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 rectificative apposition: Contribution to a comparative history of grammatical traditions” | 10:30‒11:00 Francesco Binaghi “When branches grow new stems: The role of stand-alone treatises sprouting from the Ǧumal commentary tradition” |
| 11:15‒11:45 Hideki Okazaki “The status of the term ʾisqāṭ in the early Arab grammatical literature” | 11:15‒11:45 Haruko Sakaedani “Rhetorical questions in the Qurʾān with special reference to hal questions and ʾa- questions“ |
| 11:45‒12:15 Jean Druel “From contender to instrumental promoter: The testimony of the glosses in al-Mubarrad’s criticism of the Kitāb” | 11:45‒12:15 Shlomo Alon “The verbs in Sībawayhi’s thinking and writing” |
| 12:15‒13:30 Lunch break | 12:15‒13:30 Lunch break |
| 13:30‒14:10 Michael Carter (Keynote speech) “Badal al-ġalaṭ and intentionality in early Arabic grammar” | 13:30‒14:00 Ramzi Baalbaki (via Zoom) “The development of the syntactic term aǧnabī (‘extraneous’) in Arabic grammar” |
| 14:30‒15:00 Simona Olivieri “Language legacy and language ideology” | 14:00‒14:30 Beata Sheyhatovitch “The term ʾaǧnabī in the medieval Arabic grammatical tradition” |
| 15:20‒15:50 Raoul Villano (via Zoom) “Reading Sībawayhi in 4ᵗʰ/10ᵗʰ century” | 14:50‒15:20 Almog Kasher (via Zoom) “al- as an ism mawṣūl: On a neglected type of šibh al-ǧumla” |
| 15:50‒16:20 Giuliano Lancioni (via Zoom) “The nature of linguistic data in early Arabic linguistic thinking” | 15:20 ‒15:50 Manuela E. B. Giolfo (via Zoom) “Divergent interpretations of conditional particles in classical Arabic grammar: A comparative analysis of Sībawayhi and Zamaḫšarī’s theories” |
| 16:30‒17:50 A short campus tour – The Old Library – Public Speaking Hall – Banraisha Bar & Lounge | 16:10‒17:00 Business MTG & Closing |
| 18:00 Welcome Dinner | 18:00 Dinner |
The proceedings will be published in the FAL series. Please send your articles for review to harukosakaedani [at] gmail.com and jean.druel [at] gmail.com before June 30ᵗʰ, 2025.
