Programme

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8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:30 Welcome & Introduction

Iris Kamil

Section 1: Semitic

9:30-10:30 KEYNOTE: Whence and whither hitpael

Malka Rappaport-Hovav

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:30 Development of the t-morphemes in the history of Arabic

Vera Tsukanova (online)

11:30-12:00 Polysemy and ambiguity of the t-stems in Ṭuroyo

Nikita Kuzin (online)

12:00-12:30 The typological Structure of Semitic through History: Brief Notes from the t-morpheme

Alessandra Serpone

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:00 The Functions of the T-Stems in Two Modern Semitic Languages, Mehri and Kistane (for slides please e-mail speaker @aaron.rubin@uga.edu)

Aaron Rubin

14:00-14:30 Messe-t up! The Aspect-Voice syncretism of the Akkadian t-morpheme

Iris Kamil

14:30-15:00 Basic valency in Semitic: a comparative and diachronic outlook + handout

Guglielmo Inglese, Fabio Gasparini, Maurizio Viano

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

Section 2: Cushitic & Egyptian

15:30-16:30 KEYNOTE: “The centrality of the body” (a comparative view of the Middle in Cushitic and a few problems)

Mauro Tosco

16:30-17:00 What’s in a -t: exploring the possibility that the Egyptian -t affix of some infinitives derives from the Afro-Asiatic medio-passive -t.

Marwan Kilani

Section 3: Cushitic & Semitic

9:00-10:00 KEYNOTE: The t-suffix in Somali

Sabrina Bendjaballah

10:00-10:30 Large language models and the t-morpheme

Itamar Kastner

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Section 4: Online Session

11:00-11:30 The Reflexes of the Proto-Semitic t-stems in the ancient languages of Arabia: notes on their semantic and formal development (for slides please e-mail speaker @al-jallad.1@osu.edu)

Ahmad Al-Jallad (online)

11:30-12:00 T-stems in Soqotri: synchronic and diachronic dimensions

Maria Bulakh (online)

12:00-12:30 The phonology-syntax of the t-morpheme in Taqbaylit: imperfective-middle-passive Syncretism

Amazigh Bedar (online)

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Section 5: Phonology & Afroasiatic perspective

13:30-14:00 Function of vowel height in the Semitic t-stems

Roey Schneider

14:00-15:00 KEYNOTE: Afroasiatic middle t- and its protean history

Lameen Souag

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

Section 6: Discussion

15:30-16:15 DISCUSSION

16:15-16:30 Closing session