LINGUIST List 5.439

Mon 18 Apr 1994

Confs: CONFERENCE ON AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES

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1. "Jacqueline Lecarme", Announcement Follows

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 CONFERENCE ON AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES
 Sophia Antipolis, France
 16-18 June 1994

For further information please contact jlllaor.unice.fr (J. Lecarme).

 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Thursday, June 16

9:00
John McCarthy, University of Massachusets, Amherst: Optimality in
Semitic Phonology and Morphology

10:00
Samir Khalaily, Universite de Leiden: A Syntactic Home for the
Davidsonian Event Argument: Evidence from Standard Arabic

10:30 Break

11:00
Laurie Tuller, Universite de Tours: Rich and Strong Inflection

11:30
Georges Bohas et Gerard Roquet, Universite de Paris 8 et Ecole
Pratique des Hautes Etudes: Les etymons en arabe et en haut egyptien:
recherche sur le lexique chamito-semitique

12:00 Lunch

14:00
Giuseppe Longobardi, Universite de Venise: Construct State in
Romance and Semitic: a Minimalist Interpretation

14:30
Georgine Ayoub, Universite de Paris 3: Gouverneurs et operateurs

15:00
Lunella Mereu, Universite de Rome: The Status of Subject
Clitics in the Afro-asiatic Languages: Evidence from Somali

15:30 Break

16:00
Abdelkader Gonegai, Universite de Casablanca: A propos de la
syntaxe du complement accusatif at-tamyi:z en arabe standard

16:30
Mohamed Guerssel et Jean Lowenstamm, Universite du Quebec a
Montreal - Universite Paris 7: Aspects of Classical Arabic Verbal Morphology

Friday June 17

9:00
Hagit Borer, University of Massachussets,Amherst: Stylistic Inversion,
[Spec, IP] and Quantification

10:00
Dominique Rodier, Universite McGill, Montreal: The Template for
Intensive reduplication in Afar

10:30 Break

11:00
Gertjan Postma, Universite de Leiden: The Nominal Nature of the
Complementizer

11:30
David Gil, University of Singapore: Universal Quantification in
Hebrew and Arabic

12:00 Lunch

14:00
Abdellah Chekayri et Tobias Scheer, Universite de Paris 8: La
provenance apophonique des semi-voyelles dans les verbes creux et
defectueux en arabe classique

14:30
Ur Shlonsky, Universite de Geneve: Eyn-Negation and
What it teaches Us about Hebrew Clause Structure

15:00
Philippe Segeral, Universite de Paris 7: L'apophonie dans la
derivation de certains pluriels brises de triliteres simples en ge'ez

15:30 Break

16:00
Tali Siloni, Universite de Geneve: On Hebrew Gerund

16:30
Victor Porkhomovsky, Academie des Sciences, Moscou: Verbal
Categories in Hamito-Semitic

17:00
Mostafa Rechad, Universite de Paris 8: Un predicat doit avoir un
Cas: remarques sur la verification casuelle en arabe

20:00 Fete


Saturday June 18

9:00
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, Universite de Rabat: Regulating the Lexicon
of Arabic Forms

10:00
Jean-Pierre Angoujard, CNRS-2LC, Sophia Antipolis: Une analyse
non-derivationnelle du maltais standard

10:30 Break

11:00
Edit Doron, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: The Predicate in Arabic

11:30
Maarten Mous, Universite de Leiden: The Prosodic Morphology of
broken Plurals in Iraqw (S. Cushitic)

12:00Lunch

14:00
Jamal Ouhalla, Queen Mary and Westfield College: The Construct
State in Berber

14:30
Sharon Rose, Universite McGill, Montreal: Inflectional Affix
Order in Ethio-Semitic

15:00
Giuliano Lancioni, Universite de Geneve: Arabic Sentence
Structure: Agreement and Incorporation

15:30 Break

16:00
Degif Petros et Jean-Francois Prunet, Universite du Quebec a
Montreal: Du prefixe 1N- en chaha

16:30
Jacqueline Lecarme, CNRS-2LC, Sophia Antipolis: Temps
morphologique et syntaxe de DP en somali

17:00
Naima Louali et Gilbert Puech, Universite Lyon 2: Systeme
vocalique et organisation de la morphologie en touareg


Alternates

Maher Awad, University of Colorado, USA: The Semantic
Contribution of Complementizers: Evidence from
Palestinian Arabic

Joseph L. Malone, Barnard College, New York and Columbia University:
More on Prosodic Circumscription in the Classical Mandaic: the Derived
Verb

Denise Perrett, Summer Institute of Linguistic, Nairobi: ``But''
in Hadiyya: A Labelled Deductive System Pestective of the
Intersentential Connective ihukkaarem and Interclausalbagaan

Robert R. Ratcliffe, Matsue Association for International Exchange,
Japon: Reduplicated Noun Plurals and Drift in Afro-asiatic

Erin Shay, University of Colorado: Complementizers and their
Verbs