2023-2024 doctoral seminar: "Semitic linguistics - language contact in the Mediterranean".

This seminar is monthly and takes place one Thursday of the month from 4:30pm to 7:00pm at Inalco, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris 13ème (for rooms see below).

Semitic Linguistics and Language Contact in the Mediterranean" doctoral seminar, has been bringing together Cermom researchers and PhD students whose object of study is the languages of the ancient and modern Near East since 2014. The approach of the participating researchers is multifaceted: theoretical and formal linguistics, descriptive linguistics based on field studies, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, history of grammar. The aim of the seminar is to create a space for exchange that is both flexible and precise, with a dual training and research objective: to circulate knowledge and enrich analyses by bringing together different points of view on a given issue. In order to achieve its training objective, the seminar generally includes, in addition to the intervention of an established researcher, a presentation by a student, doctoral student or Master 2 student, on his or her research.

The seminar is a monthly meeting lasting two to two and a half hours. It takes place on the first Thursday of the month from 4:30 to 7:00 pm, with special arrangements for certain months. There is no unifying theme. Our seminar is shared with the linguistics master's program, and is coded in the new master's syllabus as ARAA520D.

The seminar is open to any doctoral student whose field of study is a Near Eastern language, and to any doctoral student in general linguistics. It is also open to M2 students.

Session program

Thursday, October 5, 2023, Inalco (PLC), Room 6.06, 16:30 - 19:00

• Adam BENKATO (BERKELEY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA): On copula grammaticalisations in Libyan Arabic
• Terlan DJAVADOVA (UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA): Rural varieties in Morocco

Thursday, November 9, 2023, Inalco (PLC), Room 6.06, 16:30 - 19:00

• Amazigh BEDAR (LPL, AIX-MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY): Typology and semantics of numeral reduplication in Arabic dialects

Adam POSPÍŠIL (CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE): Multiverbal predicates across Arabic dialects

Thursday, December 7, 2023, Inalco (PLC), Room 6.06, 16:30 - 19:00

• Jean DRUEL (IDEO, CAIRO): Birth, life and death of the recensions (riwāyāt) of Sībawayhi's Kitāb
• Georgine AYOUB (INALCO, CERMOM): kināya, ʾibhām, ʾiḍmār : étude de quelques notions sémantiques et de leur évolution dans les théories grammaticales des 8e, 9e siècles

ATTENTION, change of room! From now on, the seminar will be held in Room 3.04.

Thursday, February 1, 2024, Inalco (PLC), Room 3.04, 16:30 - 19:00 - (ATTENTION, change of room!) - Affiche

• Ronny MEYER (INALCO, LACNAD) & DELOMBERA NEGGA (INALCO, LACNAD) : Typologie des langues éthio-sémitiques du sud

Thursday, March 7, 2024, Inalco (PLC), Salle 3.04, 16:30 - 19:00

• Pierre LARCHER (UNIVERSITY OF AIX-MARSEILLE, IREMAM): A linguistic analysis of the controversy between Bishop Elijah of Nisibe (d. 1046) and the vizier Abū l-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī l-ṃaġribī (d. 418/1027) on Arabic and Syriac

Thursday, April 4, 2024, Inalco (PLC), Salle 3.04, 16:30 - 19:00

• Jean LOWENSTAMM (UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 7): Speculations on CVCC nouns (kalb, fiyl, lawn, ruwz, &c.) in Semitic languages
• Radwa FATHI (INALCO, CERMOM): Egyptian Arabic and the complexity of vowel expressions

Thursday, May 2, 2024, Inalco (PLC), Room 3.04, 16:30 - 19:00

• Christian ROBIN (CNRS) : Arabic and Sudarabic

Thursday June 6, 2024, Inalco (PLC), Room 3.04, 16:30 - 19:00

• Manuela GIOLFO (UNIVERSITÀ IULM, MILAN), GIULIANO LANCIONI (UNIVERSITÀ ROMA TRE) : Langue(s) arabe(s) : au-delà de la diglossie/ Arabic(s) : beyond diglossia

Thursday 20 June 2024, Inalco (PLC), Room 3.04, 16:30 - 19:00

• Nina VAN KAMPEN (INALCO, CERMOM): Koinéisation et variation: Arabic spoken by Palestinians in Lebanon

Pauline MILAN (INALCO, CERMOM): The differential marking of the object in Lebanese Arabic

• Maxime TABET (INALCO, CERMOM): Some linguistic features of Šiḥḥi Arabic (Oman)

Organization

Georgine AYOUB (CERMOM, Inalco)
Bruno HÉRIN (CERMOM, Inalco)

Contacts

georgine.ayoub@inalco.fr and bruno.herin@inalco.fr