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The 47th Annual Meeting of the North Atlantic Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 47) takes place in Paris on 24-26 June 2019.
Here is the program:
| Mon. June 24 | Foyer | Auditorium – Diachrony, documentation, and contact | 5.05 – Phonology, morphology, and syntax |
| 8:30-9:30 | Registration and coffee | ||
| 9:30-10:00 | Welcome and introductions | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Martine Vanhove (LLACAN – CNRS). Information structuring in Beja (North Cushitic) | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | ||
| Chair: Antoine Lonnet | Chair: Janet Watson | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | Mena B. Lafkioui. Postposed topic specification in Berber. An areal phenomenon | Jean Lowenstamm. Does Chaha Threaten the OCP? | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Siham Rouabah. Gender, Socialisation, and Chaouia Shift in Progress | Morgan Nilsson and Laura J. Downing. Somali vowel qualities and vowel harmony | |
| 12:30-1:00 | Stefano Manfredi and Caroline Roset. Toward a dialect history of the Baggara Belt | Lydia Felice. Syllabification in Kabyle Berber: A Constraint-Based Approach | |
| 1:00-2:30 | Lunch | ||
| Chair: Ekkehard Wolff | Chair: Aicha Belkadi | ||
| 2:30-3:00 | Yvonne Treis and Ronny Meyer. Demonstrative systems in the Highland East Cushitic-Gurage contact zone | Basem Al-Raba’a. On Possessive and Directional/Locative Constructions in Jordanian Arabic: A Phase-based Approach to Binding | |
| 3:00-3:30 | Massinissa Garaoun. Contacts arabe-berbère : les paradigmes des interrogatifs en arabe jijélien et en tasahlit | Chris Reintges. Greenberg’s Sixth Language Universal Revisited: The VSO/SVO Word Order Contrast in Early Egyptian | |
| 3:30-4:00 | Coffee | ||
| Chair: Stefano Manfredi | Chair: Chris Reintges | ||
| 4:00-4:30 | Lameen Souag. Colexification across the Sahara: In what sense is Hausa West African? | Azeb Amha. What is definite about ‘definiteness’ in Wolaitta? | |
| 4:30-5:00 | Letizia Cerqueglini. The ʕAzāzmih Color System: Arabic Lexicon and Ancient Egyptian Categories | Keren Dubnov. Morphologically unmarked feminine nouns: from Biblical Hebrew to Modern Hebrew | |
| 5:00-5:30 | Jonas Sibony. Moroccan Arabic verbs in Peripheral Israeli Hebrew | Abdelkader Fassi Fehri. Varieties of Arabic Number | |
| 5:30-7:00 | Reception | ||
| Tues. June 25 | Foyer | Auditorium – Diachrony, documentation, and contact | 5.05 – Phonology, morphology, and syntax |
| 8:30-9:00 | Late registration | ||
| Chair: Yvonne Treis | Chair: Ahmad Al-Jallad | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Geoffrey Khan. Phonological enrichment in Neo-Aramaic dialects through language contact | Ali Idrissi, Eiman Mustafawi, Tariq Khwaileh and Muralikrishnan R. Orthographic ambiguity and diacritic density in Arabic word reading | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Ohad Cohen and Muhamad Hamed. The Historical Nature of the Written Hebrew Texts from Second Temple Period in Comparison with Modern Spoken Palestinian Dialects | Valentina Schiattarella. Noun modification in Siwi (Berber, Egypt) | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Roberta Morano. Remarks on the negative system in the Arabian Peninsula: the case of Omani /-ši/ | Sharaf Yassin. Agreement in Palestinian Arabic: The main controller and the role of animacy and humanness | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | ||
| Chair: Geoffrey Khan | Chair: Catherine Taine-Cheikh | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Abeer Abbas. Documenting Farasani Arabic | Roula Skaf and Dana Cohen. Neutralisation du genre du numéral en soureth. Comparaison avec l’hébreu moderne | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Lily Okalani Kahn and Sonya Yampolskaya. Non-canonical use of articles in Maskilic (Jewish Enlightenment) Hebrew | Vermondo Brugnatelli. Some aspects of qualification in Tunisian Berber | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Anbessa Teferra. Re-examination of Amharyəstʼ Features | Amazigh Bedar. Les verbes réfléchis en berbère kabyle | |
| 12:30-1:00 | Ben Whittle. The Patterns of Translation of the Active Biblical Hebrew Verbal Stems in the LXX Pentateuch and Former Prophets | Aicha Belkadi, Samir Ben Si Said and Candide Simard. Non-peripheral flexible word order and the issue of (non-) configurationality in Taqbaylit Berber | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch | ||
| Chair: Jérôme Lentin | |||
| 2:00-2:30 | Yishai Neuman. Parallel yet unrelated evolution of neo-Semitic: Maltese and spoken Hebrew typology of pronominal suffixes | ||
| 2:30-3:00 | Maris Camilleri. Possession as a source of grammaticalisation in Semitic | ||
| 3:00-3:30 | Julien Dufour. Turning one’s face to the dew-dropping south. The Arabic passive in the light of Modern South Arabian | ||
| 3:30-4:00 | Coffee | ||
| 4:00-5:30 | Posters (5.09) |
Tahar Abbou. Endangered Languages: the Case of Taznatit in Gurara Enas Albasiri. An Anti-Contiguity Approach to Egyptian Arabic Interrogative Distribution Lahoucine Amouzay. Questions de subordination en amazighe Valeria Argiolas. Encore sur lat. buda Abdelaziz Berkai. L’archaïsme linguistique en berbère (kabyle) : étude sur un corpus parémiologique Dawit Tilahun Jembere. Negation in Gede’o Fekede Menuta. Linguistic Distance among Gurage Varieties: Revisiting the Internal Classification Kahina Ould Fella. La standardisation linguistique de tamazight : des fonctionnements discursifs et des enjeux socioculturels dans le discours médiatique Aisha Saad. L’évolution sémantique de ʃōr (vers, en direction de) dans le dialecte de Benghazi (Libye) |
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| 5:30-6:30 | Janet C. E. Watson (University of Leeds) Endangered languages, cultures and ecosystems: The case of Modern South Arabian |
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| 7:30-10:00 | Conference dinner at Dans la Cuisine (54-56 avenue de France, 75013 Paris) | ||
| Wed. June 26 | Foyer | Auditorium – Diachrony, documentation, and contact | 5.05 – Phonology, morphology, and syntax |
| Chair: Vermondo Brugnatelli | Chair: Azeb Amha | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Elsa Oréal. Old Egyptian and Akkadian independent pronouns : a reassessment | Maris Camilleri and Louisa Sadler. Non-canonical grammaticalisations of raising predicates in Arabic | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Marijn van Putten. The reconstruction of the Berbero-Semitic adjectives | Lutz Edzard. Embedded direct speech and shifting indexicals in Semitic | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Benjamin Suchard and Jorik Groen. Sg. *CVCC-, pl. *CVCaC-ū-: broken plural or regular reflex? | Silvia Stubnova. Where Syntax and Semantics Meet: A Typological Analysis of Old Egyptian Causatives | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | ||
| Chair: Ronny Meyer | Chair: Chris Reintges | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Alessandra Serpone. Some remarks on the “South Semitic” k-suffix conjugation | Abdallah El Mountassir. Les morphèmes d : un cas d’ambiguïté catégorielle en tachelhit | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Hongwei Zhang. Which ‘that’ was Amharic yä-? – An alternative origin for the Amharic relative-genitive marker | Alec Kienzle. Deriving agentive and stative meanings in Hebrew niCCaC and hitCaCeC | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Paul Fallon. An assessment of Bender’s Proto-Cushitic | Sara Al Sheyadi. The apophonic passive in northern Oman: data from a Bedouin dialect | |
| 12:30-1:00 | Gene Gragg. Paradigm Survival and Innovation in Cushitic | Jérôme Lentin. Le schème miCCiC dans les dialectes arabes | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch | ||
| Chair: Abdallah El Mountassir | |||
| 2:00-2:30 | Catherine Taine-Cheikh. Les emplois de bāš en arabe. Evolutions internes et problèmes de contact | ||
| 2:30-3:00 | Phillip Stokes. Diachronic Observations on the Development of the tanwīn alif in Christian Palestinian Arabic | ||
| 3:00-3:30 | Ahmad Al-Jallad. Preliminary Remarks on the Thamudic C and D inscriptions from the areas of Medina and Mecca | ||
| 3:30-4:00 | Coffee | ||
| 4:00-5:00 | Ekkehard Wolff (Universität Leipzig) Chadic linguistics in the 21st century: Attempting a state-of-the-art account |
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| 5:00-5:30 | Closing comments | ||
SEE ALSO
First Congress of the Jewish Studies Society, Strasbourg, 30 June – 2 July 2019
Remote Origins, 22 June 2019 in Paris
Gender and Religious Identity, 27 May 2019 in Helsinki
Was the Shapira Deuteronomy a Forgery? Harvard, 3 June 2019
The Scribe in the Biblical World, 17-19 June 2019 in Strasbourg
Virtue from Qumran to the Quran, on 8 May 2019
New Inscriptions from Herodium, in Jerusalem on 11 Apr 2019
Qumran After 70 Years, at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Paris