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Symposium, Heidelberg, 1–2 July 2019

Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH)

Hauptstraße 242

Organisation: Werner Arnold, Maciej Klimiuk and Maria Lipnicka (Semitic Studies, Heidelberg)

 

Monday, 1 July 2019

9:00-9:30

Welcome and Introduction (Werner Arnold)

9:30-11:00

Session I: Maltese Dialects (Chair: Werner Arnold)

• Gozitan dialects (Maciej Klimiuk)
• Gozitan dialects (Maria Lipnicka)
• Lexical Variation in the Dialects of Malta and Gozo (Michael Spagnol and Ruben Farrugia)

11.00–11.30

Coffee Break

11:30-13:00

Session II: Arabic Dialects of Iraq and Iran (Chair: Liesbeth Zack)

• Substrate Breaking Free: The Case of the Argument Flagging and Indexing Construction in the Jewish Dialect of Baghdad (Assaf Bar-Moshe)
• The Iraqi Indefinite Marker fard from a Diachronic and Areal Perspective (Stephan Procházka and Bettina Leitner)
• Zwei Texte aus Sarâb (Südchorasan) (Ulrich Seeger)

13.00–14.00

Lunch at IWH

14:00-14:45

Keynote Speech: Projekt eines Dialektatlas von Nord-Marokko (Peter Behnstedt)

14:45-16:15

Session III: Arabic Dialects of Palestine and Lebanon (Chair: Maciej Klimiuk)

• The Pausal Forms in the Arabic Dialects Spoken in the Province of ʿAkkār – North Lebanon (Mahmut Ağbaht)
• A Linguistic Atlas of the Arabic Dialects of the Muṯallaṯ (Letizia Cerqueglini)
• Language Contact between Palestinian Arabic and Israeli Hebrew (Kazuhiko Nakae)

16:15-16:45

Coffee Break

16.45–17.45: Session IV: Arabic dialects of Oman and Modern South Arabian Languages (Chair: Assaf Bar-Moshe)

• Some Lexical Peculiarities of the Jibbali/Shaḥri Variety Spoken on al-Ḥallaniya Island in the Kuria Muria Archipelago in Dhofar, Oman (Giuliano Castagna)
• The Use of Genitive Exponents in the al-ʿAwābī District (Northern Oman) (Roberta Morano)

19.00

Dinner at the Department of Semitic Studies, Schulgasse 2 (patio garden)

 

Tuesday, 2 July 2019

9.30–11.00

Session V: Arabic Dialects of Saudi Arabia and Yemen (Chair: Stephan Procházka)

• Palatalization of the Feminine Marker in Northern Najdi Arabic: Diffusion and Lexical Conditioning (Wafi Alshammari)
• Arabic Interdentals: Variation and Linguistic Change (Aziza Al-Essa)
• The Distribution of 1SG Subject Suffixes in Yemeni k-Dialects (Ori Schachmon and Noam Faust)

11.00–11.30

Coffee Break

11.30–13.00

Session VI: Arabic Dialects of Egypt and Tunisia (Chair: Manfred Woidich)

• The Pronominal Suffixes in Cairene Arabic: Vestiges of Case Endings? (Liesbeth Zack)
• Beduinische Poesie aus Südtunesien: Sprachliche und formale Aspekte (Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun)
• The Preservation of the Interdentals and the Uvular in the Dialect of Tunis (Maura Tarquini)

13.00–14.00

Lunch

14.00–15.30

Session VII: Arabic Dialects of Morocco and Algeria (Chair: Peter Behnstedt)

• Zero-Marked Nouns in Moroccan Arabic: Depictives or Adverbials? (Mina Afkir)
• Language Change in Progress in the Arabic Spoken dialect of El-Menia: The Revert Substitution of [q] to [ɣ] (Hicham Boukhechba)
• Revisiting the Jewish Dialect of Essaouira (Felipe Benjamin Francisco)

15.30–16.00

Coffee Break

16.00–17.00

Session VIII: Neo-Aramaic Dialects and Hebrew (Chair: Maria Lipnicka)

• The Weak Verb in Modern Hebrew and Neo-Aramaic: Towards the Typology of Modern Spoken Semitic (Lidia Napiórkowska - online presentation)
• Urban vs. Rural Dialect in the Syntax of Ṭuroyo (Ṣurăyt) (Michael Waltisberg)

17.00

Concluding Remarks

Conference organised with the support of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) under the programme Kleine Fächer – Große Potenziale