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1)<br>Date: 08 Mar 2013<br>From:<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Abdellah CHEKAYRI <<a href="mailto:A.Chekayri@aui.ma" target="_blank">A.Chekayri@aui.ma</a>></span><br>Subject:6th International Arabic Linguistics Symposium, Ifrane, Morocco<br>
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CALL FOR PAPERS</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The 6th International Arabic Linguistics Symposium</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">June 27-28, 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Arabic Linguistics Society and Al-Akhawayn University are pleased to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">announce the 6th International Arabic Linguistics Symposium to be held at</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, June 27-28, 2013.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Papers are invited on topics that deal with theoretical and applied</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">issuesof Arabic Linguistics. Research in the following areas of Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">linguistics is encouraged:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· linguistic analysis(phonology,morphology, syntax, semantics),</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· sociolinguistics,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· psycholinguistics,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· discourse analysis,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· historical linguistics,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· corpus linguistics,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· computational linguistics,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· language acquisition,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· neurolinguistics.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Persons interested in presenting papers are requested to submit a one-page</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">abstract giving the title of the paper, a brief statement of the topic,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and a summary clearly stating how the topic will be developed (the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">reasoning, data, or experimental results to be presented). Authors are</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">requested to be as specific as possible in describing their topics and to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">adhere to the one-page requirement.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Abstract submission:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">To submit an abstract, please go to the following link, click Abstract</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submission then follow the instructions to upload a .pdf file of your</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">abstract. </span><a href="http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/INTALS6" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/INTALS6</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">You will receive an e-mail afterwards indicating that your abstract has</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">been successfully submitted. Please note that, unlike in previous years,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">submitting abstracts by e-mail will not be accepted. All abstracts should</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">be submitted in English. Names are not to appear on the abstracts.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Proposals of studies that have not been conducted are not accepted. You</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">will be asked to provide this information with your submission. Should</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">you face any problem submitting your abstract via the above link, please</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">contact ALS Organizers Dr. Reem Khamis-dakwar (Khamis-Dakwar @</span><a href="http://adelphi.edu/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">adelphi.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">or Dr. Abdellah Chekayri (</span><a href="mailto:A.Chekayri@aui.ma" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">A.Chekayri@aui.ma</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Twenty minutes will be allowed for each presentation followed by 10</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">minutes for questions and discussion.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Keynote speakers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1. Abdelkader Fassi Fihri, Professor Emeritus, Mohamed V University,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Rabat, Morocco</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2. Keith Walters, Professor and Chair in the Department of Applied</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Linguistics, Portland State University, Oregon USA,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">3. Professor Yasir Suleiman (To be confirmed), Director of the Centre</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">of Islamic Studies, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa’id Professor of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Modern Arabic Studies, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· Fees:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">o ALS membership: Students $35; non-students $50.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">o Registration:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Non-residents of Morocco $120; Residents of Morocco $60.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· The working languages of the conference are Arabic, French, and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">English.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· Visas are not needed for citizens of US, Canada, and European</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Union. For others, please check with the Moroccan Ministry of Tourism</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">website to see if you need a visa before arrival. Visas are not issued at</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the airport or any land border. The conference organizers cannot obtain a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">visa for you, but if contacted in enough time, we can provide a letter of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">acceptance in the conference for you to use in obtaining your visa from</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the Moroccan consulate closest to you.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">· Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: March 30, 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Reem Khamis-dakwar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(Khamis-Dakwar @</span><a href="http://adelphi.edu/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">adelphi.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">) or Dr. Abdellah Chekayri (</span><a href="mailto:A.Chekayri@aui.ma" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">A.Chekayri@aui.ma</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Keynote speakers short biographies</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Professor Abdelkader Fassi Fihri</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Pr Abdelkader Fassi Fehri was the first to introduce the study of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">generative grammar at Mohammed V University in Fes, then Rabat, in 1972,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and he managed to organize the 20th GLOW Conference in Rabat in 1997. As a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Chair of Arabic and Comparative Linguistics and Doctoral Studies, he</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">supervised a substantial number of PH.D and MA theses, and has contributed</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">to training many professors in Moroccan and Arab universities. As a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">language planner, he was a Director of IERA (the Institute for the Study</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and Research on Arabization), a member of the Royal Commission for the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Reform of Education (COSEF), and active member of many leading Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Initiatives (he is a founding member of the AOT, the Arabic Organization</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">of Translation, member of the Arabic Thought Foundation Inititative</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">li-nanhad bi-lughatina, member of the Board of the Historical Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dictionary Project in Doha, and active member of Arabic Academies and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">planning centers). Founding and Acting President of the Linguistic Society</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">of Morocco since 1986, he was awarded the Highest Merit Prize of Science</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and Culture of Morocco in 1992, and the King Faisal International Prize in</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2006. He published numerous books and articles in Arabic, English, and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">French. To name a few, Issues in the Structure of Arabic Clauses and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Words, Kluwer 1993, Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar, John</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Benjamins 2002, A trilingual Lexicon of linguistic Terms, Beyruth 2009,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Al-lisaaniyaat wa-llughah l-cArabiyyah, Tubqal 1985 (six editions).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Professor Keith Walters</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Keith Walters is currently Professor and Chair in the Department of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Applied Linguistics at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon USA,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">where he has taught since 2006. Prior to that time, he taught in the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Linguistics Department of the University of Texas at Austin (1991-2006)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and in the English Department at Ohio State University (1988-2001). From</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2003-2008, he served as treasurer for the American Institute for Maghrib</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Studies. Much of Keith's research has focused on issues of language and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">identity in the Arab world and more particularly Tunisia, where he served</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English as a Foreign Language from</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1975-77. His publications on language in the Arab world have appeared in</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Encyclopedia of Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Language and Linguistics, Language in Society, and Perspectives on Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Linguistics, among others. He is also the co-author of two widely used</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">college-level writing textbooks.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Professor Yasir Suleiman is the Director of the Centre of Islamic Studies,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa’id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. His research covers the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">cultural politics of the Middle East with special focus on identity,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">conflict, diaspora studies and modernisation in so far as these issues</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">relate to language, modern Arabic literature, translation and memory. He</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">also conducts research in Arabic grammatical theory and the Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">intellectual tradition in the pre-modern period.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dr. Abdellah CHEKAYRI</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Associate Professor</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">New book: "An Introduction to Moroccan Arabic and Culture" :</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://www.press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?id=9781589016934" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?id=9781589016934</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Arabic Language and North African Studies Program Coordinator</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">School of Humanities and Social Sciences</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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