Please Note the Change: ALS-19 will take place in Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Language Building (707 S. Mathews, Urbana) on April 1. 210 Illini Union will be used for April 2-3 as scheduled.

The Arabic Linguistics Society and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announce the 19th Arabic Linguistics Symposium to be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 1- 3, 2005 . Papers are invited on topics that deal with research in the following areas of Arabic linguistics: grammatical analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics), sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, historical linguistics, computational linguistics, etc. In addition to the main general session there will be two special sessions (ALS19 Program available in PDF format below)

Special Session I

• Arabic in Local and Global Contexts

Special Session II

• Arabic Corpus Linguistics: Developing Arabic Corpora

The symposium will be followed by a post-conference training workshop

Training Workshop (April 3, 9:00 am -12:00 noon)

• Using Corpora in Teaching and Research. Conducted by Tim Buckwalter and Richard Sproat.

ALS19 Program (PDF)