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<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1) Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">AIMA IV Program (at Emory U)</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">02 Oct 2013</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">"Horesh, Uri" <<a href="mailto:uhores@essex.ac.uk" target="_blank">uhores@essex.ac.uk</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">AIMA IV Program (at Emory U)</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Sent on behalf of Benjamin Hary: </span><a href="mailto:bhary@emory.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px" target="_blank">bhary@emory.edu</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">We are very pleased to invite you to take part in the Fourth International</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Symposium on Middle and Mixed Arabic, which will be held from Saturday 12</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">to Tuesday 15 October 2013 at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA. After</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">the successful first symposium in Louvain-la-Neuve (2004), the second</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">symposium in Amsterdam (2007), and the third symposium in Florence (2010)1,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">our university has taken over the task to convene the fourth symposium on</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">the same topic of Middle/Mixed Arabic.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">The objectives of the fourth symposium are the same as those of the three</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">preceding ones: To study written varieties of Middle Arabic and Mixed</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Arabic (MMA) and varieties, particularly oral, of contemporary Mixed</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Arabic. The main topic of the conference is The Role of Middle/Mixed Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">in the Standardization of Modern Arabic in its Actual Written/Spoken Use.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">The conference theme will deal with questions such as, How is MMA used in</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">contemporary forms of written Arabic? What was the role of MMA in the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">'invention' of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)? How are mixed Arabic forms</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">used in contemporary Arabic? How is the Arabic continuum used? How is MMA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">used in literary classical and modern texts?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">AIMA IV</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Emory University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">The Role of Middle/Mixed Arabic in the Standardization of Modern Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">in Its Actual Written/Spoken Use</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">All sessions will be held in the Oak Amphitheater, Emory Conference Center</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Registration is $60 for faculty and $30 for students</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Saturday, October 12, 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Chair: Benjamin Hary, Emory University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> 7pm Opening Ceremony and Dinner</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">8:30 Keynote Speaker, Devin Stewart, Emory University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Middle Arabic and Speech Genres”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Sunday, October 13, 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Breakfast</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Chair: Vincent Cornell, Emory University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">9:00 Opening Remarks</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">9:30 Liesbeth Zack, The University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Middle Arabic in Legal Documents from the Dakhla Oasis (Egypt)”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">10:00 Johannes den Heijer and Perrine Pilette, Université Catholoique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Nueve, Belgium</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">“Dilemmas in Editing Middle Arabic Texts: The History of the Patriachs of Alexandria as a Case Study”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">10:30 Lucia Avallone, Università degli Studi Bergamo, Italy</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Mixed Arabic: Stylistic and Sociolinguistic Choices in Contemporary Egyptian Literature”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Coffee Break/Light Refreshments</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Chair: Sam Cherribi, Emory University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">11:30 Jérôme Lentin, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “From Ancient Arabic to Modern Standard Arabic through Middle Arabic: The case of the prepositional phrase min qibal”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">12:00 Arik Sadan, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Israel</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">“Semantic and Syntactic Influences of Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic on Modern Standard Arabic”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">12:30 Gabriel M. Rosenbaum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">“Mixed Arabic as an Essential Element in Literary and Semi-Literary Writing in Contemporary Egypt”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Lunch</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Chair: Gehane Shehata, Emory University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">2:00 Elise Franssen, Université de Liège, Belgium</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “La langue des manuscrits de la recension égyptienne des Mille et une Nuits”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">2:30 Miloud Gharrafi, Université de Toulouse, France</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Le moyen arabe dans les documents administratifs au Maroc”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">3:00 Kheira Benlachen, Université d'Oran, Algerie</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Le parcours de l’arabe moyen dans l’enseignement des sciences biologiques en Algérie (1962–2012)”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Coffee Break/Light Refreshments</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Chair: Allal El-Hajjam, Emory University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">4:30 Francesco Sinatora, Georgetown University, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">“The Role of Mixed Arabic on Syrian Political Facebook Pages: A Rhetorical Conflict?”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">5:00 Abedlfattah Nissabouri, Université Rennes II, France</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Notes sur le moyen arabe à partir de corpus marocains”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">5:30 Maria Angeles Gallego, CSIC, Madrid, Spain</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “The Arabic of Andalusi Jews in Grammatical Literature”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Dinner</span><br><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Monday, October 14, 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Breakfast</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Chair: Gordon Newby, Emory University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">9:00 Gunvor Mejdell, University of Oslo, Norway</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Mixed Arabic of the Written Media”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">9:30 Anna Belikova, Russia Today TV and Abeer Heider, American University in Cairo, Egypt</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Arabic Language on TV: Fuṣḥā and Dialect Mixture? Or Something Else?”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">10:00 Moises Garduño Garcia, School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">“The Language(s) of the So-Called Arab Spring”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">10:30 Shuki Cohen, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “The socio-linguistics of Arabic Variants in a Corpus of Palestinian Suicide Bombers Last Wills”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Coffee Break/Light Refreshments</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Chair: Marjorie Pak, Emory University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">11:30 Roni Henkin-Roitfarb, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Complex Code Switching in Negev Bedouin Students’ Interview Register”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">12:00 Uri Horesh, Northwestern University, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Phonological Consequences of Contact with Modern Hebrew on the Palestinian Arabic Dialect of Jaffa: A Variationist Study”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">12:30 Tsivia Tobi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “The Italian Component in the Colloquial Judeo-Arabic in Tunisia”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Lunch</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Chair: Rkia Cornell, Emory University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">2:00 Andreas Hallberg, Lund University, Sweden</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Case Markers in Spoken MSA”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">2:30 Yosef Tobi, University of Haifa, Israel</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “The Influence of the Muslim-Yemeni Ḥumaynī Poetry on Shalom Shabazī's Judeo-Arabic Poetry (17th Century)”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">3:00 Mohamed El Ferrane, Université Mohamed V Souissi, Rabat, Morocco</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Le moyen arabe au Maroc, histoire et controverse”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Coffee Break/Light Refreshments</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Chair: TBA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">4:30 Ofra Tirosh-Becker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">“Linguistic Characteristics of a 20th Century Algerian Judeo-Arabic Journal”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">5:00 Tania María García Arévalo, University of Granada, Spain</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “The Mixture of Elements in Modern Tunisian Judeo-Arabic: The Case of Ma‘aseh Sadiqim”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">5:30 Marie Robache, Université Rennes II, France</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “The Complicated Standardization of the Synonymy between the Second and the Fourth Verbal Forms in Modern Arabic of the Press Through the Study of Some Mixed Forms”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Dinner</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Tuesday, October 15, 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Breakfast</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Chair: Scott Kugel, Emory University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">9:00 Joseph Dichy, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Polyglossia and Middle Varieties in Arabic and Other Natural Languages”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">9:30 Yonatan Belinkov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “arTenTen: A Web Corpus for Arabic Varieties”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Coffee Break/Light Refreshments</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> Chair: TBA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">10:30 Keynote Speaker, Jacques Grand’Henry, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> “Some Lexical Connections between Middle and Modern Standard Arabic”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">11:30 Association Business Meeting</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Lunch</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">1:00–5:00 Tour of Atlanta</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Dinner</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Local Organizing Committee:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Benjamin Hary, Director of the Program in Linguistics</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Darinishia Bolden, Program Administrative Assistant</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Rebecca Liebeskind, Conference Coordinator</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
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