Arabic-L:LING:ALS this week

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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:paul roochnik <proochnikllc at yahoo.com>
Subject:ALS this week

Dear Friends,

Ahlan wa-sahlan.

Have you got any information about the Arabic linguistics conference  
to be held 08 and 09 March?  I recall it will take place at the  
University of Maryland, but which building?  Which room?  And what  
time does it start?

Thanks and cheers,
Abu Sammy

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Date: 03 Mar 2008
From:moderator
Subject:ALS this week

I am pasting in the info I received.  In this you will find the place  
and the time, I believe.
dil

Event:
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


Venue:
Benjamin Banneker Auditorium, Adele Stamp Student Union

For directions, parking, transportation to and from the Adele H. Stamp  
Union, please click on the following link:


http://www.union.umd.edu/visitorInfo/directions.shtml


Accommodation:
Marriot’s Inn & Conference Center University of Maryland University  
College
3501 University Blvd E
Adelphi, Maryland 20783
Tel. 1-301-985-7300


http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/wasum-the-inn-and-conference-center-university-of-maryland-university-college/?ppc=eastern_google_wasum&vpckey=inn-and-conference-center-college-park&vpccat=leisure

Other nearby Hotels are listed in the following link:

http://www.uga.umd.edu/admissions/visit/accommodations.asp


Nearest airports:
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport – BWI
Hotel direction: 30 miles South
Bus service: $35 (one way)
Estimated Taxi fare: $60

Ronald Reagan Washington National - DCA
Hotel direction: 20 miles East
Estimated Taxi fare: $50 (one way)

Washington, DC/Dulles – IAD
Hotel direction: 35 miles East
Estimated Taxi fare: $80 (one way)




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

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


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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