Fwd: Historical and Comparative Semitic Linguistic (Austin, October 13-14)

[Claire Bowern]

forwarding on behalf of organizers.

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From: Pat-El, Na'ama <npatel at austin.utexas.edu>
Date: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:29 AM
Subject: Historical and Comparative Semitic Linguistic (Austin, October 13-14)
To: Claire Bowern <claire.bowern at yale.edu>

Dear colleagues,

On Oct. 13-14, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the
University of Texas, Austin, with the support of the Linguistics
department will host a workshop on Historical Semitic Linguistics. The
workshop is free and open to the public. But pleas email Na'ama
(npatel at austin.utexas.edu), if you intend to come.

The goals of this workshop are to encourage the historical and
comparative study of the Semitic languages and to disseminate the
results of the Semitic linguistics outside the small community of
Semitists.  Unlike regular conferences the workshop allows for the
presentation of long and complex studies and fosters debates between
the participants.  Comparative historical Semitic linguistics was once
one of the cornerstones of historical linguistics, of ancient Near
East studies, and of biblical studies.  Since the heydays of Nöldeke,
Wright, Barth, and Brockelmann, however, it has become less central to
those fields of study.  Through this workshop and similar workshops in
the future, we hope to rekindle interest in study of Semitic
linguistics and its relevance to general and historical linguistics
and its contribution to the philological study of the ancient world.


program


all talks are in GAR 1.112


Saturday, October 13 2012

8:30 Kristen Brustad: Welcome

Na’ama Pat-El: Why historical comparative Semitic linguistics is relevant?


9-10.30 David Testen

The Derivational Underpinnings of the Morphology of the Akkadian Iterative Verb

Respondent: John Huehnergard


10.30-12 Daniel Birnstiel

Causative formation in Arabic

Respondent: Michael Waltisberg


1-2.30 Leonid Kogan

Modern South Arabian as Genealogical Unity: Grammar, Lexicon, or Both - or None?

Respondent: Rebecca Hasselbach


2.30-4 Lutz Edzard

Verbal hendiadys, serial verbs, and the finite/infinite dichotomy in Semitic

Respondent: Ashwini Deo


4-5.30 Michael Waltisberg and Giulia Grassi

Two Projects on the History of Aramaic Syntax

Respondent: Na'ama Pat-El


6:30 Dinner


Sunday, October 14 2012

8-9.30 John Huehnergard

Akkadian e-ness and Semitic Root Integrity

Respondent: Leonid Kogan


9.30-11 Rebecca Hasselbach

Agreement and the Development of Gender in Semitic

Respondent: Stephen Wechsler


11-12.30 Na'ama Pat-El

Subordination in Semitic: reconstructing the relative

Respondent: Patience Epps


12:30 conclusion/summary


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Claire Bowern
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Yale University
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New Haven, CT 06511
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