<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Sat 26 Jan 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:ALS 22 Program</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 26 Jan 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:Mustafa Mughazy <<a href="mailto:mustafa.mughazy@wmich.edu">mustafa.mughazy@wmich.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:ALS 22 Program</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">22 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS<br>University of Maryland, College Park<br>March 8-9, 2008<br><br>Sponsored by<br>The Arabic Linguistics Society<br>School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, <br>Center for the Advanced Study of Language,<br>University of Maryland, and<br>National Foreign Language Center<br><br>Program<br>SATURDAY, MARCH 8<br>9.00–9.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>OPENING REMARKS<br><br>9.30–10:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Phrasal and sentential agreement in the inter-language of learners of Arabic<br>Ghassan Husseinali<br>Yale University<br><br>10.00–10:30 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Linguistic distance and the acquisition of basic reading processes in diglossic Arabic<br>Elinor Saiegh-Haddad<br>Bar-Ilan University, Israel<br><br>10.30–10.45<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>BREAK<br><br>10.45–11.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>KEYNOTE ADDRESS <br>Mushira Eid <br>University of Utah<br>Arabic or Arabics: The core and the variable<br><br>11:30–12:00 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Verb innovation in Palestinian Arabic <br>Lior Laks<br>Tel Aviv University, Israel<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>12.00–1.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>BREAK<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>1.00–1.45<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>KEYNOTE ADDRESS<br>Yasser Suleiman<br>University of Edinburgh<br>Out of place: Language, dislocation and exile<br><br>2.15-2.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>BREAK<br><br>2.30–3.15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>KEYNOTE ADDRESS <br>Jonathan Owens<br>University of Maryland<br>The early history of Arabic<br><br>3.15 – 3.45 Ingrate or honorable: A re-examination of the word kanuud in Qur’an 100 (al-‘Ādiyāt))<br>Munther Younes <br>Cornell University<br><br>3.45 – 4.15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Genre analysis and Arabic legal discourse<br>Ahmed Fakhri <br>West Virginia University<br><br>4.15 – 4.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>BREAK<br><br>4.30 – 5.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The feasibility of using the web in building Arabic sense-tagged corpora<br>Khalid Alghamry<br>Ain Shams University Egypt<br><br>5.00 – 5.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>A Unified analysis of Arabic demonstratives in the extended nominal projection<br>Kamel Elsaadany & Salwa Shams<br>Gulf University for Science and Technology<br><br>5.30 – 6.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The syntactic behavior of Arabic idioms<br>Ashraf Mohamed<br>University of Manchester<br><br>1.45-2.15 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The effect of language contact and diachrony on <br>Urban Palestinian phonemics <br>Uri Horesh<br>The University of Texas at Austin<br><br>6.00-6.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Patterns of variation in the adoption of Casablancan gender concord norms by three ethnolinguistic migrant groups <br>Atiqa Hachimi<br>University of Florida<br><br>Alternates<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>Negative and positive imperatives in young children's Kuwaiti Arabic <br>Morphosyntactic Development in an Arabic Diglossic Situation<br><br>SUNDAY, MARCH 9<br>9.00 – 9.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Final devoicing and voicing assimilation in Cairene Arabic: An OT analysis<br>Rawia Kabrah<br>Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia<br><br>9.30 – 10.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The syllable: A perceptual unit in Egyptian Arabic<br>Rajaa Aquil<br>University of Utah<br><br>10.00 – 10.30 Leading, linking and closing tonal contours in Egyptian Arabic <br>Dina ELzarqa<br>Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz<br><br>10.30-10.45<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>BREAK<br><br>10.45 – 11.15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Phrasal syncope in Makkan Arabic: An OT account<br>Mahasen Abu-Mansour<br>Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia<br><br>11.15 – 11.45<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The OCP as a synchronic constraint in Arabic<br>Eiman Mustafawi<br>Qatar University<br><br>11.45-1.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>BREAK<br><br>1.00 – 1.45<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>KEYNOTE ADDRESS<br>Elabbas Benmamoun<br>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>Comparative syntax of Arabic varieties: Issues and approaches<br><br>1.45 – 2.15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>“Heads” of a feather “agree” together: On the morpho-syntax of imperatives in MSA <br>Usama Soltan<br>Middlebury College<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br><br>2.15 – 2.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>BREAK<br><br>2.30 – 3.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The myth of tensed negation: A neo-aspectualist analysis of lam and lan in Standard Arabic<br>Mustafa Mughazy<br>Western Michigan University<br><br>3.00 – 3.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Negative expressions in Moroccan Arabic: NCI’s or NPI’s? <br>Hamid Ouali<br>University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<br><br>3.30 – 4.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>A core syntax of Arabic pronoun and agreement <br>Abdelkader Fassi Fehri<br>University of Newcastle & University Mohammed V Rabat<br><br>4.00 – 4.15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>BREAK<br><br>4.15 – 5.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>KEYNOTE ADDRESS <br>Manfred Woidich<br>University of Amsterdam<br>The Egyptian lexicon and the Arabic World Atlas<br><br>5.00-5.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Mixed agreement in Lebanese Arabic <br>Heidi Lorimor<br>University of Mary Washington<br><br>5.30 – 6.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Use of humor in Arabic and English travel literature: A socio-pragmatic contrastive study<br>Samih Salah <br>University of Alexandria, Egypt<br><br>Alternates<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>Against the Split-CP Hypothesis: Evidence from<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Iraqi Arabic <br>The MSA – dialect interface: Borrowing vs. codeswitching in the context of corpus analysis<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 26 Jan 2008</div></body></html>