28th– 4th July 2022: The WIBARAB team goes to Granada to participate in the AIDA conference. The following members give presentations over a period of four days:
Stephan Procházka: How solid is the linguistic basis for the Bedouin-sedentary split used in the classification of Arabic dialects?
Stephan Procházka (with Simone Bettega & Erik Anonby): The Distinctive Singular Demonstratives of Musandam Arabic and the Historical Linguistic Geography of Arabia.
Claudia Laaber & Karlheinz Mörth: Repurposing encyclopaedic data for lexicographic research: the special case of the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia.
Ana Iriarte Díez: Discursive tools in highly affective communicative contexts: Lebanese Arabic as a case study.
Gisela Kitzler: “Bi-luġit il-ġalāba hanġanni yāḅa!”[1] “Man, we’re gonna sing in the language of the poor people!” Class, language ideology and Egyptian mahraganāt music.
Veronika Engler: Navigating Arabic Varieties: Code Switching, Code Mixing and Hybridity in Omani Radio Programs
Gunda Kinzl: Ramallāwi to the Bones. Local and Global Linguistic Strategies in Palestinian Rap: Haykal as Case Study.
Antonella Torzullo: Recent developments in the phonology and morphology of the Arabic Dialect of the Bani Ṣaxar Tribe.
