Current research interests

Projects

• Mehri (Modern South Arabian): Verbal derivational morphology, phonology
• Somali (Cushitic): Verbal argument structure
• Taqbaylit (Berber): PP-interrogative clauses

• 2020-2024. Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics: Bridging the Red Sea Rift, irn-all.cnrs.fr
• 2020-2025. Ancient and Modern Languages of South-Arabia, ANR

Recent publications

Online seminars

• 2025. S. Bendjaballah, A.D. Rubin. The Distribution of Suffixed and Independent Object Pronouns in Modern South Arabian. In: Bulakh, M. & L. Kogan. Soqotra, Mahra, and Dhofar – Studies in Modern South Arabian Languages and Oral Literatures. A Volume in Honor of Vitaly Naumkin, Brill, pp.447-501
• 2025. S. Bendjaballah, M. Haiden. On Taqbaylit PP-interrogatives. In: Baunaz, L.; G. Bocci & A. Nevins. The Ziggurat of Grammar. In honor of Ur Shlonsky, John Benjamins, pp.461-476
• 2024. S. Bendjaballah. Somali particle clusters – Complete paradigms, syncretism and corpus frequency. BJALL16.1: 102-136

• SLL – Somali – Language and Linguistics
• TSL – The Somali Language
• BL&L – Berber Languages and Linguistics