NALCon 2023 - 5th Neo-Aramaic Languages Conference
"Following previous Neo-Aramaic conferences in Cambridge, Jerusalem, Warsaw and Uppsala, the international conference, the 5th Neo-Aramaic Languages Conference will take place at Boğaziçi University from October 26th to 27th, 2023. The event is co-organized by the Chair for Semitic Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Department of Linguistics at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.
The conference serves as a forum of scientific exchange for scholars working on any aspects of the Neo-Aramaic linguistics (North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic, Ṭuroyo/Surayt, Western Neo-Aramaic and Neo-Mandaic), including their contact with neighbouring languages."
The conference is organized by Metin Bağrıaçık (Boğaziçi University) and Shabo Talay (Freie Universität Berlin).
Program
| 9:00 | Coffee |
| 9:30 |
A corpus-based study of word order change in Neo-Aramaic Paul M. Noorlander (University of Cambridge). In collaboration with Geoff Haig and Dorota Molin |
| 10:00 |
What is Central Neo-Aramaic? Shabo Talay (FU Berlin) |
| 10:30 |
The NENA variety of Nudiz Elizaveta Zabelina (RAS Institute for Linguistic Studies, Saint Petersburg) |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 |
The definite article with proper nouns in Ṭuroyo Sergey Loesov (HSE Moscow) and Charles G. Häberl (Rutgers University) |
| 12:00 |
Adnominal possession marking in Ṭuroyo Ksenia Kashintseva (HSE Moscow) |
| 12:30 |
A finer look at the Christian Urmi verbal stems Elena Shvedova (HSE Moscow) |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 |
Intransitive clauses in NENA and Qəltu Arabic, and their implications for typology and diachronic change Dorota Molin (University of Cambridge) |
| 15:00 |
Documentation of NENA varieties spoken in Urmiya (Krasnodar Krai, Russia) Kirill Kozhanov (University of Potsdam), Natalia Logvinova (HSE Moscow), Alexey Lyavdansky (HSE Moscow), Maria Ovsjannikova (University of Potsdam), Alina Russkikh (HSE Moscow), Ivan Sarkisov (HSE Moscow), Sergey Say (University of Potsdam), Elena Shvedova (HSE Moscow), Elizaveta Zabelina (RAS Institute for Linguistic Studies, Saint Petersburg) |
| 15:30 |
Linguistic variables in NENA speakers from Urmiya, Krasnodar Krai: A dialectometric study Maria Ovsjannikova and Sergey Say (University of Potsdam) |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 |
Significant differences in the phonology of glottal consonants between Western Neo-Aramaic and Syrian Arabic Ivri Bunis (University of Haifa) [Online] |
| 17:00 |
Relative clauses in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Telkepe Eleanor Coghill (Uppsala University) |
| 17:30 |
Crowdsourcing machine learning datasets for Northeastern Neo-Aramaic: groundwork for language revitalization Matthew Nazari (Harvard University & University of Cambridge) |
| 18:00 |
Practical issues in building an Aramaic lexicon: a case study from Syriac with Neo-Aramaic implications George Kiraz (Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute / Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) |
| 18:30 | Closing remarks |
