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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">ALS28 Program</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:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">20 Jan 2014</span><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">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">ALS28 Program</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div><br>
THE 28th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS<br>University of Florida in Gainesville<br>Thursday, March 13 – Saturday, March 15, 2014<br><br>All Panels will be located in Smathers Library East – 1st Floor – Room 1A<br>
<br>Symposium Website: <a href="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/yah/ALS28.xhtml" target="_blank">http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/yah/ALS28.xhtml</a><br><br>Program<br><br>Thursday, March 13, 2014<br><br>8:00-9:00 Registration<br>
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9:00-9:15 Welcome/Opening Remarks<br><br><br>Session 1: Syntax 1 Chair: Eric Potsdam<br><br>9:15-9:45 Explaining Serial Verb Constructions Without Constructions<br>
<br> Hamid Ouali and Juman Al-Bukhari, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<br><br>9:45-10:15 Fin, Force, and Complementiser Agreement in Arabic<br><br> Osama Omari, Yarmouk University, Jordan, and Phil Branigan, Memorial University, Canada<br>
<br>10:15-10:45 The Syntax of Fragment Answers: Evidence From Egyptian Arabic<br><br> Usama Soltan, Middlebury College<br><br>10:45-11:15 Cyclic-Spell-Out Derived Agreement in Arabic Raising Constructions<br>
<br> Youssef A. Haddad, University of Florida, and Susi Wurmbrand, University of Connecticut<br><br><br>11:15-11:30 Coffee Break<br><br>11:30-12:30 Keynote Address<br><br>The ‘Locative Paradigm’ in Arabic<br>
<br> Lina Choueri, The American University in Beirut, Lebanon<br><br><br>12:30-1:45 Lunch<br><br><br>Session 2: Sociolinguistics Chair: Youssef Haddad<br>
<br>1:45-2:15 Comparing Children’s Variable Language to Their Parents: Is It Acquisition or More?<br><br> Rania Habib, Syracuse University<br><br>2:15-2:45 L1-English Tense-Lax Vowel System Influence on L2-Arabic Short and Long Vowel Learning<br>
<br> Zafer Lababidi and Hanyong Park, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<br><br>2:45-3:15 [gahwa] ~ [Ɂahwa]: Examining the Uvular Stop (q) in the Arabic of Gaza City<br><br> William Cotter, University of Essex, England<br>
<br>3:15-3:30 Coffee Break<br><br><br>3:30-4:00 The Grammaticalization of the Motion Verb rāħ as a Prospective Aspect Marker in Levantine Arabic<br><br> Najib Jarad, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates<br>
<br>4:00-4:30 How Regional Features in Arabic Become Sectarian Features: Jordan as a Case Study<br><br> Enam Al-Wer, University of Essex, England, Uri Horesh, Northwestern University, Bruno Herin, INALCO, Paris, Maria Fanis, Ohio University<br>
<br>4:30-5:30 Keynote Address<br><br>What Can the Salat Teach Us About Language?<br><br> Niloofar Haeri, Johns Hopkins University<br><br>Friday, March 14, 2014<br><br>Session 3: Sociolinguistics/Corpus Linguistics Chair: Amel Khalafaoui<br>
<br>8:30-9:00 Verb System in Mixed Styles of Arabic in Egypt<br><br> Malgorzata Kniaz, Jagiellonian University, Poland<br><br>9:00-9:30 A Corpus-Based Analysis of Three Arabic Adversative Conjunctions in a Current Egyptian Newspaper<br>
<br> Shaemaa Essa, The American University in Cairo, Egypt<br><br>9:30-10:00 Building and Analyzing a Bilingual, Biscriptal Corpus for Arabic and English Mixed Texts Online<br><br> Robert Bianchi, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar<br>
<br>10:00-10:15 Coffee Break<br><br><br>10:15-10:45 Written vs. Spoken: An Analysis of Moroccan Arabic-French Codeswitching in Different Modes<br><br> Rebekah Post, The University of Texas at Austin<br>
<br>10:45-11:45 Keynote Address<br><br>TBA<br> Naima Boussofara, University of Kansas<br><br><br>11:45-1:00 BUSINESS MEETING<br><br> ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY<br><br>
<br>Session 4: Phonology & Phonetics Chair: Caroline Wiltshire<br><br>1:00-1:30 Stress and Syllable Repair in Egyptian Arabic<br><br> Elijah Reynolds, Indiana University<br>
<br>1:30-2:00 Examining Feature Economy in Arabic Dialects<br><br> Cheng-Wei Lin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<br><br>2:00-2:30 On the Status of Derived Affricates in Arabic Dialects<br>
<br> Stuart Davis and Dua’a Abu-Alhija Mohajna, Indiana University<br><br><br>2:30-2:45 Coffee Break<br><br><br>2:45-3:15 The Prosodic Structure of First Words in Arabic<br><br> Eman Abdoh, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia<br>
<br>3:15-3:45 The Phonetics of Stress and Accent in Tunisian Arabic<br><br>Nadia Bouchhioua, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of La Manouba, Tunisia<br><br>3:45-4:45 Keynote Address<br><br>Phonation categories in Arabic and Modern South Arabian<br>
<br> Janet Watson, University of Leeds<br><br> <br>6:00-9:00 RECEPTION<br><br><br>Saturday, March 15, 2014<br><br><br>Session 5: Syntax 2 Chair: Brent Henderson<br>
<br>8:30-9:00 On LF-PF Match in Sason Arabic<br><br> Faruk Akkus, Boğazici University, Turkey<br><br>9:00-9:30 On the Locus of Negation and NPI Licensing in Jordanian Arabic<br><br>
Ahmad Alqassas, Georgetown University<br>
<br>9:30-10:00 The Syntax of Negation in Contact Contexts: The Case of Sason Arabic<br><br> Faruk Akkus, Boğazici University, Turkey, and Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois<br><br><br>
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break<br>
<br><br>Session 6: Language Acquisition Chair: Rania Habib<br><br>10:15-10:45 Acquisition of Syntax-Semantics Interface in the Definite Marker in Nouns and Noun Phrases<br><br> Mahmoud Azaz, University of Arizona<br>
<br>10:45-11:15 A Pilot Study on the Interface Hypothesis for Syntax and Semantics of Heritage Speakers of Levantine Arabic<br><br> May Ahmar and Ignacio Montoya, Columbia University/Graduate Center-CUNY<br>
<br>11:15-11:45 Language Learning in Heritage and Non-Heritage Adult Learners of Arabic: An ERP study<br><br> Reem Khamis-Dakwar, Adelphi University, and Karen Froud, Teachers College, Columbia University<br>
<br><br>Session 7: Pragmatics & Historical Linguistics Chair: Youssef Haddad<br><br>11:45-12:15 Demonstratives in Tunisian Arabic: Beyond information Status<br><br> Amel Khalafaoui, Florida Atlantic University<br>
<br>12:15-12:45 Jaffa Palestinian Arabic: A Contemporary and Diasporic Sociolinguistic Analysis<br><br>William Cotter, University of Essex, England, and Uri Horesh, Northwestern University<br><br><font face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font face="arial, sans-serif">--------------</font><br>
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