Arabic-L:LING:Revised Arabic-L Program

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Date: 22 Mar  2005
From:benmamou at ad.uiuc.edu
Subject:Revised Arabic-L Program

[Last minute changes and cancelations have led to the following revised  
program for ALS.  Look for a more nicely formatted version at the  
website.]

Nineteenth
  AnnualSymposium
  on Arabic Linguistics

An open forum for scholars interested in the application of current  
linguistic theories and analysis to Arabic

April 1-3, 2005

Department  of Linguistics
The University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4080 Foreign Language Building
707 S Mathews Avenue, MC-168
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone: (217) 333-3563
  Fax: (217) 244-8430
http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/

Sponsored by

THE ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY

and

  The Department of Linguistics
Center for African Studies
Center for Global Studies
Center for International Business Education and Research
Center for Advanced Study
The Beckman Institute
Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at
the university of Illniois at Urbana-Champaign

friday, April 1

7:30 – 8:15     Registration
  8:15 – 8:30     Welcome and

                      Announcements

Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB

Morning Session Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB

8:30 –9:00      Morpheme specific cortical activity: Evidence from  
mismatch negativity with Arabic roots and word patters
                     Sami Boudelaa University of Cambridge,  
MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, UK, William Marslen-Wilson,   
University of Cambridge, MRC-CBU, UK, Friedemann Pulvermuller,  
University of Cambridge, MRC-CBU, UK, Olaf Hauk, University of  
Cambridge, MRC-CBU Unit, UK, and Yury Shtyrov.

9:00 –9:30      Acquisition of geminate consonants by Arabic  
monolingual and bilingual children
                     Ghada Khattab
  University of Newcastle, UK
 

9:30 –10:00    Roots and patterns in Arabic lexical processing
                     Abdessatar Mahfoudhi University of Ottawa, Canada

10:00-10:30    Null subjects use in Arabic learner language with  
different L1 background
Mohammad  Alhawary
The University of Oklahoma

10:30-10:45    break

10:45-11:15 Intonational and rhythmic patterns across the Arabic  
dialect continuum
Salem Ghazali Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis, Tunisia
Rym Hamdi  Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis, Tunisia
Khouloud Knis Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis, Tunisia  

11:15-11:45 Ideology and practice of Arabic language use among Jewish  
and Palestinian women peace activities in Israel
                     Jessica Weinberg University of Arizona

11:45-12:45  Keynote Address:
                      Niloofar Haeri
                      Johns Hopkins  University

12:45-2:30      Break for lunch

2:30-3:00      Code-switching of Tunisian doctors at work
  Salma Bajjar
  Western Michigan University

3:00-3:30        Arabic sociolinguistics and cultural diversity in  
Morocco
                     Moha Ennaji
  University  of Fez, Morocco

3:30-4:00        The Gendered use of Standard Arabic in Morocco
                    Fatima  Sadiqi
University  of Fez, Morocco

4:00-4:15           Break

Afternoon Session Lucy Ellis Lounge

4:15-4:45      The Uvular 'Q' in Arabic: A sociolinguistic Analysis
                    Maher Bahloul
American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

4:45 – 5:15    Rhetorical Variation in Arabic Academic Discourse
                    Ahmed Fakhri
                      West  Virginia University

5:15-5:45      Aspectual semantics: Aspectual constructions in Arabic
                    Mustafa Mughazy
                    Western Michigan University

5:45-6:15      The Syntax of complex tense in Moroccan Arabic
                    Hamid Ouali University of Michigan, Catherine R.  
Fortin
                      University of Michigan

Saturday, April 2

Morning Session Room 210, Illini Union

8:30 –9:00      On first conjunct agreement in Standard Arabic
                     Usama Soltan University of Maryland, College park

9:00 –9:30      Arabic Cases and Moods: An invention of the grammarians?
                     Munther Younes
  Cornell University

9:30 –10:00    Bilateral Approach to Weak Verbs in Arabic
                     Abdellah Chekayri Alakhawayn University in Ifrane,  
Morocco and Tobias Scheer, Universtité de Nice, France

10:00-10:30    Hypocoristics revisited: Challenging the centrality of  
the consonantal root
Samira Farwaneh
University of Arizona

10:30-10:45    Break

10:45-11:15    Variation and ongoing change in the phonology of urban  
palestinian Arabic
                    Uri Horesh
  University of Pennsylvania


11:15-11:45    Affrication in Qatari Arabic
                     Eiman Mustafawi
  University  of Ottawa,  Canada

11:45-12:45 keynote Address
John McCarthy
University of Massachusetts at Amherst   

12:45-2:00      Break for lunch

2:00-3:00      keynote Address
Salem Ghazali
  Corpus-based linguistic analyses: Testing intuitions about Arabic  
structure and use
Salem Ghazali Institut Superieur des Langues de Tunis, Tunisia    

3:00-3:30        learning Arabic morphology using statistical  
constraint satisfaction models
                     Paul Rodrigues Indiana University, Damir  Cavar  
Indiana University

3:30-4:00        Systematicity in the Arabic Mental Lexicon
Ilana Bromberg,
  Ohio State  University

4:00-4:15           Break

Afternoon Session Room 210, Illini Union

4:15-4:45      Arabic PAPPI: A principles-and-parameters parser
                    Sandiway Fong
                      University of Arizona

4:45 – 5:15    Learning to use the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank
Otakar Smrz, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, Petr Pajas,  
Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, Zdenek Zabokrtsky,  
Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, Jan Hajic, Charles  
University in Prague, Czech Republic, Petr Nemec, Charles University in  
Prague, Czech Republic, Jiri Mirovsky, Charles University in Prague,  
Czech Republic
 

5:15-5:45        The comprehension of Topic-Comment word order in early  
Kuwaiti Arabic child language
                     Khawla Aljenaie Kuwait University, kuwait


7:00 –9:00     Dinner and Reception
                    Colonial Room, Illini Union
                    (Reservation Required)

Sunday, April 3

Room 210, Illini Union

9:00 – 12:00 Corpus Workshop

Keynote Address
  Tim Buckwalter
Linguistic Data Consortium, University  of Pennsylvania

Keynote Address
  Richard Sproat
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Alternates:

Developing a frequency data base for Arabic
Sami Boudelaa University of Cambridge, MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences  
Unit

VP-Ellipsis in Arabic
Maha Kolko
  University of Reading, UK

Registration Info:
Tessa Hauglid, 1346 South 2950 East, Spanish Fork, UT 84660, USA  
(email: tmh1 at mstar2.net).

ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
1346 S. 2950 E.
Spanish Fork, UT 84660
USA
 
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