Winter semester 2024/2025

Seminar - Comparative Semitisitics

Advanced Seminar - Introduction to Aramaic Linguistics

Aramaic languages

Classical Arabic

Language contact

Comparative Semitic studies

Monographien

Jastrow, Otto and Shabo Talay, with Nikita Kuzin. 2024. Der neuaramäische Dialekt von Midyat (Miḏyoyo) Band II: Glossar. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

Artikel in Zeitschriften und Buchbeiträge

Kuzin. N. forth. “Adaptation of Arabic and Kurmanji Verbs in Ṭuroyo”. In: Perspectives on Templatic Morphology. Hrsg. Ronny Meyer und Chris Reintges. ZDMG

Kuzin, N. 2024. “Labile Verbs in Ṭuroyo – Marginal Phenomenon or Structured Innovation” In: Current Research in Semitic Studies. Proceedings of the Semitic Studies Section at the 34th DOT at Freie Universität Berlin. Hrsg. Simona Olivieri und Shabo Talay. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, S. 115-132.

Cherkashina, Anna, und Nikita Kuzin. 2022. “‘Binding of a Husband’: a Syriac Erotic Binding Spell”. In: Aramaic Studies 20.2, pp. 154-195.

Demir, Gulsuma, Yulia Furman, and Nikita Kuzin. 2022. "Metran Îsa! Do Not Stir Up Trouble, Trouble Is Bad": A Kurdish Folk Song through a Christian Lens. In: Oral Tradition 35.2, S. 441-462.

Häberl, Charles, Nikita Kuzin, Sergey Loesov, and Alexey Lyavdansky. 2020. “A Neo-Aramaic Version of a Kurdish Tale.” In: Journal of Semitic Studies, 65.2, S. 473-493.

Kuzin, Nikita and Sergey Loesov. 2016. The Sun Also Rises gušt ko-saləq u=yawmo. In: Babel und Bibel 9: Selected Papers Presented at the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International association for Comparative Semitics. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, S. 325-331

Besprechungen

Kuzin, N. Review of: Ablahad, Lahdo. A Traitor Among Us. The Story of Father Yusuf Akbulut in the Ṭuroyo of ‘Iwardo. // Orientalische Literaturzeitung 114 (4-5), 2019, pp. 346-350.

Vorträge

The polysemy and ambiguity of the t-stems in Ṭuroyo. Workshop on the Afroasiatic T-morpheme, University of Edinburgh, 8-9.05.2024

Grammatical voice and valency change in Ṭuroyo: synchronic and comparative perspective. 8. Arbeitstreffen der Sektion Semitistik innerhalb der DMG, Leipzig. Universität Leipzig, 10-12.04.2024.

Labile verbs in Ṭuroyo – marginal phenomenon or structured innovation. 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Berlin. Freie Universität Berlin, 14.09.2022.

(with Yulia Furman). Metran Isa: a Kurdish folk song through a Christian lens. 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Berlin. Freie Universität Berlin, 13.09.2022.

Grammatical voice and valency change in Ṭuroyo. // ETPOLL-22. Passive and relative clause structures. Göthe-Universität Frankfurt. 17.06.2022.

(with Yulia Furman). Heroes, Martyrs, and Tricksters: Parallels to Newly Recorded Ṭuroyo texts. Workshop Modern Semitic Dialectology, Freie Universität Berlin. 06.05.2022.

Adaptation of Arabic and Kurmanji words as Ṭuroyo verbs: a further investigation. Workshop Perspectives on Templatic Morphology, Paris, UP-Diderot. 20.09.2019.

Inalienable Possession in Ṭuroyo: A Corpus Study. SLE 2019, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Universität Leipzig.

I stem intransitive vs. III stem passive within the same root in Ṭuroyo. International Neo-Aramaic conference Neo-Aramaic Languages across Space and Time, Uppsala University.