Program

Day 1: October 26, 2023 (Thursday)

 

9:00Coffee and registration
9:30

Welcome and opening remarks 

Metin Bağrıaçık (Boğaziçi) and Shabo Talay (FU Berlin)                                                                                                                                                                               

10:00

Narrative verbal Forms in the NENA dialects

Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge)

10:30

Neo-Aramaic markers of definiteness and indefiniteness: a typological overview in areal perspective

Fabio Gasparini (FU Berlin) and Alessandro Mengozzi (University of Turin)

11:00Coffee break
11:30

Analyzing interborrowings between Modern Eastern Aramaic languages and Classical Syriac

Anna Cherkashina (Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute / Tel Aviv University) [Online] 

12:00

High and low ordinals in NENA: historical development or contact induced?

Ariel Gutman [Online]

12:30

New lexical findings in Ṭyare Neo-Aramaic

Hezy Mutzafi (Tel Aviv University) [Online]

13:00Lunch break 
14:30

Verbless and existential clauses in Modern Western Aramaic

Anna Bromirskaya and Nikolay Grishin (HSE University Moscow)

15:00

Morpho-phonological alternations in Maaloula Aramaic feminine nouns

Ghattas Eid and Ingo Plag (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

15:30

Evidentiality in Modern Western Aramaic

Alexey Duntsov (HSE University Moscow)

16:00Coffee break
16:30

How Arabicized is the Modern Western Aramaic lexicon?

Charles G. Häberl (Rutgers University) and Sergey Loesov (HSE Moscow)

17:00

On the Periphery

Samuel E. Fox 

17:30

Morpho-phonological analysis of verbs in the Alqoshi Neo-Aramaic

Catrin Seepo (University of Florida)

19:30Conference Dinner

 

 

 

Day 2: October 27, 2023 (Friday)

 

9:00Coffee 
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)

11:00Coffee 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)

13:00Lunch 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)

16:00Coffee break  
16:30

Relative clauses in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Telkepe

Eleanor Coghill (Uppsala University) 

17:00

Crowdsourcing machine learning datasets for Northeastern Neo-Aramaic: groundwork for language revitalization 

Matthew Nazari (Harvard University & University of Cambridge)

17:30

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)

18:00Closing remarks