Programme

Day 1 

14.11.2024

09:30 Registration

09:45 Opening remarks

Panel 1

10:15 - 11:35

• 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, "I possibili contributi della dialettologia araba a una “tipologia del futuro”" 

• Cristiana Bozza & Giuliano Mion, "The grammaticalization of theophoric formulae in Arabic"

11:35 - 12:00 Discussion

12:00 - 14:00 Break and light lunch

Panel 2

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”

• Valentina Serreli, "Multilingual repertoires and language hierarchies in Siwa (Egypt)”

• 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

15:55 - 16:55 

• Atiqa Hachimi, “Stylized performance of Berber-accented Moroccan Arabic in Stand-Up comedy” 

• Rosa Pennisi, “Arabo Misto: Analisi comparativa delle pratiche scritte e orali nei media digitali marocchini” 

• Jacopo Falchetta, “Dubbing in Moroccan Arabic: how is it situated in the sociolinguistic environment?”

16:55 - 17:10 Discussion

20:00 Conference Dinner

Day 2 

15.11.2024

Panel 4

9:00 - 10:00

• Ibraam Abdelsayed, "Beyond Diglossia Redefining Stylistic Variation in the Formal-Informal Continuum of  Egyptian Arabic Discourse"

• Catherine Miller, “Reconstructing the history of language contact: Arabic varieties of Eastern Africa”

• Montserrat Benítez-Fernández, “To show or not to show: The Jbala variety as a polyvalent voice”

10:00 - 10:15 Discussion

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

Panel 5

10:30 - 11:50

• 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”

• Paola Comelli

11:50 - 12:10 Discussion

12:10 - 14:10 Break and light lunch

Panel 6

14:10 - 15:30

• Manuela Giolfo, “Contemporary Written Arabic(s)”

• 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”

• Lucia Avallone, “Teaching and learning the Egyptian vernacular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An overview of some textbooks” 

15:30 - 15:45 Discussion

15:45 - 16:00 Final remarks

16:30 - 18:00 Short tour of Città Alta accompanied by Arabic language students