TSL

The Somali Language – online seminar


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


  • 2024
    • 13-14/06 : Somali Workshop 2024, Napoli L’Orientale
    • 13/05 : Morgan Nilsson (Göteborg Univ), Conditionals
    • 15/04 : Tirsit Yetbarek (REDSEA Cultural Foundation, Hargeysa), Sociolinguistic dynamics of the Somali language dialects
    • 25/03 : Martin Orwin (Napoli L’Orientale), More on conjunct hyperbaton in Somali poetry
    • 13/02 : Hawa Abdillahi (Univ. de Djibouti), L’alternance codique (linguistique) somali-français dans le somali des jeunes djiboutiens
    • 29/01 : 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
    • 15/01 : Giorgio Banti (Napoli L’Orientale), The language of Sheekh Axmed « Gabyow » or « Wacdiyow » (1844-1933). A poet from Cadale in southern Somalia
  • 2023
    • 12-13/06 : Somali Workshop 2023, Göteborg
    • 24/04 : Giorgio Banti (Napoli L’Orientale), Variation in written Somali
    • 27/02 : Martin Orwin (Napoli L’Orientale), Delayed coordinands of iyo in Somali poetry
    • 16/01 : Morgan Nilsson (Göteborg Univ), Mapping the regional variation in Somali vocabulary through crowd-sourcing. From questionnaire to dictionary maps
  • 2022
    • 12/12 : Jaamac Muuse Jaamac (REDSEA Cultural Foundation, Hargeysa), Common Natural Language Processing toolkit for Somali and other East Cushitic languages
    • 10-11/06 : Somali Workshop 2022, Nantes
    • 10/05 : Christopher Green & Katrina Smith (Syracuse), Tone in the Kenyan Maay nominal system
    • 29/03 : Nicola Lampitelli (Tours) & Christopher Green (Syracuse), Vowel Harmony in Djibouti Somali: preliminary notes from fieldwork
    • 22/02 : Giorgio Banti (Napoli L’Orientale), Of verbal nouns and agent nouns in Northern Somali
    • 18/01 : Martin Orwin (Napoli L’Orientale), Some thoughts on the structure of Somali metrical templates
  • 2021
    • 30/11 : Morgan Nilsson (Göteborg), How many inflectional forms does a Somali verb have?
    • 22/06 : Giorgio Banti (Napoli L’Orientale), Sentential complements in Somali
    • 2/06 : Martin Orwin (Napoli L’Orientale), Poetic speech melody in the modern performance of Somali poetry
    • 13/04 : David Le Gac (Univ. Rouen), On Somali Prosodic Structure
    • 10/03 : Sabrina Bendjaballah & Martin Haiden (LLING Nantes), The Causative of Intransitives in Somali