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Date: 26 Jan 2008
From:Mustafa Mughazy <mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu>
Subject:ALS 22 Program

22 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS
University of Maryland, College Park
March 8-9, 2008

Sponsored by
The Arabic Linguistics Society
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,
Center for the Advanced Study of Language,
University of Maryland, and
National Foreign Language Center

Program
SATURDAY, MARCH 8
9.00–9.30	OPENING REMARKS

9.30–10:00	Phrasal and sentential agreement in the inter-language of  
learners of Arabic
Ghassan Husseinali
Yale University

10.00–10:30   	Linguistic distance and the acquisition of basic  
reading processes in diglossic Arabic
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
Bar-Ilan University, Israel

10.30–10.45	BREAK

10.45–11.30	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Mushira Eid
University of Utah
Arabic or Arabics: The core and the variable

11:30–12:00 	Verb innovation in Palestinian Arabic
Lior Laks
Tel Aviv University, Israel
	
12.00–1.00	BREAK
	
1.00–1.45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Yasser Suleiman
University of Edinburgh
Out of place: Language, dislocation and exile

2.15-2.30	BREAK

2.30–3.15	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jonathan Owens
University of Maryland
The early history of Arabic

3.15 – 3.45 Ingrate or honorable: A re-examination of the word kanuud  
in Qur’an 100 (al-‘Ādiyāt))
Munther Younes
Cornell University

3.45 – 4.15	Genre analysis and Arabic legal discourse
Ahmed Fakhri
West Virginia University

4.15 – 4.30	BREAK

4.30 – 5.00	The feasibility of using the web in building Arabic sense- 
tagged corpora
Khalid Alghamry
Ain Shams University Egypt

5.00 – 5.30	A Unified analysis of Arabic demonstratives in the  
extended nominal projection
Kamel Elsaadany & Salwa Shams
Gulf University for Science and Technology

5.30 – 6.00	The syntactic behavior of Arabic idioms
Ashraf Mohamed
University of Manchester

1.45-2.15     	The effect of language contact and diachrony on
Urban Palestinian phonemics
Uri Horesh
The University of Texas at Austin

6.00-6.30	Patterns of variation in the adoption of Casablancan gender  
concord norms by three ethnolinguistic migrant groups
Atiqa Hachimi
University of Florida

Alternates	
Negative and positive imperatives in young children's Kuwaiti Arabic
Morphosyntactic Development in an Arabic Diglossic Situation

SUNDAY, MARCH 9
9.00 – 9.30	Final devoicing and voicing assimilation in Cairene  
Arabic: An OT analysis
Rawia Kabrah
Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

9.30 – 10.00	The syllable: A perceptual unit in Egyptian Arabic
Rajaa Aquil
University of Utah

10.00 – 10.30 Leading, linking and closing tonal contours in Egyptian  
Arabic
Dina ELzarqa
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

10.30-10.45	BREAK

10.45 – 11.15	Phrasal syncope in Makkan Arabic: An OT account
Mahasen Abu-Mansour
Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

11.15 – 11.45	The OCP as a synchronic constraint in Arabic
Eiman Mustafawi
Qatar University

11.45-1.00	BREAK

1.00 – 1.45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Elabbas Benmamoun
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comparative syntax of Arabic varieties: Issues and approaches

1.45 – 2.15	“Heads” of a feather “agree” together: On the  
morpho-syntax of imperatives in MSA
Usama Soltan
Middlebury College	

2.15 – 2.30	BREAK

2.30 – 3.00	The myth of tensed negation: A neo-aspectualist analysis  
of lam and lan in Standard Arabic
Mustafa Mughazy
Western Michigan University

3.00 – 3.30	Negative expressions in Moroccan Arabic: NCI’s or  
NPI’s?
Hamid Ouali
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

3.30 – 4.00	A core syntax of Arabic pronoun and agreement
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
University of Newcastle & University Mohammed V Rabat

4.00 – 4.15	BREAK

4.15 – 5.00	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Manfred Woidich
University of Amsterdam
The Egyptian lexicon and the Arabic World Atlas

5.00-5.30	Mixed agreement in Lebanese Arabic
Heidi Lorimor
University of Mary Washington

5.30 – 6.00	Use of humor in Arabic and English travel literature: A  
socio-pragmatic contrastive study
Samih Salah
University of Alexandria, Egypt

Alternates	
Against the Split-CP Hypothesis: Evidence from	Iraqi Arabic
The MSA – dialect interface: Borrowing vs. codeswitching in the  
context of corpus analysis

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