Armenian through the Ages

Abstracts & Programme

Below are listed, in alphabetical order of presenter, the abstracts of the talks which were presented. Please click on the title of the abstract to access it.

• Hana Aghababian (Cornell) – Classical Armenian Deixis: Issues of Translation (Video)

• Omar Alomoush (Tafila Technical University, Jordan) – Armenian in the Jordanian linguistic landscape: Marginalisation and revitalisation

• Federico Alpi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) – Notes on the textual transmission of Kirakos Ganjakecՙi’s History (Video)

• George Balabanian (Pennsylvania) – A Co-phonological Approach to Persian Loanwords within Armenian Phonology (Video)

• Samuel Chakmakjian (INALCO Paris) – Western Armenian Subordination and Language Contact: A Preliminary Study (Video)

• Katherine Hodgson (Cambridge) – Grammaticalization of the definite article in Armenian (Video)

• Hasmik Iritsyan (Matenadaran) – The Manuscript “Word-Study of the Secular Language” (Ms M 2878) Gabriel Ayvazyan (Video)

• Carla Kekejian (Utah) – Language and Power: An Analysis of Harsneren

• Ovsanna Khachatryan (Matenadaran) – The genre of the graṙajk‘ in Armenian manuscripts (Video)

• Victoria Khurshudyan, Anaïd Donabedian (INALCO Paris) – Cleft Constructions in Modern Armenian

• Alex MacFarlane (Michigan) – Kafas about Alexander the Great: A Corpus of Middle Armenian

• Anna Rogozhina (HSE Moscow) – The Anonymous Saint in the Armenian tradition: ‘a Voluntary Pauper’ or ‘a Man of God’? (Video)

• Clara Sanvito (Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso, Madrid) – Շքակոխեմ: a hapax in the Epideixis by St. Irenaeus of Lyons (Video)

• Hasmik Sargsyan (Frankfurt) – The indefinite article in early and pre-Modern Eastern Armenian (MEA) texts (Video)

• Sara Scarpellini (Geneva) – La traduction arménienne des Actes apocryphes de Pierre et Paul : observations philologico-linguistiques (Video)

• Fr. Arman Gregory Shokhikyan (Nottingham) – The Vocabulary of Sacrifice in the Armenian Bible: Translating Greek θυσία and προσφορά

• Rasmus Thorsø (Leiden) – Early Armenian-Kartvelian word exchange (Video)

• Chahan Vidal-Gorène (École Nationale des Chartes-PSL), Bastien Kindt (Louvain) – Digital Perspectives for Corpus Processing of Texts Written in Armenian (Video)