Semitic Linguistics Circle

Seminar Programme 2012 - 13

Semester 1

The Language of Ibn al-Mujawir’s Tarikh al-Mustabṣir revisited – a Thirteenth-Century Arabian Travelogue
G. Rex Smith (Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Manchester)
4.00pm, Wednesday 21 November 2012
Location: PG10, Peel Building (Ground Floor)

Remarks on the Coastal Dhofari Arabic dialect of Oman
Richard Davey (Univ. of Manchester)
4.00pm, Wednesday 12 December 2012
Location: PG10, Peel Building (Ground Floor)

Semester 2

The morphosyntax of Maltese numerals in synchrony and diachrony
Christopher Lucas (SOAS, Univ. of London)
4.00pm, Wednesday 6 February, 2013
Location: PG10, Peel Building (Ground Floor)

Lateral consonants in two Modern South Arabian languages – Mehri and Jibbali
Janet Watson and Barry Heselwood (University of Salford and University of Leeds)
6 March, 2013

Geoffrey Khan (Univ. of Cambridge)
Title and Date TBA

All welcome.

For further information, please contact: Dr. Domenyk Eades: d.eades@salford.ac.uk, 0161 295 5178 or Professor Janet Watson: j.c.e.watson@salford.ac.uk, 0161 295 4462