<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: Wed 05 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; ">1) Subject:NACAL 36 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: 05 Mar 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:"C.G. Häberl" <<a href="mailto:mustashriq@gmail.com">mustashriq@gmail.com</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:NACAL 36 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; ">Dear Colleagues:<br><br>I would like to alert you to the program of the 36th annual meeting of<br>the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 36),<br>which will take place from March 14-16, 2008, at the Holiday Inn Mart<br>Plaza, Chicago, IL, USA, in conjunction with the 218th meeting of the<br>American Oriental Society. We are holding a joint session with the<br>latter conference in memory of the late Alan Kaye.<br><br>Friday, March 14th - Friday Morning<br><br>Language Contact and Survival (8:00-9:00)<br>1. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Awod, Sulus Beyed, Central Cushitic: Languages, People and the<br>Influence on Some Semitic Languages.<br>2. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Hamde, Kiflemariam (Umea University), The Situation of Blin<br>Language: Revitalizing, Maintained or Threatened?<br><br>Morphology and Morpho-Syntax I (9:00-10:30)<br>1. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Gibbs, Tara Leigh (University of Minnesota), Somali as a Pro-Drop Language.<br>2. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Hudson, Grover (Michigan State University), Ethiopian Semitic<br>Independent Pronoun Archaic Heterogeneity.<br>3. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Beachy, Marvin (SIL Ethiopia), Linguistic and Orthographic<br>Implications of Analyzing Dizin Possessive Prefixes and Verbal<br>Agreement Proclitics as just one Set of Proclitic Personal Pronouns.<br><br>Break 10:30-11:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>Morphology and Morpho-syntax II (11:00-1:00)<br><br>1. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Soltan, Usama (Middlebury College), Free State Nominals in Egyptian Arabic.<br>2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Alfadly, Hassan Obeid (Hadramout University), New Information on<br>Future and Nominal Plural Forms of Eastern Mehri in Oman.<br>3. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Nishiguchi, Sumiyo (Osaka University), Correction by Polarity<br>Reversing Focus in Dhaasanac.<br>4. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Henderson, Brent (University of Florida), Differential Object<br>Marking in Tigre and Tigrinya.<br><br>Lunch Break (1:00-2:00)<br><br>Friday Afternoon<br><br>Joint session (2:00-5:00): Ancient Near East I: AOS-NACAL:<br>Linguistics—In Memory of Alan S. Kaye<br><br>1. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Hasselbach, Rebecca (University of Chicago) Early Semitic and<br>Language Typology<br>2. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Fu, Janling (Harvard University) A Case for Markedness in Amarna<br>Canaanite? Distinctions between qtl/yqtl in the Byblian Corpus<br>3. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Bar-Asher, Elitzur Avraham (Harvard University) Synchronic and<br>Diachronic Analysis of the Tenses of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic<br>4. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Pat-El, Na´ama (Harvard University) The Proleptic Genitive in<br>Aramaic: A Re-Evaluation<br><br>Break<br><br>5. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Rubin, Aaron (Pennsylvania State University) The Development of<br>the Amharic Definite Article<br>6. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Karahashi, Fumi (Chuo University, Japan) Some Notes on the<br>Sumerian Interrogative Pronoun a na<br>7. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Johnson, J. Cale (University of California, Los Angeles)<br>Mirativity in Sumerian<br>8. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Daniels, Peter T. (New York) H.C. Rawlinson's Contributions to<br>Persian and Assyrian Studies<br><br>Saturday, March 15th - Saturday Morning<br><br>Phonology I: Root/Word Formation and Syllable Structure (8:00-9:30)<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>1. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Spencer, Bradley (Harvard University), Contingent Extrasyllabicity<br>in the Proto-Semitic Imperative.<br>2. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Faust, Noam (Université de Paris VII), Meaningful Vowels: The<br>syntactic structure of Vocalic Patterns in Hebrew.<br>3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Laks, Lior (Tel-Aviv University), Verb Innovation in Palestinian<br>Arabic.<br>Break 9:30-10:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br><br>Phonology II (10:00-12:00)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>1. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lowenstamm, Jean (Université de Paris VII), Chaha Palatalization Revisited.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>2. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Rose, Sharon and Shosted, Ryan (Universities of California, San<br>Diego and Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Tigrinya ejective fricatives –<br>are they really fricatives?<br>3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Unseth, Peter (Graduate Inst. of Applied Linguistics), The<br>Psycholinguistic Reality of Co-occurrence Restrictions on Labialized<br>Consonants in Amharic.<br>4. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Rosenhouse, Judith (Sound Waves Analysis and Technologies, Ltd.),<br>Duration Features in Male Bedouin Narratives.<br><br><br>Lunch Break 12:00-1:00<br><br>Saturday Afternoon<br><br>Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics (1:00-3:00)<br><br>1. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>McClelland, Clive W. (Liberty University), Prosody vs. Grammar in<br>Two VSO Languages.<br>2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Bach Baoueb, Lamia (Université de Jendouba), Language Use and Code<br>Switching in Tunisian Business Concersations.<br>3. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Henkin, Roni (Ben-Gurion University), Bilingual Humor in Written<br>Negev Arabic.<br>4. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Khalfaoui, Amel (University of Minnesota), Demonstratives in<br>Tunisian Arabic: Beyond Spacial Distance.<br><br>Break 3:00-3:30<br><br>Tense / Mood / Aspect and Voice (3:30-5:30)<br>1. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader (University of Newcastle upon Tyne),<br>Finiteness, Logophors, and Double Access Construal in Arabic<br>varieties.<br>2. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Teeple, David (University of California, Santa Cruz), Arabic<br>Impersonal Passives in OT.<br>3. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Rucart, Pierre (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle), Aspect,<br>Tense and Modality in the Verbal System of Qafar.<br>4. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Hatav, Galia (University of Florida), Absolute and Relative Tense in Hebrew.<br><br>In Memoriam, M. Lionel Bender: (6:00-7:00)<br><br>NACAL Annual Dinner: Reza's Restaurant, 432 West Ontario St., Chicago,<br>IL (7:30-9:30)<br><br>Sunday, March 16th - Sunday Morning<br><br>Afro-Asiatic Reconstruction (8:00-9:00)<br>1. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Militarev, Alexander (Russian State University For the<br>Humanities), Toward a Complete Afro-Asiatic Etymological Database,<br>Genealogical Classification and Chronology of Branching: Preliminary<br>Results.<br>2. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Takács, Gábor (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Aspects of<br>Comparison of Semitic and Egyptian.<br>3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Zaborski, Andzrej (University of Warsaw), The position of Afar-Saho<br>in Cushitic and of Cushitic within Afroasiatic.<br><br>Break 9:00-9:30<br><br>Typology and Classification (9:30-11:30)<br>1. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Owens, Jonathan (University of Maryland), Three Sources for the<br>Study of Arabic Language History and their Role in Defining the Place<br>of Arabic in Semitic.<br>2. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Avanzini, Alessandra (Università degli Studi di Pisa), Origin and<br>Classification of the Ancient South Arabian Languages.<br>3. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Testen, David (Catholic University of America), Errant Isoglosses<br>of Aramaic.<br>4. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Kapeliuk, Olga (Hebrew University), Some Common Innovations in<br>Peripheral Neo-Semitic.<br><br>Lunch Break 11:30-12:30<br><br>Sunday Afternoon<br><br>Philology and Historical Linguistics (12:30-3:00)<br>1. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Waltisberg, Michael (University of Marburg), The Case System of<br>Amorite – A Re-Evaluation.<br>2. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Pat-El, Na'ama (Harvard University), The Origin of the Official<br>Aramaic Quotative l'mr.<br>3. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Al-Jallad, Ahmad (Harvard University), A Syntactic Account of the<br>Development of the Negative Adverb mā in Central Semitic.<br>4. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Schluter, Kevin T. (University of Minnesota), Middle Stems,<br>Pronouns, and Reflexivity in Biblical Hebrew.<br>5. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Calabro, David (University of Chicago), Rolling out the Etymology<br>of Northwest-Semitic sglt.<br>NACAL Business Meeting 3:00-3:30<br><br>Adjournment 3:30<br><br><br>-- <br>Charles G. Häberl, PhD<br>Instructor in Middle Eastern Studies<br>Assistant Director, Development and Communication<br>Center for Middle Eastern Studies<br>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<br>Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-329, 54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue<br>Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8045<br>Phone: (732) 445-8444 Ext. 17 / Fax: (732) 445-8446 / Mobile: (917) 301-6531<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: 05 Mar 2008</div></body></html>