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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…
Foundations of Arab Linguistics
A group of scholars passionate about the history of Arab linguistics