- - Wednesday 17th September 2014 — Morning Sessions BUILDING LETTERE E FILOSOFIA ODEION 09.15 Final Registration WELCOMING SESSION Prof. Roberto NICOLAI, Dean of the Faculty of Literatures and Philosophy, 10.00 Meeting opening The Organizers 10.30 11.00 ODEION PARTENONE Session 1 Chair: Pennacchietti Session 2 Chair: Baldi N. Pat-El – A.M. Wilson-Wright (University of Texas at Austin) The features of Canaanite: a reevaluation M. Lafkioui (Ghent University) V. Brugnatelli (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca) The Berber negation system: variation, typology and evolution Coffee break 11.30 M.V. Tonietti (Università di Firenze) Some reflections on Archaic Semitic in the light of the Ebla documentation C. Taine-Cheikh (CNRS, Paris) Les particules d'orientation du berbère. Fonctionnement, sémantisme et origine 12.00 T. Zewi (University of Haifa) Content clauses in West Semitic in the Second and First Millennium BC Z. Frajzyngier (University of Colorado at Boulder) Coding the role of the second NP in the clause: why the coding means matter 12.30 F. Israel (Università di Genova) Byblos, laboratorio linguistico della Fenicia e delle lingue semitiche del Levante S. Banti (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale") – M. Vergari (Ethnorêma) Aspects of Saho dialectology 13.00 Lunch break Wednesday 17th September 2014 — Afternoon Sessions ODEION PARTENONE EPIDAURO Session 3 Chair: Contini Session 4 Chair: Banti South Semitic Focus Session 1 Chair: Lentin 14.30 A. Faraj (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca) Incantation bowl with Mandaic inscription from Iraqi Museum 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 15.00 M. Moriggi (Università di Catania) Syriac scripts in Sasanian Mesopotamia: Estrangelo and other Syriac scripts on the eve of the Islamic conquests 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 15.30 Coffee break 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 (GoetheUniversität, 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 ODEION PARTENONE EPIDAURO Session 5 New Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics 1 Chair: Frajzyngier South Semitic Focus Session 2 Chair: Porkhomovsky Chair: Mengozzi 09.30 N. H. Stern O. Redkin (Bar-Ilan University) (Saint-Petersburg University) vê`el ‘îšēk têšûqātēk (Genesis 3:16). Thoughts about biradicals and other Formalization of Arabic and computer tools O. Bernikova H. Satzinger 10.00 (Universität Wien) A lexicon of Egyptian Lexical Roots (Project) (Saint-Petersburg University) Computational analysis of the Arabic morphology: new findings G. Chikovani M. Franci 10.30 (CAMNES, Firenze) Afroasiatic causation and causative forms 11.00 Central Asian Arabic Dialects: language contacts and internal development of Arabic linguistic material (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 S. Bendjaballah – P. Ségéral (Université Paris Diderot) Consonnes radicales (-voisées, éjectives): effets inattendus en mehri d'Oman Coffee break Session 6 Chair: Zewi P. Cassuto (Université Aix -Marseille) – V. Porkhomovsky (Russian 11.30 (Free University of Tblisi) O. Kapeliuk Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Le subjonctif en sémitique, aspects diachronique et paradigmatique New Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics 2 Chair: Lancioni South Semitic Focus Session 3 Chair: Hudson G.M. Rosenbaum (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) R. Fathi Old Egyptian movies as a source for the study of spoken Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Some challenges in the nominal system of Oman Mehri (Université Paris Diderot) L. Avallone (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) Neither K.J. Baranowski (Toronto University) 12.00 The Biblical Hebrew wayyiqtol and the evidence of the Amarna letters from Canaan M. Folmer (University of Leiden) 12.30 13.00 The Translation of the Biblical Hebrew absolute Infinitive in Jewish Aramaic Bible translations fuṣḥā nor ‘āmmiyya: how to reach a simplified Arabic language writing for theatre. Linguistic devices in Tawfīq alḤakīm’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 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 ODEION PARTENONE Session 7 Chair: Folmer New Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics 3 Chair: Chikovani 14:30 S. Anthonioz (Université Catholique de Lille) Pèsaḥ-Pašāḫu : Toward a philological and exegetical hypothesis G. Lancioni (Università di Roma Tre) Beyond the Standard-Spoken divide: the Arabic syntax as a system 15.00 M.I. Ababneh (Martin Luther Universität, HalleWittenberg) The terms of kinship in Safaitic inscriptions C. Solimando – E. Di Vincenzo (Università di Roma Tre) Arab grammarians and other languages 15.30 Coffee break 16.00 G.F. Grassi (Philipps Universität Marburg) Direct object in Old and Imperial Aramaic S. Olivieri (Sapienza Università di Roma) Standards and variations in the Arabic Ḫilāfāt literature 16.30 A. Mengozzi (Università di Torino) Non canonical subjects and the emergence of split ergativity in Neo -Aramaic M. Rechad (Université Hassan II, Casablanca) Predication and focalisation in verbless Arabic sentence RECEPTION Chiostro di San Pietro in Vincoli 19.30 Faculty of Engineering 23.00 Via Eudossiana 18, Rome (upon invitation) Friday 19th September 2014 — Morning Sessions ODEION PARTENONE Session 8 Chair: Stern New Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics 4 Chair: Redkin 9:30 R. Contini (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale") Polyglot Bibles and Semitic lexicography in the Renaissance M. Campanelli (Sapienza Università di Roma) Conflict in Government (Tanāzuʻ): terminology and debates of the shared constituent construction inside the Arabic linguistic tradition 10.00 M. Marrazza (Università degli Studi di Firenze) Some remarks on the lexematic function of the adjectives ḤLH and ŠLM in Ancient Hebrew G. Mion (Università "G. D'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara) A propos de la nature mixte des ‘parlers villageois’ en arabe tunisien 10.30 P.C. Schmitz (Eastern Michigan University) An unrecognized Akkadian hybrid loan in the Phoenician text of the inscription of Aḥiram A. Boucherit (MoDyCo-CNRS—Université Descartes-Sorbonne, Paris) Deixis spatio-temporelle et espace d'interlocution dans des dialectes arabes maghrébins 11.00 Coffee break Session 9 Chair: Brugnatelli 11.30 V. Blažek (Masaryk University, Brno) Cushitic and Omotic numerals in comparative perspective 12.00 R. Skaf (LLACAN, Paris—Università degli Studi di Torino) Grammaticalisation des verbs de mouvements en Soureth 12.30 I. Cicola (Sapienza Università di Roma) Case-marking variation: a classic analysis in the Tawhid formula 13.00 Lunch break Friday 19th September 2014 — Afternoon Sessions ODEION Session 10 Chair: Edzard 14:30 O. Stolbova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Chadic lexical parallels to Semitic roots primae waw and media waw (on the origin of Chadic labiovelars) 15.00 A. Belova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) La racine arabe et la morphologie arabe 15.30 J. Lentin (INALCO, Paris) The [x] realization of qāf and its implications for the phonological and lexicological history of Arabic 16.00 Coffee break Session 11 Chair: Satzinger 16.30 L. Edzard (University of Oslo) Arabic grammatical theory and marked nominative constructions in Afroasiatic 17.00 D.M. Calabro (Brigham Young University) The expression of inalienable possession in Egypto-Semitic bound constructions 17.30 Closing Remarks Cover Picture: Pieter Brueghel - The “Little” Tower of Babel (Museum Boijmans van Beuningen—Rotterdam) Organizing Committee Alessio AGOSTINI ([email protected]) Maria Giulia AMADASI GUZZO ([email protected]) Lorenzo VERDERAME ([email protected]) Steering Committee Maria Giovanna BIGA Alberto CAMPLANI Alessandro CATASTINI Franco D’AGOSTINO Olivier DURAND Lucia MORI Loredana SIST Meeting Secretary Ester LOPARDO (Monumenta Orientalia) Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità “Sapienza” Università di Roma Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma Contacts: [email protected] Website: http://www.antichita.uniroma1.it/afro-asiatic_meeting