LINGUIST List 21.290 Sun Jan 17 2010 Confs: Afroasiatic, Historical Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/USA Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Charles Haberl, North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics Message 1: North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics Date: 16-Jan-2010 From: Charles Haberl <haberlrci.rutgers.edu> Subject: North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics Short Title: NACAL 38 Date: 13-Feb-2010 - 14-Feb-2010 Location: Austin, TX, USA Contact: Na'ama Pat-El Contact Email: npatelaustin.utexas.edu Meeting URL: http://www.nacal.org Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic Meeting Description: The North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL) provides scholars from North America and around the world with a venue to discuss the Afroasiatic language phylum. Now in its 37th year, NACAL has held annual meetings since 1973. Previous meetings have been held in Ann Arbor, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Haven, San Diego, Seattle, Toronto, and several other cities in the United States and Canada. The 38th meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 38) will be held in Austin, TX, Saturday, 2/13 - Sunday, 2/14. Saturday, February 13 I. Phonology 1 9:00 Lutz Edzard: Guttural Phonology and the Hebrew Forms primae and mediae Gutturalis 9:30 Kimary Shahin: Guttural Laryngeals in Semitic 10:00 Break II. Morphology 1 10:30 Rebecca Hasselbach: The Function of Case Markers in Semitic 11:00 Alexander Magidow: -V?n Morphemes in Semitic Languages 11:30 Jo Ann Hackett: yaqtul and a Ugaritic Ritual Text 12:00 Lunch I. Syntax 1:00 Tamar Zewi: Prepositional Phrases as Subjects in Several Semitic Languages 1:30 Na'ama Pat-El: The Syntax of ???er Yet Again 2:00 Aaron M. Butts: The Copulaic Use of ?it in Syriac: Contact-Induced Change and/or Internal Change? 2:30 Break I. Morphosyntax 3:00 Gene Gragg: Morphosyntax, Morphosemantics, & Homology: How to Query a Morphological Database 3:30 Ahmad Alqassas: Morphosyntactic Analysis of Definiteness in Arabic and Hebrew Synthetic Genitives 4:00 Break I. Keynote address 4:15 Zygmunt Frajzyngier Sunday, February 14 VI. Morphology 2 9:00 Mohamed Lahrouchi: Headedness and Template Structure 9:30 Edward Cook: The Internal Causative Passive in Qumran Aramaic 10:00 Tara Gibbs: Somali: A Polysynthetic Language or a pro-Drop Language? 10:30 Break VII. Lexicon 11:00 David Calabro: Names of Body Parts in Ancient Egyptian: Indicators of Which Culture? 11:30 Gregory A. Ward: A Diachronic Perspective on dr? and mdr? at Qumran 12:00 Lunch VIII. Phonology 2 1:00 Michal Temkin Martínez: An Experimental Investigation of Variation in Modern Hebrew 1:30 John Huehnergard: Writing Carefully: Letters from the King of Babylon to the King of Egypt 2:00 Ahmad Al-Jallad: Final Vowels in Ge'ez: A Reassessment 2:30 Break IX. Dialectology 2:45 Hila Zemer: On 3mp Perfects in the Arabic Dialects 3:15 Aaron Rubin: Some Characteristics of Mehri Dialects 3:45 Break 4:00 Business meeting Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Print This Page Please report any bad links or misclassified data LINGUIST Homepage | Read LINGUIST | Contact us While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.

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