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byu.edu>The Arabic Linguistics Society together with The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana announce the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics March 6-8, 1998 Friday, March 6 Morning Session 8:30 - 8:45 Registration 8:45 - 9:00 Welcoming Remarks 9:00 - 9:30 Hypocoristic Formation in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic Bushra Zawaydeh and Stuart Davis, Indiana University 9:30 -10:00 An Acoustic-Articulatory Study of Uvularization Khalil Iskarous, University of Illinois 10:00-10:30 The Phonology of Emphasis and Timbre in Moroccan Arabic Mostafa Shoul, Mohammed I University 10:30-11:00 The Spreading Effect of Emphatic Consonants on Long Vowels in Modern Standard Arabic Ahmed Alioua, Universit Cadi Ayyad 11:00-11:15 Coffee 11:15-12:15 Modes of Interrogation Guest Speaker: Joseph Aoun University of Southern California Afternoon Session 2:00 - 2:30 Checking and Licensing Inside DP in Arabic M. A. Mohammad, University of Florida 2:30 - 3:00 Dialect Variation in Arabic: The Case of Tetuani Arabic and Spanish Arabic Jamal Ouhalla, University of London 3:00 - 3:15 Coffee 3:15 - 3:45 Free Relatives in Lebanese Arabic Lina Choueiri, University of Southern California 3:45 - 4:15 Principled Concordance Peter Hallman, UCLA 4:15 - 4:45 Arabic Morphological Causatives: Numeration and Local Economy Mark LeTourneau, Weber State University 4:45 - 5:15 Correspondence in Arabic Morphology Ali Idrissi, King Abdulaziz University 6:00 RECEPTION, Colonial Room Saturday, March 7 Morning Session 9:00 - 9:30 (8) and (9) as Ternary and Binary Variables in Damascus Arabic Jamil Daher, New York University 9:30 -10:00 Avoidance Behavior in Writing Arabic: An Exploratory Study of L1 Linguistic Insecurity Kirk Belnap, BYU 10:00-10:30 Contact between Arabic and Arabic: Distancing Frames in Reported Speech Niloofar Haeri, Johns Hopkins University 10:30-11:00 Code Alternations among Arabic Speakers in America Kamel A. Elsaadany, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 11:00-11:15 Coffee 11:15-12:15 Traditional Arabic Grammar and Modern Functional Linguistics: Unity in Diversity guest speaker: ahmed moutaouakil Mohammed V University Afternoon Session 2:00 - 2:30 Relative Clauses in Moroccan Arabic: A Discourse Perspective Ahmed Fakhri, West Virginia University 2:30 - 3:00 On inna, anna, et alia David Testen, University of Chicago 3:00 - 3:30 On Some Phonetic and Orthographic Phenomenon as Attested in an 11th-Century Judeo-Arabic Work Maria Angeles Gallego, Emory University 3:30 - 3:45 Coffee 3:45 - 4:15 Computational Tool for Developing Morpho-phonological Models for Arabic George Anton Kiraz, Bell Laboratories 4:15 - 4:45 Arabic Stem Morpho-tactics via Finite-State Intersection Kenneth R. Beesley, Xerox Research Centre Europe 4:45 - 5:15 Testing Lexical Differences in Regional Standard Arabics Dilworth B. Parkinson, Brigham Young University, and Zeinab Ibrahim, The American University in Cairo Sunday, March 8 Morning Session 9:00 - 9:30 Acquisition of Binding in L1 Arabic Naomi Bolotin, University of Kansas 9:30 -10:00 Do We Need Control Theory? Ibtissam Kortobi, University of Southern California 10:00-10:30 Secondary Predication in the Syntax of Arabic Wafaa Batran Wahba, Mansura University 10:30-10:45 Coffee 10:45-11:15 The Construct State in Arabic Moha Ennaji, University of Fes 11:15-11:45 The Syntax of Small Clauses in Moroccan Arabic Fatima Sadiqi, University of Fes Registration Form Name Address City/State Zip Country Affiliation email address Amount enclosed: Preregistration (deadline: Feb. 16, 1998) $15 ALS 1998 Membership Dues: At the Door $20 Students $10 Faculty & Students, University of Illinois Free Faculty $15 Checks, drawn on US banks, or international money orders should be made payable to the Arabic Linguistics Society and sent with registration forms to: Tessa Hauglid, 759 West 1800 North, West Bountiful, UT 84087, USA (email: tessa.hauglidMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue