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Date: 06 May 2000
From: The LINGUIST Discussion List <LINGUIST at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Subject: Afroasiatic Languages Conference Announcement
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
CAL5
5th International Conference on
Afroasiatic Languages
Paris, France
28-30 June 2000
The 5th International Conference on Afroasiatic Linguisitics will be
held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 28-30, 2000, at Université
Paris VII-Denis Diderot, 2 place Jussieu (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 Denis Diderot University
Opening remarks
9.00-9.45 Jamal Ouhalla, QMWC London
Complementizers and Clitic-Second in Berber
9.45-10.00 Girma Halefom and John Lumsden, UQAM
Decomposing the Perfect Conjugation
10.00-10.45 Tal Siloni, Tel Aviv University
Case Checking in Phonology
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-11.45 Lina Choueiri, University of Southern California
Yes-No questions, focus, and PF movement
11.45-12.00 Adam Ussishkin, University of Santa Cruz
Templatic Effects as Fixed Prosody: the Verbal System
in Semitic
12.00-14.00 Pause
14.00-14.45 Melanie Green and Phil Jaggar, University of Sussex and SOAS
Exhaustive Listing vs. New Information Focus in Hausa:
morphosyntactic-semantic correlations?
14.45-15.00 Eugene Buckley, University of Pennsylvania
Emergent vowels in Tigrinya templates
15.00-15.15 Pause
15.15-16.00 David Swinburne, Tel Aviv University
Context-dependent Prepositions: the Semantics of `Be'
16.00-16.45 Sabrina Bendjaballah, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Vienna
The internal structure of the determiner in Bedja
16.45-17.30 Edit Doron, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Transitivity Alternations in the Semitic Template System
17.30-17.45 Pause
17.45-18.45 Invited Speaker: R.J. HAYWARD
Omotic: the 'empty quarter' in Afroasiatic Linguistics
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Thursday, 29 June 2000
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9.00-9.45 Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, IRA - Université Mohammed 5
Transitivity, Aspect, and Number
9.45-10.00 Chris Reintges, Leiden University
A Configurational Approach to Second Tenses in Coptic Egyptian
10.00-10.45 Ivy Sichel, City University of NY Graduate Center
Phrasal Movement in Hebrew DPs
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-11.45 Tabea Ihsane, Université de Genève
'That's a demonstrative: that's a head !'
11.45-12.00 David Le Gac, Université Paris 7
Tonal Alternations in Somali
12.00-12.45 Denise Perrett, SOAS
The Dynamics of Tense Construal: clause chaining in Hadiyya
12.45-14.00 Pause
14.00-14.45 Outi Bat-El, Tel Aviv University
Anti-faithfulness: An Inherent Morphological Property
14.45-15.30 Irena Botwinik-Rotem, Tel Aviv University
The thematic and Categorial Status of Ps: the Dative,
Directional, Locative Distinction
15.30-16.15 Karim Achab, McGill University
Ordre des mots, topicalisation et alternance d'état en berbère
16.15-16.30 Pause
16.30-17.15 Degif Petros Banksira, MIT
Phonemic Decomposition
17.15-18.00 Ur Shlonsky, Université de Genève
The form of Semitic noun phrases
18.00-18.15 Pause
18.15-19.00 Invited Speaker: Mohand GUERSSEL, UQAM
Branching rimes
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Friday, 30 June 2000
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9.00-9.45 Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois
Lexical Relations and the Role of the Imperfective
Template in Arabic Morphology
9.45-10.00 Mara Frascarelli, Università di Roma Tre
Somali waxaa Cleft Constructions: A Small Clause analysis
10.00-10.45 François Dell and Mohamed Elmedlaoui, EHESS-CNRS and
University of Oujda
Syllabification in Moroccan Arabic and how it differs
from that in Tashlhiyt Berber
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-11.45 Philippe Schlenker, ENS France and USC
Indexicality, Logophoricity, and Plural Pronouns
11.45-12.00 Kimary Shahin, Birzeit University, Israel
Vowel Innovation in Arabic: Inductive Grounding and
Pattern Symmetry
12.00-14.00 Pause
14.00-14.45 Nora Boneh, Université Paris 3
On Information Packaging Strategies and Syntactic
Structure in Modern Hebrew
14.45-15.00 Robert Ratcliffe, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
The Plural System of Moroccan Arabic in Diachronic Perspective
15.00-15.15 Pause
15.15-16.00 Alhaji M. Gimba, UCLA and University of Maiduguri, Nigeria
Verbal Plurality in Bole
16.00-16.45 Ali Idrissi, UQAM
Word Formation and Transfer in Templatic Morphology
16.45-17.30 Ilan Hazout, University of Haïfa
Argument Control and Purpose Phrases in Hebrew
17.30-17.45 Pause
17.45-18.15 Business Meeting
18.15-19.15 Invited Speaker: Alec MARANTZ, MIT
Roots: The Universality of Root and Pattern Morphology
Alternates:
Maher Bahloul, King Saud University
The Syntax of Negative Adverbs in Arabic
Maarten Mous and Rint Sybesma, Leiden University
Object positions in Iraqw and the composition of the sentence
Naima Louali and Gilbert Puech, ISH Lyon 2
Présence et interprétation phonologique d'une voyelle radicale dans les
formes nominales et verbales du berbère
Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi, University of Fes
Subject and Dative Clitics in Berber
Mohammed Diriye Abdullahi, Université de Montréal
Is Somali a Tone Language?
Georgine Ayoub, Université Paris 7
Les modes de l'énonciation en arabe littéraire et en arabe libanais
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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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