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BOOKS

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2016, 2017 2n edition. Berber texts from Siwa. Including a grammatical sketch. Berber Studies 46, Köln: Rudiger Köppe Verlag. 200 pp., foreword by Lionel Galand.

• Schiattarella Valentina. A grammar of Siwi. An Amazigh/Berber language of Egypt, Brill (accepted)

EDITED BOOKS

• Di Tolla Anna Maria & Schiattarella Valentina (eds.). 2020. Libya between History and Revolution: Resilience, new opportunities and challenges for the Berbers? UniorPress, Napoli.

• Gian Claudio Batic & Schiattarella Valentina (eds.) (forthcoming). Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on West African Languages (Naples, 21-23 September 2022), UniorPress, Napoli.

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

• Valentina Schiattarella 2025 (appeared in January 2026). Negation in Siwi. In M. Miestamo & L. Veselinova (eds.). Negation in the world’s languages I: Africa. Berlin: Language Science Press., 109–142. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18233756 (Open Access)

• Schiattarella Valentina & Serreli Valentina 2024. Multifunctional Markers in a Contact Situation: Bass and ġayr in and between Arabic and Berber. Journal of Language Contact, 17(4), 795-844.

• Mettouchi Amina & Schiattarella Valentina. 2024. Food, contact phenomena and reconstruction in Oriental Berber. In B. Evans, M. K. Gallego & L. Miceli (eds.). Historical Linguistics 2019. Current Issues in Linguistic theory 367, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 283-329.

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2024. The functions of independent pronouns in Berber. In A. Korandgy & K. Bensoukas (eds.). Handbook of Berber Linguistics. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, 615-636.

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2023 [2024]. A language island in a sea of sand. The case of Siwa. Journal of Language Contact, 16/2-3, 394-427.

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2022. Essais de classification et analyse lexicale du siwi dans le 19e et 20e siècle, Études et Documents Berbères 48. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord, La Boîte à Documents, Paris, 207-222.

• Schiattarella, Valentina. 2020. Noun modifiers and the n preposition in Siwi Berber. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.  Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 239-263.

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2020. Deux contes en siwi (berbère d’Egypte). Études et Documents Berbères 43. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord, La Boîte à Documents, Paris, 91-112.

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2020. Accents on nouns and its reference coding in Siwi (Berber). Nominal Anchoring: Specificity, definiteness and article systems across languages. K. Balog, A. Latrouite and R. van Valin (eds). Berlin: Language Science Press, 149-170.

• Di Tolla Anna Maria & Valentina Schiattarella. 2020. A literary and linguistic analysis of Nafusi Berber based on past works. Libya Between History and Revolution. Resilience, new opportunities and new challenges for the Berbers? A. M. Di Tolla & V. Schiattarella (eds). UniorPress, Napoli, 273-292.

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2019. Quelques exemples de grammaticalisation verbale en Siwi (berbère d’Egypte). Études et Documents Berbères 41. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord: La Boîte à Documents, 165-175.

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2019. A contribution to the documentation of Siwi (Berber) through an annotated folktale. Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online.

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2018. Shifting to Arabic? Recent linguistic change among Siwi-Arabic bilinguals (Egypt). Annali del Dipartimento di Studi linguistici e Comparati, sezione linguistica, Naples, 145-166.

• Mettouchi Amina & Schiattarella Valentina. 2018. The influence of the state distinction on Word order and Information Structure in Kabyle and Siwi (Berber). In E. Adamou., K. Haude and M. Vanhove (eds.). Information structure in Lesser Described Languages. Studies in Language Companion Series. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 265-295.

PROCEEDINGS

• Kaland Constantijn & Schiattarella Valentina. 2025. Word-level acoustic prominence in Siwi Berber: a paradigmatic and syntagmatic study. Proc. The Third International Conference on Tone and Intonation, 50-54, doi: 10.21437/TAI.2025-11 

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2021. La posizione strategica del berbero di Zuara (Libia): classificazione e stato dell’arte. In C. Marcato (ed.). Grado, la lingua del mare, l’Atlante Linguistico Mediterraneo. Atti del Congresso di Grado, 30 settembre-2 ottobre 2019. Studi e ricerche 183. Edizioni dell’Orso: Alessandria, 267-281.

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2019. The -a suffix in Siwi Berber. Études berbères VII. Essais sur la sémantique et autres articles. Proceedings of the 7. Bayreuth-Frankfurt-Leidener Kolloquium zur Berberologie. R. Vossen, D. Ibriszimow and H. Stroomer (eds.). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 165-178.

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2014. Relativization in Siwi (Berber). Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 4. A. Belkadi, K. Chatsiou and K. Rowan (eds.). London: SOAS. 

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2014. Documentation d’une langue en danger, le berbère de Siwa. Langues et littérature berbères : développement et standardisation, 28-29 Novembre 2013. A. M. Di Tolla (ed.). Quaderni di Studi berberi e libico-berberi. Serie di Studi Africanistici, Università degli Studi di Napoli, 127-136.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2019. Siwa: littérature. Encyclopédie berbère. S. Chaker (ed.), Edisud: Aix-en-Provence, 7469- 7476.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Serreli Valentina & Valentina Schiattarella. 2021. Siwa Oasis. Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies. Paul Zeleza (ed.). Oxford University Press, New York.

REVIEWS

• Aki’o Nakano. 2020. Review of Ethnographical Texts in Moroccan Berber (Dialect of Anti-Atlas), Collected by Aki’o Nakano, Translated and Annotated by John Cooper, Berber Studies, Volume 50, Köln: Köppe Verlag, 2017, 379 pp, Folia Orientalia 57, 175-176.

• Hassane Benamara. 2019. Review of Poésie berbère de Figuig (ancienne et moderne). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln, Berber Studies, volume 48, 2016, 223 pagine. Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”. Sezione orientale, Leiden: Brill, 303-306.

• Khalid Mourigh. 2019. Review of A Grammar of Ghomara Berber (North-West Morocco). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln, Berber Studies, volume 45, 2016, 443 pagine, Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”. Sezione orientale, Leiden: Brill, 337-340.

NOTES

• Di Tolla Anna Maria & Valentina Schiattarella. 2019. Présentation d'un ouvrage en cours sur la question berbère en Libye. Études et Documents Berbères 41. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord, La Boîte à Documents, Paris, 211-215.

• Valentina Schiattarella. 2022. Il lessico della palma a Siwa. Note di ricerca, CESAC, University of Naples, L’Orientale

MAGAZINE

• Schiattarella Valentina. 2015. A gender-based language disparity in a conservative society? The case of Siwi. The Middle East in London Magazine, SOAS, 13-14.

UNPUBLISHED PhD DISSERTATION

Le berbère de Siwa : documentation, syntaxe et sémantique, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), 14 janvier 2015