11:00–11:30

Registration and coffee break / Greetings

Future and Modal Expressions in Eastern Arabic Varieties

Chair: Werner Arnold

11:30–12:00

Maria Persson

Functions of bədd-/bidd-/badd- in Syrian Arabic

12:00–12:30

Miriam Al Tawil

Deontic Modality and Futurity in Some Eastern Arabic Varieties

12:30–13:00

Taku Kumakiri

Semantic Change of the Verb wallaː of Tunis Arabic

13:00–14:00

Lunch

Linguistic Variation and Contact in Arabic Varieties

Chair: Maria Persson

14:00–14:30

Volkan Bozkurt

Contact-Induced Linguistic Change in Khorasan and Khamse Arabic

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

15:00–15:30

Julie Lowry and Andrea Boom

Notes on Salient Linguistic Variation in Harūb, Jazan, Saudi Arabia

15:30–16:00

Coffee break

Dialectology and Oral Traditions in Modern South Arabian Languages

Chair: Shabo Talay

16:00–16:30

Andrea Boom and Fatimah al-Mahri

Dialectology of Mehri, Contrasting Beit Thuwar and Zaabanot Linguistic Variations

16:30–17:00

Giuliano Castagna

Towards a Dialect Atlas of the Jibbali/Śḥerɛt Language

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

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

18:00

Dinner

Phonetic and Prosodic Structures in Semitic Languages and Dialects

Chair: Wiktor Gębski

9:30–10:00

Hammal al-Balushi

Pharyngealisation or Glottalisation: The Case of Ḥarsūsi Emphatic Stops

10:00–10:30

Maria Lipnicka

Juncture and Utterance in Arabic Dialects: Haim Blanc’s Prosodic Feature Theory Compared with Data from Gozo, Malta

10:30–11:00

Mahmut Ağbaht

New Findings on Pausal Phenomena: A Major Revision of Processes in Pausal Forms

11:00–11:30

Coffee break

Documenting Jewish Arabic Dialects

Chair: Maciej Klimiuk

11:30–12:00

Wiktor Gębski

Gender-Based Linguistic Variation in the Jewish Arabic Dialect of Ghardaïa (Saharan Algeria)

12:00–12:30

Ori Shachmon

Aden Arabic: A Mosaic of Archaisms and Linguistic Innovations

12:30–13:00

Assaf Bar Moshe

The Jewish Arabic Dialect of Mosul: Insights from New and Existing Data

13:00–14:00

Lunch

Studies in NENA and Turoyo Dialects

Chair: Mila Neishtadt

14:00–14:30

Geoffrey Khan

Progressive Constructions in NENA Dialects

14:30–15:00

Ablahad Lahdo

Adult Language Learners, the Case of Turoyo

15:00–15:30

Shabo Talay

Characteristics of the Turoyo Dialect of Bissorino

15:30–16:00

Coffee break

Bridging Dialectology and Semantics in the Semitic Languages

Chair: Assaf Bar Moshe

16:00–16:30

Mila Neishtadt

Integrating Dialectal Data: Reconstructing the Semantics of Semitic kmr

16:30–17:00

Anat Sageev and Letizia Cerqueglini

Language, Cognition, and Communal Dialects: Animal Taxonomy in Secular and Ḥaredi Israeli Hebrew

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

17:30–18:00

Aharon Geva-Kleinberger

The Christian Transjordanian Arabic Dialect of as-Salṭ at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

18:00

Dinner (Profesorium/Terrace at the Institute of Semitic Studies)

Morphosyntactic and Phonological Features in Neo-Aramaic Dialects

Chair: Julia Furman

9:30–10:00

Nikita Kuzin

Quadriradical Verbs in Neo-Aramaic Revisited

10:00–10:30

Eleanor Coghill

Copulas in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Telkepe

10:30–11:00

Lidia Napiórkowska

The Markedness of the Fronted Rounded Vowels in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic

11:00–11:30

Coffee break

Spoken Semitic Languages in Context

Chair: Eleanor Coghill

11:30–12:00

Letizia Cerqueglini

Ancient Futures, Future Passives: Upper Galilean and Muṯallaṯ Arabic Verbal Pragmatics and Their Elicitation

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

12:30–13:00

Werner Arnold

Aki’o Nakanos Western Neo-Aramaic Text from Ǧubbʿadīn about Firewood

13:00–14:00

Lunch

MSAL and Ethiosemitic Dialects

Chair: Letizia Cerqueglini

Rainer Voigt

Ethiosemitic Dialectology

14:30–15:00

Fabio Gasparini

Was I that Bad? Reflections upon Earlier Fieldwork

15:00–15:30

Discussion and closing of the conference