BAALL's First Conference on Afroasiatic Grammar

Program

9.00-9.30 — Registration & coffee
9.30-9.45 — Welcome and practical matters
9.45-10.45 — Invited speaker: R. Schuh (UCLA) abstract
10.45-11.00 — Break
11.00-11.45 — A. Fassi Fehri (Mohammed V University, Rabat) Finiteness, logophors, and double access construal in Arabic
11.45-12.30 — I. Spector (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) On the Syntax and Semantics of Hebrew ze-clefts
12.30-14.00 — Lunch
14.00-14.45 — A. Kihm (CNRS & Univ. Paris 7, LLF) Plural formation in Nubi and in Arabic
14.45-15.30 — M. Lahrouchi (CNRS & Univ. Paris 8, SFL) Templatic constraints in Berber derivational morphology
15.30-15.45 — Break
15.45-16.45 — Invited speaker: L. Choueiri (American University of Beirut) Possessive chez and with, and null place: a study of have-possessives in Arabic
17.00 — Drinks

9.00-9.45 — Z. Segal (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) & I. Landau (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) A Verbal Alternation under a Scalar Constraint
9.45.10.30 — C. Darmon (DDL & University Lyon 2) Simple and multiple causatives in Xamtanga
10.30-10.45 — Break
10.45-11.30 — H. Borer (USC) & S. Ouwayda (USC) Count plural vs. Cardinal plural in Arabic
11.30-12.15 — I. Meir (University of Haifa), S. Uziel-Karl (University of Haifa and Ono Academic College), K. Moed (University of Haifa) & R. Yifat(University of Haifa) Bidd- ‘want’ in Spoken Palestinian Arabic: Processes of Acquisition and Grammaticalization
12.15-13.45 — Lunch
13.45-14.30 — C. Lucas (SOAS) Purely postverbal negation in Palestinian and Cairene Arabic: A reconstruction
14.30-15.15 — P. Hallman (University of Vienna) Verbal Complexes in Lebanese Arabic
15.15-15.30 — Break
15.30-16.30 — A. Belkadi (SOAS) The internal structure of the Berber DP: a hierarchical account
16.15-17.15 — Invited speaker: M. Frascarelli (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) Information Structure in Somali. Evidence from the syntax-phonology interface
17.15-17.45 — Business meeting
20.00- — Dinner

9.0-9.45 — U. Shlonsky (Université de Genève) The Connection Between Null Subjects And Topicalization
9.45-10.30 — M. Grubic (University of Potsdam, SFB 632) An interface account of focus realization in Ngamo (West Chadic)
10.30-10.45 — Break
10.45-11.30 — I. Botwinik (Tel-Aviv University) & A. Meltzer-Asscher (Tel-Aviv University) What processing data from Hebrew tell us about the merger of adjuncts
11.30-12.15 — H. Ouali (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Anti-Agreement Effect as C-Agreement
12.15-13.45 — Lunch
13.45-14.30 — L. Downing (ZAS, Berlin) & M. Mous (LUCL, Leiden University) Challenges of Cushitic reduplication for Generalized Template Theory
14.30-15.15 — E. Doron (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & I. Meir (University of Haifa) Definiteness in standard and colloquial Hebrew
15.15-15.30 — Break
15.30-16.30 — Invited speaker: O. Bat-El (Tel-Aviv University) Phonological interference with morpho-syntactic guidelines: the acquisition of Hebrew verb inflectional suffixes