<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: Fri 17 Jul 2009</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 24 Announcement and Call for Papers</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: 17 Jul 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:"Brustad, Kristen" <<a href="mailto:brustad@austin.utexas.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">brustad@austin.utexas.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:ALS 24 Announcement and Call for Paper</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial; color: #2a4a77"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">24th Arabic Linguistics Symposium: “Arabic Linguistics across Traditions”</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">University of Texas, Austin</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">April 9-11, 2010</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Call for Papers</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">The Arabic Linguistics Society and the University of Texas at Austin are pleased to announce the Twenty-Fourth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics to be held at the University of Texas, Austin, April 9-11, 2010. </div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Papers are invited on topics that deal with theoretic and applied issues of Arabic Linguistics. Research in the following areas of Arabic linguistics is encouraged: grammatical analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics), applied linguistics, socio-linguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, etc.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">This year’s theme will be “Arabic Linguistics across Traditions.” Submissions that compare or combine two traditions, approaches<span style="color: #2a4a77">,</span> or analytic frameworks are especially encouraged. The conference will also offer a special session on Formal and Functional Approaches to Syntax featuring papers that either (1) compare two or more syntactic analyses to a problem or (2) present a solution to a syntactic problem using a particular approach that other approaches are unable to solve. The goal of this session is to discuss the various approaches to syntactic analysis with a general linguist audience.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Persons interested in presenting papers are requested to submit a one-page abstract giving the title of the paper, a brief statement of the topic, and a summary clearly stating how the topic will be developed (the reasoning, data, or experimental results to be presented). Authors are requested to be as specific as possible in describing their topics. Abstracts should be submitted by PDF email attachment (all fonts embedded) to:</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #2a4a77"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 34, 237); "><span style="color: #2a4a77"> <a href="mailto:mustafa.mughazy@wmich.edu"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #0022ed">mustafa.mughazy@wmich.edu</span></a></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #2a4a77"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><b>Presenters’ names should not appear on the abstracts.</b> Rather, the author's name, title and affiliation, and return email address should be included in the body of the email message. It will be removed before being forwarded to the review committee. </div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Helvetica; color: #2a4a77"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: November 15, 2009</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">2009 ALS membership dues of $25 and conference fees of $50 (total $75) are to be submitted with all abstracts and must be received by the abstract deadline. Membership dues are non-refundable; conference fees are refundable, if requested, only to those whose papers are not accepted.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Conference Registration Fees:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Before March 1, 2010: $35 for students and $50 for non-students.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">From March 1, 2010: $45 for students and $60 for non-students.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><br></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, fantasy; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 17 Jul 2009</div></body></html>