Call for papers

The Arabic Linguistics Society and Alexandria University are pleased to announce the 4th International Arabic Linguistics Symposium to be held at Alexandria University, Egypt December 11–12, 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:

• linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics),
• applied linguistics
• sociolinguistics
• psycholinguistics
• discourse analysis
• historical linguistics
• corpus linguistics
• computational linguistics

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 paper is developed (the reasoning, data, and results). Authors are requested to be as specific as possible in describing their topics.

Email submissions should be in PDF format with all fonts embedded. Names are not to appear in the abstracts. Instead, the author's name, affiliation, email address, address, and phone number should be included in the body of the email message.

• Deadline for receipt of abstracts: July 15, 2010
• Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to mustafa.mughazy@wmich.edu