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Date: 06 May 2011
From: Alex Bellem <A.Bellem at salford.ac.uk>
Subject: Mehri Language Workshop at U of Salford

Dear colleagues

Spring greetings from Salford, and apologies for the inevitable cross-posting.

We have pleasure in inviting you to our forthcoming 1-day language workshop on the Modern South Arabian language Mehri. Please find below more details, including how to register, and the programme. Please also feel free to circulate these details further, particularly to any postgraduates who may be interested. 

With best wishes

Alex

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Dr Alex Bellem
Lecturer in Linguistics

University of Salford
School of Languages, Maxwell Building, Room 811
Salford M5 4WT, UK
Tel:  *44 (0)161 295 3064
Fax: *44 (0)161 295 5335
e-mail: a.bellem at salford.ac.uk

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Mehri Language Workshop

27th May 2011

University of Salford

The University of Salford is pleased to invite you to a one-day workshop on Mehri, an unwritten Modern South Arabian language spoken in Yemen and Oman.  

The workshop sessions will be led by Janet Watson and Alex Bellem (Salford), Samuel Liebhaber (Middlebury College, USA), Miranda Morris (St Andrews) and Mohammed Bar Ingema Al-Mahri, from Dhofar. 

The workshop will include discussions on the history of the Mahrah and the Mehri language, the position of Mehri within Modern South Arabian, Mehri oral literature, and practical sessions on the phonetics, morphology and syntax of the language.

Organisers Dr Alex Bellem, Professor Janet C.E. Watson, Debbie Hughes. For further information and a registration form, please email: Alex Bellem (a.bellem at salford.ac.uk) or Debbie Hughes (d.hughes1 at salford.ac.uk).  The registration form is also available at: http://www.languages.salford.ac.uk/research/centre_applied_linguistics/events.php

Registration for the workshop is £15 for registered UK and EU students and £25 for all others to include refreshments, lunch and handouts.

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Programme

09:00               Registration and coffee

09:30-10:15     History of the Mehri-speaking region

                       (Miranda Morris, Samuel Liebhaber)

10:15-11:00     Mehri oral literature: poetry, songs, folklore (with audio-visual illustrations)

                       (Samuel Liebhaber, Miranda Morris)

11:00-11.20    Refreshments

11:20-12:00     The place of Mehri within Modern South Arabian

                       (Miranda Morris, Janet C.E. Watson)



12:00-12:45     The dialectology and sociolinguistics of Mehri

                       (Janet C.E. Watson, Samuel Liebhaber)

12:45-13:30     Lunch

13:30-15:00     The sounds and sound system of Mehri: Introduction to Mehri phonology followed by a practical phonetics session

                       (Alex Bellem, Janet C.E. Watson, with consultant Mohammed Bar Ingema Al-Mahri, from Dhofar) 

15:00-15:30     Refreshments

15:30-17:00     Mehri morphology and syntax; The development of an orthographical system for Mehri and a practical text analysis session

                       (Janet C.E. Watson, Mohammed Bar Ingema Al-Mahri)

17:00-18:00     Open discussion of Aaron Rubin's (2010) The Mehri Language of Oman Leiden: Brill

                       (With participation by the author)
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