Semitic Dialectology: Crises and Change - 30 June – 2 July 2021
Conference Programme
Semitic Dialectology 2021 – Day 1 (30 June)
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Wednesday, 30 Jun, 2021 | (UTC+02:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Event number: 121 204 9186
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Agenda:
10.45–11.00
Welcome and Introduction
11.00–12.30 | Session I: Judeo Arabic
Chair: Werner Arnold
- Aharon Geva Kleinberger, The Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Damascus
- Danir Hatan, Liturgical Piyyūṭīm Based on Arab Melodies Among the Jewish Community of Syria
- Yehuda Tzuberi, The Judeo-Arabic Dialect of Qāmišli Between two Macro- Dialectal Groups: The Qǝltu Dialects and the Greater-Syrian Dialects: A Lexical Study
13.30–14.30 | Session II: Judeo Arabic and Jewish Languages
Chair: Aharon Geva Kleinberger
- Gabriel M. Rosenbaum, Typical Features of Modern Spoken Egyptian Judeo Arabic in a Rare Written Text
- Lutz Edzard, Orally Recorded Jewish Language Varieties: Perspectives from a New Handbook on Jewish Languages
15.30–17.30 | Session III: Synchrony, Diachrony, Classifications
Chair: Lutz Edzard
- Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun and Ilona Abdelfattah, A Comparative Look on Linguistic Urbanisation Trends in Northwestern and Central Tunisia
- Nino Ejibadze, Dialectal Form itfaʕal: Origin and Function
- Fabio Gasparini, Understanding ‘Stand-Alone Nominalization’ in Modern South Arabian
- Alexander Magidow, Subgrouping Arabic Dialects via Historical Developments in Closed-Class Morphemes
18.00–20.00 | Session IV: Aramaic Dialects
Chair: Michael Waltisberg
- Alexey Duntsov and Sergey Loesov, qtīl/qattīl of Motion Verbs in Modern Western Aramaic
- Hongwei Zhang, Semitic Dialects Online: Various Versions of Pater Noster in Maaloula Neo-Aramaic
- Sergey Loesov and Mila Neishtadt, Terminology for Traditional Ploughing in a Neo-Aramaic Variety (Ṭuroyo)
- Alexey Lyavdansky, A Proximative Construction in Christian Urmi
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Semitic Dialectology 2021 – Day 2 (1 July)
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Thursday, 1 Jul, 2021 | (UTC+02:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Event number: 121 265 0196
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Agenda:
11.00–12.30 | Session V: Dialectological Research and Covid-19
Chair: Roni Henkin
- Letizia Cerqueglini, Palestinian Blues: Zooming in on Language, Perception, and Memory
- Judith Rosenhouse, Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Maura Tarquini, Advertising and Pandemic. Analysis of the Linguistic Behaviors Implemented in the Advertising Campaigns to Raise Awareness of COVID-19 in Tunisia
13.30–15.00 | Session VI: Sedentary and Bedouin Dialects in the Levant and Negev
Chair: Letizia Cerqueglini
- Roni Henkin, Bedouin Women’s Elegies in the Negev — and Around It
- Letizia Lombezzi, To Become and to Begin: A Matter of Change
- Antonella Torzullo, The Arabic Dialect of the Bani ʕAbbād Tribe: Analysis of Some Distinctive Phonological, Morphological, and Syntactical Traits
15.30–17.30 | Session VII: Arabic Dialects of Iraq and Iran
Chair: Maciej Klimiuk
- Muhadj Adnan, da- as a Discourse Marker in Baghdadi Arabic
- Assaf Bar Moshe, The Prefix Vowels of the Prefix-Conjugation in the Jewish Arabic Dialect of ʕĀna: A Chain of Innovations
- Ali Faraj, Etymological Analysis and Semantic Changes of Some Verbs in the Spoken Arabic of Baghdad
- Volkan Bozkurt, Research on Khorasan Arabic: Arabkhane
18.00–20.00 | Session VIII: Phonology and Phonetics
Chair: Assaf Bar Moshe
- Hassan Bokhari, The Patterning of Gutturals in Word-Final Coda Clusters in Hijazi Arabic
- Stuart Davies and Abdullah H. Alfaifi, The Labiodentalization of Emphatic Consonants in Faifi Arabic: A Diachronic Account
- Islam Youssef, A Property-Driven Typology of Arabic Consonantal Reflexes
- Jair Martínez Albarracín, /aw/ Behavior in the Semitic Languages
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Semitic Dialectology 2021 – Day 3 (2 July)
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Friday, 2 Jul, 2021 (UTC+02:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Event number: 121 232 3179
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Agenda:
13.30–14.30 | Session IX: Arabic Dialects of Algeria and Morocco
Chair: Slavomír Čéplö
- Peter Behnstedt, Abderrazak Salim and Jordi Aguadé, Vocalism and Stress in the Arabic Dialect of Tangier: A New Approach
- Lameen Souag, Epenthetic Gemination in Algerian Arabic: From Phonology to Morphology
15.30–16.30 | Session X: Maltese
Chair: Lameen Souag
- Maris Camilleri, The Change That Transformed Locative Predications Into Possessive Structures
- Slavomír Čéplö, Copular and Existential Clauses in Maltese: Descriptive, Areal and Typological Considerations
16.30–17.30 | Session XI: Gozitan Dialects
Chair: Werner Arnold
- Maria Lipnicka and Maciej Klimiuk, GozoDia Project
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