<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: Mon 03 Mar 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; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:ALS this week</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2) Subject:ALS this week</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></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: 03 Mar 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:paul roochnik <<a href="mailto:proochnikllc@yahoo.com">proochnikllc@yahoo.com</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:ALS this week</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; ">Dear Friends,<br><br>Ahlan wa-sahlan.<br><br>Have you got any information about the Arabic linguistics conference to be held 08 and 09 March? I recall it will take place at the University of Maryland, but which building? Which room? And what time does it start?<br><br>Thanks and cheers,<br>Abu Sammy<br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><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; "><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><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: 03 Mar 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:moderator</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:ALS this week</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; ">I am pasting in the info I received. In this you will find the place and the time, I believe.</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; ">dil</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; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Event:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><b>22
ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS</b></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica"><br>
<b>University of Maryland, College Park<br>
March 8-9, 2008<br>
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<b>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 style="mso-special-character:line-break">
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Venue: <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><b>Benjamin
Banneker Auditorium, Adele Stamp Student Union<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">For
directions, parking, transportation to and from the Adele H. Stamp Union,
please click on the following link:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.union.umd.edu/visitorInfo/directions.shtml">http://www.union.umd.edu/visitorInfo/directions.shtml</a></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><b>Marriot’s
Inn & Conference Center University of Maryland University College<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><b>3501
University Blvd E<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><b>Adelphi,
Maryland 20783<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><b>Tel.
1-301-985-7300<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/wasum-the-inn-and-conference-center-university-of-maryland-university-college/?ppc=eastern_google_wasum&vpckey=inn-and-conference-center-college-park&vpccat=leisure">http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/wasum-the-inn-and-conference-center-university-of-maryland-university-college/?ppc=eastern_google_wasum&vpckey=inn-and-conference-center-college-park&vpccat=leisure</a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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nearby Hotels are listed in the following link:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.uga.umd.edu/admissions/visit/accommodations.asp">http://www.uga.umd.edu/admissions/visit/accommodations.asp</a></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Nearest airports:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall
Airport – BWI<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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direction: 30 miles South<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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service: $35 (one way)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Taxi fare: $60<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Ronald Reagan Washington National - DCA<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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direction: 20 miles East<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Taxi fare: $50 (one way)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Washington, DC/Dulles – IAD<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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direction: 35 miles East<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Taxi fare: $80 (one way)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Program:</i></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
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SATURDAY, MARCH 8<br>
9.00–9.30<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>OPENING
REMARKS<br>
<br>
9.30–10:00<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:
1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>BREAK<br>
<br>
10.45–11.30<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>Verb
innovation in Palestinian Arabic <br>
Lior Laks<br>
Tel Aviv University, Israel<br>
<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span><br>
12.00–1.00<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>BREAK<br>
<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span><br>
1.00–1.45<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>KEYNOTE
ADDRESS<br>
Yasser Suleiman<br>
University of Edinburgh<br>
Out of place: Language, dislocation and exile<br>
<br>
1.45-2.15 <span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>The
effect of language contact and diachrony on <br>
Urban Palestinian phonemics <br>
Uri Horesh<br>
The University of Texas at Austin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br>
2.30–3.15<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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-‘Ādiya</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">̄</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">t))<br>
Munther Younes <br>
Cornell University<br>
<br>
3.45 – 4.15<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>BREAK<br>
<br>
4.30 – 5.00<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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>
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<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
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6.00<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>The
syntactic behavior of Arabic idioms<br>
Ashraf Mohamed<br>
University of Manchester<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
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<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br>
6.00-6.30<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>BREAK<br>
<br>
10.45 – 11.15<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>BREAK<br>
<br>
1.00 – 1.45<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span><br>
<br>
2.15 – 2.30<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>BREAK<br>
<br>
2.30 – 3.00<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>Negative
expressions in Moroccan Arabic: NCI’s or NPI’s? <br>
Hamid Ouali<br>
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br>
3.30 – 4.00<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>BREAK<br>
<br>
4.15 – 5.00<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span><br>
Against the Split-CP Hypothesis: Evidence from<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span>Iraqi
Arabic <br>
The MSA – dialect interface: Borrowing vs. codeswitching in the context of
corpus analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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