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Date: 12 Feb 2009
From:aima3 at unifi.it
Subject:Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic Conference
Troisième Colloque International (Florence, 11-14 octobre 2010) « Le
moyen arabe et l’arabe mixte : un choix volontaire de registre ?
Recherches sur les sources médiévales, modernes et contemporaines »
Third International Symposium (Florence, 11-14 October 2010) « Middle
Arabic and Mixed Arabic: an intentional choice of register? Researches
on medieval, modern and contemporary sources »
http://www.linguistica.unifi.it/
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[here is an attempt at copying out the contents of a pdf file]
FIRST CIRCULAR
Third International Symposium (Florence, 11-14 October 2010)
« Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic: an intentional choice of register?
Researches on medieval, modern and contemporary sources »
Dear Colleague,
We are very pleased to invite you to take part in the Third
International Symposium on
Middle and Mixed Arabic, which will be held from Monday 11 to Thursday
14 October 2010 at the
Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Linguistica, piazza
Brunelleschi 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy.
After the successful accomplishment of the First Symposium in Louvain-
la-Neuve and the
Second Symposium in Amsterdam, our department has taken over the task
to convene the Third
Symposium which is dedicated to the same topics, i. e. Middle Arabic.
The objectives of the third Symposium are the same as those of the two
preceding ones, i. e.
to study written varieties of Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic, and
particularly oral varieties of con-
temporary Arabic; the proposed subject of the Symposium is: «Middle
Arabic and Mixed Arabic:
an intentional choice of register? Researches on medieval, modern and
contemporary sources».
Please find attached four documents:
1. A presentation of the International Association for the Study of
Middle and Mixed Arabic
(AIMA).
2. A summary of the objectives and a list of the topics or themas on
which we wish the
papers to be concentrated; please feel free to send this document to
colleagues specialized in other
linguistic areas, who might be interested in these themas and possibly
would wish to give a paper
related with their and our concern.
3. A list of the Organizing and Scientific Committees.
4. An answer form.
Colleagues and researchers who plan to attend the Symposium are kindly
requested to fill
up and to send back the Answer form upon receipt of this circular not
later than 30 June 2009 to
Lidia Bettini, or Paolo La Spisa, or Cecilia Picchi
aima3 at unifi.it
If you are planning to attend the Symposium, please let us know before
30 June 2009 (and
send your provisional title if you are intending to give a paper).
Participants who wish to give a paper are requested to sent an
abstract (about half a page) by
e-mail not later than 1 December 2009. Title and abstract will be
passed on to the Scientific
Committee which is expected to give you its definite answer before the
end of March 2010. Papers
may be given in Arabic, English or French and should not exceed 20
minutes. Every paper is
planned to be followed by 10 minutes discussion.
All infomation on boarding, lodging, transportations facilities,
working sessions planning
and the General Assembly ot AIMA will be published on the Dipartimento
di Linguistica home
page (www.unifi.it/linguistica).
Hoping to meet you in Florence, kind regards from the Organizers
Prof. Lidia Bettini
Dr. Paolo La Spisa
Mrs Cecilia Picchi
Objectives of AIMA, issues that should be given priority,
aims and goals of the third Symposium
The structural differences between spoken and written varieties in the
Arabic language,
which has been a permanent reality throughout its history, resulted in
the creation and development
of intermediate and mixed varieties which were written and probably
spoken as well. These are
commonly called “Middle Arabic” varieties. After the publication of
some pioneering research
work in that field, Middle Arabic has been established as a new
scientific branch of its own right by
Prof. J. Blau’s works. Although research on Middle Arabic is of vital
importance to the
reconstruction of the history of the Arabic language, its value has
not been sufficiently recognized,
as the dispersion of the work in the field and the absence of an
overview on the research reveal.
This third Symposium on that topic aims again at reviewing the current
state of knowledge
of Middle Arabic, taking into account its historical and geographical
context, and at thinking over
the different methods of analysis, as well as the problems of
definition and terminology which are
still under discussion in this field of research. In this respect, it
is more than ever wanted to try to
improve our state of knowledge through a comparison with the results
of researches conducted
simultaneously during the last forty years in a field closely
connected with it: we refer here to the
modern study of so called “middle” or “mixed” varieties of Arabic.
Data, methods of analysis and
problems which arise in that type of research are all comparable whith
those which have already
arisen in Middle Arabic, and are sometimes the very same.
We are also still eager to extend the comparison to neighbouring
sociolinguistical situations,
either in Semitic (Hebrew for instance) or in other areas (Chinese,
Greek, English, German, Italian,
French ...).
The organizers also wish that specialists of different fields of
Arabic studies (history,
philosophy, history of sciences or literature etc.) should take part
in the Symposium. Not being
always linguists, they are nevertheless faced, in the texts they
study, with mixed or intermediate
varieties of Arabic of which they are the best experts.
Let us recall that during the previous Symposia, participants largely
agreed that Middle
Arabic, in spite of its different expressions, constitutes an
autonomous variety which can and must
be systematically described, that it has rules which can be drawn, and
that it follows norms on
which standards are established.
Let us finally give again a short list of issues which our association
considers as deserving
particular attention :
- Middle Arabic (=MA) and its definition
- Standards in Middle and Mixed Arabic (= MMA)
- Elaboration of data bases of distinctive features in MMA
- MMA written forms
- Elaboration of some edition standards for written MMA
- A typology of MMA styles, to whom they are addressed and which
styles of MMA
are used according to the persons addressed
- MMA in poetry
- MMA in popular literature
- MMA in scientific texts
- “Spoken” and “written” in MMA
- MMA and Ancient Arabic
- Unity and variety of Middle Arabic in time and space
- Unity and variety of Mixed Arabic in space
- Middle Arabic and Contemporary Mixed Arabic : analogies and
differences
- MMA influences on dialects and Standard Written Arabic
- “Middle” Linguistic varieties in Semitic Languages
- “Middle” Linguistic varieties in other languages
Comité scientifique / Scientific Committee
Dionisius Agius
Federico Corriente
Johannes den Heijer
Madiha Doss
Jacques Grand’Henry
Benjamin Hary
Simon Hopkins
Jérôme Lentin
Gunvor Mejdell
Comité d’organisation / Organizing Committee
Lidia Bettini
Paolo La Spisa
Mirella Cassarino
Giuliano Lancioni
Formulaire de réponse/Answer Form
Troisième Colloque International (Florence, 11-14 octobre 2010)
« Le moyen arabe et l’arabe mixte :un choix volontaire de registre ?
Recherches sur les sources médiévales, modernes et contemporaines »
Third International Symposium (Florence, 11-14 October 2010)
«Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic: an intentional choice of register?
Researches on medieval, modern and contemporary sources»
Nom/
Name
: .........................................................................................................
Prénom/
Surname
: ................................................................................................
Fonction/Position
held
: .......................................................................................
Nom de l’Institution/Name of the
Institution : .....................................................
courriel/e-
mail
:.....................................................................................................
Adresse de contact/Contact
address
:....................................................................
...............................................................................................................................
................................................................................................................................
souhaite participer/ne souhaite pas participer au Troisième colloque
international sur le
moyen arabe (11-14 octobre 2010)
avec/sans communication
is /is not intending to attend the Third International Symposium on
Middle Arabic (11-14
October 2010)
is/is not intending to give a paper.
Titre provisoire/Provisional
Title
: ...................................................................................
..........................................................................................................................................
..........................................................................................................................................
Signature : Date :
A renvoyer au plus tard le 30 juin 2009 à/ to be sent not later than
30 June 2009 to
Cecilia Picchi or Paolo La Spisa
Dipartimento di Linguistica
piazza Brunelleschi 4
50121 Firenze (Italy)
e-mail: aima3 at unifi.it
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