<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Wed 23 Feb 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:ALS 25 Program<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 23 Feb 2011<br>From: S Farwaneh <<a href="mailto:farwaneh@email.arizona.edu">farwaneh@email.arizona.edu</a>><br>Subject: ALS 25 Program<br><br><div><div>Dear ALS Participatns:</div><div> </div><div>Below is the program for the upcoming symposium which you can also find on site <<a href="http://cmes.arizona.edu/als25">cmes.arizona.edu/als25</a>>. We look forward to seeing you in Arizona.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> 25th Arabic Linguistics Symposium</div><div> March 4-6, 2011</div><div> University of Arizona</div><div> Tucson, AZ</div><div> </div><div>Symposium Schedule</div><div> </div><div>Friday, March 4</div><div> </div><div>8.00-8:45am Registration</div><div>8:45-9:00am Welcome remarks</div><div> </div><div>Session 1 Syntax</div><div>9:00-9:30am "Negative Concord in Rural Jordanian Arabic (RJA)" - Ahmad Alqassas, Indiana University</div><div>9:30-10:00am "On Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Egyptian Arabic" - Usama Soltan, Middlebury College</div><div>10:00-10:30am "On Negative Concord in Egyptian and Moroccan Arabic" - Hamid Ouali, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee & Usama Soltan, Middlebury College</div><div> </div><div>10:30-10:45am Break</div><div> </div><div>10:45-11:15am "Negation and heads, agreement and Maximal Projections in Palestinian Arabic" - Mohammad Mohammad, University of Texas at Austin</div><div>11:15-11:45am "The Negative Copula in Arabic: Its Status and History" - Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Rania Al-Sabbagh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Abdelaadim Bidaoui, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Dana Shalash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</div><div> </div><div>11:45-1:00pm Lunch Break</div><div> </div><div>Session 2 Special Session: Experimental and field method approaches to Arabic dialect analysis</div><div>1:00-1:30pm "What Elicited Speech Errors Data can Tell us About the Robustness of the GCC" - Nadia Hamrouni, The University of Arizona</div><div>1:30-2:00pm "Diglossic metalinguistic awareness development in Palestinian Colloquial Arabic speaking children using ADAT ( the Arabic Diglossic Awareness Test)" - Reem Khamis-Dakwar, Adelphi University & Baha Makhoul, Haifa University</div><div>2:00-2:30pm "The development of imperative in Kuwaiti Arabic child language" - Khawla Aljenaie, Kuwait University</div><div>2:30-3:00pm "The distribution of possessive structures in adult and child Emirati Arabic" - Dimitrios Ntelitheos, United Arab Emirates University</div><div> </div><div>3:00-3:15pm Break</div><div> </div><div>3:15-3:45pm "The Prosodic Origins of Non-Concatenative Morphology" - Andrew Simpson, University of California, Berkeley</div><div>3:45-4:15pm "The local vs. the supra-regional norms: the case of Arabic interdentals" - Aziza Al-Essa King, Abdul-Aziz University</div><div>4:15-4:45pm "Discourse-Level Analysis of the Speech Act of Refusal" - Nader Morkus, Middlebury College</div><div> </div><div>4:45-5:00pm Break</div><div> </div><div>5:00-6:00pm Keynote address</div><div>Adam Ussishkin, Associate Professor, UA Department of Linguistics - "The contribution of corpus-based and psycholinguistic research to the Maltese lexicon" </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>6:00-7:15pm Reception</div><div> </div><div>Saturday, March 5</div><div> </div><div>Session 3 Phonology</div><div>9:00-9:30am "Effects of Sonority on the Distribution of Root Consonants in Arabic" - Kevin Schluter, The University of Arizona & Jeff Berry, The University of Arizona</div><div>9:30-10:00am "’Imala in a Rural Syrian Variety: Morpho-Phonological Conditioning" - Rania Habib, Syracuse University</div><div>10:00-10:30am "Geminate Representation in Arabic" - Stuart Davis, Indiana University & Marwa Ragheb, Indiana University</div><div> </div><div>10:30-10:45pm Break</div><div> </div><div>Session 4 Historical Linguistics</div><div>10:45-11:15am "The Grammaticalization of the Arabic demonstrative 'iyyaa'" - David Wilmsen, American University of Beirut</div><div>11:15-11:45am "From Deixis to Grammar: the case of the element “ta” in Arabic" - Lazhar Zanned, University of Manouba (Tunisia)</div><div>11:45-12:15pm "The Prosodic Origins of Non-Concatenative Morphology" - Andrew Simpson, University of California, Berkeley</div><div> </div><div>12.30-2pm Lunch at the Marriott for registered members; please ensure that dues are paid by Friday morning.</div><div> </div><div>Session 5 Sociolinguistics</div><div>2:00-2:30pm "The Maghreb/Mashreq language ideology and the linguistic subordination of Moroccan Arabic" - Atiqa Hachimi, University of Toronto</div><div>2:30-3:00pm "Challenges of Multilingualism in a Global Morocco: Changing Language Attitudes Among Youth in Morocco" - Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State University</div><div>3:00-3:30pm "Bleaching a dialectal voice in political discourse: Sociolinguistic choices in re-writing political speeches" - Naima Boussofara, University of Kansas</div><div>3:30-4:00pm "Animating Arabic dialects: the Jordanian example" - Elizabeth Bergman, Miami University of Ohio</div><div> </div><div>4:00-4:15pm Break</div><div> </div><div>Session 7 Syntax</div><div>4:15-4:45pm "First conjunct agreement in Arabic: Pronoun Binding and Semantic Correlates" - Bradley Larson, University of Maryland</div><div>4:45-5:15pm "Verb Stranding Verb-Phrase Ellipsis in Egyptian Arabic & Arabic Clausal Structure" - Matthew Tucker, University of California, Santa Cruz</div><div>5:15-5:45pm "Modes of Interrogatives entail Modes of Sluicing- Evidence from Emirati Arabic" - Tommi Leung, United Arab Emirates University</div><div> </div><div>Dinner on your own</div><div> </div><div>Sunday, March 6</div><div> </div><div>Session 8 Semantics & Pragmatics</div><div>9:00-9:30am "Communicative Gesture in Tunisian and Syrian Arabic: Perspectives on Shared Knowledge and Gender Variation" - Keri Miller, The University of Arizona & Nadia Hamrouni, The University of Arizona</div><div>9:30-10:00am "Ambitransitive verbs in Arabic" - Alexander Letuchiy, Russian State University</div><div>10:00-10:30am "COME verbs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based constructionist account of ?ata, ?aža, qadima and hadara" - Dana Abdulrahim, University of Alberta; John Newman, University of Alberta; Sally Rice, University of Alberta</div><div> </div><div>10:30-10:45am Break</div><div> </div><div>10:45-11:15am "Aktionsart in Modern Standard Arabic" - Mohammed Alrashed, Arizona State University</div><div>11:15-11:45am "Aspects of Modality: An Aspectual Analysis of the Actuality Entailment in Arabic" - Mustafa Mughazy, Western Michigan University</div><div>11:45-12:15pm "Morphological restrictions on verb formation: Evidence from Palestinian Arabic" - Lior Laks, Tel-Aviv University</div><div> </div><div>Departure</div></div><div><br></div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 23 Feb 2011</body></html>