Semitic Dialectology Conference Cutting-Edge Research in Semitic Dialectology: Bridging Theory and Practice
Conference Program
11 June 2025 (Wednesday)
Room: Holzlaube, 2.2059 (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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11:00–11:30 |
Registration and coffee break / Greetings |
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Grammatical and Lexical Peculiarities in Arabic Dialects Chair: Werner Arnold |
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11:30–12:00 |
Maria Persson Functions of bədd-/bidd-/badd- in Syrian Arabic |
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12:00–12:30 |
Gabriel M. Rosenbaum
Lexical Peculiarities in the Spoken Language of Christians in Egypt: What They Say and What They Don’t |
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12:30–13:00 |
Taku Kumakiri Semantic Change of the Verb wallaː of Tunis Arabic |
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13:00–14:00 |
Lunch |
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Linguistic Variation and Contact in Arabic Varieties Chair: Maria Persson |
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14:00–14:30 |
Volkan Bozkurt Contact-Induced Linguistic Change in Khorasan and Khamse Arabic |
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14:30–15:00 |
Shomoukh Sami Alyami and Munira Ali Al-Azraqi The Variation in the Usage of the 2nd Masculine Singular Suffix in Najrani Arabic |
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15:00–15:30 |
Julie Lowry and Andrea Boom Notes on Salient Linguistic Variation in Harūb, Jazan, Saudi Arabia |
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15:30–16:00 |
Coffee break |
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Dialectology and Oral Traditions in Modern South Arabian Languages Chair: Letizia Cerqueglini |
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16:00–16:30 |
Andrea Boom and Fatimah al-Mahri Dialectology of Mehri, Contrasting Beit Thuwar and Zaabanot Linguistic Variations |
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16:30–17:00 |
Giuliano Castagna Towards a Dialect Atlas of the Jibbali/Śḥerɛt Language |
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17:00–17:30 |
Saeed Al-Qumairi and Andrea Boom Dialectal Comparison between Haswayn and Hawf Dialects of Mehri: An Analysis of Four Children’s Stories |
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17:30–18:00 |
Amir Azad Adli al-Kathiri and Anton Kungl Šiʿr ar-Riǧāl (hēb iź-ʁāg): An Extinct Poetic Genre in Jibbali/Shahri. An Introduction to the Genre, Its Linguistic Peculiarities and Its Arabic and Mehri Influence |
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18:00 |
Dinner |
12 June 2025 (Thursday)
Room: Seminarzentrum, L116 (Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26)
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Phonetic and Prosodic Structures in Semitic Languages and Dialects Chair: Wiktor Gębski |
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9:30–10:00 |
Hammal al-Balushi Pharyngealisation or Glottalisation: The Case of Ḥarsūsi Emphatic Stops |
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10:00–10:30 |
Maria Lipnicka Juncture and Utterance in Arabic Dialects: Haim Blanc’s Prosodic Feature Theory Compared with Data from Gozo, Malta |
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10:30–11:00 |
Mahmut Ağbaht New Findings on Pausal Phenomena: A Major Revision of Processes in Pausal Forms |
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee break |
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Documenting Jewish Arabic Dialects Chair: Maciej Klimiuk |
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11:30–12:00 |
Wiktor Gębski Gender-Based Linguistic Variation in the Jewish Arabic Dialect of Ghardaïa (Saharan Algeria) |
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12:00–12:30 |
Ori Shachmon Aden Arabic: A Mosaic of Archaisms and Linguistic Innovations |
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12:30–13:00 |
Assaf Bar Moshe The Jewish Arabic Dialect of Mosul: Insights from New and Existing Data |
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13:00–14:00 |
Lunch |
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Studies in NENA and Turoyo Dialects Chair: Mila Neishtadt |
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14:00–14:30 |
Geoffrey Khan Progressive Constructions in NENA Dialects |
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14:30–15:00 |
Ablahad Lahdo Adult Language Learners, the Case of Turoyo |
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15:00–15:30 |
Shabo Talay Characteristics of the Turoyo Dialect of Bissorino |
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15:30–16:00 |
Coffee break |
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Bridging Dialectology and Semantics in the Semitic Languages Chair: Assaf Bar Moshe |
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16:00–16:30 |
Mila Neishtadt Integrating Dialectal Data: Reconstructing the Semantics of Semitic kmr |
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16:30–17:00 |
Anat Sageev and Letizia Cerqueglini Language, Cognition, and Communal Dialects: Animal Taxonomy in Secular and Ḥaredi Israeli Hebrew |
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17:00–17:30 |
Yair Grossman and Letizia Cerqueglini Late-Bronze Northwest Semitic Dialectology between Languages and Scribal Practices: A Corpus-Based Study of Formulaic Phraseology |
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17:30–18:00 |
Aharon Geva-Kleinberger The Christian Transjordanian Arabic Dialect of as-Salṭ at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century |
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18:00 |
Dinner (Profesorium/Terrace at the Institute of Semitic Studies) |
13 June 2025 (Friday)
Room: Holzlaube, 2.2059 (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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Morphosyntactic and Phonological Features in Neo-Aramaic Dialects Chair: Julia Furman |
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9:30–10:00 |
Nikita Kuzin Quadriradical Verbs in Neo-Aramaic Revisited |
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10:00–10:30 |
Werner Arnold Aki’o Nakanos Western Neo-Aramaic Text from Ǧubbʿadīn about Firewood |
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10:30–11:00 |
Lidia Napiórkowska The Markedness of the Fronted Rounded Vowels in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic |
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee break |
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Spoken Semitic Languages in Context Chair: Nikita Kuzin |
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11:30–12:00 |
Letizia Cerqueglini Ancient Futures, Future Passives: Upper Galilean and Muṯallaṯ Arabic Verbal Pragmatics and Their Elicitation |
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12:00–12:30 |
Rainer Voigt Ethiosemitic Dialectology |
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12:30–13:00 |
Fabio Gasparini Was I that Bad? Reflections upon Earlier Fieldwork |
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13:00–14:00 |
Discussion and closing of the conference / Lunch |
