Arabic-L:LING:ALS 24 Program and Info
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Date: 23 Feb 2010
From: "Brustad, Kristen" <brustad at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:ALS 24 Program and Info
Dear All,
The preliminary program for ALS 24 , April 9-11 at UT Austin, is pasted below and has been posted on the conference website:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/events/conferences/als2010/als2010.php
Several “crash” sites are available for graduate students traveling to Austin to attend the conference. Please contact me at
brustad at austin.utexas.edu for more information.
Looking forward to welcoming you to Austin!
Kristen Brustad
Associate Chair
Graduate Studies Advisor
Middle Eastern Studies
University of Texas at Austin
ALS 24
April 9-11, 2010
University of Texas at Austin
“Arabic Across Traditions”
Preliminary Program
Friday April 9
9:00-10:30 Negation
Chatar-Moumni Nizha, Université Paris Descartes
Negative association in Moroccan Arabic
Frederick Hoyt, University of Texas – Austin
Negative Concord and SV in Two Dialects of Arabic
Abbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Corpus Study of Negative Particles in Arabic Varieties
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Keynote Address: “Arabic as a Semitic Language”
John Huehnergard, UT Austin
12:00-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-2:30 Discourse analysis
Keri Miller, University of Arizona
The Paradox of the Term 'Democracy' in Arabic Discourse on Islamic
Movements
Selim Ben Said, Pennsylvania State University
Urban Discourses and the Construction of a Multilingual Identity on
Tunisian Street Signs
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:45 Semantics
Ola Moshref, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Grammatical Gender Assignment of English and French Loan Words in
Egyptian Arabic
Dana Abdulrahim & John Newman, University of Alberta
How many ways to GO in Arabic? A corpus-based approach to
determining polysemy and synonymy of the verbs ḏahaba, maḍā,
rāḥa,and inṭalaqa
3:45-4:45 Break
4:00-5:00 Computational Linguistics
Rania Alsabbagh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An Unsupervised Approach for the Automatic Detection and Resolution
of Ambiguous Arabic
David Schulz, Wisconsin Lutheran College
Automatic Generation and Evaluation of Foreign Names in Arabic Script
6:00 Dinner
Saturday April 10
9:00-10:30 Sociolinguistics
Uri Horesh, Franklin & Marshall College
Generational variation among Palestinian women: An age grading
hypothesis
Atiqa Hachimi , University of Toronto
Dialect change and the family in Morocco: The case of gender concord
among three ethnolinguistic families in Casablanca
Abdulkafi Albirini, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bi-dialectal Code-switching and the Origin of Arabic Varieties
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Keynote Address: “Analyzing Variation in Arabic”
Enam Al-Wer, University of Essex
12:00-1:30 Lunch Served Courtesy UT Graduate School
1:30-2:30 Phonology
Mahasen Abu-Mansour, Umm Al-Qura University
An optimality theoretic account of hypocoristic formation in Makkan
Arabic
Rawiah Kabrah, Umm Al-Qura University
Opaque and transparent stress in Makkan Arabic
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:45 Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition
Reem Khamis, Adelphi University & Karen Froud, Columbia University
Neurocognitive investigations of codeswitching in Arabic Diglossia:
breaking with tradition
Khawla Aljenaie, Kuwait University & Abbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The acquisition of Kuwaiti Arabic Questions: The Movement and In-Situ
Strategies
Rajaa Aquil, Georgia Institute of Technology & Scott Jackson, University of Maryland
Internalizing Arabic phonotactic rules: Is it proficiency based?
Marwa Ragheb & Davis Stuart, Indiana University
The acquisition of word-final consonant clusters in Cairene Arabic: An
OT analysis
Sunday April 11
8:30-10:30 Special Session: Syntactic Approaches to VSO and SVO Word Order
Hamid Ouali, Chair
Mohammad Mohammad, UT Austin
Martin Walkow, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Subject Verb Agreement Asymmetries and the Distribution of Labor
between Syntax and Morphology
Peter Glanville, University of Texas – Austin
A Lexical Functional Grammar analysis of Arabic pronoun placement
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45 -12:15 Syntax II
Wassim Bekai, University of Nizwa, Oman
Are Subject and Object Markers clitics or non-clitics in South Lebanese
Arabic?
Mary Ann Walter, Middle East Technical University
Repetition avoidance in Arabic Syntax: A Distinctness Account of
Construct State and Relative Clauses.
Alexander Magidow, University of Texas – Austin
Explaining Case-Marking in Spoken Formal Arabic
End of Conference
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