11.1334, Confs: Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5)

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Subject: 11.1334, Confs: Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5)

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Date:  Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:06:44 +0100
From:  "Jacqueline Lecarme" <jl at cra.cnrs.fr>
Subject:  Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5), Paris France

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Date:  Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:06:44 +0100
From:  "Jacqueline Lecarme" <jl at cra.cnrs.fr>
Subject:  Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5), Paris France



			   CONFERENCE PROGRAM

				  CAL5
		      5th International Conference
		       on Afroasiatic Linguistics
			     Paris, France

			    28-30 June 2000

The 5th International Conference on Afroasiatic Languages will be held
on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 28-30, 2000, at Université Paris
VII - Denis Diderot, 2 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris (Métro: Jussieu).

Invited speakers for CAL5 are Mohand Guerssel (UQAM), R.J. Hayward
(SOAS), and Alec Marantz (MIT).

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Wednesday, 28 June 2000
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8.45-9.00     Jochem Hoock, Vice President of Université Denis Diderot
              Opening remarks

9.00-9.40     Jamal Ouhalla, QMWC London
              Complementizers and Clitic-Second in Berber

9.40-10.20    Girma Halefom and John Lumsden, UQAM
              Decomposing the Perfect Conjugation

10.20-11.00   Tal Siloni, Tel Aviv University
              Case Checking in Phonology

11.00-11.15   Pause

11.15-11.55   Lina Choueiri, University of Southern California
              Yes-No questions, focus, and PF movement

11.55-12.35   Adam Ussishkin, University of Santa Cruz
              Templatic Effects as Fixed Prosody: the Verbal System in Semitic

12.35-14.00   Pause

14.00-14.40   Melanie Green and Phil Jaggar, University of Sussex and SOAS
              Exhaustive Listing vs. New Information Focus in Hausa:
              morphosyntactic-semantic correlations?

14.40-15.20   Eugene Buckley, University of Pennsylvania
              Emergent vowels in Tigrinya templates

15.20-15.35   Pause

15.35-16.15   David Swinburne, Tel Aviv University
              Context-dependent Prepositions: the Semantics of `Be'

16.15-16.55   Sabrina Bendjaballah, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Vienna
              The internal structure of the determiner in Bedja

16.55-17.35   Edit Doron, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
              Transitivity Alternations in the Semitic Template System

17.35-17.50   Pause

17.50-18.50   Invited Speaker: R.J. HAYWARD, SOAS
              Omotic: the 'empty quarter' in Afroasiatic Linguistics

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Thursday, 29 June 2000
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9.00-9.40     Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, IRA - Université Mohammed V
              Transitivity, Aspect, and Number

9.40-10.20    Chris Reintges, Leiden University
              A Configurational Approach to Second Tenses in Coptic Egyptian

10.20-11.00   Ivy Sichel, City University of NY Graduate Center
              Phrasal Movement in Hebrew DPs

11.00-11.15   Pause

11.15-11.55   Tabea Ihsane, Université de Genève
              'That's a demonstrative: that's a head !'

11.55-12.35   David Le Gac, Université Paris 7
              Tonal Alternations in Somali

12.35-13.15   Denise Perrett, SOAS
              The Dynamics of Tense Construal: clause chaining in Hadiyya

13.15-14.30   Pause

14.30-15.10   Outi Bat-El, Tel Aviv University
              Anti-faithfulness: An Inherent Morphological Property

15.10-15.50   Irena Botwinik-Rotem, Tel Aviv University
              The thematic and Categorial Status of Ps: the Dative,
              Directional, Locative Distinction

15.50-16.30   Karim Achab, McGill University
              Ordre des mots, topicalisation et alternance d'état en berbère

16.30-16.45   Pause

16.45-17.25   Georgine Ayoub, Université Paris 7
              Les modes de l'énonciation en arabe littéraire
              et en arabe libanais

17.25-18.05   Ur Shlonsky, Université de Genève
              The form of Semitic noun phrases

18.05-20.00   Reception

20.00-21.00   Invited Speaker: Mohand GUERSSEL, UQAM
              Branching rimes

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Friday, 30 June 2000
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9.00-9.40     Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois
              Lexical Relations and the Role of the Imperfective
              Template in Arabic Morphology

9.40-10.20    Mara Frascarelli, Università di Roma Tre
              Somali waxaa Cleft Constructions: A Small Clause analysis

10.20-11.00   François Dell and Mohamed Elmedlaoui, EHESS-CNRS and
              University of Oujda
              Syllabification in Moroccan Arabic and how it differs
              from that in Tashlhiyt Berber

11.00-11.15   Pause

11.15-11.55   Philippe Schlenker, ENS France and USC
              Indexicality, Logophoricity, and Plural Pronouns

11.55-12.35   Kimary Shahin, Birzeit University
              Vowel Innovation in Arabic: Inductive Grounding
              and Pattern Symmetry

12.35-14.00   Pause

14.00-14.40   Nora Boneh, Université Paris 3
              On Information Packaging Strategies and Syntactic
              Structure in Modern Hebrew

14.40-15.20   Robert Ratcliffe, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
              The Plural System of Moroccan Arabic in Diachronic Perspective

15.20-15.35   Pause

15.35-16.15   Maher Bahloul, King Saud University
              The Syntax of Negative Adverbs in Arabic

16.15-16.55   Ali Idrissi, UQAM
              Word Formation and Transfer in Templatic Morphology>

16.55-17.35   Ilan Hazout, University of Haïfa
              Argument Control and Purpose Phrases in Hebrew

17.35-17.50   Pause

17.50-18.30   Business Meeting

18.30-19.30   Invited Speaker: Alec MARANTZ, MIT
              Roots: The Universality of Root and Pattern Morphology

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Web site for CAL5:
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/CAL5.html

For further information, email
lowen at ccr.jussieu.fr (Jean Lowenstamm)
lecarme at cra.cnrs.fr (Jacqueline Lecarme)

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