<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Fri 06 May 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: Mehri Language Workshop at U of Salford<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 06 May 2011<br>From: Alex Bellem <<a href="mailto:A.Bellem@salford.ac.uk">A.Bellem@salford.ac.uk</a>><br>Subject: Mehri Language Workshop at U of Salford<br><br>Dear colleagues<br><br>Spring greetings from Salford, and apologies for the inevitable cross-posting.<br><br>We have pleasure in inviting you to our forthcoming 1-day language workshop on the Modern South Arabian language Mehri. Please find below more details, including how to register, and the programme. Please also feel free to circulate these details further, particularly to any postgraduates who may be interested. <br><br>With best wishes<br><br>Alex<br><br>--<br>Dr Alex Bellem<br>Lecturer in Linguistics<br><br>University of Salford<br>School of Languages, Maxwell Building, Room 811<br>Salford M5 4WT, UK<br>Tel: *44 (0)161 295 3064<br>Fax: *44 (0)161 295 5335<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:a.bellem@salford.ac.uk">a.bellem@salford.ac.uk</a><br><br>=============================================================<br><br>Mehri Language Workshop<br><br>27th May 2011<br><br>University of Salford<br><br>The University of Salford is pleased to invite you to a one-day workshop on Mehri, an unwritten Modern South Arabian language spoken in Yemen and Oman. <br><br>The workshop sessions will be led by Janet Watson and Alex Bellem (Salford), Samuel Liebhaber (Middlebury College, USA), Miranda Morris (St Andrews) and Mohammed Bar Ingema Al-Mahri, from Dhofar. <br><br>The workshop will include discussions on the history of the Mahrah and the Mehri language, the position of Mehri within Modern South Arabian, Mehri oral literature, and practical sessions on the phonetics, morphology and syntax of the language.<br><br>Organisers Dr Alex Bellem, Professor Janet C.E. Watson, Debbie Hughes. For further information and a registration form, please email: Alex Bellem (<a href="mailto:a.bellem@salford.ac.uk">a.bellem@salford.ac.uk</a>) or Debbie Hughes (<a href="mailto:d.hughes1@salford.ac.uk">d.hughes1@salford.ac.uk</a>). The registration form is also available at: <a href="http://www.languages.salford.ac.uk/research/centre_applied_linguistics/events.php">http://www.languages.salford.ac.uk/research/centre_applied_linguistics/events.php</a><br><br>Registration for the workshop is £15 for registered UK and EU students and £25 for all others to include refreshments, lunch and handouts.<br><br>=============================================================<br><br>Programme<br><br>09:00 Registration and coffee<br><br>09:30-10:15 History of the Mehri-speaking region<br><br> (Miranda Morris, Samuel Liebhaber)<br><br>10:15-11:00 Mehri oral literature: poetry, songs, folklore (with audio-visual illustrations)<br><br> (Samuel Liebhaber, Miranda Morris)<br><br>11:00-11.20 Refreshments<br><br>11:20-12:00 The place of Mehri within Modern South Arabian<br><br> (Miranda Morris, Janet C.E. Watson)<br><br><br><br>12:00-12:45 The dialectology and sociolinguistics of Mehri<br><br> (Janet C.E. Watson, Samuel Liebhaber)<br><br>12:45-13:30 Lunch<br><br>13:30-15:00 The sounds and sound system of Mehri: Introduction to Mehri phonology followed by a practical phonetics session<br><br> (Alex Bellem, Janet C.E. Watson, with consultant Mohammed Bar Ingema Al-Mahri, from Dhofar) <br><br>15:00-15:30 Refreshments<br><br>15:30-17:00 Mehri morphology and syntax; The development of an orthographical system for Mehri and a practical text analysis session<br><br> (Janet C.E. Watson, Mohammed Bar Ingema Al-Mahri)<br><br>17:00-18:00 Open discussion of Aaron Rubin's (2010) The Mehri Language of Oman Leiden: Brill<br><br> (With participation by the author)<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 06 May 2011</body></html>