Lectures 2021
Lexikographie und Wörterbucharbeit in der Semitistik
02.06.2021:
- Werner Arnold (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg): "Alphabetisch oder nach Wurzeln? Überlegungen zum Ordnen des Neuwestaramäischen"
- Zafer Youssef (FU Berlin): "Korpusbasiertes Wörterbuch der syrisch-arabischen Dialekte - Bericht über den Stand"
- Stephan Procházka (University of Vienna) & Karlheinz Mörth (ACDH-CH): "The VICAV Damascus dictionary: Compiling a multi-purpose digital dictionary"
Grammatical traditions in contact: Studies on the Arabic, Greek and Syriac traditions
19.05.2021:
- Margherita Farina (CNRS): "Syriac metalinguistic terminology between 6th and 9th cent.: Some open issues"
- Simona Olivieri (FU Berlin): "Assessing influences in the early Arabic linguistic tradition"
- Nadia Vidro (University College London): "A book on Arabic inflexion according to the system of the Greeks: A lost work by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq"
Arabic and Aramaic in Anatolia
28.04.2021:
- Otto Jastrow (Tallinn University): "Periphery of the Periphery - Remarks on qǝltu-Arabic dialects of Anatolia"
- Gabriel Biţună (University of Bucharest): "Siirti Arabic – A prolific Anatolian dialect"
- Paul M. Noorlander (University of Cambridge): "Neo-Aramaic and Neo-Arabic dialects entangled in Southeastern Anatolia and Northwestern Mesopotamia"
Insubordination in Semitic Languages
05.05.2021:
- Michael Waltisberg (Heidelberg University): "Assessing insubordination for Semitic linguistics"
- Grace Park (FU Berlin): "Stand-alone nominalization in Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic"
- Fabio Gasparini (FU Berlin): "Stand-alone nominalization in Modern South Arabian"
Jacob of Serugh and his reception in non-Syriac traditions
09.06.2021:
- Tamara Pataridze (University of Louvain): "Crossing boundaries: The reception of Jacob of Serugh in Georgian milieus"
- Andy Hilkens (Goethe University Frankfurt): "Jacob of Serugh in the Armenian tradition"
- Ted Erho (LMU Munich): "Jacob of Serugh's homilies in medieval and modern Ethiopia"
- Vasiliki Chamourgiotaki (FU Berlin): "The Arabic reception of Jacob of Serugh. A focus on the Sinaitic manuscripts"
Die Sprachpolitik der aramäischen/assyrischen Organisationen in Deutschland bezüglich des Neuaramäischen
07.07.2021:
- Aziz Said (Berlin): "Die Position des Zentralverbands der Assyrischen Vereinigungen in Deutschland (ZAVD)"
- Fadi Korkes (Würzburg): "Die Position der Föderation Suryoye Deutschland (HSA)"
Syriac and Aramaic Studies in the Digital Age
16.06.2021:
- Anna-Simona Barbara Üzel (FU Berlin): "The first treatise of Bar Ṣalībī against the Nestorians"
- Nikita Kuzin (FU Berlin): "Corpus and lexicography tools for the Ṭuroyo studies"
- Nicolas Atas (FU Berlin): "The PoS-tagged Syriac Corpus of the GREgORI Project"
Romance languages and Maghrebi Arabic dialects in contact
12.05.2021:
- Ángeles Vicente (University of Zaragoza): "The interaction between Spanish and Moroccan Arabic: A relationship of several centuries"
- Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (University of Vienna): "it-tǟlīfūn ysōni w-il-firšēṭa fi-l-kūžīna: Romance influence on the Tunisian lexicon"
- Felipe Francisco (FU Berlin): "A quest for Portuguese loanwords in Moroccan Arabic"