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Confs: AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES

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1. "Jacqueline Lecarme", CAL 96: Preliminary Program

 THIRD CONFERENCE ON AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES
			Sophia Antipolis, France
			 27-29 June 1996

 INVITED SPEAKERS:
 Morris HALLE (MIT)
 Jamal OUHALLA (QMWC London)

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 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Thursday, June 27

09:00 - 10:00 Morris HALLE, MIT:
 Distributed Morphology

10:00 - 10:20 Break

10:20 - 11:00 Giuliano LANCIONI, University of Rome:
 Nominalisations in Verb-inital Languages

11:00 - 11:40 M. A. MOHAMMAD, University of Florida:
 Palestinian Arabic and the Empirical Justification of AGRoP

11:40 - 12:10 Elabbas BENMAMOUN: SOAS, London:
 Agreement asymmetries in Arabic and the PF interface

12:10 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:40 Chris REINTGES, University of Leiden:
 Relative Clauses in Older Egyptian

14:40 - 15:10 Philippe SEGERAL, Universite Paris 7:
 Theorie apophonique et organisation des schemes en semitique

15:10 - 16:00 Abdelkader FASSI FEHRI, Universite Mohamed V, Rabat:
 Distributing features and affixes in Arabic
 subject verb agreement paradigms

16:00 - 16:20 Break

16:20 - 17:00 Denise PERRETT, SOAS, London:
 Interpreting Infinitive Complements

17:00 - 17:40 Degif PETROS, Universite du Quebec a Montreal:
 On the absence of the sg. 3m. object in Chaha

17:40 - 18:10 Giuseppe LONGOBARDI, University of Venice:
 Semitic construct state and the ways of N-raising:
 a view from Indoeuropean


Friday June 28

09:00 - 10:00 Jamal OUHALLA, Queen Mary and Westfield College London:
 On Focus

10:00 - 10:20 Break

10:20 - 11:00 Tali SILONI, Tel-Aviv University:
 More on Constructs

11:00 - 11:40 Mohamed TAKI et Abdellah CHEKAYRI, Universite Al Akhawayn:
 Le pluriel brise en arabe classique: etude apophonique

11:40 - 12:10 Laurie TULLER, Universite de Tours:
 Chadic Pronouns

12:10 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:40 Mostafa RECHAD, Universite Paris 8:
 Conditions sur l'accord V-objet en Tigre

14:40 - 15:10 Jean LOWENSTAMM, Universite de Paris 7:
 The Definite article in Biblical Hebrew

15:10 - 16:00 John S. LUMSDEN, Universite du Quebec a Montreal:
 Cause and Manner in Berber Change of State Verbs

16:00 - 16:20 Break

16:20 - 17:00 Ahmed AKKAL & Abdelkader GONEGAI, Universite Hassan II,
 Casablanca (Maroc):
 Word Order Phenomenology in Standard Arabic

17:00 - 17:40 Jean-Francois PRUNET, Universite du Quebec a Montreal:
 The Structure of Inoor Roots

17:40 - 18:10 Edit DORON, University of Jerusalem:
 Hebrew Word-Order

20:00 - ????? Dinner


Saturday June 29

09:00 - 10:00 Ur SHLONSKY, Universite de Geneve:
 The structure of the Arabic complementizer layer

10:00 - 10:20 Break

10:20 - 11:00 Girma HALEFOM, Universite du Quebec a Montreal:
 Subject pronominal clitics in Amharic: last resort
 identification strategy

11:00 - 11:40 Francois DELL & Mohammed ELMEDLAOUI, EHESS-CNRS, Paris
 & Universite Mohammed I, Oujda (Maroc):
 On consonant releases in Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber

11:40 - 12:10 Mohamed NAJI, Universite Paris X:
 L'auxiliaire, la negation et le mouvement optimal des tetes

12:10 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:40 Alain KIHM, CNRS, Paris:
 Wolof genitive constructions and the construct state

14:40 - 15:10 Outi BAT-EL, Tel Aviv University:
 Prosodic Constraints in Modern Hebrew Blending

15:10 - 16:00 Zygmunt FRAJZYNGIER, University of Colorado at Boulder:
 Two aspectual Systems in Chadic: coding means for two
 types of clauses

16:00 - 16:20 Break

16:20 - 17:00 Ali IDRISSI, Universite du Quebec a Montreal:
 Plural Formation in Berber

17:00 - 17:40 Miriam ENGELHARDT, University of Jerusalem:
 Bare NPs

17:40 - 18:10 Hagit BORER, University of Massachusetts, Amherst:
 Sub-Verb-sion



CONFERENCE SITE

The Conference is hosted by the laboratoire *Langues, Langage et
Cognition* (2LC), CNRS et Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis. The
Conference site will be located on the CNRS campus, Building 4, 250 rue
Albert Einstein.

The *Parc International d'Activites de Sophia Antipolis* is located in the
hills above Nice, at 2 kms from the motorway A8 (exit: Antibes), and at
20 kms from the international airport of Nice-Cote d'Azur. Railway
station: Antibes (7 kms).

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation will be arranged at the *Centre International de Valbonne*
(CIV), 06902 Sophia Antipolis, from Wednesday evening, June 26. Please
confirm your reservations as soon as possible (address below). Upon
request, we will gladly provide a list of hotels in Sophia Antipolis.

FEES

There are no fees. The Conference is free.

TRAVEL TO SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS

Arriving by air: International flights arrive at Terminal 1, domestic
flights at Terminal 2. From the airport, there is a bus service to the
railway station of Antibes (to get from there to Sophia Antipolis, see
below).

Arriving by train: All trains stop at Antibes station. To get from there
to Sophia Antipolis, see below.

Arriving by car: Motorway A8 (exit: Antibes). Follow *Sophia Antipolis*.

Bus connection Antibes-Sophia Antipolis: In front of the station, every
20 minutes from 7:15 a. m. to 19:35 p.m.. The trip takes about 30
minutes.

For further information, please contact:

 Jacqueline LECARME
 CNRS-2LC
 1361, route des Lucioles
 06560 Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE
 Tel: (+33) 92 96 73 95
 Fax: (+33) 93 65 29 27
 e-mail: jlllaor.unice.fr