Wednesday, 20th September 2017
Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75006 Paris
Grands salons

14h - 14h30 Welcome & Introduction

14h30 - 15h15 Miranda Morris (Univ. of St Andrews)
What is ‘poetry’ in the Modern South Arabian Languages? Can it be a useful tool for
studying the languages?
15h15 - 16h Fabio Gasparini (Univ. Napoli L’orientale)
Some Peculiarities of Bathari Verbal System
16h - 16h45 Sabrina Bendjaballah & Rachid Ridouane (LLING – CNRS, Univ. de Nantes & LPP – CNRS, Univ. Paris 3)
The Phonetics and Phonology of Mehri Geminates

16h45 - 17h Coffee break

17h - 17h45 Radwa Fathi (LLING – CNRS, Univ. de Nantes)
The fine structure of the Omani Mehri nominal suffix –t(ən)
17h45 - 18h30 Ur Shlonsky (Univ. de Genève)
Constituent order in the Mehri noun phrase: An exercise in syntactic cartography

20h Conference dinner

Thursday, 21th September 2017
ENS, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris
Salle Celan

9h30 - 10h Welcome

10h - 10h45 Leonid Kogan (Russian State University for the Humanities)
The Broken Plural in Soqotri
10h45 - 11h30 Maria Bulakh (Russian State University for the Humanities)
The diachronic aspect of the second stem (CaCiC/CoCiC) in Soqotri
11h30 - 11h45 Coffee break
11h45 - 12h30 Janet Watson (Univ. of Leeds)
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12h30 - 14h Lunch break

14h - 14h45 Clément Plancq & Sylvain Pierré (Lattice – CNRS, ENS & Univ. Paris 7)
Présentation de la base de données OmanSaM
14h45 - 15h30 Julien Dufour (Univ. de Strasbourg & CEFAS)
Metempsychoses of an illustrious deceased : Demise and renewals of a thematic-
vowel based morphology in Modern South Arabian Languages

15h30 - 15h45 Coffee break
15h45 - 16h30 Sabrina Bendjaballah & Philippe Ségéral (LLING – CNRS, Univ. de Nantes & LLF – CNRS, Univ. Paris 7)
Quadriliterals and « quinquiliterals » in the Mehri of Oman
16h30 - 17h15 Aaron Rubin (Penn State Univ.)
A Re-analysis of Mehri Grammar