Saturday, Sept. 26

9am: coffee and preliminaries

10am: Marijn van Putten (Leiden) 

The future is now in the past: The development of the predicative participle in Classical Arabic and the Modern Arabic dialects

Respondent: Simone Bettega 

11am: Adam Benkato (University of California, Berkeley)

Further notes on historical new dialect formation and the early spread of Arabic in North Africa

Respondent: Assaf Bar-Moshe

12: lunch break

1:30pm: Yossef Rapoport (QMUL)

Tongue-tied qāf and Arab identity in the rural Middle East, 1100 - 1500

Respondent: Devin Stewart

2:30pm: Simone Bettega (Torino)

The role of Linguistic Typology in the Interpretation of the history of Arabic: yet again on the prefix b-

Respondent: Ahmad Al-Jallad

3:30pm: Benjamin Kantor (University of Cambridge)

Grammatical Sketches of Vocalised Judaeo-Arabic

Respondent: Phillip Stokes

Sunday, Sept. 27

9am: Breakfast

9:30am: Ahmad Al-Jallad (OSU)

Is Paleo-Arabic Classical Arabic? Towards a grammatical sketch of the Arabic inscriptions on the eve of Islam

Respondent: Simona Olivieri

10:30am: Devin Stewart (Emory University)

What are the Contents and Contours of Kalām al-`Arab according to al-Ṭabarī?

Respondent: Marijn van Putten

11:30am: Assaf Bar-Moshe (Freie Universität, Berlin)

Reconstructing relative chronology from linguistic evidence: Qǝltu dialects as a test case for modern Arabic dialects

Respondent: Adam Benkato 

12:30pm: Lunch break

1:30pm: Simona Olivieri (University of Venice)

Back to the ʿarabiyya: Classical Arabic grammar and the narrative of the past

Respondent: Yossef Rapaport

2:30pm: Phillip Stokes (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Connecting the Histories of Modern Dialectal and Pre-Modern Textual Manifestations of ʾImālah in Arabic

Respondent: Benjamin Kantor

3:30pm: Discussion