Workshop: Modern Semitic Linguistics and Philology – Theory and Practice

Interested students are invited to:

Modern Semitic Linguistics and Philology – Theory and Practice

Wednesday, May 11, 2016, PAM 489

12:30  Lutz Edzard: Introduction/Welcome

12:35  H.E. Raphael Schutz, Embassy of Israel, Oslo:

Presentation, followed by a questions and answers session

14:00  Olav Ørum, University of Oslo:

Transmission of sacred narratives: Signs of rapprochement

between Karaite and Rabbinical Jews in 19th-century Egypt

14:30  Naʿama Pat-El, University of Texas at Austin:

A new proposal for Northwest-Semitic subgrouping

Pause

15:30: Arik Sadan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

The distinction between the adverbial accusative of cause

and the adverbial accusative of purpose

16:30  Lutz Edzard, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and University of Oslo:

Diplomatic documents in Semitic languages: past and present