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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Arabic-L: Thu 05 Jun 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <</span><a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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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">Arabic in Contact Conference (ArCo2014) (Naples)</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">05 Jun 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: reposted from LINGUIST</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">Arabic in Contact Conference (ArCo2014) (Naples)</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Full Title: Arabic in Contact: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Short Title: ArCo2014</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">Date: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>15-Dec-2014 - 16-Dec-2014</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Location: Naples, Italy</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Contact Person: Stefano Manfredi</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Meeting Email: </span><a href="mailto:stef.manfredi@gmail.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">stef.manfredi@gmail.com</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Web Site: </span><a href="http://arco2014.altervista.org/arco2014.altervista.org/Conference_Homepage.html" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://arco2014.altervista.org/arco2014.altervista.org/Conference_Homepage.html</a><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">Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics</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">Language Family(ies): Arabic</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">Other Specialty: Contact Linguistics</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">Call Deadline: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>30-Jun-2014</span></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">Meeting Description:</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">We are pleased to invite you to participate to the conference 'ArCo 2014 - Arabic in Contact. Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives', due to be held on December, 15-16, 2014, at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale'.</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">Conference Outline:</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">Contact linguistics represents an area linking different branches of linguistics, such as historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, creole studies, language acquisition, etc. This conference strives to provide a comprehensive coverage of current trends on language contact involving Arabic. It does address both contact induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. Special focus is on recent debates surrounding Arabic-based pidgins and creoles as well as mixed varieties of written Arabic.</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">Official website: </span><a href="http://arco2014.altervista.org/arco2014.altervista.org/Conference_Homepage.html" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://arco2014.altervista.org/arco2014.altervista.org/Conference_Homepage.html</a><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">Location: Naples, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’</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">Jonathan Owens (Universität Bayreuth)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Kees Versteegh (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)</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">Organising Committee:</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">Stefano Manfredi (Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Giorgio Banti (Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Mauro Tosco (Università di Torino)</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">Scientific Committee:</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">Reem Bassiouney (American University in Cairo)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Riccardo Contini (Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Catherine Miller (IREMAM, CNRS)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle (LLACAN, CNRS)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thomas Stolz (Universität Bremen)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Catherine Taine-Cheikh (LACITO, CNRS)</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">2nd Call for Papers:</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">We welcome contributions focusing on:</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 grammatical and lexical outcomes of language contact in Arabic;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- The grammatical and lexical outcomes of language contact with Arabic;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- The linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of Arabic-based pidgins and creoles;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- The linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of codeswitching involving Arabic varieties;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- The linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of Arabic in diaspora;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- The metalinguistic representations and the sociolinguistic awareness of Arabic contact varieties;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Mixed varieties of written Arabic.</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">Contributions on language contact involving Arabic in Africa are especially welcome.</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">Abstracts are invited for conference presentations addressing any aspect concerning Arabic in contact. Abstracts shall be in English or in French and no longer than 500 words, including examples and references. Abstracts should show evidence of interest for a broad audience concerned with Arabic Linguistics as well as with Contact Linguistics. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously and they will be evaluated on the basis of clarity, argumentation and potential contribution to advancing linguists' knowledge of Arabic in contact. Accepted papers will be proposed for a collective publication.</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">A suggested outline for abstracts can be found in the attached file or at the following address:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://arco2014.altervista.org/arco2014.altervista.org/Call_for_Papers.html" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://arco2014.altervista.org/arco2014.altervista.org/Call_for_Papers.html</a><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">Abstracts should be submitted as a PDF file to the following email address: </span><a href="mailto:arco.naples2014@gmail.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">arco.naples2014@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. Please send two versions of your abstract. One should be anonymous, and one should include your name and affiliation at the top of the page, directly below the title.</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">Important Dates:</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 abstracts: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>June 30, 2014</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Notification of acceptance: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>July 31, 2014</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Conference: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>December 15-16, 2014</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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