The FAL 7 conference took place in Tokyo, on August 28ᵗʰ‒30ᵗʰ, 2024. Papers were presented on the 28ᵗʰ and the 29ᵗʰ, and we organised a field trip on the 30ᵗʰ. Sībawayh and his heirs: Controversies surrounding the legacy August 28ᵗʰ August 29ᵗʰ 10:00‒10:30 Registration & 10:20 Opening 10:30‒11:00 Manuel Sartori“Slip of the tongue and…
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Aryeh Levin (1937‒2023)
Born in 1937 in Ramat Gan, a city in central Israel, the late Prof. Aryeh Levin was one of the leading figures in the research of Arabic grammarians in general and Sībawayhi in particular. His notable contributions include numerous articles about Sībawayh’s Kitāb and later grammarians’ treatises. Aryeh was a lively and beloved friend in the…
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FAL 6 (Rome, 2022)
The proceedings of this sixth conference will be published in 2024: The foundations of Arab Linguistics VI (edited by Manuela E. B. Giolfo, Giuliano Lancioni & Raoul Villano), Leiden: Brill, to be published (“Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics”).