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(All presentations will be at N400 of Integrative Learning Center, ILC)
| March 24, 2023 (Friday) | |
| 8:00 – 8:45 | Registration and Coffee/Breakfast |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Opening Remarks John McCarthy, Distinguished University Professor, Provost Emeritus (University of Massachusetts Amherst) |
| Session 1: Syntax [Chair: Kyle Johnson] | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Preposition Stranding in Hijazi Arabic Sluicing Aisha Fuddah & Hamid Ouali (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | On the Island Insensitivity in Sluicing: Evidence from Hijazi Arabic (online) Nouf Alaowffi & Bader Alharbi (Qassim University) |
| 10:00 – 11:00 Keynote 1:[Chair: Hamid Ouali] | Categorial Features, Clause Structure, and the Development of the Copula in Arabic Varieties (online) Abbas Benmamoun (Duke University) |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2: Sociolinguistics / Discourse [Chair: Polina Kasyanova] | |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Foregrounding and Imperfect Verbs in Upper Egyptian Narratives Michael White (Indiana University Bloomington) |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Arabic-inclusive writing online: analyzing stances and evaluating attitudes (online) Soubeika Bahri (University of Colorado Denver) |
| 12:15 – 12:45 | Contesting the Commodification of Moroccan Arabic in Arab Pop Music (online) Atiqa Hachimi (University of Toronto) |
| 12:45 – 2:00 | Lunch on your own – UMass Dining Halls: – Blue Wall: (ground floor of Campus Center/Hotel UMass, right across the ILC, conference venue) – Worcester Dining: Exit the building through the door on North Pleasant St., walk north (turn left) until you see the Worcester building on the right sidewalk. |
| Session 3: Historical Linguistics/Grammaticalization [Chair: Maris Camilleri] | |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Morphological Variation as a Catalyst for Syntactic Change in Arabic Negated Pronouns Thomas Leddy-Cecere (Bennington College) |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | The Periphrastic Passive Grammaticalization in Modern Standard Arabic Abdullah Alasmari (Georgetown University & Taif University) |
| 3:00 – 3:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4: Phonology & Phonetics [Chair: John Kingston] | |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | Do Arabic short vowels follow a non-peripheral track? Aisha Al-Mazrouei, Aisha Negm, & Vladimir Kulikov (Qatar University) |
| 3:45 – 4:15 | Perception of American English Flaps by L1 Arabic L2 English Speakers Khaleel Abusal (Texas Tech University) |
| 4:15 – 4:45 | Consonant Cluster Palatalization in Media Arabic Rachel Meyer (University of Florida) |
| 4:45 – 5:00 | Break |
| 5:00 – 6:00 Keynote 2: [Chair: Joe Pater] | [CANCELLED] Michael Becker (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Due to circumstances beyond his control, Prof. Becker will be unable to deliver his talk. He sends his deepest apologies. |
| March 25, 2023 (Saturday) | |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration and Coffee/Breakfast |
| Session 5: Psycholinguistics [Chair: Brian Dillon] | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | On the distribution of Differential Object Marking in Levantine Arabic: An experimental study Aya Zarka (McMaster University & Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) & Aviya Hacohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Psychophysical evidence for abstract phonological representations: the case of OCP Place in Arabic Ali Idrissi, Arwa Nahia, Mariam Al-Taraireh, Sura Shalabi & Yousri Marzouki (Qatar University) |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Native listeners’ sensitivity to morphophonological cues on the Arabic definite article (online) Hind Aldakheelallah & Cynthia Lukyanenko (George Mason University) |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 6: Phonology [Chair: Kristine Yu] | |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Exploring diagnostics for the phonological status of inserted vowels in two Arabic dialects Obied Alaqlobi (University of Bisha) & Sam Hellmuth (University of York) |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Word Stress in Faifi Arabic: The Missing Link? (in-person & online) Abdullah Alfaifi (University of Bisha) & Stuart Davis (Indiana University Bloomington) |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Temporal Organization of Word-initial CC Sequences: A Case Study of Najdi Omar Alkhonini (Majmaah University) & Harim Kwon (Seoul National University) |
| 11:45 – 12:45 Keynote 3: [Chair: Stuart Davis] | Arabic sociophonetics: the sum of its parts? Ghada Khattab (Newcastle University) |
| 12:45 – 2:00 | Catered Lunch, and Business Meeting (at N400) |
| Session 7: Morphology [Chair: Abbas Benmamoun] | |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | In Search of Morphological Productivity: The Arabic Noun Plural Salam Khalifa (Stony Brook University) |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Root re-construction in Arabic hypocoristics Ali Idrissi (Qatar University) & Jean-Francois Prunet (Kuwait University) |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | The morphological structure of Kuwaiti surnames Amin Almuhanna (Kuwait University) |
| 3:30 – 3:45 | Coffee Break |
| Session 8: Syntax-semantics [Chair: Rajesh Bhatt] | |
| 3:45 – 4:15 | Two types of definites in Tihami Arabic Amer Asiri (University of Kansas) |
| 4:15 – 4:45 | Non-split vs. split semantics of exceptives in Palestinian Arabic Alaa Al-Sharif (The Graduate Center, CUNY) |
| 4:45 – 5:15 | Packaging Bi-eventivity in a Mono-clausal Construction Nadine Abdel-Rahman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| 7:00 – 8:30 | Banquet/Reception (in the hallway of Linguistics Department) |
| March 26, 2023 (Sunday) | |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Coffee/Breakfast |
| Session 9: Acquisition [Chair: Misha Becker] | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Development of Southern Levantine Heritage Grammar Ahmad Alqassas (Georgetown University) |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Acquisition of Agreement Asymmetries in L2 Arabic: A Formal Feature Approach (online) Mahmoud Azaz (University of Arizona) |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Children’s Acquisition of Passive Constructions in Najdi Arabic (online) Bayan Albedaiwi & Yasser Albaty (Qassim University) |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 10: Historical Linguistics/Grammaticalization [Chair: Thomas Leddy-Cecere] | |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | The Grammaticalization of Iterative Aspectual Markers in Rural Jordanian Arabic: The Case of Reduplication and the Active Participle naazil (online) Basem Al-Raba’a (KIMEP University) |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Assessing Change in the Levantine Future: Evidence from Lebanese and Palestinian Arabic (online) Yasmine Abou Taha (University of Toronto, Scarborough) |
| 11:15 – 12:15 Keynote 4: [Chair: Ahmad Alqassas] | Maris Camilleri (University of Essex/Queen Mary University of London) Understanding possessives via locatives and explaining locatives via possesives |
| 12:15 | Closing Remarks |
