25.2226, Calls: Semitic, Historical Ling, Anthropological Ling, Ling & Literature, Text/Corpus Ling, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 25.2226, Calls: Semitic, Historical Ling, Anthropological Ling, Ling & Literature, Text/Corpus Ling, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:41:31
From: Na'ama Pat-El [npatel at austin.utexas.edu]
Subject: Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies

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Full Title: Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies 

Date: 01-Sep-2014 - 05-Sep-2014
Location: Frankfurt, Germany 
Contact Person: Na'ama Pat-El
Meeting Email: npatel at austin.utexas.edu
Web Site: http://www2.uni-frankfurt.de/48469850/section-5 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Semitic 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2014 

Meeting Description:

The Zentrum für Islamische Studien (Center for Islamic Studies) at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is pleased to announce the congress Horizonte der islamischen Theologie (Horizons of Islamic Theology) to be held from Monday 1 to Friday 5 September 2014 at the University of Frankfurt.

The study of Near and Middle East past and present as well as the study of the philologia sacra demands an ever-growing expert knowledge of the methods and theories of history, sociology and literature. In most academic institutions, however, the study of these fields is considered separate disciplines. As a consequence, Arabists and scholars of Islamic studies will normally study Classical Arabic to a certain level but rarely acquaint themselves with other Semitic languages, despite their importance with regard to the Biblical background of the Koran as well as the linguistic and cultural setting of the Koran and Early Islam. 

The section “Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies”, organized by Daniel Birnstiel (Frankfurt) and Na’ama Pat-El (University of Texas, Austin), attempts to highlight the benefits of a linguistic and comparative engagement of Arabic with other regional languages and societies for an improved understanding of Early Islam and its literary heritage.

Already in 1923 in the introduction to his Arabische Syntax, Herrmann Reckendorf identified the investigation of Arabic Syntax from a historical perspective as one of the most pressing tasks of Arabic studies. Nevertheless, only a small number of corpus-based studies attempting to solve grammatical questions and difficulties have been published to date. This panel is dedicated to the presentation of new research in the field of Arabic syntax.

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions to two panels “New Insights in Historical Arabic Syntax” and “Arabic and Semitic: How archaic is the fuṣḥā?”. Please submit abstracts no longer than 300 words to Dr. Daniel Birnstiel (birnstiel at em.uni-frankfurt.de) and Dr. Na’ama Pat-El (npatel at austin.utexas.edu), accompanied by a short bio, by June 30 2014.

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