Arabic-L:LING:ALS Final Program

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1) Subject: ALS Final Program

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Date: 01 Feb 2000
From: Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: ALS Final Program

This is the final program for ALS this week.

Fourteenth Annual Symposium On Arabic Linguistics

March 10-11, 2000

sponsored by

The Arabic Linguistics Society

together with

The Center For Middle
Eastern Studies,
Department Of Linguistics, and
Department Of Near Eastern Studies,
The University Of California, Berkeley

FRIDAY, MARCH 10
Morning Session

8:00-8:30	Registration

8:30-9:00	COGNITIVE PROCESSING AND REPRESENTATION OF MORPHOLOGICAL
STRUCTURE IN MODERN STANDARD ARABIC: BEYOND THE THREE-CONSONANTAL ROOT
Sami Boudelaa & William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

9:00-9:30	INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY: THE ARABIC PLURAL SYSTEM
Asma Siddiki, Kim Plunkett & Paul Harris, Oxford University

9:30-10:00	THE PLURAL SYSTEM OF MOROCCAN ARABIC IN DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE
Robert R. Ratcliffe, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

10:00-10:15	BREAK
10:15-10:45	DOUBLED VERBS AND SYNCOPE RESISTANCE IN IRAQI ARABIC: NOT
ANTIGEMINATION
Sharon Rose, University of California, San Diego

10:45-11:45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Joseph Aoun, University of Southern California

Afternoon Session

1:15-1:45	FIXED PROSODY IN THE ARABIC VERB
Adam Ussishkin, University of California, Santa Cruz

1:45-2:15	DISYLLABICITY AND IRREGULAR VERBS IN ARABIC
Bhavani Saravanan, University of Utah

2:15-2:45	ON THE USE OF WORD PATTERN MORPHEMES IN MODERN STANDARD ARABIC
Sami Boudelaa & William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

2:45-3:00	BREAK
3:00-3:30	THE CATEGORY OF EXISTENTIAL FIH: SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC
ARGUMENTS
Frederick M. Hoyt, Cornell University

3:30-4:00	BORROWING DISCOURSE PATTERNS: FRENCH RHETORIC IN ARABIC
LEGAL TEXTS
Ahmed Fakhri, West Virginia University



6:30 DINNER (PYOW) AT POMEGRANATE RESTAURANT


SATURDAY, MARCH 11
Morning Session

8:30-9:00	DOUBLED VERBS REVISITED
Adamantios I. Gafos, New York University & Haskins Laboratories

9:00-9:30	A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF ARABIC-ENGLISH BILINGUAL
children
Ghada Khattab, University of Leeds

9:30-10:00	AN EXPLORATION OF ARABIC LANGUAGE VARIATION IN GAMAL ABDEL
NASSERS SPEECHES TO THE EGYPTIAN NATION
Valerie Smith, University of Utah

10:-10:15	BREAK
10:15-10-45	LEXICAL & SYNTACTICAL ISSUES IN PARSING WRITTEN ARABIC
Nabil Ali & Tamer Heseen, SAKHR Software Company, Cairo

10:45-11:15	CLASSICAL ARABIC QAD: A NEW APPROACH
Ruediger Arnzen, Ruhr University Bochum

11:15-11:45	HEBREW SPEAKERS' ACQUISITION OF ARABIC SYNTAX
Naomi Bolotin, University of Kansas




Afternoon Session

1:30-2:00	SENTENCE PROCESSING STRATEGIES: AN APPLICATION OF THE
COMPETITION MODEL
Adel Abu Radwan, Georgetown University

2:00-2:30	THE HEAD PARAMETER IN CLASSICAL ARABIC
Ali Farghaly, Eastern Michigan University

2:30-3:00	THE STRUCTURE OF RESTRICTIVE RELATIVES: THREE ARGUMENTS FOR
AN EXTERNAL DETERMINER
Lina Choueiri, University of Southern California

3:00-4:00	RECEPTION



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