Arabic-L:LING:ALS update

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Date: 24 Feb 2006
From:mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu
Subject:ALS update

[moderator's note: sorry about the formatting.  If you want an  
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Here is the final ALS XX program (after a few changes caused by  
schedules and dropouts):

Twentieth

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS



An open forum for scholars interested in

the application of current linguistic

theories and analysis to Arabic



March 3-5, 2006

Organizer: Mustafa Mughazy

Department of Foreign Languages

Western Michigan University

410 Sprau Tower
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5338

Phone: 269-387-3001

Fax: 269-387-6333



Sponsored by

THE ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY



The Center for Language Education and Research at

Michigan State University



College of Arts and Sciences

College of Education

Department of Foreign Languages

Department of History

Department of Spanish

The Diether H. Haenicke Institute for International and Area Studies

Western Michigan University

Friday, March 3 (Bernhard CENTER – Room 157)

9.00 –  9.30            Registration



9.30 –  9.45            Welcome remarks & Anniversary speech

                         Mushira Eid, University of Utah



9.45 –  10.15            Lexical processing in two language  
varieties: An event-                        related brain potential  
study of Arabic native speakers

Reem khamis-Dakwar & Karen Froud

Columbia University



10.15 – 10.45            The split-INFL hypothesis:
Findings from Arabic L2 learners

Mohammad Alhawary

                         University of Oklahoma



10.45 – 11.00            BREAK



11.00 – 11.30            A cognitive approach to analyzing  
demonstratives in                                     Tunisian Arabic

                         Amel Khalfaoui

University of Minnesota



11.30 – 12.00            A prosodic feature that invites back- 
channels                                     in Egyptian Arabic

                         Nigel Ward & Yaffa Al Bayyari
                         University of Texas at El Paso



12.00 – 1.30            BREAK



1.30 – 2.00                      Why there is no history of the  
Arabic language:

Part 1, the West

                         Jonathan Owens
                         University of Maryland

2.00 – 2.45            Keynote address

Devin Stewart

Emory University

Colorín Colorado, Cide Hamete Benegeli, and other              
puzzles: Recent research on the Arabic influence on             Spanish



2.45 – 3.00             BREAK

3.00 – 3.45             Keynote address

                         Mushira Eid

                         University of Utah

                         Border crossings:

Variation and choice in literary and media Arabic



3.45 – 4.15            Arabic diglossic switching as sets of  
practices in

the media

                         Naima Boussofara Omar
                         University of Kansas



4.15 – 4.30            BREAK



4.30 – 5.00            Covert language attitudes in contemporary Morocco

                         Brahim Chakrani

                         University of Illinois



5.00 – 5.30            Constructing linguistic and social identity  
in             Casablanca:                        The case of Fessi  
migrants

                         Atiqa Hachimi
                         University of Florida



Saturday, March 4 (Bernhard CENTER – Room 157)



9.00 – 9.30            The interaction between morphology and arity  
operations: Evidence from Standard Arabic

Lior Laks

Tel-Aviv University, Israel



9.30 – 10.00            An Arabic Wackernagel clitic?: The  
morphosyntax of                         negation in Palestinian Arabic

Frederick Hoyt

University of Texas at Austin



10.00 – 10.30            Productivity of verb formation strategies in  
Maltese

                         Alina Twist

                         University of Arizona



10.30 – 10.45            BreaK



10.45 – 11.15            Lenition in Arabic

                         Eiman Mustafawi

                         University of Ottowa, Canada



11.15 – 12.00            Keynote address

                         Jeffrey Heath

                         University of Michigan

                         Stretching ablaut: CCu, CCi, and  
CCa                                                 nouns in Moroccan  
Arabic



12.00 – 1.00            BREAK



1.00 – 1.30            Hypocoristics revisited: Challenging  
the                                                 centrality of the  
consonantal Root

                         Samira Farwaneh

                         University of Arizona



1.30 – 2.15            Keynote address

                         Stuart Davis

                         University of Indiana

Issues in the phonology of ‘onset-dialects’ of Arabic



2.15 – 2.30            BREAK



2.30 – 3.00            The Verbal Particle Qad in Arabic: Is it a  
syntactic filler?

                         Maher Bahloul
                         American University of Sharjah, U.A.E



3.00 – 3.45            KEYNOTE ADDRESS

                         Elabbas Benmamoun

                         The Syntax of Arabic Verbs



3.45 – 4.15            Adnominal possession in Egyptian Arabic and  
the internal                         structure of DPs

                         Usama Soltan

                         University of Maryland



4.15 – 4.45            Reconstruction and islandhood in Jordanian Arabic

Nicolas Guilliot & Nouman Malkawi

University of Nantes, France



4.45 – 5.00            BREAK



5.00 – 5.30            A Link Grammar parser for Arabic

Warren Casbeer, Jon Dehdari, & Deryle Lonsdale

                         Brigham Young University



5.30 – 6.00            Using the Arabic tree bank for lexical semantics

                         Mona Diab & Neal Snider
Columbia University & Stanford University



SUNDAY, March 5 (Bernhard CENTER – Room 157)


9.00 – 9.30            A morphological analyzer for MSA and the  
Arabic                                     dialects
                         Nizar Habash & Owen Rambow
                         Columbia University

9.30 – 10.15            Keynote address
                         Dilworth Parkinson
Brigham Young University

ArCorpus.byu.edu: Making Arabic corpora available to              
students and researchers on the web


10.15 – 10.45            A new implementation practice in building  
linguistic                                     concept-based IR systems.

Hayder Al-Ameed, Shaikha Al-Ketbi, Amna Al-Kaabi, Khadija Al-Shebli,  
Naila Al-Shamsi, Noura Al-Nuaimi, & Shikha Al-Muhairi

                         U.A.E University, U.A.E



10.45 – 11.00             break

11.00 – 11.45            Keynote address
Mona Diab

                         Columbia University
                         Automatic Ambiguity resolution in MSA and  
dialectal                         Arabic

11.45 – 12.15            Implementing an Arabic Resource Grammar for GF
                         Ali El Dada & Aarne Ranta

                         Göteborg University, Sweden

12.15 – 1.00            Keynote address
Bushra Zawaydeh & Tom Emerson

Basis Technology, Cambridge MA



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