If you would like to be added to the participant list and/or give a presentation in this seminar series, do not hesitate to contact us at sabrina.bendjaballah@cnrs.fr
June 13-14 2024
Somali Workshop 2024, Napoli L’Orientale
Monday May 13 2024, 9h-11h
Morgan Nilsson (Univ. of Gothenburg), Conditionals
Monday April 15 2024, 9h-11h
Tirsit Yetbarek (REDSEA Cultural Foundation, Hargeysa), Sociolinguistic dynamics of the Somali language dialects
Monday March 25 2024, 9h-11h
Martin Orwin (Napoli L’Orientale), More on conjunct hyperbaton in Somali poetry
Tuesday February 13 2024, 9h-11h
Hawa Abdillahi (Univ. de Djibouti), L’alternance codique (linguistique) somali-français dans le somali des jeunes djiboutiens
Monday January 29 2024, 9h-11h
Jaamac Muuse Jaamac (REDSEA Cultural Foundation, Hargeysa), What Qaraami songs tell us about the Dhaanto metrics in poetry: an empirical evidence from the Somali Corpus
Monday January 15 2024, 9h-11h
Giorgio Banti (Napoli L’Orientale), The language of Sheekh Axmed « Gabyow » or « Wacdiyow » (1844-1933). A poet from Cadale in southern Somalia
2023
June 12-13 2023
Somali Workshop 2023, Göteborg Univ.
Monday April 24 2023, 9h-11h
Giorgio Banti (Napoli L’Orientale), Variation in written Somali
Monday February 27 2023, 9h-11h
Martin Orwin (Napoli L’Orientale), Delayed coordinands of iyo in Somali poetry
Monday January 16 2023, 9h-11h
Morgan Nilsson (Göteborg Univ), Mapping the regional variation in Somali vocabulary through crowd-sourcing. From questionnaire to dictionary maps
2022
Monday December 12 2022, 9h-11h
Jaamac Muuse Jaamac (REDSEA Cultural Foundation, Hargeysa), Common Natural Language Processing toolkit for Somali and other East Cushitic languages
June 10-11 2022
Somali Workshop 2022, Nantes
Tuesday May 10 2022, 14h30-16h30
Christopher Green & Katrina Smith (Syracuse), Tone in the Kenyan Maay nominal system
Tuesday March 29 2022, 13h-15h
Nicola Lampitelli (Tours) & Christopher Green (Syracuse), Vowel Harmony in Djibouti Somali: preliminary notes from fieldwork
Tuesday February 22 2022, 10h-12h
Giorgio Banti (Napoli L’Orientale), Of verbal nouns and agent nouns in Northern Somali
Tuesday January 18 2022, 10h-12h
Martin Orwin (Napoli L’Orientale), Some thoughts on the structure of Somali metrical templates
2021
Tuesday November 30 2021, 10h-12h
Morgan Nilsson (Göteborg), How many inflectional forms does a Somali verb have?
Tuesday June 22 2021, 14h-16h
Giorgio Banti (Napoli l’Orientale), Sentential complements in Somali
Wednesday June 2 2021, 10h-12h
Martin Orwin (Napoli l’Orientale), Poetic speech melody in the modern performance of Somali poetry
Tuesday April 13 2021, 10h30-12h30
David Le Gac (Univ. Rouen), On Somali Prosodic Structure
Wednesday March 10 2021, 10h-12h
Sabrina Bendjaballah & Martin Haiden (LLING Nantes), The Causative of Intransitives in Somali