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    Message 1: 32nd Annual North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics

     Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:40:01 -0500 (EST)
    From: NACAL2004 <NACAL2004yahoo.com>
    Subject: 32nd Annual North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics


    32nd Annual North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics Short Title: NACAL 32

    Date: 12-Mar-2004 - 14-Mar-2004 Location: San Diego, CA, United States of America Contact: Michael or Colleen Ahland Contact Email: NACAL2004yahoo.com Meeting URL: http://ling.uta.edu/NACAL/NACALhome.htm

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics Language Family: Afroasiatic

    Meeting Description:

    THE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON AFROASIATIC LINGUISTICS (NACAL) 32nd Annual Meeting will be held March 12-14, 2004 (Friday-Sunday morning) at San Diego Old Town Courtyard by Marriott, San Diego, California, USA.

    NACAL 32 Program

    TIME PAPER --PRESENTER

    FRIDAY, March 12

    8:00 Thoughts about Word Order in Classical Syriac --Ada Wertheimer, Tel Aviv University

    8:30 Thoughts about Two Biblical [Bi]radicals --Naftali Stern, Bar-llan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

    9:00 Some Notes on the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew ze --Na'ama Pat El, Harvard University

    9:30 Hebrew as a Test-case for the 2-Phoneme Root in Semitic --Pablo-Isaac Kirtchuk-Halevi, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

    10:00 BREAK

    10:30 'Key' Consonants in Semitic --Zev bar-Lev, San Diego State University

    11:00 The Particle -ma, an Akkadian "Converb" or a Defunct Copula?

    --Julie Wilson, Michigan State University

    1:30-3:30 AOS-NACAL JOINT SESSION IN AFTERNOON at DoubleTree Hotel, Hazard Center trolley stop

    CHAIR:Peter T. Daniels, New York City

    West Semitic Subject-Clitics --David Testen, Saint Paul, Minnesota

    (There Are) Three Models of Script Transfer: The "Misunderstanding" Model --Peter Daniels, New York City

    The Afroasiatic Verbal Paradigm in -U ('Subjunctive') --Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Frankfurt University

    BREAK

    Morphophonological Variation in the Aramaic Verb of the Onkelos and Jonathan Targums --Joseph L. Malone, Barnard College and Columbia University (Emeritus)

    Two Alleged Arabic Etymologies --Alan S. Kaye, California State University, Fullerton

    SATURDAY, March 13

    8:00 Optional Resumption and D-linking in Lebanese Arabic --Lina Choueiri, American University of Beirut

    8:30 VP-Ellipsis in Arabic --Maha Kolko, University of Reading, U.K.

    9:00 Gender in Semitic Languages and its Relation to Masculine instead of Feminine Forms in Female Speech in Colloquial Arabic --Judith Rosenhouse, Technion-I.I.T., Israel and Nisreen Debayyat, Tel Aviv University

    9:30 Keeping Track of Shared Innovation: Semitic and Cushitic --Gene Gragg, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

    10:00 BREAK

    10:30 Ethiopian Semitic SOV Syntax and the Nominal Origin of the Perfect --Grover Hudson, Michigan State University

    11:00 Nominal Clause Patterns in the Geez Octateuch --Tamar Zewi, University of Haifa, Israel

    11:30 Another Tigre Text --David L. Elias, Harvard University

    12:00-1:30 LUNCH

    1:30 Verbal Inflection in Zargulla: Shifting Subject Agreement Markers --Azeb Amha,University of Leiden

    2:00 Standardizing Tigrinya: Problems and Prospects --Samson Beyene Abraha, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

    2:30 The Function of t as a Default Consonant in Amharic --Pete Unseth, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and SIL International

    3:00 A New Template for the Imperative in Amharic --Colleen Ahland, University of Texas, Arlington and SIL Ethiopia

    3:30 BREAK

    4:00 Plurals of Tigrinya --Tesfay Tewolde, University of Florence

    4:30 An Examination of the Mesmes Text --Michael Ahland, University of Texas, Arlington and SIL Ethiopia

    5:00 Shared Features of Amharic and K'abeena: New Features of the Ethiopian Linguistic Area? --Joachim Crass,Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz

    5:30 My Adventures in Ethiopia --Wolf Leslau,University of California, Los Angeles

    7:00-10:00 NACAL 32 Dinner

    SUNDAY, March 14

    8:00 Two Conditional Sentences of Earlier Egyptian and How Exactly They Differ --L. Depuydt, Brown University

    8:30 Virtual Relative Clauses in Middle Egyptian --Ruth Kramer, University of California, Santa Cruz

    9:00 A Byproduct of a Bygone Era: Why we shouldn't bother much about genetic classification, and even if we wanted to, why, if we are honest, we might not be in a position to develop one anyway --Jonathan Owens, University of Bayreuth, Arabistik

    9:30 BREAK

    10:00 Lexically Speaking: Is Omotic Afrasian? --M. Lionel Bender,Southern Illinois University

    10:30 Aspect in Mafa: An Intriguing Case of Featural Affixation --Marc Ettlinger, University of California, Berkeley

    11:00 Syllabification in Berber: New Evidence from Tamazight --Hamid Ouali and San Duanmu, University of Michigan 11:30-1:30 NACAL BUSINESS MEETING (Planning for 2005)

    To view abstracts, visit our website: http://ling.uta.edu/NACAL/NACALhome.htm