TALKS (conferences, workshops, seminars)

2025

• Négation en siwi (berbère).  La négation dans les langues afroasiatiques, organized by A. Mettouchi & A. Stauder, Paris, EPHE, 6.12.25 (invited)

• Selling authenticity. The linguistic landscape of the hospitality sector in Siwa. International Symposium on Bilingualism, San Sebastian, Spain, 9-13.06.2025, with Valentina Serreli

• Word-level acoustic prominence in Siwi Berber: a paradigmatic and syntagmatic study, 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Herrsching near Munich, Germany, 16–18.05.2025), with Constantijn Kaland

2024

• Prosody in Siwi Berber. Forschungskolloquium (WS 24/25), Phonetik-Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln, 03.12.2024

• Valency patterns and alternations in Berber, The Pavia Verbs Database, Current progress and perspectives, University of Pavia, 14.11.2024 (invited)

• The multifunctional markers markers bass and ġayr in and between Arabic and Berber, Universität Bremen, 04.11.2024, with Valentina Serreli (invited)

• Quelques champs sémantiques du siwi, Journée d'étude Mots et choses amazighes, organised by Amina Mettouchi, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 28.09.2024 (invited)

• Valence verbale en siwi. Berber Languages and Linguistics, Online seminar organized by Amazigh Bedar and Sabrina Bendjaballah, 21.06.2024

2023

• Documenting lexical data in Siwi (Berber). Forschungskolloquium der Afrikanistik, SS 2022/2023. University of Frankfurt, 28.04.2023 (invited)

• Documentazione e autodocumentazione nell’oasi berberofona di Siwa (Egitto), Language Reclamation. Casi di studio di recupero linguistico a confronto con Revivalistics di Ghilʿad Zuckermann, Università degli studi di Napoli, L'Orientale, 26.05.2023 (invited)

• The multiple uses of a linguistic corpus: examples from the documentation of a Berber/Amazigh language. Humboldt Kolleg, El Jadida, 1-3.06.2023 (invited)

• Multifunctional markers in a contact situation: the journey of *ġayr and bass in and between Arabic and Berber, Forschungskolloquium der Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik SS 2022/2023. University of Hamburg, 12.07.2023, with Valentina Serreli

• Panel Bringing back the sounds of historical Siwa? Challenges and potentials of musical restitution, with Matthias Pasdzierny and Salwa El Shawan Castelo Branco, The International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, 13-19.07.2023, Legon, Ghana

2022

• Introduction de nouveaux référents dans les textes narratifs de quelques variétés berbères, Berber Languages & Linguistics. Seminar organized by A. Bedar & S. Bendjaballah, 23.02.2022

• The argument structure in Siwi. Forschungskolloquium der Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, WS 2021/2022. University of Hamburg, 01.06.2022

• Arabic discourse markers in Berber-Arabic bilinguals’ L1 and L2 the case of ‘bass’. AIDA 2022, Granada, 27.06-1.07-2022, with Valentina Serreli

• The presentational constructions in Siwi folktales. Language in narrative and song: Dedicated grammar, linguistic creativity and endangered oral traditions, 55° Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bucharest, 24-27.08.2022

• Siwi Berber: an overview of its reference system, Interaction of Formal Means and Functional Categories in the Coding of Reference, workshop organised by Z. Frajzyngier and Z. Estrada Fernández, Sonora (Mexico), 14-15.11-2022.

2021

• Describing and documenting Siwi Berber through a reference grammar and annotated texts. Forschungskolloquium der Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik WS 2021/2022. University of Hamburg, 08.12.2021

• Introduction of new referents in Siwi Berber. An analysis based on oral texts. GRATO 2021, 7th International Conference on Grammar & Text, 18-20.11.2021

• État de l'art de la langue siwie. Approche pour l'histoire de la langue berbère : mise en perspective d'une langue à travers les âges. MSH Paris Nord, LACITO, INALCO, 16-17.09.2021

2020

• Introduction to Siwi and its reference coding. University of Davis, California, 31.01.2020 (invited)

• Reference system in Berber. Ling Circle, University of Colorado, Boulder, 22.01.2020 (invited)

• Discourse Markers and language contact. Evidence from a Berber-Arabic context. SLE, 27.08.2020, with Valentina Serreli

• From data collection to language description: the case of Siwi Berber. International Doctoral Workshop. The issues of Amazigh Studies: The challenges of today and tomorrow, Università degli studi di Napoli, L’Orientale, 26-27.11.2020

2019

• Noun modification in Siwi (Berber). NACAL, Paris, 24-26.06.2019

• Food, contact and reconstruction in Berber. ICHL 24, Canberra, 1-5.07.2019, with Amina Mettouchi

• Una varietà zenata parlata sul Mediterraneo. La posizione strategica del berbero di Zuara. Convegno dell’Atlante Linguistico del Mediterraneo. Grado, 30.09-2.10.2019

2018

• The challenges of documenting Libyan Berber and the importance of past sources. Libya between History and Revolution: Resilience and New Narrations of Berber Identity / La Libye entre Histoire et Révolution : Résilience et nouvelles narrations de l’identité berbère, Università degli studi di Napoli, L’Orientale, 15-17.01.2018

• Accent on nouns in Siwi and its reference coding, Workshop on Specificity, definiteness and article systems across languages, 40th Annual Meeting of the DGfS, University of Stuttgart, organized by van Valin, Latrouite and Balogh, 7-9.03.2018

• La grammaticalisation verbale en Siwi (Egypte), Università degli studi di Napoli, L’Orientale, Workshop organised by A.M. Di Tolla, S. Chaker and K. Nait Zerrad, 14-17.05.2018

• A text-based analysis on Nafusi Berber (Libya): old and new data, WOCAL, Rabat, 25-28.08.2018, with Anna Maria Di Tolla

• Configurationality and the State distinction in Berber, International Congress of Linguists, Cape Town, South Africa, 2-6.07.2018, with Amina Mettouchi

• Negation in Siwi (Berber, Egypt) and its paradigmatic asymmetries, Syntax of the World’s Languages, Paris-INALCO, 3-5.09.2018

• Interférence linguistique entre siwi et arabe parmi les locuteurs bilingues, 10. Bayreuth-Frankfurt-Leidener Kolloquium zur Berberologie, 11-13.10.2018, with Valentina Serreli

2017

• The accent functions on nouns in Siwi. NACAL 45, Leiden, The Netherlands, 9-11.06.2017

• Overview on the Siwi language. Workshop Language Islands organized by Vossen, Zoch and Ngom, Frankfurt University, 15-18.06.2017 (invited)

• Linguistic change among speakers of different ages in Siwi (Egypt). Seventh Cambridge conference on Language Endangerment: Language contact and language change, 4.07.2017

2016

• Changements lexicaux dans les textes siwi. Regards croisés sur l’Afrique du XXI siècle : changements sociolinguistiques, culturels et politiques, Università degli studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, 15-16.01.2016

• Les contes en siwi (berbère d’Egypte), 9ème Bayreuth-Frankfurt-Leidener Kolloquium zur Berberologie, Frankfurt, 20-23.07.2016

• Il ruolo della donna nell’oasi di Siwa tra tradizione e cambiamento. Donne, Cittadinanza, religioni nella storia del Mediterraneo, Società delle Storiche Italiane, Rome, 4-5.11.2016, with Valentina Serreli

2015

• The influence of state marking on word order and information structure in Kabyle and Siwi (Berber). SLE 2015, 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden, 2-5.09.2015, with Amina Mettouchi 

2014

• Information structure in a head-marking vs double-marking language: morphology, prosody and linear ordering in Kabyle and Siwi (Berber). Workshop on Information Structure in Head-Marking Languages, organised by R. van Valin, D. Matic & S. Putten. Max Planck Institute Nijmegen (The Netherlands), 28-29.03.2014, with Amina Mettouchi 

• Is there really gender language disparity in a conservative society? The case of Siwi. Endangered Languages Week, London, SOAS, 14.05.2014 (invited)

2012

• The -a suffix in Siwi Berber. 7. Bayreuth-Frankfurt-Leidener Kolloquium zur Berberologie, Francfort-sur-le-Main, 16-18.07.2012

• New data about the Siwi Language. CALL 2012, Universiteit Leiden, 27-28 August 2012