15.708, Confs: General Ling/Afroasiatic/San Diego, CA USA

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Date:  Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:40:01 -0500 (EST)
From:  NACAL2004 at yahoo.com
Subject:  32nd Annual North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics

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Date:  Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:40:01 -0500 (EST)
From:  NACAL2004 at yahoo.com
Subject:  32nd Annual North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics

32nd Annual North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics
Short Title: NACAL 32

Date: 12-Mar-2004 - 14-Mar-2004
Location: San Diego, CA, United States of America
Contact: Michael or Colleen Ahland
Contact Email: NACAL2004 at yahoo.com
Meeting URL: http://ling.uta.edu/NACAL/NACALhome.htm

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics
Language Family: Afroasiatic

Meeting Description:

THE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON AFROASIATIC LINGUISTICS (NACAL) 32nd
Annual Meeting will be held March 12-14, 2004 (Friday-Sunday morning)
at San Diego Old Town Courtyard by Marriott, San Diego, California,
USA.

NACAL 32 Program

TIME 	PAPER 	
        --PRESENTER

FRIDAY, March 12

8:00 	Thoughts about Word Order in Classical Syriac 	
        --Ada Wertheimer, Tel Aviv University

8:30 	Thoughts about Two Biblical [Bi]radicals 	
        --Naftali Stern, Bar-llan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

9:00 	Some Notes on the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew ze 	
        --Na'ama Pat El, Harvard University

9:30 	Hebrew as a Test-case for the 2-Phoneme Root in Semitic 	
        --Pablo-Isaac Kirtchuk-Halevi, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

10:00 	BREAK 	

10:30 	'Key' Consonants in Semitic 	
        --Zev bar-Lev, San Diego State University

11:00 	The Particle -ma, an Akkadian "Converb" or a Defunct Copula?

        --Julie Wilson, Michigan State University

1:30-3:30   	AOS-NACAL JOINT  SESSION IN AFTERNOON
                at DoubleTree Hotel,  Hazard Center trolley stop

CHAIR:Peter T. Daniels, New York City

West Semitic Subject-Clitics	
--David Testen, Saint Paul, Minnesota

(There Are) Three Models of Script Transfer: The "Misunderstanding"
Model 	
--Peter Daniels, New York City

The Afroasiatic Verbal Paradigm in -U ('Subjunctive') 	
--Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Frankfurt University

BREAK	

Morphophonological Variation in the Aramaic Verb of the Onkelos and
Jonathan Targums 	
--Joseph L. Malone, Barnard College and Columbia University (Emeritus)

Two Alleged Arabic Etymologies 	
--Alan S. Kaye, California State University, Fullerton

SATURDAY, March 13

8:00 	Optional Resumption and D-linking in Lebanese Arabic 	
        --Lina Choueiri, American University of Beirut

8:30 	VP-Ellipsis in Arabic 	
        --Maha Kolko, University of Reading, U.K.

9:00 	Gender in Semitic Languages and its Relation to Masculine instead
        of Feminine Forms in Female Speech in Colloquial Arabic  	
        --Judith Rosenhouse, Technion-I.I.T., Israel and Nisreen Debayyat,
          Tel Aviv University

9:30 	Keeping Track of Shared Innovation:  Semitic and Cushitic  	
        --Gene Gragg, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

10:00 	BREAK 	

10:30   Ethiopian Semitic SOV Syntax and the Nominal Origin of the Perfect
 	--Grover Hudson, Michigan State University

11:00   Nominal Clause Patterns in the Geez Octateuch 	
        --Tamar Zewi, University of Haifa, Israel

11:30 	Another Tigre Text   	
        --David L. Elias, Harvard University

12:00-1:30 	LUNCH 	

1:30   	Verbal Inflection in Zargulla: Shifting Subject Agreement Markers
	--Azeb Amha,University of Leiden

2:00 	Standardizing Tigrinya: Problems and Prospects	
        --Samson Beyene Abraha, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

2:30	The Function of t as a Default Consonant in Amharic   	
        --Pete Unseth, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and
          SIL International

3:00 	A New Template for the Imperative in Amharic 	
        --Colleen Ahland, University of Texas, Arlington and SIL Ethiopia

3:30	BREAK   	

4:00	Plurals of Tigrinya 	
        --Tesfay Tewolde, University of Florence

4:30 	An Examination of the Mesmes Text 	
        --Michael Ahland, University of Texas, Arlington and SIL Ethiopia

5:00 	Shared Features of Amharic and K'abeena: New Features of the Ethiopian
        Linguistic Area?	
        --Joachim Crass,Johannes Gutenberg UniversitÃ¤t Mainz

5:30 	My Adventures in Ethiopia	
        --Wolf Leslau,University of California, Los Angeles

7:00-10:00	NACAL 32 Dinner	

SUNDAY, March 14

8:00 	Two Conditional Sentences of Earlier Egyptian and
        How Exactly They Differ 	
        --L. Depuydt, Brown University

8:30 	Virtual Relative Clauses in Middle Egyptian 	
        --Ruth Kramer, University of California, Santa Cruz

9:00 	A Byproduct of a Bygone Era:  Why we shouldn't bother much about
        genetic classification, and even if we wanted to, why, if we are
        honest, we might not be in a position to develop one anyway
        --Jonathan Owens, University of Bayreuth, Arabistik

9:30	BREAK	

10:00	Lexically Speaking: Is Omotic Afrasian?	
        --M. Lionel Bender,Southern Illinois University

10:30	Aspect in Mafa: An Intriguing Case of Featural Affixation 	
        --Marc Ettlinger, University of California, Berkeley

11:00 	Syllabification in Berber: New Evidence from Tamazight 	
        --Hamid Ouali and San Duanmu, University of Michigan

11:30-1:30	NACAL BUSINESS MEETING (Planning for 2005) 	

To view abstracts, visit our website:  http://ling.uta.edu/NACAL/NACALhome.htm

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