The Thirty-Second North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics
The thirty-second annual North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics was held March 12 - 14, 2004, at the San Diego Old Town Courtyard by Marriott, San Diego, California, USA. Thirty-five papers were read, including seven presented in a session held jointly with the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society. For images of this event, click here. The schedule of papers is presented below.
Friday, March 12, morning session:
Ada Wertheimer (Tel Aviv University). Thoughts about Word
Order in Classical Syriac .
Naftali Stern (Bar-llan University). Thoughts about Two
Biblical [Bi]radicals.
Na'ama Pat El (Harvard University). Some Notes on the Syntax
of Biblical Hebrew ze.
Pablo-Isaac Kirtchuk-Halevi (Ben-Gurion University). Hebrew
as a Test-case for the 2-Phoneme Root in Semitic.
Zev bar-Lev (San Diego State University). 'Key' Consonants
in Semitic.
Adrian Macelaru (Embassy of Romania, Riyadh). Compensatory
Metathesis as a Source of Nonconcatenative Morphology: Semitic Evidence.
Julie Wilson (Michigan State University). The Particle
-ma, an Akkadian 'Converb' or a Defunct Copula?
Friday, March 12, afternoon session: AOS/NACAL Joint Session. Peter T.
Daniels, New York City, Chair.
David Testen (Saint Paul, Minnesota). West Semitic Subject-Clitics.
Peter Daniels (New York City). (There Are) Three Models
of Script Transfer: The "Misunderstanding" Model.
Herrmann Jungraithmayr (Frankfurt University). The Afroasiatic
Verbal Paradigm in -U (`Subjunctive').
Joseph L. Malone (Barnard College and Columbia University).
Morphophonological Variation in the Aramaic Verb of the Onkelos and Jonathan
Targums.
Alan S. Kaye (California State University, Fullerton).
Two Alleged Arabic Etymologies.
Blane W. Conklin (University of Chicago). Semitic Roots
Beginning with a Sibilant, Ending with /rg/ or /rk/.
Maria Yakubovich (University of Chicago). The Development
of Sibilants in Assyrian dialects.
Saturday, March 13, morning session:
Lina Choueiri (American University of Beirut). Optional
Resumption and D-linking in Lebanese Arabic.
Maha Kolko (University of Reading). VP-Ellipsis in Arabic.
Judith Rosenhouse (Technion I.I.T., Israel) and Nisreen
Debayyat (Tel Aviv University). Gender in Semitic Languages and
its Relation to Masculine instead of Feminine Forms in Female Speech in
Colloquial Arabic.
Jonathan Owens (University of Bayreuth). 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.
Gene Gragg (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago).
Keeping Track of Shared Innovation: Semitic and Cushitic.
Grover Hudson (Michigan State University). Ethiopian Semitic
SOV Syntax and the Nominal Origin of the Perfect.
Tamar Zewi (University of Haifa). Nominal Clause Patterns
in the Geez Octateuch.
Saturday, March 13, afternoon session:
David Elias (Harvard University). Another Tigre Text .
Pete Unseth (Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
and SIL International). The Function of t as a Default Consonant in Amharic.
Baye Yimam Mekonnen (Michigan State University). The Interaction
of Tense, Aspect, Mood and Agreement in Amharic Syntax.
Colleen Ahland (University of Texas, Arlington). A New
Template for the Imperative in Amharic.
Girma Awgichew Demeke (University of Tromso). On the Non-Subject
'Agreement Elements' in Amharic.
Tesfay Tewolde (University of Florence). Plurals of Tigrinya.
Michael Ahland (University of Texas, Arlington). An Examination
of the Mesmes Text.
Tizeta Getaneh (Addis Ababa University). An Analysis
of Konso Verb Morphology.
Wolf Leslau (University of California, Los Angeles). Reflections on 50+ Years of Research.
Sunday, March 14, morning session:
Leo Depuydt (Brown University). Two Conditional Sentences
of Earlier Egyptian and How Exactly They Differ.
Ruth Kramer (University of California, Santa Cruz). Virtual
Relative Clauses in Middle Egyptian.
Olga Stolbova (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow).
Chadic Lexical Data as an Important Part of Common Afrasian Word-Stock.
M. Lionel Bender (Southern Illinois University). TBA.
Marc Ettlinger (University of California, Berkeley). Aspect
in Mafa: An Intriguing Case of Featural Affixation.
Hamid Ouali (University of Michigan). Syllabification in
Berber: New Evidence from Tamazight.
