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Date: 05 Mar 2008
From:"C.G. Häberl" <mustashriq at gmail.com>
Subject:NACAL 36 program
Dear Colleagues:
I would like to alert you to the program of the 36th annual meeting of
the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 36),
which will take place from March 14-16, 2008, at the Holiday Inn Mart
Plaza, Chicago, IL, USA, in conjunction with the 218th meeting of the
American Oriental Society. We are holding a joint session with the
latter conference in memory of the late Alan Kaye.
Friday, March 14th - Friday Morning
Language Contact and Survival (8:00-9:00)
1. Awod, Sulus Beyed, Central Cushitic: Languages, People and the
Influence on Some Semitic Languages.
2. Hamde, Kiflemariam (Umea University), The Situation of Blin
Language: Revitalizing, Maintained or Threatened?
Morphology and Morpho-Syntax I (9:00-10:30)
1. Gibbs, Tara Leigh (University of Minnesota), Somali as a Pro-Drop
Language.
2. Hudson, Grover (Michigan State University), Ethiopian Semitic
Independent Pronoun Archaic Heterogeneity.
3. Beachy, Marvin (SIL Ethiopia), Linguistic and Orthographic
Implications of Analyzing Dizin Possessive Prefixes and Verbal
Agreement Proclitics as just one Set of Proclitic Personal Pronouns.
Break 10:30-11:00
Morphology and Morpho-syntax II (11:00-1:00)
1. Soltan, Usama (Middlebury College), Free State Nominals in
Egyptian Arabic.
2. Alfadly, Hassan Obeid (Hadramout University), New Information on
Future and Nominal Plural Forms of Eastern Mehri in Oman.
3. Nishiguchi, Sumiyo (Osaka University), Correction by Polarity
Reversing Focus in Dhaasanac.
4. Henderson, Brent (University of Florida), Differential Object
Marking in Tigre and Tigrinya.
Lunch Break (1:00-2:00)
Friday Afternoon
Joint session (2:00-5:00): Ancient Near East I: AOS-NACAL:
Linguistics—In Memory of Alan S. Kaye
1. Hasselbach, Rebecca (University of Chicago) Early Semitic and
Language Typology
2. Fu, Janling (Harvard University) A Case for Markedness in Amarna
Canaanite? Distinctions between qtl/yqtl in the Byblian Corpus
3. Bar-Asher, Elitzur Avraham (Harvard University) Synchronic and
Diachronic Analysis of the Tenses of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
4. Pat-El, Na´ama (Harvard University) The Proleptic Genitive in
Aramaic: A Re-Evaluation
Break
5. Rubin, Aaron (Pennsylvania State University) The Development of
the Amharic Definite Article
6. Karahashi, Fumi (Chuo University, Japan) Some Notes on the
Sumerian Interrogative Pronoun a na
7. Johnson, J. Cale (University of California, Los Angeles)
Mirativity in Sumerian
8. Daniels, Peter T. (New York) H.C. Rawlinson's Contributions to
Persian and Assyrian Studies
Saturday, March 15th - Saturday Morning
Phonology I: Root/Word Formation and Syllable Structure (8:00-9:30)
1. Spencer, Bradley (Harvard University), Contingent Extrasyllabicity
in the Proto-Semitic Imperative.
2. Faust, Noam (Université de Paris VII), Meaningful Vowels: The
syntactic structure of Vocalic Patterns in Hebrew.
3. Laks, Lior (Tel-Aviv University), Verb Innovation in Palestinian
Arabic.
Break 9:30-10:00
Phonology II (10:00-12:00)
1. Lowenstamm, Jean (Université de Paris VII), Chaha Palatalization
Revisited.
2. Rose, Sharon and Shosted, Ryan (Universities of California, San
Diego and Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tigrinya ejective fricatives –
are they really fricatives?
3. Unseth, Peter (Graduate Inst. of Applied Linguistics), The
Psycholinguistic Reality of Co-occurrence Restrictions on Labialized
Consonants in Amharic.
4. Rosenhouse, Judith (Sound Waves Analysis and Technologies, Ltd.),
Duration Features in Male Bedouin Narratives.
Lunch Break 12:00-1:00
Saturday Afternoon
Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics (1:00-3:00)
1. McClelland, Clive W. (Liberty University), Prosody vs. Grammar in
Two VSO Languages.
2. Bach Baoueb, Lamia (Université de Jendouba), Language Use and Code
Switching in Tunisian Business Concersations.
3. Henkin, Roni (Ben-Gurion University), Bilingual Humor in Written
Negev Arabic.
4. Khalfaoui, Amel (University of Minnesota), Demonstratives in
Tunisian Arabic: Beyond Spacial Distance.
Break 3:00-3:30
Tense / Mood / Aspect and Voice (3:30-5:30)
1. Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader (University of Newcastle upon Tyne),
Finiteness, Logophors, and Double Access Construal in Arabic
varieties.
2. Teeple, David (University of California, Santa Cruz), Arabic
Impersonal Passives in OT.
3. Rucart, Pierre (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle), Aspect,
Tense and Modality in the Verbal System of Qafar.
4. Hatav, Galia (University of Florida), Absolute and Relative Tense
in Hebrew.
In Memoriam, M. Lionel Bender: (6:00-7:00)
NACAL Annual Dinner: Reza's Restaurant, 432 West Ontario St., Chicago,
IL (7:30-9:30)
Sunday, March 16th - Sunday Morning
Afro-Asiatic Reconstruction (8:00-9:00)
1. Militarev, Alexander (Russian State University For the
Humanities), Toward a Complete Afro-Asiatic Etymological Database,
Genealogical Classification and Chronology of Branching: Preliminary
Results.
2. Takács, Gábor (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Aspects of
Comparison of Semitic and Egyptian.
3. Zaborski, Andzrej (University of Warsaw), The position of Afar-Saho
in Cushitic and of Cushitic within Afroasiatic.
Break 9:00-9:30
Typology and Classification (9:30-11:30)
1. Owens, Jonathan (University of Maryland), Three Sources for the
Study of Arabic Language History and their Role in Defining the Place
of Arabic in Semitic.
2. Avanzini, Alessandra (Università degli Studi di Pisa), Origin and
Classification of the Ancient South Arabian Languages.
3. Testen, David (Catholic University of America), Errant Isoglosses
of Aramaic.
4. Kapeliuk, Olga (Hebrew University), Some Common Innovations in
Peripheral Neo-Semitic.
Lunch Break 11:30-12:30
Sunday Afternoon
Philology and Historical Linguistics (12:30-3:00)
1. Waltisberg, Michael (University of Marburg), The Case System of
Amorite – A Re-Evaluation.
2. Pat-El, Na'ama (Harvard University), The Origin of the Official
Aramaic Quotative l'mr.
3. Al-Jallad, Ahmad (Harvard University), A Syntactic Account of the
Development of the Negative Adverb mā in Central Semitic.
4. Schluter, Kevin T. (University of Minnesota), Middle Stems,
Pronouns, and Reflexivity in Biblical Hebrew.
5. Calabro, David (University of Chicago), Rolling out the Etymology
of Northwest-Semitic sglt.
NACAL Business Meeting 3:00-3:30
Adjournment 3:30
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Charles G. Häberl, PhD
Instructor in Middle Eastern Studies
Assistant Director, Development and Communication
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-329, 54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8045
Phone: (732) 445-8444 Ext. 17 / Fax: (732) 445-8446 / Mobile: (917)
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