Universität Wien

141016 VU Arabic Dialects of West Asia (2024W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikawissenschaften, Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismusk
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 38 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 09.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 16.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 23.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 30.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 06.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 13.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 20.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 27.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 04.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 11.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 08.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 15.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 22.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27
  • Wednesday 29.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Arabica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-27

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Grouping and typical phenomena of the dialects spoken in Arabia, Mesopotamia, and the Levant.
Case studies from every region
Analysis of texts and recordings

Assessment and permitted materials

Active participation
Transcription, translation, and linguistic analysis of a recording (length 2-3 min).
Dialect profiles.
Deadline 31 March 2025.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Active participation
3 absences tolerated
Test 50% - Essay 50% (both have to be passed)

Examination topics

No exam.

Reading list

1. Brustad, Kristen. 2007. “Drink your milks!: -āt as individuation marker in Levantine Arabic.” In Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th Birthday. Presented by his Students and Colleagues. Leiden: Brill, 1-19.
2. Río Sánchez, Francisco del. 2013. “Influences of Aramaic on dialectal Arabic.” In Archaism and Innovation in the Semitic Languages: Selected Papers. Ed. by J. P. Monferrer-Sala and W. G. E. Watson, 129-136. Córdoba: Oriens Academic.
3. Holes, Clive. 2004. “Tanwīn in the Arabic dialects of Eastern and South Eastern Arabia.” e.d.n.a. 8, 89-97.
4. Holes, Clive. 2007. “Colloquial Iraqi Arabic.” In Languages of Iraq, ancient and modern. Ed. J. N. Postgate. [Iraq]: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 123-134.
6. Jastrow, Otto. 1997. „Wie arabisch ist Uzbekistan-Arabisch?“, in: E. Wardini (ed.): Built on Solid Rock. Studies in Honour of Professor Ebbe Egede Knudsen. Oslo: Novus, 141-153.

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Association in the course directory

AS-2
WM-22

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