The 38th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
The Arabic Linguistics Society (ALS) together with Duke's Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and the Program in Linguistics are pleased to announce the 38th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL38) to be held at Duke University on April 11 - 12, 2025.
Papers are invited on topics that deal with theoretical and experimental issues in Arabic Linguistics. Presentations on research in the following areas of Arabic linguistics are welcome:
• Linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics)
• Sociolinguistics
• Psycholinguistics
• Discourse analysis
• Historical linguistics
• Computational linguistics
• Language acquisition (first, second, and heritage)
• Neurolinguistics
• Clinical linguistics
Submission instructions:
We invite submissions for platform presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions). There will also be a poster session and a special session on Arabic in Contact Situations: Descriptive and Theoretical Approaches.
Persons interested in presenting papers are requested to submit a one-page abstract in English. Abstracts should include the title of the paper, a brief statement of the research question or topic addressed, and a summary clearly stating how the paper is developed (the reasoning, data, and results), followed by a discussion of the study and its contribution. Authors are requested to check the following link for specific guidelines for their abstract submissions: http://arabic-linguistics-society.uwm.edu/annual-symposia-on-arabic-linguistics/guidelines-for-writing-abstracts/.
Abstracts written in any other language will be rejected.
Submission Link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/ASAL38/
Please fill in all the relevant fields on the submission page and upload a pdf file of your abstract. You will receive an e-mail afterwards indicating that your abstract has been successfully submitted. In the space provided, please indicate whether the authors are graduate students. This will help the selection of best student awards.
Should you face any problem submitting your abstract through the above link, please contact the conference organizers at asal38duke@gmail.com.
Keynote Speakers: To be Announced.
Submissions open: June 18, 2024 - Nov. 20, 2024
Abstract review period: Dec. 1, 2024 - Dec. 31, 2024
