LINGUIST List 21.3900 Mon Oct 04 2010 Confs: Afroasiatic, Phonology, Syntax, General Ling/France 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.    Sabrina Bendjaballah, BAALL's First Conference on Afroasiatic Grammar Message 1: BAALL's First Conference on Afroasiatic Grammar Date: 02-Oct-2010 From: Sabrina Bendjaballah <sabrina.bendjaballahgmail.com> Subject: BAALL's First Conference on Afroasiatic Grammar E-mail this message to a friend BAALL's First Conference on Afroasiatic Grammar Date: 25-Nov-2010 - 27-Nov-2010 Location: Paris, France Contact: Sabrina Bendjaballah Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://baallconference.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Phonology; Syntax Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic Meeting Description: BAALL's First Conference on Afroasiatic Grammar November 25-27, 2010 Paris, France BAALL's First Conference on Afroasiatic Grammar is organized at the initiative of Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, the youngest international journal of theoretical linguistics. The conference is intended as a forum for the presentation and discussion of ongoing theoretical research on the languages of the Afroasiatic family. Contributions in all areas of linguistic research are welcome: phonology, morphology, syntax, and their interfaces, dialectology and historical linguistics. The Conference will be held at the Paris campus of the University of Chicago on 25, 26, 27 November 2010. Invited Speakers: - Outi Bat-El (Tel Aviv University) - Lina Choueiri (American University of Beirut) - Mara Frascarelli (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) - Russell Schuh (UCLA) Organizers: - Sabrina Bendjaballah - Jean Lowenstamm - Chris Reintges 25/11/2010 9.00-9.30 Registration & coffee 9.30-9.45 Welcome and practical matters 9.45-10.45 Invited speaker: R. Schuh (UCLA) 10.45-11.00 Break 11.00-11.45 A. Fassi Fehri (Mohammed V University, Rabat) 'Finiteness, Logophors, and Double Access Construal in Arabic' 11.45-12.30 Z. Wijler (Tel-Aviv University) 'Contrast-Evidence from Adverb Distribution in Modern Hebrew' 12.30-14.00 Lunch 14.00-14.45 A. Kihm (CNRS & Univ. Paris 7, LLF) 'Plural Formation in Nubi and in Arabic' 14.45-15.45 Invited speaker: L. Choueiri (American University of Beirut) 'Possessive chez and with, and Null Place: a Study of Have-possessives in Arabic' 15.45-16.00 Break 16.00-16.45 M. Lahrouchi (CNRS & Univ. Paris 8, SFL) 'Templatic Constraints in Berber Derivational Morphology' 16.45-17.30 I. Spector (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 'On the Syntax and Semantics of Hebrew ze-clefts' 26/11/2010 9.00-9.45 Z. Segal (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) & I. Landau (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) 'A Verbal Alternation under a Scalar Constraint' 9.45.10.30 C. Darmon (DDL & University Lyon 2) 'Simple and Multiple Causatives in Xamtanga' 10.30-10.45 Break 10.45-11.30 H. Borer (USC) & S. Ouwayda (USC) 'Count Plural vs. Cardinal Plural in Arabic' 11.30-12.15 I. Meir (University of Haifa), S. Uziel-Karl (University of Haifa and Ono Academic College), K. Moed (University of Haifa) & R. Yifat(University of Haifa) Bidd- 'want' in Spoken Palestinian Arabic: Processes of Acquisition and Grammaticalization' 12.15-13.45 Lunch 13.45-14.30 C. Lucas (SOAS) 'Purely Postverbal Negation in Palestinian and Cairene Arabic: A Reconstruction' 14.30-15.15 P. Hallman (University of Vienna) 'Verbal Complexes in Lebanese Arabic' 15.15-15.30 Break 15.30-16.30 A. Belkadi (SOAS) 'The Internal Structure of the Berber DP: a Hierarchical Account' 16.15-17.15 Invited speaker: M. Frascarelli (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) 'Information Structure in Somali. Evidence from the Syntax-phonology Interface' 17.15-17.45 Business meeting 20.00 Dinner 27/11/2010 9.00-9.45 U. Shlonsky (Université de Genève) 'The Connection Between Null Subjects And Topicalization' 9.45-10.30 M. Grubic (University of Potsdam, SFB 632) 'An Interface Account of Focus Realization in Ngamo (West Chadic)' 10.30-10.45 Break 10.45-11.30 I. Botwinik (Tel-Aviv University) & A. Meltzer-Asscher(Tel-Aviv University) 'What Processing Data from Hebrew Tell Us About the Merger of Adjuncts' 11.30-12.15 H. Ouali (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 'Anti-Agreement Effect as C-Agreement' 12.15-13.45 Lunch 13.45-14.30 L. Downing (ZAS, Berlin) & M. Mous (LUCL, Leiden University) 'Challenges of Cushitic Reduplication for Generalized Template Theory' 14.30-15.15 E. Doron (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & I. Meir (University of Haifa) 'Definiteness in Standard and Colloquial Hebrew' 15.15.15.30 Break 15.30-16.30 Invited speaker: O. Bat-El (Tel-Aviv University) 'Phonological Interference with Morpho-syntactic Guidelines: the Hebrew Verb Inflectional Suffixes' Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 04-Oct-2010       About 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.