LINGUIST List 21.290
Sun Jan 17 2010
Confs: Afroasiatic, Historical Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/USA
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1. Charles
Haberl,
North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics
Message 1: North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics
Date: 16-Jan-2010
From: Charles Haberl <haberlrci.rutgers.edu>
Subject: North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics
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North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics Short Title: NACAL 38
Date: 13-Feb-2010 - 14-Feb-2010 Location: Austin, TX, USA Contact: Na'ama Pat-El Contact Email: npatelaustin.utexas.edu Meeting URL: http://www.nacal.org
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax
Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic Meeting Description:
The North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL) provides scholars from North America and around the world with a venue to discuss the Afroasiatic language phylum. Now in its 37th year, NACAL has held annual meetings since 1973. Previous meetings have been held in Ann Arbor, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Haven, San Diego, Seattle, Toronto, and several other cities in the United States and Canada.
The 38th meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 38) will be held in Austin, TX, Saturday, 2/13 - Sunday, 2/14.
Saturday, February 13
I. Phonology 1
9:00 Lutz Edzard: Guttural Phonology and the Hebrew Forms primae and mediae Gutturalis
9:30 Kimary Shahin: Guttural Laryngeals in Semitic
10:00 Break
II. Morphology 1
10:30 Rebecca Hasselbach: The Function of Case Markers in Semitic
11:00 Alexander Magidow: -V?n Morphemes in Semitic Languages
11:30 Jo Ann Hackett: yaqtul and a Ugaritic Ritual Text
12:00 Lunch
I. Syntax
1:00 Tamar Zewi: Prepositional Phrases as Subjects in Several Semitic Languages
1:30 Na'ama Pat-El: The Syntax of ???er Yet Again
2:00 Aaron M. Butts: The Copulaic Use of ?it in Syriac: Contact-Induced Change and/or Internal Change?
2:30 Break
I. Morphosyntax
3:00 Gene Gragg: Morphosyntax, Morphosemantics, & Homology: How to Query a Morphological Database
3:30 Ahmad Alqassas: Morphosyntactic Analysis of Definiteness in Arabic and Hebrew Synthetic Genitives
4:00 Break
I. Keynote address
4:15 Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Sunday, February 14
VI. Morphology 2
9:00 Mohamed Lahrouchi: Headedness and Template Structure
9:30 Edward Cook: The Internal Causative Passive in Qumran Aramaic
10:00 Tara Gibbs: Somali: A Polysynthetic Language or a pro-Drop Language?
10:30 Break
VII. Lexicon
11:00 David Calabro: Names of Body Parts in Ancient Egyptian: Indicators of Which Culture?
11:30 Gregory A. Ward: A Diachronic Perspective on dr? and mdr? at Qumran
12:00 Lunch
VIII. Phonology 2
1:00 Michal Temkin MartÃnez: An Experimental Investigation of Variation in Modern Hebrew
1:30 John Huehnergard: Writing Carefully: Letters from the King of Babylon to the King of Egypt
2:00 Ahmad Al-Jallad: Final Vowels in Ge'ez: A Reassessment
2:30 Break
IX. Dialectology
2:45 Hila Zemer: On 3mp Perfects in the Arabic Dialects
3:15 Aaron Rubin: Some Characteristics of Mehri Dialects
3:45 Break
4:00 Business meeting
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