Department of English Literature & Linguistics (DELL) Linguistics in the Gulf Conference #5 Time 9:00-9:05 9:05-9:15 9:15-10:15 Sessions Welcome Speeches Keynote Address 10:15-10:45 10:45-11:15 11:15-11:45 11:45-12:15 Syntax and Historical Linguistics Chair: Prof. Haifa Al-Buainain 12:15-1:30 1:30-2:00 2:00-2:30 Language Production and Perception 2:30-3:00 Chair: Dr. Tariq Khwaileh 3:00-3:30 3:30-4:00 4:00-4:30 Sociolinguistics 1 4:30-5:00 Chair: Dr. Michael Grosvald 7:00 Day 1: Sunday 29th March, 2015 Presenters Dean’s Welcome Speech Dr. Eiman Mustafawi DELL Head’s Opening Remarks Dr. Ali Idrissi Keynote Speaker Prof. Abdelkader Fassi Fehri Mohammed V University Rabat Arabic Ways to Be 'Gender-ed' Coffee break Ghada Alkuwaihes University of York A Syntactic Analysis of Vocative Exclamatives in Gulf Arabic Ahmad Alqassas Georgetown University Presuppositional negation in Gulf Arabic Najib Jarad University of Sharjah The Grammaticalization of Posture Verb “yālis” as Progressive Aspect Marker in Emirati Arabic Lunch Saleh AlQahtani & Laura Sabourin University of Ottawa Syntactic Processing of Subjects in Arabic: Is there a difference between pre/postverbal processing Esti Blanco-Elorrieta (New York University Abu Dhabi) Liina Pylkkänen (New York University Abu Dhabi / New York University) Bilingual language control: domain general in production but not comprehension? Evidence from MEG Mark Scott (United Arab Emirates University) Ali Idrissi (Qatar University) Audiovisual perception of geminate vs. singleton in Emirati Arabic Coffee break Ahlam Almohissen Northeastern Illinois University Hidden concepts beneath Saudi cartoons Ekab Al-Shawashreh & Stephen Levey University of Ottawa Word order variability in spoken Arabic: A comparative sociolinguistic perspective Amin Almuhanna & Jean-Francois Prunet Kuwait University Numeric ethnonymic nicknames in the Gulf Dinner Linguistics in the Gulf Conference (LGC-5) 29-30 March, 2015 Department of English Literature & Linguistics (DELL) – College of Arts & Sciences Page 1 Linguistics in the Gulf Conference #5 Time 9:00-10:00 Sessions Keynote Address 10:00-10:30 10:30-11:00 Sociolinguistics 2 11:00-11:30 11:30-12:00 Chair: Dr. Irene Theodoropoulou 12:00-1:30 1:30-2:00 2:00-2:30 Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics 2:30-3:00 Chair: Dr. Vladimir Kulikov 3:00-3:30 3:30-4:00 4:00-4:30 4:30-5:00 Syntax and Saudi dialects Chair: Dr. Julieta Alos Day 2: Monday 30th March, 2015 Presenters Keynote Speaker Prof. Yasir Suleiman Cambridge University Arabic Language Ideology: Principles and Applications Coffee break Heba Al-Kababji & Rania Abujazar & Rizwan Ahmad Qatar University From Rajjal to Rayyal: Ideologies and shift among young Bedouins in Qatar Noha Selim & Sara AlQwassimi & Sara Hesari Qatar University A sociolinguistic study on dialect shifting in contemporary Bahrain Murtadha Bakir University of Jordan GPA Genesis: The extent of Substratal Influence Lunch Shereen Elbuy & Hedayah Saeed & Reem Alhawamdeh Qatar University Cueing in Impaired Lexical Retrieval of Arabic Nouns after Aphasia: A Single Case Study Tariq Khwaileh (Qatar University) Richard Body & Ruth Herbert (University of Sheffield) A Normative Database and Determinants of Lexical Retrieval for Arabic Nouns Laura Gwilliams (New York University Abu Dhabi) Alec Marantz (New York University & New York University Abu Dhabi) Decomposition of spoken Arabic words into root morphemes during processing Hala Abdelghany Queen's College, City University of New York The Prosody–Syntax Interface and Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguity in Arabic Sentence Processing Coffee break Muneer Alzahrani Northeastern Illinois University On the Syntax of Word Order in some Saudi Dialects: A Minimalist Approach Thamir Al Barrag Taif University Construct State in Hijazi Arabic: A Distributed Morphology Approach Linguistics in the Gulf Conference (LGC-5) 29-30 March, 2015 Department of English Literature & Linguistics (DELL) – College of Arts & Sciences Page 2