Programme

Day 1 - 14.11.2024

Salvecchio, Room 1

09:30 Registration

09:45 Opening remarks

Panel 1 - Chair: Catherine TAÏNE-CHEIKH 

10:15 - 11:45 

• Jérôme LENTIN | From nominal to verbo-nominal: the destiny of CaCCān in Arabic dialects

• Luca D’ANNA | Historical considerations on t- passives in North African Arabic

• Simone BETTEGA | For a “typology of the future”: contributions from Arabic dialectology

• Cristiana BOZZA & Giuliano MION | Some considerations on the grammaticalization of theophoric formulae in Arabic

11:45 - 12:05 Discussion

12:05 - 14:00 Break and light lunch

Panel 2 - Chair: Jérôme LENTIN

14:00 - 15:20

• Catherine TAÏNE-CHEIKH | Les effets du contact entre l'arabe et le berbère sur la corrélation d'emphase. L'exemple de la Mauritanie

• Catherine MILLER | Reconstructing the history of language contact: Arabic varieties of Eastern Africa

• Fabio GASPARINI | Contact between Arabic and MSAL: evidence from Bəṭaḥrēt

• Marta SALA | Tunisian Arabic and contact phenomena in University Lectures

15:20 - 15.40 Discussion

15:40 - 15:55 Coffee break

Panel 3 - Chair: Dominique CAUBET

15:55 - 16:55

• Atiqa HACHIMI | Stylized performance of Berber-accented Moroccan Arabic in Stand-Up comedy 

• Rosa PENNISI | Mixed Arabic:  written and oral practices in Moroccan digital media

• Jacopo FALCHETTA | Dubbing in Moroccan Arabic: where does it stand on the sociolinguistic map?

16:55 - 17:10 Discussion

20:00 Conference Dinner

Day 2  - 15.11.2024

Salvecchio, Room 1

Panel 4 - Chair: Catherine MILLER

9:00 - 10:20 

• Paola COMELLI | Exploring language used in teaching Arabic and its cultural relevance: insights from a mosque in Italy

• Paola GANDOLFI | Sounds, perceptions and variations of the Moroccan dialect among migrants of the first generation and Moroccan migrants’ children in Italy

• Montserrat BENÍTEZ-FERNÁNDEZ | To show or not to show: The Jbala variety as a polyvalent voice

• Valentina SERRELI | Multilingual repertoires and language hierarchies in Siwa (Egypt)

10:20 - 10:40 Discussion

10:40 - 10:55 Coffee break

Panel 5 - Chair: Luca D'ANNA

10:55 - 12:05

• Dominique CAUBET | Casa Revisited

• Alessia D'ACCARDIO BERLINGUER & CHRISTOPHE PEREIRA | The semantics of preverbs and the expression of the future tense in the Arabic of Tripoli (Libya) and Kairouan (Tunisia): a comparative study

• Ibraam ABDELSAYED | Beyond Diglossia: Redefining Stylistic Variation in the Formal-Informal Continuum of  Egyptian Arabic Discourse

12:05 - 12:20 Discussion

12:20 - 14:10 Break and light lunch

Panel 6 - Chair: Valentina SERRELI

14:10 - 15:20

• Cristina LA ROSA |  Luġa and fiqh: Vernacular Elements in a Maghribi Commentary

• Jairo GUERRERO | Tracking the history of early Modern Moroccan Arabic through a late 17th-century French source: A linguistic analysis of data from G. Moüette’s captivity account

• Valerio PIETRANGELO | Mutual intelligibility, lexical borrowing and semantic change. The case of Arabic and Urdu in the analysis of Dillī kī sair by Rashid Jahan

• Lucia AVALLONE | Teaching and learning the Egyptian vernacular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An overview of some textbooks

15:20 - 15:40 Discussion

15:40 - 16:00 Final remarks