<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Thu 06 Jan 2011<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: Milan Conference on African Arabic<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 06 Jan 2011<br>From: reposted from LINGUIST<br>Subject: Milan Conference on African Arabic<br><br>Full Title: African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology <br>Short Title: AFRAR <br><br>Date: 26-May-2011 - 27-May-2011<br>Location: Milan, Italy <br>Contact Person: Mena Lafkioui<br>Meeting Email: <a href="mailto:mena.lafkioui@unimib.it">mena.lafkioui@unimib.it</a><br><br>Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics <br><br>Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)<br> Swahili (swh)<br><br>Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic; Niger-Congo; Nilo-Saharan; Semitic <br><br>Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2011 <br><br>Meeting Description:<br><br>The international conference African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology that will be held at Università di Milano-Bicocca on May 26 - 27, 2011 addresses African varieties of Arabic, focusing especially on topics dealing with language contact, the development of Arabic-based pidgins and creoles, synchronic language variation and diachronic language reconstruction. Other topics related to the conference theme are welcome. <br><br>Call for Papers<br><br>The international conference 'African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology' addresses African varieties of Arabic, focusing especially on topics dealing with language contact, the development of Arabic-based pidgins and creoles, synchronic language variation and diachronic language reconstruction. Other topics related to the conference theme are welcome.<br><br>The conference languages are English and French. Presentations are 20 minutes with an additional 10 minutes for discussion.<br><br>Papers will be selected on the basis of anonymous abstracts. Abstracts should be in by January 30, 2011. Selections of abstracts is done by a Scientific Committee.<br><br>Notification will be sent out before February 20, 2011. <br><br>How to submit an abstract:<br>- Send your (anonymous) title and abstract as an email attachment to: <a href="mailto:mena.lafkioui@unimib.it">mena.lafkioui@unimib.it</a><br>- Subject header: (your last name) AFRAR abstract <br>- Please include the following in the body of the email: <br>- Name(s) of author(s) <br>- Abstract title <br>- Contact information: email, phone, fax <br><br>Abstract specifications: <br>- Maximum length: 500 words or 1 single-spaced page written in Times New Roman 12 Font.<br>- Format: If possible Pdf. <br>- Language: English or French. <br>- Please do not put your name or other identifying information on the abstract. <br><br>Conference convenor: Mena Lafkioui (Università Milano-Bicocca-Ghent University).<br><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 06 Jan 2011</div></body></html>