37.3262, Confs: Linguistics and Semitic Philology Conference (Online)

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Subject: 37.3262, Confs: Linguistics and Semitic Philology Conference (Online)

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Date: 08-Oct-2026
From: Christopher Long [cmlong884 at gmail.com]
Subject: Linguistics and Semitic Philology Conference


Linguistics and Semitic Philology Conference
Short Title: LSP
Theme: Semitic Sibilants

Date: 06-Nov-2026 - 06-Nov-2026
Location: Online
Contact: Christopher Long
Contact Email: cmlong884 at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://forms.gle/7yW6zTz3pErTbu6g9

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology;
Typology; Writing Systems
Subject Language(s): Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc, anci1242)
                     Hebrew (heb, hebr1245)
                     Phoenician (phn, phoe1239)
                     Shehri (shv, sheh1240)
                     Ugaritic (uga, ugar1238)
Language Family(ies): Indo-European (indo1319); Semitic (semi1276)

An online conference on Semitic sibilants bringing together presenters
from several countries, including general linguists and Semitic
philologists.
Noam Faust: Shibilant sift in Modern Hebrew and the typology of
sibilant co-occurrence.
Geoffrey Khan: The affrication of pharyngealized sibilants in
Neo-Aramaic.
Joachim Kokkelmans: The S(h)ibboleth story from the perspective of a
typology of sibilant inventories in the world’s languages.
Simon Korneev: Lašōn haḍḍādǣ? A lateral interpretation of the
tzade–schin interchange at Qumran.
Michael Leff: A Reassessment of Proto-Semitic s₁.
Christopher Long: Hearing a Hiss and Saying a Lisp: Ugaritic θ.
Roey Schneider: Sibilant-guttural interchange in Modern South Arabian.
Benjamin Suchard: Whence the sigma? The separate borrowing of the
Greek letters and their names.
Vera Tsukanova: The system of sibilants in early Phoenician.
Janet Watson & Jarred Brewster: The acoustics and articulation of
sibilants in Shehret, a language of southern Arabia.
Ola Wikander: Armies, Boxes, and Lords of the Earth: ṣĕbāʾôt, ḏbꜣ.t ,
and Elkunirša – affricates, sibilants, and ejectives in contact.
Preliminary schedule: 8am–2:30pm (EST) / 2pm–8:30pm (CET), with an
hour-long lunch/dinner break (12pm EST / 6pm CET). A fuller booklet
with the complete schedule and further information will be distributed
1–2 weeks before the conference.
Register here: https://forms.gle/7yW6zTz3pErTbu6g9
Contact the organizers:
Christopher Long: cmlong884 at gmail.com
Eric Nathan Maroney: enathanmaroney at gmail.com



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