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FAL 8 (Venice, 2026)
Norm, Variation, and Hermentics The eighth edition of the “Foundations of Arabic Linguistics” conference series will explore how scholars defined, negotiated, and interpreted the norms of the Arabic language. Building on foundational studies and more recent inquiries into the transmission, development, and reception of the Arabic linguistic tradition, it seeks to bring together investigations of…
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FAL 7 (Tokyo, 2024)
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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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”).
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FAL 5 (Cambridge, 2018)
The proceedings of this fifth conference were published in this volume: The foundations of Arab linguistics V: Kitāb Sībawayhi, The critical theory (edited by Manuel Sartori & Francesco Binaghi), Leiden: Brill, 2022 (“Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics”; 107). “Arab linguistics” replaces the previous “Arabic linguistics”, which is an echo of the distinction sketched by…
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FAL 4 (Genova, 2016)
The proceedings of this fourth conference were published in this volume: The foundations of Arabic linguistics IV: The evolution of theory (edited by Manuela E. B. Giolfo & Kees Versteegh), Leiden: Brill, 2019 (“Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics; 97). See more details here…
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FAL 3 (Paris, 2014)
The proceedings of this third conference were published in this volume: The foundations of Arabic linguistics III: The development of a tradition: Continuity and change (edited by Georgine Ayoub & Kees Versteegh), Leiden: Brill, 2018 (“Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics; 94). See more details here…
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FAL 2 (Cambridge, 2012)
The proceedings of this second conference were published in this volume: The foundations of Arabic linguistics II: Kitāb Sībawayhi, interpretation and transmission (edited by Amal E. Marogy & Kees Versteegh), Leiden: Brill, 2015 (“Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics”; 83). This volume includes: See more details here…
Foundations of Arab Linguistics
A group of scholars passionate about the history of Arab linguistics