24th Arabic Linguistics Symposium: Arabic Linguistics across Traditions

The Arabic Linguistics Society and the University of Texas at Austin are pleased to announce the Twenty-Fourth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics to be held at the University of Texas, Austin, April 9-11, 2010.

Papers are invited on topics that deal with theoretic and applied issues of Arabic Linguistics. Research in the following areas of Arabic linguistics is encouraged: grammatical analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics), applied linguistics, socio-linguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, etc.

This year’s theme will be “Arabic Linguistics across Traditions.” Submissions that compare or combine two traditions, approaches, or analytic frameworks are especially encouraged. The conference will also offer a special session on Formal and Functional Approaches to Syntax featuring papers that either (1) compare two or more syntactic analyses to a problem or (2) present a solution to a syntactic problem using a particular approach that other approaches are unable to solve. The goal of this session is to discuss the various approaches to syntactic analysis with a general linguist audience.

Persons interested in presenting papers are requested to submit a one-page abstract giving the title of the paper, a brief statement of the topic, and a summary clearly stating how the topic will be developed (the reasoning, data, or experimental results to be presented). Authors are requested to be as specific as possible in describing their topics. Abstracts should be submitted by PDF email attachment (all fonts embedded) to:

Presenters’ names should not appear on the abstracts.   Rather, the author's name, title and affiliation, and return email address should be included in the body of the email message. It will be removed before being forwarded to the review committee.

2009 ALS membership dues of $25 and conference fees of $50 (total $75) are to be submitted with all abstracts and must be received by the abstract deadline.   Membership dues are non-refundable; conference fees are refundable, if requested, only to those whose papers are not accepted.

Before March 1, 2010: $35 for students and $50 for non-students.

From March 1, 2010: $45 for students and $60 for non-students.