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Date:  30 Jan 2002
From: Dilworth Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: ALS Program

THE ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

announce the

SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON
ARABIC LINGUISTICS

March 1-2, 2002

FRIDAY, MARCH 1
Morning Session

8:30 - 8:45	Registration
8:45 - 9:00	Opening Remarks

9:00 - 9:30	THE TEXTUAL COMPONENT IN CLASSICAL ARABIC:
INVESTIGATING INFORMATION STRUCTURE
	Salwa Abdel-Aziz Kamel, University of Cairo

9:30 -10:00	BORROWED WORDS IN AL-AHRAM NEWSPAPER: CHANGES OVER TWENTY YEARS
Zeinab Ibrahim, The American
University in Cairo

10:00-10:30	AUDIENCE'S EXPECTATIONS AND CODE SWITCHING IN
EGYPTIAN MONOLOGUES
Reem Bassiouney, Oxford

10:30-10:45	BREAK

10:45-11:45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
	Georges Bohas
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE LEXICON IN ARABIC AND OTHER SEMITIC LANGUAGES

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:30	COMPOUNDING AND NEW WORD COINAGE IN ARABIC: A
CORPUS-BASED STUDY
Amin Almuhanna, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

2:30 - 3:00	WORD PATTERN AND ROOT ALLOMORPHY IN ARABIC LEXICAL PROCESSING
Sami Boudelaa and William Marslen-Wilson, Cambridge

3:00 - 3:30	THE PLURAL OF PAUCITY AND ITS ACTUAL SCOPE
Ignacio Ferrando, University of Cadiz

3:30 - 3:45	BREAK

3:45 - 4:15	PLURALS AND PRODUCTIVITY: INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN
HIJAZI ARABIC
Asma Siddiki, Kim Plunkett and Paul Harris, Oxford

4:15 - 4:45	REGULAR EXPRESSIONS AND ARABIC LEXICAL FORMS
Stephen Taylor, College of the Holy Cross

4:45 - 5:15	THE SIGNALLING POTENTIAL OF ARABIC CONJUNCTIVE wa
Adil Al-Kufaishi, Copenhagen University

5:15-5:45	RHETORICAL VARIATION ACROSS ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: THE
CASE OF INTRODUCTIONS IN ARABIC RESEARCH ARTICLES
	Ahmed Fakhri, West Virginia University

SATURDAY, MARCH 2
Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00	WHY THERE IS NO KOINE IN SANA'A YEMEN
		Andrew T. Freeman, University of Michigan

9:00 - 9:30	A PARSER FOR THE ARABIC LANGUAGE
Lama Hamandi, Beirut Arab University, Rached Zantout, University of
Balamand, Ahmed Guessoum, University of Sharjah

9:30 -10:00 THE VOCALIC BEHAVIOR IN MAKKAN ARABIC
Muhammad Hasan Bakalla, King Saud University

10:00-10:30	THE VOWELS OF KUWAITI ARABIC
	Wafaa Ali Ammar and Khaled Rifaat, University of Alexandria

10:30-10:45	BREAK

10:45-11:15	REPRESENTING COARTICULATION PROCESSES IN ARABIC SPEECH
Michael Ingleby, University of Huddersfield, and Fatmah A. Baothman,
King Abdulaziz University

11:15-11:45	PHARYNGEALIZATION EFFECTS IN MALTESE ARABIC
MaryAnn Walter, MIT

11:45-12:15	THE ROLE OF VOT IN THE /t/-/T/ OPPOSITION IN MALE AND
FEMALE SPEECH
Ghada Khattab, Barry Heselwood and Fida Al-Hami, University of Leeds

Afternoon Session

2:00-2:30	TOWARDS THE AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF ARABIC DIALECTS
Melissa Barkat, University of Lyon

2:30 - 3:00	AGREEMENT VARIATION OF HEAD NOUN MODIFIERS IN THE
ARABIC DIALECT OF PALESTINE
Nuha Suleiman Daoud Al-Shurafa, King Abdul Aziz University

3:00 - 3:30	IS ARABIC A SUBJECT PROMINENT OR A TOPIC PROMINENT LANGUAGE?
Maryam Salim Bayshak, United Arab Emirates University

3:30 - 3:45	BREAK

3:45 - 4:15	JAPANESE SPEAKERS' ACQUISITION OF ARABIC SYNTAX
Naomi Bolotin, University of Kansas

4:15 - 4:45	TOPIC, SUBJECT AND SYNTACTIC PREDICATION IN ARABIC
NOMINAL CLAUSES
Frederick M. Hoyt, University of Texas at Austin

4:45 -5:15	PHONOLOGICAL SUKUUN: ITS DURATIONAL AND COARTICULATION EFFECTS
Michael Ingleby, University of Huddersfield, and Fatmah A. Baothman,
King Abdulaziz University

Registration Form

Name

Address

City/State		Zip	Country

Affiliation	 email address

Amount enclosed:

Preregistration (deadline: Feb. 16, 2002)	$50
At the Door	$70
Faculty & Students, Cambridge University,	Free

ALS 2002 Membership Dues:
  Students		$15
Faculty		$20

Checks, drawn on US banks, or international money orders should be
made payable to the Arabic Linguistics Society and sent with
registration forms to: Tessa Hauglid, 1346 South 2950 East, Spanish
Fork, UT 84660, USA (email: tmh1 at mstar2.net).

The symposium will be held in the 1st South Daily Room at Cambridge
University Centre, Granta Place, Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RU, United
Kingdom. For more information about accommodations and recreation in
Cambridge go to http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/leisure/acc00.htm and for
information on how to get to Cambridge from different points in the
UK go to http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/html/Fromabroad.html.

Keynote Speaker
Professor Georges Bohas is head of the Department of Semitic
Languages at the Ecole National Supérieur Lettres et Sciences
Humaines, Lyon, France. His most recent books, Matrice, étymon,
Racine (1997), and Matrice et étymon (2000), lay the foundation of a
new theory of the Arabic lexicon.

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