<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div 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: Tue 13 May 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:Two new articles posted on JAIS site</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: 13 May 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:Joseph Norment Bell <<a href="mailto:joseph.bell@if.uib.no">joseph.bell@if.uib.no</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Two new articles posted on JAIS site</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; ">Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies<br><a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/jais">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/jais</a><br><a href="http://www.uib.no/jais">http://www.uib.no/jais</a><br><br><br>The following articles have just been posted at the sites given above. (Please make a note of the first address, at Lancaster University, as the page, which has been redesigned, is simpler to use and will soon be the main site.)<br><br>Volume Six (2005-2006):<br><br>Peter Marteinson. La Disjonction de la voix narrative et la manipulation de la vraisemblance dans Le Rocher de Tanios d’Amin Maalouf. (Adobe Acrobat 7.0 PDF file, 147 kB, pp. 80-94). HTML Unicode version to be posted later.<br><br>Abstract: This investigation of the narrative voice in Maalouf’s Prix-Goncourt win¬ning novel Le Rocher de Tanios observes the manner in which the multi¬plicity of enunciators, in the form of secondary narrators “cited” intertextually by the primary narrator, engenders a subtle play upon points of view, epochs, and cultural outlooks, an artifice which lends the novel a breadth in its generic status and veridictory grounding. It manages to be both an entirely possible, realistic narrative, and a fantastical legend, in which the “strange and the marvelous”, in the words of one of the secon¬dary narrators, form a counterpoint against the rigorous historical research of the primary narrative. The result is a tale in which the appearance of a coherent and inevitable progression of providence melds with a capricious logic of chance events. The work raises the question of fiction and history and answers yes to each one; it is not only a fiction aspiring to verisimili¬tude, but conversely, it is also an actual history transformed into a novel – into the sort of novel that leads the reader to question his sense of truth and falsehood.<br><br>Volume Seven (2007):<br><br>Abdessatar Mahfoudhi. The Place of the Etymon and the Phonetic Matrix in the Arabic Mental Lexicon. (Adobe Acrobat 7.0 PDF file, 347 kB, pp. 74-102). HTML Unicode version to be posted later.<br><br>Abstract: Two units have traditionally been proposed as the basis of the organization of the Arabic lexicon: the root and the stem. The root approach, the most common, is basʃed on the root and pattern theory of Arabic morphology (e.g., McCarthy 1981), which contends that derivation is based on the interleaving of consonantal roots into patterns. By contrast, the stem ap¬proach is based on the stem-based theory of Arabic morphology (e.g., Benmamoun 1999) whose main tenet is that the stem is the basis of deri¬vation. More recently, Bohas (e.g., 2000) has challenged these two ap¬proaches. He proposes that the Arabic lexicon is organized in three layers under three units: the phonetic matrix, the etymon, and the ‘radical’. These three proposals have different implications for the Arabic mental lexicon. This study discusses these theories with a focus on the validity of the no¬tions of the etymon and matrix in the Arabic mental lexicon in light of old and new psycholinguistic evidence. Keywords: Arabic morphology, root, pattern, etymon, phonetic matrix, psycholinguistics, lexicon<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></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: 13 May 2008</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>