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Date: 20 Jan 2014
From:  Youssef Haddad <yah at ufl.edu>
Subject: ALS28 Program

THE 28th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS
University of Florida in Gainesville
Thursday, March 13 – Saturday, March 15, 2014

All Panels will be located in Smathers Library East – 1st Floor – Room 1A

Symposium Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/yah/ALS28.xhtml

Program

Thursday, March 13, 2014

8:00-9:00         Registration

9:00-9:15         Welcome/Opening Remarks

Session 1:         Syntax 1
 Chair: Eric Potsdam

9:15-9:45         Explaining Serial Verb Constructions Without Constructions

                        Hamid Ouali and Juman Al-Bukhari, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee

9:45-10:15       Fin, Force, and Complementiser Agreement in Arabic

                        Osama Omari, Yarmouk University, Jordan, and Phil
Branigan, Memorial University, Canada

10:15-10:45     The Syntax of Fragment Answers: Evidence From Egyptian
Arabic

                        Usama Soltan, Middlebury College

10:45-11:15     Cyclic-Spell-Out Derived Agreement in Arabic Raising
Constructions

                        Youssef A. Haddad, University of Florida, and Susi
Wurmbrand, University of Connecticut

11:15-11:30     Coffee Break

11:30-12:30     Keynote Address

The ‘Locative Paradigm’ in Arabic

                        Lina Choueri, The American University in Beirut,
Lebanon

12:30-1:45       Lunch

Session 2:         Sociolinguistics
Chair: Youssef Haddad

1:45-2:15         Comparing Children’s Variable Language to Their Parents:
Is It Acquisition or More?

                        Rania Habib, Syracuse University

2:15-2:45         L1-English Tense-Lax Vowel System Influence on L2-Arabic
Short and Long Vowel Learning

                        Zafer Lababidi and Hanyong Park, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2:45-3:15         [gahwa] ~ [Ɂahwa]: Examining the Uvular Stop (q) in the
Arabic of Gaza City

                        William Cotter, University of Essex, England

3:15-3:30         Coffee Break

3:30-4:00         The Grammaticalization of the Motion Verb rāħ as a
Prospective Aspect Marker in Levantine Arabic

                        Najib Jarad, University of Sharjah, United Arab
Emirates

4:00-4:30         How Regional Features in Arabic Become Sectarian
Features: Jordan as a Case Study

                        Enam Al-Wer, University of Essex, England, Uri
Horesh, Northwestern University, Bruno Herin, INALCO, Paris, Maria Fanis,
Ohio University

4:30-5:30         Keynote Address

What Can the Salat Teach Us About Language?

                        Niloofar Haeri, Johns Hopkins University

Friday, March 14, 2014

Session 3:         Sociolinguistics/Corpus Linguistics        Chair: Amel
Khalafaoui

8:30-9:00         Verb System in Mixed Styles of Arabic in Egypt

                        Malgorzata Kniaz, Jagiellonian University, Poland

9:00-9:30         A Corpus-Based Analysis of Three Arabic Adversative
Conjunctions in a Current Egyptian Newspaper

                        Shaemaa Essa, The American University in Cairo,
Egypt

9:30-10:00       Building and Analyzing a Bilingual, Biscriptal Corpus for
Arabic and English Mixed Texts Online

                        Robert Bianchi, Virginia Commonwealth University in
Qatar

10:00-10:15     Coffee Break

10:15-10:45     Written vs. Spoken: An Analysis of Moroccan Arabic-French
Codeswitching in Different Modes

                        Rebekah Post, The University of Texas at Austin

10:45-11:45     Keynote Address

TBA
                        Naima Boussofara, University of Kansas

11:45-1:00       BUSINESS MEETING

                        ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY

Session 4:         Phonology & Phonetics                       Chair:
Caroline Wiltshire

1:00-1:30         Stress and Syllable Repair in Egyptian Arabic

                        Elijah Reynolds, Indiana University

1:30-2:00         Examining Feature Economy in Arabic Dialects

                        Cheng-Wei Lin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2:00-2:30         On the Status of Derived Affricates in Arabic Dialects

                        Stuart Davis and Dua’a Abu-Alhija Mohajna, Indiana
University

2:30-2:45         Coffee Break

2:45-3:15         The Prosodic Structure of First Words in Arabic

                        Eman Abdoh, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

3:15-3:45         The Phonetics of Stress and Accent in Tunisian Arabic

Nadia Bouchhioua, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of La Manouba,
Tunisia

3:45-4:45         Keynote Address

Phonation categories in Arabic and Modern South Arabian

                        Janet Watson, University of Leeds

6:00-9:00         RECEPTION

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Session 5:         Syntax 2
 Chair: Brent Henderson

8:30-9:00         On LF-PF Match in Sason Arabic

                        Faruk Akkus, Boğazici University, Turkey

9:00-9:30         On the Locus of Negation and NPI Licensing in Jordanian
Arabic

                        Ahmad Alqassas, Georgetown University

9:30-10:00       The Syntax of Negation in Contact Contexts: The Case of
Sason Arabic

                        Faruk Akkus, Boğazici University, Turkey, and
Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois

10:00-10:15     Coffee Break

Session 6:         Language Acquisition                           Chair:
Rania Habib

10:15-10:45     Acquisition of Syntax-Semantics Interface in the Definite
Marker in Nouns and Noun Phrases

                        Mahmoud Azaz, University of Arizona

10:45-11:15     A Pilot Study on the Interface Hypothesis for Syntax and
Semantics of Heritage Speakers of Levantine Arabic

                        May Ahmar and Ignacio Montoya, Columbia
University/Graduate Center-CUNY

11:15-11:45     Language Learning in Heritage and Non-Heritage Adult
Learners of Arabic: An ERP study

                        Reem Khamis-Dakwar, Adelphi University, and Karen
Froud, Teachers College, Columbia University

Session 7:         Pragmatics & Historical Linguistics      Chair: Youssef
Haddad

11:45-12:15     Demonstratives in Tunisian Arabic: Beyond information Status

                        Amel Khalafaoui, Florida Atlantic University

12:15-12:45     Jaffa Palestinian Arabic: A Contemporary and Diasporic
Sociolinguistic Analysis

William Cotter, University of Essex, England, and Uri Horesh, Northwestern
University

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