15 Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics - Università di Roma

15th Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics
Sapienza - Università di Roma 17-19 September 2014
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME Wednesday 17th September 2014 Morning Sessions BUILDING LETTERE E FILOSOFIA ODEION Registration
9.15
10.00
WELCOMING SESSION
Prof. Roberto NICOLAI, Dean of the Faculty of Literatures and Philosophy, Sapienza – Università di Roma
Meeting opening – The Organizers
ODEION SESSION 1 Chair:
TBA
10.30
11.00
11.30
12.00
12.30
13.00
N. PAT-­‐EL – A.M. WILSON-­‐WRIGHT (University of Texas at Austin) The features of Canaanite: a reevaluation PARTENONE SESSION 2 Chair:
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M. LAFKIOUI (Ghent University) – V. BRUGNATELLI (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca) The Berber negation system: variation, typology and evolution ~ coffee break ~ M.V. TONIETTI (Università di Firenze) Some C. TAINE-­‐CHEIKH (CNRS, Paris) Les particules reflections on Archaic Semitic in the light of the d'orientation du berbère. Fonctionnement, Ebla documentation sémantisme et origine T. ZEWI (University of Haifa) Content clauses in Z. FRAJZYNGIER (University of Colorado at West Semitic in the Second and First Boulder) Coding the role of the second NP in the Millennium BC clause: why the coding means matter F. ISRAEL (Università di Genova) Byblos, S. BANTI (Università degli Studi di Napoli laboratorio linguistico della Fenicia e delle "L'Orientale") – M. VERGARI (Ethnorêma) Aspects lingue semitiche del Levante of Saho dialectology ~ lunch break ~
Wednesday 17th September 2014 Afternoon Sessions 14.00
14.30
15.00
ODEION
SESSION 3
Chair:
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F. ASPESI (Università degli Studi di Milano) Ebraico biblico bāmâ e il sostrato linguistico egeo-­‐cananaico A. FARAJ (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca) Incantation bowl with Mandaic inscription from Iraqi Museum M. MORIGGI (Università di Catania) Syriac scripts in Sasanian Mesopotamia: Estrangelo and other Syriac scripts on the eve of the Islamic conquests EPIDAURO
SOUTH SEMITIC FOCUS SESSION 1
Chair:
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A. SUZZI VALLI (Universität zu Köln) Some morphological features in a few Bole-­‐Tangale languages (West Chadic) G. HUDSON (Michigan State University) Genetic evidence for issues in Semitic and South Semitic G.C. BATIC (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale") The Language of emotions in Chadic: a research framework A. PRIOLETTA (Università di Pisa) Reconsiderations of some grammar facts in Ḥaḍramitic with comparative notes ~ coffee break ~ 15.30
PARTENONE
SESSION 4
Chair:
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16.00
S. PETROLLINO (Dynamique Du Langage, Lyon – Leiden University) Gender and evaluative morphology in Hamar -­‐ South Omotic K. WEDEKIND (SIL International, Dallas) Beja Auxiliaries V. PORKHOMOVSKY (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) South Semitic Languages and the evolution of the Semitic comparative paradigm 16.30
S. BALDI (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale") – R. LEGER (Goethe-­‐Universität, Frankfurt am Main) Gender in Hausa proverbs A. PUGLIELLI (Università di Roma Tre) The relation between syntactic structure and text organization: the Somali case A. RUBIN (Penn State University) A comparison of the Modern South Arabian languages Thursday 18th September 2014 Morning Sessions 9:30
ODEION SESSION 5 Chair:
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N. H. STERN (Bar-­‐Ilan University) vê`el ‘îšēk têšûqātēk (Genesis 3:16). Thoughts about biradicals and other 10.00
H. SATZINGER (Universität Wien) A lexicon of Egyptian Lexical Roots (Project) 10.30
M. FRANCI (CAMNES, Firenze) Afroasiatic causation and causative forms SESSION 6
Chair:
TBA
P. CASSUTO (Université Aix-­‐Marseille) – V. PORKHOMOVSKY (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Le subjonctif en sémitique, aspects diachronique et paradigmatique 12.00
K.J. BARANOWSKI (Toronto University) The Biblical Hebrew wayyiqtol and the evidence of the Amarna letters from Canaan 12.30
M. FOLMER (University of Leiden) The Translation of the Biblical Hebrew absolute Infinitive in Jewish Aramaic Bible translations 13.00
EPIDAURO SOUTH SEMITIC FOCUS SESSION 2 Chair:
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O. REDKIN (Saint-­‐Petersburg State University) Formalization of Arabic and computer tools O. BERNIKOVA (Saint-­‐Petersburg State University) Computational analysis of the Arabic morphology: new findings G. CHIKOVANI (Free University of Tblisi) Central Asian Arabic Dialects: language contacts and internal development of Arabic linguistic material O. KAPELIUK (Hebrew University Jerusalem) What happened to the special features of South Semitic in the modern languages J. DUFOUR (Université de Strasbourg) Voyelles atones, accent et consonnes sourdes: questions de phonologie comparée des langues sudarabiques modernes ~ coffee break ~ 11.00
11.30
PARTENONE NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS 1 Chair:
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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS 2 Chair:
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G.M. ROSENBAUM (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Old Egyptian movies as a source for the study of spoken Egyptian Judeo-­‐Arabic L. AVALLONE (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) Neither fuṣḥā nor ‘āmmiyya: how to reach a simplified Arabic language writing for theatre. Linguistic devices in Tawfīq al-­‐Ḥakīm’s theory and practice of The Third Language. I. PEPE (Sapienza Università di Roma) La langue des journaux en arabe: une analyse des néologismes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui ~ lunch break ~ SOUTH SEMITIC FOCUS SESSION 3 Chair:
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S. BENDJABALLAH – P. SÉGÉRAL (Université Paris Diderot) Consonnes radicales (-­‐ voisées, -­‐
éjectives): effets inattendus en mehri d'Oman R. FATHI (Université Paris Diderot) Some challenges in the nominal system of Oman Mehri G. CASTAGNA (SOAS, London) Towards a systematisation of the broken plural patterns in the Mehri language of Oman and Yemen Thursday 18th September 2014 Afternoon Sessions 14:30
15.00
ODEION SESSION 7 Chair:
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S. ANTHONIOZ (Université Catholique de Lille) Pèsaḥ-­‐Pašāḫu : Toward a philological and exegetical hypothesis M.I. ABABNEH (Martin Luther Universität, Halle-­‐Wittenberg) The terms of kinship in Safaitic inscriptions PARTENONE NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS 3 Chair:
TBA
G. LANCIONI (Università di Roma Tre) Beyond the Standard-­‐Spoken divide: the Arabic syntax as a system C. SOLIMANDO – E. DI VINCENZO (Università di Roma Tre) Arab grammarians and other languages ~ coffee break ~ 15.30
16.00
G.F. GRASSI (Philipps Universität Marburg) Direct object in Old and Imperial Aramaic 16.30
A. MENGOZZI (Università di Torino) Non canonical subjects and the emergence of split ergativity in Neo-­‐Aramaic S. OLIVIERI (Sapienza Università di Roma) Standards and variations in the Arabic Ḫilāfāt literature M. RECHAD (Université Hassan II, Casablanca) Predication and focalisation in verbless Arabic sentence RECEPTION 19.30
23.00
CHIOSTRO DI SAN PIETRO IN VINCOLI (FACULTY OF ENGINEERING) EPIDAURO SOUTH SEMITIC FOCUS SESSION 4 Chair:
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C.C. BURT (U.S. Naval Academy Dept. of Languages and Cultures) Categories of kinship in Shahri/Jibbali G. SAVÀ (Hamburg University) – W.G. BESHAH A new Italian-­‐Amharic Amharic-­‐Italian dictionary Friday 19th September 2014 Morning Sessions ODEION SESSION 7 Chair:
TBA
9:30
10.00
10.30
R. CONTINI (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale") Polyglot Bibles and Semitic lexicography in the Renaissance M. MARRAZZA (Università degli Studi di Firenze) Some remarks on the lexematic function of the adjectives ḤLH and ŠLM in Ancient Hebrew P.C. SCHMITZ (Eastern Michigan University) An unrecognized Akkadian hybrid loan in the Phoenician text of the inscription of Ahiram PARTENONE NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS 4 Chair:
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M. CAMPANELLI (Sapienza Università di Roma) Conflict in Government (Tanāzuʻ): terminology and debates of the shared constituent construction inside the Arabic linguistic tradition J. LOWENSTAMM (Université Paris Diderot) Two mysteries in the Moroccan Arabic perfective inflection G. MION (Università "G. D'Annunzio" di Chieti-­‐
Pescara) A propos de la nature mixte des ‘parlers villageois’ en arabe tunisien ~ coffee break ~ 11.00
SESSION 8
Chair:
TBA
11.30
12.00
12.30
13.00
R. SKAF (LLACAN, Paris) Grammaticalisation des verbs de mouvements en Soureth I. CICOLA (Sapienza Università di Roma) Case-­‐
marking variation: a classic analysis in the Tawhid formula M. NOUMAN (University of Al-­‐Hussein Bin Talal -­‐ Ma'an) Weak resumption in Jordanian Arabic A. BOUCHERIT (Université Descartes -­‐ Sorbonne, Paris) Deixis spatio-­‐temporelle et espace d'interlocution dans les dialectes arabes maghrébins ~ lunch break ~ Friday 19th September 2014 Afternoon Sessions 14:30
15.00
15.30
ODEION SESSION 9 Chair:
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V. BLAŽEK (Masaryk University, Brno) Cushitic and Omotic numerals in comparative perspective O. STOLBOVA (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Chadic lexical parallels to Semitic roots primae waw and media waw (on the origin of Chadic labiovelars) A. BELOVA (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) La racine arabe et la morphologie arabe ~ coffee break ~ 16.00
16.30
17.00
17.30
18.00
SESSION 10
Chair:
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J. LENTIN (INALCO, Paris) The [x] realization of qāf and its implications for the phonological and lexicological history of Arabic L. EDZARD (University of Oslo) Arabic grammatical theory and marked nominative constructions in Afroasiatic D.M. CALABRO (University of Chicago) The expression of inalienable possession in Egypto-­‐
Semitic bound constructions Closing Remarks