arabic Program at Middlebury College announces an opening for a two-year full-time visiting position at the Assistant Professor or Instructor level, beginning Fall 2014. Superior language proficiency in both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and English is required, and native or native-like proficiency in at least one Arabic dialect is strongly preferred. An M.A degree is required, but candidates with a PhD or ABD status are strongly preferred. The area of scholarly specialization is open. Candidates who hold a PhD will be appointed at the Visiting Assistant Professor level, and candidates with an MA degree or ABD status will be appointed at the Visiting Instructor level. The successful candidate will teach MSA courses at all levels, from beginning to advanced levels, and take part in the Arabic Program's regular activities. Candidates must have prior experience teaching MSA at the college level, preferably in a liberal arts college setting, and in accordance with the proficiency-based communicative approach to Arabic language pedagogy. Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in faculty teaching and research. An Equal Opportunity Employer, the College is committed to hiring a diverse faculty as we work to foster innovation in our curriculum and to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our increasingly diverse student body. Middlebury College uses Interfolio to collect faculty job applications electronically. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. Through Interfolio, candidates should submit a letter of application addressed to members of the Arabic search committee. The letter must include a section addressing the candidate's approach to Arabic language teaching, his/her prior experience teaching MSA, and a short statement regarding research interests. In addition, applications should include: an updated curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, and three current letters of recommendation (at least two of which must speak to teaching ability/promise). Inquiries regarding this position should be directed to Usama Soltan, Associate Professor of Arabic, at usoltan at middlebury.edu. Review of applications begins April 7, 2014, and will continue until the position is filled. To apply, please follow this link: http://apply.interfolio.com/24763. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:14 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:14 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:CFP Egypt in/and Literature at 2014 RMMLA Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:CFP Egypt in/and Literature at 2014 RMMLA -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Doaa Omran Subject: CFP Egypt in/and Literature at 2014 RMMLA Dear Ms/SirI am a PhD student in the University of New Mexico, USA and I am doing my research in Medieval literature. I also have an MA in comparative literature from the USA as well as a BA in English literature from Alexandria University. I have been attending the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) convention for the past two years. I presented my work twice there as well as being a panelist in the 2013 convention. This year I thought of initiating something new; a panel on "Egypt in/and Literature". I proposed that to the conference committee and it got approved. The 2014 RMMLA conference will be held in Idaho state between 9th-11th October 2014. I am emailing you to circulate the word for those willing to submit an abstract to me by email Domran at unm.edu. I want to have a successful session and am looking for good abstracts. That is definitely a good chance to participate in international academic dialogue. Good papers stand a good chance of being nominated for publication in the RMMLA convention journal and might be published. Here is the conference webpagehttp:// rmmla.innoved.org/call/default.asp< https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Frmmla%2Einnoved%2Eorg%2Fcall%2Fdefault%2Easp&urlhash=Nk1J > I would be extremely grateful if you would kindly pass the word. The deadline for sending a 300-500 word abstracts is Sunday April 20th. thanks in advance for your co-operation. sincerely * Reply All< https://www.linkedin.com/inbox/#action?mboxItemGID=S601293760_120&actionType=replyAllMEBC&csrfToken=ajax%3A3231156869683671318&trk=inbox_detail-comm-msg-replyall_bt >? Doaa Omran Teaching Assistant Doctoral Student English Department University of New Mexico Domran at unm.edu and Doaa77Omran at gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:25 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:25 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Arabic to English Translation MA Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Arabic to English Translation MA -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Lorena A Terando terando at uwm.edu Subject: U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Arabic to English Translation MA Hello, Caroline Seymour Jorn recommended your Arabic language listserv as a venue to spread the word about our MA in Arabic to English translation at University of WI - Milwaukee. Many professional translators begin training early in their careers, focusing their undergraduate work on translation-related skills; most go on to complete an MA in Translation or a related field before they go on to the job market. Once they do hit the job market, it doesn?t take long before they are gainfully employed. UW-Milwaukee?s Graduate Program offers translation study in Arabic to English. Students have the option between the 24-credit graduate certificate in translation and the 30-credit Masters of Arts with a concentration in Translation. Both can be earned in two academic years. It is still possible to begin study in academic year 2014-15; if interested, please see our web site at http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/translation/admissions/exam.cfm for information on admissions processes and our qualifying exam. The program is entirely online. You can like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/uwmtranslation. If you have questions, please contact me at terando at uwm.edu. Many thanks for your consideration, Lorena --- Lorena Terando Associate Professor of Translation Chair, Translation & Interpreting Studies UW ? Milwaukee Curtin Hall 807 P.O. Box 413; 3243 N. Downer Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53201 tel: 414-229-5968 fax: 414-229-2939 www.uwm.edu/letsci/Translation -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:11 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:11 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:U of Arizona PT Replacement position Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:U of Arizona PT Replacement position -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Farwaneh, Samira Subject: JOBS:U of Arizona PT Replacement position Dear Arabic-L Members, I will be on research leave 2014-2015; the UA provided some funds for a part-time replacement position to teach fourth year MSA two semesters and two classes on Arabic linguistics. If you know anyone just graduated or an ABD about to graduate looking for a position to use as a springboard to better more permanent positions please encourage them to apply. Below is the announcement as it appears on the MESA bulletin. Thanks. Samira Farwaneh The University of Arizona Post Date March 25, 2014 Lecturer in Arabic Linguistics (one-year appointment, half-time) The School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) at the University of Arizona is seeking a one-year half-time Lecturer in Arabic Linguistics, starting August 18, 2014. The successful candidate will teach two undergraduate courses per semester, one of which will be 4th year Arabic (Fall and Spring), the other two courses will be in Arabic structural linguistics or sociolinguistics, particularly Language and Society (MENA 330). This one-year position is benefits-eligible and non-renewable. The School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona is home to a vibrant academic community, consisting of twelve core faculty members and over forty graduate students, more than half of whom are in the PhD program. It coordinates activities with the Title VI-funded Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Middle East Studies Association of North America, and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, all of which are located on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. For more about MENAS, see http://menas.arizona.edu/. Initial duties shall consist of: *Teaching two courses per semester, one of which will be 4th year Arabic (spring and fall), the other course will be in Arabic structural linguistics or Arabic sociolinguistics; *Assist with cultural enrichment activities for Arabic program. Qualifications: *PhD at time of appointment in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, or a related field. *Teaching experience *Expertise in subject area. *Candidates must have demonstrated expertise in Arabic Linguistics, relevant teaching experience, and a commitment to undergraduate education. Application Instructions: The complete application packet consists of a letter of interest, CV, and the names and contact information of three academic references. Applicants are welcome to submit supporting evidence of teaching excellence. The application, letter of interest and CV must be submitted online. The link follows: www.uacareertrack.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=211242 Additional supporting documents can be emailed to Miriam Saleh, Administrative Associate, at mcsaleh at email.arizona.edu. Review of applications will begin April 14, 2014 and continue until the position is filled. ___________________________________________________________________________ Samira Farwaneh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Arabic Language and Linguistics Director of Graduate Studies, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, P.O. Box 210158B; L. F. Marshall #440, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0158B Phone: (520) 621-8629; Fax: (520) 621-2333 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:22 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:22 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Al Akhawayn Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Al Akhawayn Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Meriem Sahli Subject: Al Akhawayn Summer Program Summer 2014 in Morocco Spend your summer learning Arabic language and culture in the beautiful area of the Atlas mountains at Al Akhawayn University. Arabic Language & North African Studies Program Components ? College credit ? Cultural and linguistic immersion ? Study of North African issues . Service-learning program ? Field trips ? Family homestay weekend . Tutoring sessions A year of Arabic in 8 weeks or a semester in 4 weeks with internationally experienced faculty and oral proficiency certified testers Session 1: June 2 ? June 27, 2014 and / or session 2: June 30 ? July 25, 2014 Application deadline: April 30, 2014 coordinator of the program: Dr. Mohammed Bounajma m.bounejma at aui.ma Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane Hassan II Avenue, 53000 Ifrane, Morocco Tel: (+212)-535- 862-427/012 Fax : (+212)-535-862-977 Email: arabic at aui.ma www.aui.ma/arabic ________________________________________________ Meriem Sahli Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane ( AUI ) P.O.Box 104, Avenue Hassan II, Ifrane 53000, Morocco Tlf: (212) 35 86 24 70 E-mail: m.sahli at aui.ma meriemsahli at gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Mon Apr 7 21:19:04 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:19:04 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Dissertation:Phonological Outcomes of Contact in Palestinian Arabic of Jaffa Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: New Dissertation:Phonological Outcomes of Contact in Palestinian Arabic of Jaffa -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 07 Apr 2014 From: Uri Horesh Subject: New Dissertation:Phonological Outcomes of Contact in Palestinian Arabic of Jaffa Institution: University of Essex Program: MPhil/PhD in Linguistics Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2014 Author: Uri Horesh Dissertation Title: Phonological outcomes of language contact in the Palestinian Arabic dialect of Jaffa Dissertation URL: http://bit.ly/horeshphd Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Phonology Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Arabic, South Levantine (ajp) Hebrew (heb) Dissertation Director(s): Enam Al-Wer Dissertation Abstract: This is a thesis in variationist sociolinguistics. It attempts to make a contribution to the study of a dialect of Arabic?Palestinian Arabic?spoken in a region where the population is gradually becoming engulfed in a language, which was once quite similar to Arabic, namely Hebrew, but has undergone drastic changes, particularly in its phonological structure, as a result of contact with European languages. Now, Modern Hebrew is acting as a colonizing language vis-?-vis Palestinian Arabic, and in this study we are exploring the effects the contact between the two languages on the phonology of Arabic in the town of Jaffa, where Arabic-speaking Palestinians and Hebrew-speaking Israeli Jews reside, perhaps not in harmony, but nonetheless in the same urban space. Employing quantitative methods for one linguistic variable and a sociohistorical analysis for another, we make the case that the two variables observed in this study are but a fragment of the entire complex. Examples from the data collected are provided and briefly analyzed, some of which are from other domains of the language, and these will be further explored at a later date. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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INTRODUCTION The 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), ?Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application,? will be held February 26-March 1, 2015, at the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu, Hawai?i. The conference is hosted by the University of Hawai?i at Manoa and is sponsored in part by the US National Science Foundation. The program for this 3 ? day conference will feature two keynote talks, an integrated series of Master Classes on the documentation of linguistic structures, and a series of Sponsored Special Sessions on pedagogy in language conservation. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawai?i) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will immediately follow the conference. The theme of the 4th ICLDC, ?Enriching Theory, Practice, and Application,? highlights the need to strengthen the links between language documentation (practice), deep understanding of grammatical structure (theory), and methods for teaching endangered languages (application). At this conference, we intend to focus on language documentation as the investigation of grammar and linguistic structure on the one hand, and the development of that investigation into sound pedagogy for endangered languages on the other. We hope you will join us. For more information and links to past conferences, visit our conference website: http://icldc-hawaii.org/ 1. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: GENERAL CONFERENCE TALKS, POSTERS, AND ELECTRONIC POSTERS Proposal deadline: August 31, 2014 Topics We especially welcome abstracts that address the conference theme, ?Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application.? Discipline-wide reflection on the relationship between the documentation of grammatical structure and language pedagogy is crucial if the proper documentation and conservation of endangered languages is to be effective. Our aim here is two-fold: to create citizen scientists who can reflect on their language for the purpose of teaching and documenting without being hindered by metalanguage, and to enrich the contributions of linguists to linguistic theory and description via documentation. We are also seeking abstracts on the science of documentation and revitalization. Documentation is usually portrayed as a means of collecting language data, and revitalization is generally seen primarily as a kind of applied work directly benefiting communities. However, each of those domains is a genuine area of research, and we welcome presentations that treat documentation and revitalization not merely as activities, but also as domains requiring discussion, clarification, and theorization in their own right. In addition to the topics above, we warmly welcome abstracts on other subjects in language documentation and conservation, which may include but are not limited to: - Archiving matters - Community experiences of revitalization - Data management - Ethical issues - Language planning - Lexicography and grammar design - Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality - Orthography design - Teaching/learning small languages - Technology in documentation ? methods and pitfalls - Topics in areal language documentation - Training in documentation methods ? beyond the university - Assessing success in documentation and revitalization strategies Presentation formats Papers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of question time. Posters will be on display throughout the day of presentation. Poster presentations will run during the early afternoon. Poster presentations are recommended for authors who wish to present smaller, more specific topics, or descriptions of particular projects. Electronic posters (e-posters) are opportunities for presentations of software, websites, and other computer-based projects, in an environment that allows face-to-face interaction with the audience. Similar to a traditional poster session, e-poster presenters will use their own laptop computers to display their projects while the audience walks around, watching demonstrations and asking questions. E-poster sessions will take place in the early afternoon in a room with tables and internet access. 2. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SPONSORED SPECIAL SESSIONS ON PEDAGOGY IN LANGUAGE CONSERVATION Proposal deadline: May 31, 2014 Special Session Topics and Format This year, we are inviting proposals for a series of four Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation. Each session will contain four talks and will be focused on a theme relating to the notion of pedagogy for endangered language teaching. Endangered language teaching in the language community is often informed by only the most generic of language pedagogies, and language teachers are often frustrated by the lack of methodologies that go beyond short conversation, basic vocabulary, and constructions that can be taught by methods like Total Physical Response (e.g., Asher 1969). Compounding the problem, these same trained teachers may not have enough linguistic knowledge of the subject language to develop robust teaching materials and programs, while linguists with command of linguistic structure may not have the teaching training required to properly educate students or inform language teachers. In the past we have followed the ?Ken Hale? model of training endangered language speakers in linguistics. We have created reference grammars and pedagogical grammars, and most documentation projects include some component for creating teaching materials. What is still lacking from the discipline is a systematic discussion of how to transform documentary materials like annotated corpora and reference grammars into an effective pedagogical workflow for endangered languages (e.g., reference grammar to pedagogical grammar to teaching materials to pedagogical methods to assessment of teaching programs). There is a disconnect between linguistic theory and pedagogical theory, and we aim to bridge this gap during these Special Sessions. Each Special Session on Pedagogy in Language Conservation will consist of four 20-minute presentation slots, with each slot to be followed by a 10 minute question period. One Special Session will occur each day of the conference in the same room and time. A total of four Special Sessions will be invited to present at the ICLDC. Successful proposals will be thematically unified on a particular aspect of pedagogy in language conservation. These may include, but are not limited to: - Acquisition: What can L1 and L2 acquisition studies teach us that is relevant for developing classroom materials and curricula? - Teaching methods: What language teaching methods and activities can be brought to endangered language teachers to enhance language learning and retention? - Understanding and conveying complex grammar: What specific activities in the classroom could be used to teach higher level constructions (e.g., complex clauses, information structure, or particle use)? - Assessment: How can we properly assess teaching programs for radically less commonly taught languages? Sponsorship details Thanks to generous support from the US National Science Foundation, we are able to offer sponsorship in the form of travel assistance in the amount of US$2400 for each selected Special Session. The organizer of each Session will determine how that sum is to be divided among the speakers and will inform the ICLDC Executive Committee; depending on each circumstance, funds will be provided as (partial) flight reimbursements, hotel nights, or per diem payments (to be determined by the ICLDC Executive Committee). 3. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Rules for submission in all categories: - Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the region discussed. - Authors may submit no more than one individual and one co-authored proposal (including participation in a Special Session proposal), or no more than two co-authored proposals. In no case may an author submit more than one individually-authored proposal. - Proposals for the sponsored Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation are due by May 31, 2014, with notification of acceptance by June 30, 2014. - Proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters are due by August 31, 2014, with notification of acceptance by October 1, 2014. - Individual authors whose proposals for the Special Sessions are rejected are welcome to submit their abstracts individually to the call for general proposals. - We will not be accepting any proposals for panel presentations or colloquia beyond the Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation. - Because of limited space, please note that the Abstract Review Committee may ask that some general abstracts submitted as papers be presented as posters or electronic posters instead. - Selected authors will be invited to submit their conference papers to the journal Language Documentation & Conservation for publication. How to prepare your proposal: - For Special Session proposals: Special session organizers must submit their proposal on behalf of the authors included in the session. We ask the organizer to prepare an abstract of no more than 400 words for the Special Session as a whole, and to also submit abstracts of no more than 400 words for each paper in the Session. We also ask for a 50-word summary of the Special Session and of each paper in the session for inclusion in the conference program. All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts on the topic. - For proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters: We ask for abstracts of no more than 400 words for online publication so that conference participants will have a good idea of the content of your paper, and a 50-word summary for inclusion in the conference program. All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts on the topic. - To facilitate blind peer review, please DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME OR AFFILIATION in your abstract or filename. Your proposal should only include your presentation title, abstract, and list of references (if applicable). - If you are including references/citations to your own work in your abstract, please be sure to replace your name(s) with "Author". For example, if you are Ted Smith and you wrote an article in 2009, which you are citing in your file (i.e., Smith (2009) ), you would change it to "Author (2009)." If you are including a list of references at the end, also make sure to anonymize any of your publications similarly as well. - Please note that your reference list is not counted in your 400-word abstract maximum, only the main abstract text. - Please save your abstract as an MS WORD DOCUMENT or PDF FILE. MS Word is preferred. However, if you are using special fonts, special characters, or diagrams in your abstract, a PDF file is recommended to make sure it displays as you intend. - For a FILE NAME, use an abbreviated version of your title. For example, if your presentation title is "Revitalizing Hawaiian for the next generation: Social media tools," your filename might be "Revitalizing_Hawaiian.doc" or "Revitalizing_Hawaiian_social_media.pdf" To submit an online proposal, visit http://www.icldc4.icldc-hawaii.org and click on "Call For Proposals." Proposal review criteria - Appropriateness of the Topic: Does the paper/poster address the themes of the conference or Special Session? - Presentation: Is the abstract well-written? Does it suggest that the paper/poster will be well organized and clearly presented? - Importance of the Topic: Is this an important topic within the area? Is the paper/poster likely to make an original contribution to knowledge in the field? Will it stimulate discussion? - Contribution to the discipline: For talks, does the presentation make a methodological or theoretical contribution to the discipline? If not (e.g., project descriptions), could the presentation be submitted as a poster or electronic poster? 4. TIMELINE - April 1, 2014: Call for Proposals announced - May 31, 2014: Proposals for Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation deadline - June 30, 2014: Notification of acceptance to Special Sessions - August 31, 2014: Proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters deadline - October 1, 2014: Notification of acceptance for general papers, posters, and electronic posters - October 1, 2014: Early registration opens - January 15, 2015: Early registration deadline - February 26-March 1, 2015: 4th ICLDC 5. SCHOLARSHIPS To help defray travel expenses to come and present at the conference, scholarships of up to US$1,500 will be awarded to the six best abstracts by (i) students and/or (ii) members of an endangered language community who are actively working to document their heritage language and who are not employed by a college or university. If you are eligible and wish to be considered for a scholarship, please select the appropriate "Yes" button on the proposal submission form. This is applicable to regular conference papers only (not to the Special Sessions). NOTE: Please be advised that these scholarships are considered taxable income under U.S. tax laws. U.S. citizens and permanent residents can expect to receive a 1099 form to figure into their annual tax return for 2015. Non-U.S. citizens/residents may have the applicable taxable amount (typically 30%) deducted from the scholarship check prior to receipt. Questions? Feel free to contact us at icldc at hawaii.edu Andrea L. Berez, Victoria Anderson, and Jim Yoshioka 4th ICLDC Executive Committee -- Jim Yoshioka Program Coordinator ************************************************************ *National Foreign Language Resource Center* University of Hawai?i at M?noa 1859 East-West Road #106 Honolulu, HI 96822-2322 Phone: 808-956-9424 Email: nflrc at hawaii.edu Website: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu NFLRC Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/NFLRC/ NFLRC Twitter page: http://www.twitter.com/NFLRC/ NFLRC YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/nflrchawaii ************************************************************ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 07 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 16 14:44:14 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:44:14 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Digital Islamic Humanities Workshop at Brown University Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 15 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Digital Islamic Humanities Workshop at Brown University -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 15 Apr 2014 From: Maggie Nassif Subject: Digital Islamic Humanities Workshop at Brown University Textual Corpora and the Digital Islamic Humanities: A Workshop October 17-18, 2014 | Brown University Call for Applications The Middle East Studies Initiative at Brown University is pleased to announce a two-day workshop on October 17-18, 2014, which will be devoted to digital textual corpora. Online libraries and digital repositories such as al-Maktaba al-Shamela and al-Warraq ? which contain thousands of texts and hundreds of millions of words ? are transforming the study of Islamic literatures and history. This workshop will comprise a series of introductory sessions on various digital tools and methodologies (e.g. geo-referencing, text encoding and processing, graph visualization, and other topics) aimed to provide scholars of the Islamic world with an orientation to the valuable research possibilities afforded by these tools. No prior experience is necessary to apply. The sessions will be highly interactive and introductory in nature. There will be a poster session for more advanced participants to showcase their work designing, developing, and utilizing textual corpora. This event builds on the success of last year?s landmark conference on ?The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies,? which was held at Brown in October 2013. The workshop is generously supported by the Brown Humanities Research & Teaching Initiative. Applications: We welcome applications from faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students in diverse disciplines. Interested candidates are kindly requested to submit: (1) a brief statement of their interest in the workshop and any relevant experience in the digital humanities; (2) an up-to-date CV. Applicants who would like to present their work in the poster session should also submit a brief abstract that describes the project that will be presented. Applications should be submitted via email to digitalhumanitiesconference at gmail.com. The deadline for applications is May 15, 2014, and successful applicants will be notified by early June. All participants must pay for their own travel expenses, but limited funding may be available to cover hotel accommodations, with priority given to graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Brown University is located in Providence, Rhode Island, one hour south of Boston and easily accessible by train and plane. For any questions, please contact Dr. Elias Muhanna at the email address above. Additional information will soon be available on the project website (http://islamichumanities.org). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 15 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful applicant will teach undergraduate language classes in Modern Standard Arabic at the first-, second-, and third-year levels. The position is a nine-month, fixed term, non-tenure-track contract, with the possibility of repeated renewal and eventual promotion to a senior instructor position, contingent on excellent performance and instructional need. Salary is commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits, see:http://hr.uoregon.edu/benefits/. Our multi-sectioned programs value creative teachers who work well in a collaborative environment. The successful candidate will have the ability to work with faculty, staff, and students from diverse backgrounds in a North American academic setting. Required qualifications include: M.A. in Arabic, Foreign Language Education, or a closely related field; professional-level proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic and English; ability and willingness to teach introductory and intermediate courses in Modern Standard Arabic; and ability to work collaboratively as a member of an instructional team. For a full position announcement see http://hr.uoregon.edu/jobs. Preference will be given to candidates with a record of excellence in university-level language teaching; previous teaching experience at a North American institution of higher education; knowledge of current methods of Arabic language pedagogy, including the communicative approach; thorough knowledge of Arabic grammar; and experience in curriculum development, proficiency assessment, or other areas of program development. Interest in and ability to teach classes on Arab culture and cinema desirable. To apply, please submit a letter of application, CV, and three letters of reference to this website:https:// academicjobsonline.org/. The application letter should discuss how the candidate meets the above criteria, his or her educational philosophy, Arabic courses previously taught, and textbooks previously assigned. Application review will commence May 12, 2014, and continue until the position is filled. The University of Oregon is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disability Act. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 15 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you want to stop anger I would recommend to use a quite different Office package, e.g.: LibreOffice version 4.2.2 http://www.libreoffice.org/ With its wordprocessor WRITE I write German, English Arabic, Hebrew and Umschrift (transliteration of Semitic languages)! Or if you prefere another free Office : Apache Open Office 4.0.1 http://www.openoffice.org/ So change to a better software and cheer up, Gerhard Wedel, Berlin - Germany P.S. By the way I also use WIN 7 and hope never to change to "playmobile" WIN 8 which dearnges all serious Academics to work! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 15 Apr 2014 From: Virginia Vassar Subject: Responses to Windows 7 Arabic problem I know this doesn't solve the problem, but have you tried using Google drive? I started using it for Arabic and never stopped. It is simple and it works well. I think it will even spell check if you switch the language to Arabic. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 16 14:44:21 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:44:21 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:U of Miami Non-tenure Track Arabic Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 15 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:U of Miami Non-tenure Track Arabic Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 15 Apr 2014 From: "Civantos, Christina" Subject: JOBS:U of Miami Non-tenure Track Arabic Job University of Miami, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is seeking a Lecturer in Arabic for a full-time, non-tenure-track, academic year 2014/15 appointment. The successful candidate will be expected to teach elementary and intermediate Arabic language courses. Superior level proficiency in Arabic and a solid command of English are required. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses and meeting with students for 3 office hours per week per class, and attending faculty meetings as required. Qualifications include a commitment to excellence in Arabic language pedagogy and the candidate must have a minimum of one year of collegiate teaching experience and an M.A. in Arabic literary and cultural studies or linguistics in hand by July 30, 2014. The preferred candidate will have formal training in the teaching of foreign language and specifically in the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Preference will be given to candidates whose materials are received by April 25, 2014. Interested candidates may apply electronically to mll.facultysearch at miami.edu - or mail the application to the address below. (Do not apply online via the university's website.) In either case, the application should consist of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, transcripts, and three letters of recommendation. Dr. George Yudice, Chair of Search Committee University of Miami Department of Modern Languages and Literatures P.O. Box 248093 Coral Gables, FL 33124-2074. Position# 044445. The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical and dental benefits, tuition remission, vacation, paid holidays and much more. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. --------------------------------------------------------- Christina Civantos, PhD Associate Professor Director of Arabic Studies Department of Modern Languages & Literatures University of Miami http://www.as.miami.edu/mll/people/ChristinaCivantos ccivantos at miami.edu< https://umail.miami.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=495D1RR6kEScJMPZZf6MC18wLDh-yM8I0yPpeBAxqxvHgnOkbibueoEvCDssQfyn0vWyVKDlRBM.&URL=mailto%3accivantos%40miami.edu > 305-284-4858, ext. 7265 Merrick Bldg. 210-19 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 15 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 16 14:44:29 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:44:29 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Free Summer Arabic Program at Bennett College, Greensboro, NC Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 15 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Free Summer Arabic Program at Bennett College, Greensboro, NC -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 15 Apr 2014 From: Maurice Hines Subject: Free Summer Arabic Program at Bennett College, Greensboro, NC I would like to announce a free Summer Arabic Intensive Program being offered at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina. We will be offering four levels of Arabic taught by Professor Maurice Hines in two sessions. The first session begins May 19th. *SUMMER ARABIC AT BENNETT COLLEGE* (Free & Open to the Public) - Have you always wanted to explore the secrets of one of the coolest languages on the planet? - Do you want a more in depth knowledge of Qur'anic, Modern Standard and Colloquial Arabic? - Do you express yourself with creative projects? This is the summer intensive you've been waiting for! Meeting Times *Session I* May 19th -June 12th - Elementary Arabic I (Mon.-Thurs. 1pm-4pm) Theme: Intro. to Arabic Sounds, Script & Expressions - Intermediate Arabic I (Mon.-Thurs. 5:30pm-8:30pm) Theme: Telling Your Story *Session II* June 30th-July 24th - Elementary Arabic II (Mon.-Thurs. 1pm-4pm) Theme: Express Yourself - Intermediate Arabic II (Mon.-Thurs. 5:30pm-8:30pm) Theme: Working With Arabic For more information contact: mlhines at bennett.edu or gbookman at bennett.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 15 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 23 21:25:39 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:25:39 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Duke University Arabic Instructor Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 23 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:Duke University Arabic Instructor Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Apr 2014 From: Mindy Marcus Subject: JOBS:Duke University Arabic Instructor Job Arabic Instructor at Duke University The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University invites applications for an annually renewable full-time position as an Arabic language instructor beginning Fall 2014. The successful candidate will join the fast growing Arabic program at Duke. The primary responsibilities consist of teaching intermediate and advanced courses, creating teaching materials, designing assessment tools, and organizing and participating in extra-curricular activities. The teaching load is maximum 5 courses per year or 12 contact hours per week, and the starting salary is between $40,000 and $42,000 for nine months, based on experience and qualifications. Candidates should have an M.A. or higher degree in Arabic language and literature, applied linguistics, or a related field, and must have native or near-native fluency in Arabic and fluency in English. Prior experience teaching Arabic at the university level is preferred, and knowledge of instructional technologies, interest in involvement in civic engagement activities and a desire to further pedagogical/professional development are desirable. Application deadline is June 6, 2014 or until the position is filled. Send: 1) a letter of application, 2) curriculum vitae, 3) sample lesson plans and teaching materials, and 4) three letters of reference to Chair of Arabic Instructor Search Committee, Dept. of AMES, Duke University, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708 by mail or email them to amesdept at duke.edu. Duke University is Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 23 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 23 21:25:45 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:25:45 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Jojhns Hopkins U Arabic Lecturer Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 23 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:Jojhns Hopkins U Arabic Lecturer Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Apr 2014 From: Carol Young Subject: JOBS:Jojhns Hopkins U Arabic Lecturer Job Johns Hopkins University, Lecturer in Arabic The Center for Language Education at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a Lecturer in ARABIC for the Academic Year 2014-2015. This is a one-year temporary position, but the successful candidate will have the opportunity to apply for a full-time position that will start in fall, 2015. The position for the academic year 2015-2016 is renewable based on performance. Responsibilities of the successful candidate include teaching a maximum of three levels of all four levels of Arabic (1st year to 4th year Arabic for a total of 12 contact hours per week). Minimum qualifications are: 1. M.A. in Arabic Studies (with specialization in linguistics, applied linguistics or a closely related field) 2. Native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English 3. At least 3 years of experience in teaching Arabic as a foreign language at the university level. 4. Strong grounding in communicative and proficiency-oriented teaching 5. Strong computer literacy (PowerPoint, Excel, etc.). Interested candidates should submit their application and all supporting materials via Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/24808 by May 20th, 2014, and include: 1. Letter of application (cover letter) including statement of teaching philosophy 2. Curriculum vitae 3. Names and email addresses of three references 4. A video demonstration of your teaching including an introduction of yourself in English and Arabic at the beginning of the video. (We do not accept DVDs by surface mail. A YouTube link address with password is acceptable.) Should you have any questions, please e-mail Dr. Yuki Johnson at yuki.johnson at jhu.edu JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER COMMITTED TO RECRUITING, SUPPORTING, AND FOSTERING A DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF OUTSTANDING FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 23 21:25:31 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:25:31 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:LDC GALE Arabic-English Aligned Treebank-Web Training Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 23 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Apr 2014 From: ldc at ldc.upenn.edu Subject: GALE Arabic-English Aligned Treebank-Web Training (2) GALE Arabic-English Parallel Aligned Treebank -- Web Training was developed by LDC and contains 69,766 tokens of word aligned Arabic and English parallel text with treebank annotations. This material was used as training data in the DARPA GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) program. Parallel aligned treebanks are treebanks annotated with morphological and syntactic structures aligned at the sentence level and the sub-sentence level. Such data sets are useful for natural language processing and related fields, including automatic word alignment system training and evaluation, transfer-rule extraction, word sense disambiguation, translation lexicon extraction and cultural heritage and cross-linguistic studies. With respect to machine translation system development, parallel aligned treebanks may improve system performance with enhanced syntactic parsers, better rules and knowledge about language pairs and reduced word error rate. In this release, the source Arabic data was translated into English. Arabic and English treebank annotations were performed independently. The parallel texts were then word aligned. LDC previously released Arabic-English Parallel Aligned Treebanks as follows: - Newswire - Broadcast News Part 1 - Broadcast News Part 2 This release consists of Arabic source web data (newsgroups, weblogs) collected by LDC in 2004 and 2005. All data is encoded as UTF-8. A count of files, words, tokens and segments is below. Language Files Words Tokens Segments Arabic 162 46,710 69,766 3,178 Note: Word count is based on the untokenized Arabic source, token count is based on the ATB-tokenized Arabic source. The purpose of the GALE word alignment task was to find correspondences between words, phrases or groups of words in a set of parallel texts. Arabic-English word alignment annotation consisted of the following tasks: - Identifying different types of links: translated (correct or incorrect) and not translated (correct or incorrect) - Identifying sentence segments not suitable for annotation, e.g., blank segments, incorrectly-segmented segments, segments with foreign languages - Tagging unmatched words attached to other words or phrases -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 23 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 23 21:25:42 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:25:42 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Book:Book in Sahlawayhi Series on the Arabic Alphabet Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 23 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Apr 2014 From: Ahmed Hassan Khorshid Subject: Dear friends & colleagues, The newest book in the Sahlawayhi series, The Arabic Alphabet, is already out. It's based on the following principles: 1. Based on the philosophy that language learning/ teaching should start orally, it introduces the letters without the diacritic marks in the first stage. Students see pictures (all in color), they have their sounds and they can read without the diacritic marks. So, the sounds will help them understand and master the alphabet. Instead of going from the alphabet to vocab. (unknown to unknown), they go from vocab./sound to letters (known to unknown). 2. In the second stage, when students can read & write the language they already know, they will learn the diacritic marks in order to read & write the language they don't know. 3. The book starts explaining the principles of writing with the first half of the alphabet only. Words chosen in this section are covered by the first half of the alphabet. After mastering the first half, the second is introduced. 4. The book separates printing/ beginners' style (naskh) from advanced hand writing (ruq'a) so that students learn one style at a time. 5. The main type of exercises is tracing. Students trace the words in front of pictures. Then, the order of pictures changes, and students are asked to match words with pictures, which teaches the students to read the first letter or two by eye, and then finish reading words using their background knowledge. 6. This book can be used by children and adults, so long as they start learning Arabic orally. It's available through amazon.com and Amazon's European sites. I hope this book makes learning the Arabic alphabet easier. salaam. -- Ahmed Khorshid Arabic Language Instructor -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 23 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 23 21:25:37 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:25:37 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Book Ad for Poets Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 23 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: AD:Gerlach Book Ad for Poets -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Apr 2014 From: office at gerlach-books.de Subject: AD:Gerlach Book Ad for Poets Up to 25% discount on antiquarian books POETS & THEIR DIWANS: AN OVERVIEW OF PRIMARY & SECONDARY SOURCES Please have a look at the title list which can be downloaded from this site: http://www.gerlach-books.de/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 served) - 10% discount for any single book - 25% discount when ordering 5 or more books - plus shipping charges (surface or air mail delivery) - plus 7% VAT (within the EU - if no VAT ID can be supplied only) - our institutional and regular customers can order on open account - first-time customers: credit card or pre-payment by bank transfer preferred - offer is valid until 6 May 2014 only Looking forward to your orders. Best regards from Berlin (Ms) Dagmar Konrad :::::::: FOR YOUR email or fax ORDER (Fax +49 30 3235667) ::::::::: To order please send us an email or a fax. Our order form and title list can be downloaded from here: http://www.gerlach-books.de/books_offers.php GERLACH BOOKS & ONLINE - MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES < www.gerlach-books.de> Heilbronner Strasse 10 D-10711 Berlin (Halensee), Germany TEL +49 30 3249441 FAX +49 30 3235667 MAIL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 23 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 23 21:25:34 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:25:34 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NEW BOOK:Handbook of Arabic Literacy Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 23 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: NEW BOOK:Handbook of Arabic Literacy -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Apr 2014 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: NEW BOOK:Handbook of Arabic Literacy Title: Handbook of Arabic Literacy Subtitle: Insights and Perspectives Series Title: Literacy Studies Publication Year: 2014 Publisher: Springer http://www.springer.com Book URL: http://www.springer.com/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29/book/978-94-017-8544-0 Editor: Elinor Saiegh-Haddad Editor: R. Malatesha Joshi Hardback: ISBN: 9789401785440 Pages: 445 Price: Europe EURO 129.99 Abstract: This book provides a synopsis of recently published empirical research into the acquisition of reading and writing in Arabic. Its particular focus is on the interplay between the linguistic and orthographic structure of Arabic and the development of reading and writing/spelling. In addition, the book addresses the socio-cultural, political, and educational milieu in which Arabic literacy is embedded. It enables readers to appreciate both the implications of empirical research to literacy enhancement, and the challenges and limitations to the applicability of such insights in the Arabic language and literacy context. The book will advance the understanding of the full context of literacy acquisition in Arabic with the very many factors (religious, historical, linguistic, etc.) that interact, and will, hence, contribute to weakening the anglocentricity that dominates discussions of this topic. Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Written In: English (eng) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=70137 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 23 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 23 21:25:28 2014 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:25:28 -0600 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Windows 7 Arabic Problem response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Wed 23 Apr 2014 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Windows 7 Arabic Problem response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 23 Apr 2014 From: Alec McAllister Subject: Windows 7 Arabic Problem response Dear Abu Sammy, I have never seen this precise problem, but I have seen problems that are analogous. This is very unlikely to be a bug in either Windows 7 (but see P.S. below) or in Word; my university has thousands of people using dozens of languages, and we don?t experience this problem. Therefore, it is more likely to be a side-effect of some other setting. Sometimes it is very difficult to work out exactly which feature is controlling the behaviour of the keyboard, because it can be affected (sometimes indirectly) by different settings in Windows itself, in Office as a whole, and in Word in particular. There have even been cases when third-party software interferes with input. I have never experience it myself, but I have heard that an add-in such as PDF Complete can sometimes have this sort of effect, in which case the solution would be to disable it. It might be worth looking at Control Panel ? Region and Language ? Keyboards and Languages ? Change keyboards ? Advanced Key Settings. One or more key sequences might be defined as (a) shortcut(s) to switch between keyboard mappings. In particular, if Chinese input is enabled on your computer, you might find that it is very difficult to switch off the default shortcuts for changing between the various Chinese input methods, and those shortcuts can interfere with input in other languages. (To be precise, it is quite easy to switch the Chinese shortcuts off; the difficult bit is to make them *stay* switched off. It is as if the software says ?I understand that you want to use this shortcut for an English or Arabic keyboard, but I insist on using it for Chinese.?) If more than one keyboard is installed for any particular language, it is wise to check whether the default keyboard is really the one that you want. The system might be loading one that doesn?t meet your needs, and then having to load a different one, in the light of whatever characters you type next. It might also be worth looking at the settings within Word. Some of Word?s keyboard shortcuts can have unexpected effects on input, particularly those to do with formatting and Styles, such as Control-Spacebar, which is the default for ?Change whatever text is selected back to the default formatting/Style?. If you haven?t got anything selected (or don?t realize that anything is selected), the results of such shortcuts can be a bit baffling. The formatting used in the cursor?s location might itself be a factor. This is a huge oversimplification, but a good mental model is to think that Word stores the formatting information for a paragraph in the (usually invisible) paragraph mark that ends the paragraph. If the cursor is before that mark and you press Return, you create a new paragraph, which inherits the formatting of the previous one; that formatting might affect subsequent input. However, if you press Spacebar to pass the paragraph mark, you don?t create a new paragraph; if there is already a paragraph after that point, its formatting will be unaffected by the formatting of the previous paragraph. I hope this helps. Best wishes, Alec McAllister University of Leeds P.S. We did find a bug in Windows 7; it causes the Arabic (Egypt) keyboard to disappear from the list of available keyboards from time to time, but that bug can?t be causing your problem. It took us seven months to convince Microsoft that the bug existed, but they have now promised to correct it in a routine update. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 23 Apr 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: