Arabic-L:LING:Final Conference Program, Communication and Information Structure Conference

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1) Subject:Final Conference Program, Communication and Information  
Structure Conference

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Date: 22 May 2006
From:Jonathan Owens <jowens at casl.umd.edu>
Subject:Final Conference Program, Communication and Information  
Structure Conference

Conference on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic
June 8-10, 2006

University of Maryland, Stamp Student Union, Benjamin Banneker Room

AGENDA


Thursday, June 8th
9:00 Welcome
Richard Brecht, Center for Advanced Study of Language
Alaa Elgibali, Arabic Department, University of Maryland

Pragmatics, Semantics and Psycholinguistics
Chair: Bruce Ingham
9:20 Mohammed Farghal, Yarmouk University
“Pragmatics and Information Structure in Arabic”
10:05 Daniela Firanescu, Dalhousie University
“The Meanings of Becoming in Syrian Arabic: Approach of the Modal Saar”

10:35 Break

10:50 David Wilmsen, American University, Cairo, Egypt
“Understatement, Euphemism, and Circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic:  
Cooperation in Conversational Dissembling”
11:20 Mahmoud Alkhatib, University of Science & Technology, Irbid,  
Jordan
“The Pragmatics of Invitation Making and Acceptance in Jordanian Arabic”

11:50 Break

12:00 Sami Boudelaa, Cambridge University
“The Structure of Information in Standard and Dialectal Arabic: A  
Cognitive Perspective”

12:45 Lunch

Syntax, Word Order
Chair: Mohammed Farghal
2:00 Steve Hewitt, UNESCO, Paris
“Arabic: verb-subject-object or verb-given-new?”
2:30 Malcolm Edwards, University of London
“Word Order and Information Structure in Egyptian Arabic: Formal and  
Functional Considerations”

3:00 Break
3:15 George Grigore, University of Bucharest
“Conditional Structures in Mardini Arabic”
3:45 Mustafa Mughazy, Western Michigan University
“Topicalization in Egyptian Arabic”

4:15 Adjourn

Friday, June 9th
Codeswitching
Chair: Amy Weinberg (CASL)
9:00 Karima Ziamari, ENS Meknes
“Moroccan Arabic-French Codeswitching and Information Structure”

9:45 Break

10:00 Jonathan Owens and Jidda Hassan CASL and University of  
Maiduguri, Nigeria
“Conversation Particles in Arabic-Hausa Codeswitching: Saliency and  
Language Hierarchies”
10:30 Uri Horesh, University of Pennsylvania/Georgetown University
Variable Code-Switching and Atypical Sentence Structure in  
Palestinian Arabic

11:00 Break

11:15 Najat Benchiba, SOAS, London University
“Structural and Social Considerations in Moroccan Arabic and English  
Codeswitching”
11:45 Raggia Effat, Cairo University
“A Descriptive Analysis of Educated Spoken Standard Arabic in Cairo”

12:15 Lunch

Phonetics and Phonology
Chair: Alan Kaye
2:00 Dina ElZarka, Graz University, Austria
“The Prosody of Focus in Egyptian Arabic”
2:30 Judith Rosenhouse, Swantech Ltd., Haifa, Israel
       “A Comparison of Intonation Patterns in Eastern and Western  
Arabic Dialects”

3:00 Break

3:15 Soha Abboud, University of Madrid
“Accent and Syllabical Structure in Arabic Dialects: The case of  
Cairene Linguistic Variety as a Model”
3:45 Samantha Hellmuth, SOAS/University of Potsdam
“The (Absence of) Prosodic Reflexes of the Given/New Distinction in  
Egyptian Arabic”

4:15 Adjourn


Saturday, June 10th
Discourse Particles
Chair: Enam Al-Wer
9:00 Bruce Ingham, SOAS, London University
“Information Structure in Najdi Arabic”
9:45 Marie Aimee Germanos, Université de Paris III
“The Syntactic and Pragmatic Functions of enno in Lebanese Spoken  
Arabic”

10:15 Break

10:30 Maher Bahloul, University of Utah
“The Pragmatics of the Particle Tab'an in Conversational Arabic”

Corpus Analysis
Chair: Sami Boudelaa
11:00 Alan Kaye, University of California, Fullerton
“On the Use of Aspects, Independent Personal Pronouns, Fillers, and  
Attention Grabbers in an Algerian Arabic Oral Narrative”

11:45 Break

11:55 Jonathan Owens, David Mehall, Trent Rockwood, Bill Young, Robin  
Dodsworth, CASL
“Explaining Ø Subjects in Spoken Arabic”
12:40 Otakar Smrz, Petr Zemanek, Jakub Kracmar, Viktor Bielicky,  
Charles University, Prague
“Information Structure with the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank”

1:10 Lunch

Sociolinguistics
Chair: Karima Ziamari
2:15 Enam Al-Wer, Essex University
“The Making of the Amman Dialect: From Chaos to Order”
3:00 Salma Arraf, Middle East School III, Defense Language Institute
“The Palestinian Dialect in Contact with Hebrew: Overcoming Ethnical  
Obstacles and Group Boundaries”

3:30 Break

3:45 Rania Habib, University of Florida
“An OT Account of a Sociolinguistic inter-personal Variation in the  
Syrian Himsi Colloquial Arabic”
4:15 Closing Remarks

4:30 Adjourn

45 minute sessions will consist of a 30 minute talk and 15 minute  
discussion
30 minute sessions will consist of a 20 minute talk and 10 minute  
discussion




Jonathan Owens
Senior Researcher
University of Maryland CASL
301-226-8830
jowens at casl.umd.edu

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