Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Prochazka
Stephan Prochazka

Field: Arab World
Research interests:
- Arabic linguistics
- Arabic dialectology
Current research projects:
- The Arabic dialects of the Shawi type (FWF)
- The language of the Arabic minority in Southern Iran (FWF)
- What is Bedouin-type Arabic? (ERC Advanced Grant)

Publications, activities, further projects, cv: see ucris.univie.ac.at


Prochazka, S. (2023). Morphology and verbal plurality in Arabic with a special focus on some spoken varieties in the Fertile Crescent. In M. Werner, & W. U. Dressler (Eds.), Between Derivation and Inflection (pp. 181-204). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW).

Prochazka-Eisl, G., & Prochazka, S. (2023). More of the SAME: Is there a Standard Average Middle Eastern? In H. Çelik, Y. Köse, & G. Prochazka-Eisl (Eds.), "Buyurdum ki...." The whole world of Ottomanica and beyond: Studies in honour of Claudia Römer (pp. 60-105). Brill. The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage Vol. 78 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004545809_005

Prochazka, S. (2023). Berge in der islamischen Kosmologie: Mit einem Ausblick auf "heilige Berge" im islamischen Volksglauben. In M. Kasper, R. Rollinger, A. Rudigier, & J. Wiesenhöfer (Eds.), Religion in den Bergen: Sakrale Orte, Heiligtümer, Performanz, Mythos und Alltagsleben (pp. 521-541). Böhlau Verlag. Montafoner Gipfeltreffen Vol. 5 https://doi.org/https://doi-org.uaccess.univie.ac.at/10.7767/9783205218401.521




Prochazka, S., & Batan, I. (2022). Bags, liquorice, and traditional cereal products: Three texts in the Arabic dialect of the Harran-Urfa region of south-eastern Turkey. In M. Klimiuk (Ed.), Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change (pp. 315-330). Heidelberg University Publishing.

Prochazka, S., & Dallaji, I. (2022). Polar questions in Tunis Arabic. In G. Chikovani, & T. Zviad (Eds.), Studies on Arabic Dialectology and Sociolinguistics: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (June 10-13, 2019) of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA) (pp. 236-243). Akaki Tsereteli State University.

Prochazka, S. (2021). The Arabic Dialects of the Jezreel Plain and the Hula Valley (Galilee): Grammatical Notes, Remarks on Linguistic Contact, and Texts. In Y. Cohen, A. Gilan, L. Cerqueglini, & B. Sheyhatovitch (Eds.), The IOS Annual. Carrying a Torch to Distant Mountains (pp. 232-273). Brill. The IOS Annual Vol. 21 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004499140_010

Prochazka, S. (Accepted/In press). Turkish and Arabic. In L. Johanson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics Brill.


Prochazka, S. (2021). Presentatives in Syrian and Lebanese Arabic. In N. Comolli, J. Dufour, & M-A. Germanos (Eds.), Libellules arabes, sémitiques, italiennes, berbères: Études linguistiques et littéraires offertes à Jérôme Lentin par ses collègues, élèves et amis (pp. 217-237). Librairie Paul Geuthner.



Prochazka, S. (2021). Arabic Dialectology. In K. C. Ryding, & D. Wilmsen (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics (pp. 214-243). Cambridge University Press.





Stephan Prochazka
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Postal address: Spitalgasse 2/4, A-1090 Vienna
Austria

Research Interests

  • Arabic linguistics with a special focus on Arabic dialectology
  • Popular culture and religion in the Middle East and North Africa
  • History of Oriental Studies in Austria

Curriculum vitae

  • Born 20 September 1962 in Dornbirn (Austria)
  • 1969 - 1981: school in Innsbruck
  • 1981 - 1990: Enrolled in the programmes for Linguistics, Arabic and Turkish Studies at Innsbruck, Vienna, Tunis and Istanbul.
  • November 1990: graduated as “Doctor der Philosophie” (PhD), University of Vienna
  • 1991 – 2000: University assistant at the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna
  • 2000: awarded venia docendi (“Habilitation”) for Arabic and Islamic Studies.
  • 2000-2003: guest lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, teaching Arabic at the Institute for Languages and Cultures of the Middle East as well as Ancient Ethiopic and Koranic Sciences at the Faculty of Catholic Theology.
  • 2003 – 2004: fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem; collaboration in the project “Study of Palestinian Arabic Dialects”.
  • 2004 and 2011: guest lecturer at the University of Cádiz, Spain.
  • 2006: guest lecturer at the University of Uppsala, Sweden
  • 2006: appointed full professor of Arabic Studies, University of Vienna, and working in that capacity ever since.
  • 2004 - 2015: President of the  Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (Paris)
  • 2017: Elected as a corresponding Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • April 2021: ERC Advanced Grant "What is Bedouin-type Arabic?" (2021-2026)

Administrative Duties

2016 - 2018: Deputy Director of Studies

2018 - 2022: Director of Studies (SPL 14)

Journal Editing Roles

  • Co-editor of the journal Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes.
  • Member of the editorial Board of  the Journal of Arabic Linguistics  (Wiesbaden)
  • Member of the editorial Board of  the journal Folia Orientalia (Cracovia)
  • Member of the editioral Board of the journal Romano - Arabica (Bucharest)
  • Former member of the editorial Board of  the journal Estudios de Dialectología Norteafricana y Andalusí (Zaragoza)

What is Bedouin-type Arabic? - How useful are modern and pre-modern corpora to answer this question?

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

24 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Marvels of TEI-ology: Modelling linguistic features of spoken Arabic

Karlheinz Mörth (Speaker) & Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

15 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From body parts to prepositions: On a common grammaticalization pathway in spoken Arabic varieties

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

8 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The low vowel insertion rule after gutturals aka gahawa-syndrome: Geographical distribution and diachronic development

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

10 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Linguistic conservatism and Bedouin-type Arabic: Between myth and reality

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

9 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Arabic in Africa - Arabic in Western Asia: A comparison

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

14 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


SHAWI – Daten und Analysen zu arabischen Dialekten

Karlheinz Mörth (Speaker) & Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

1 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How solid is the linguistic basis for the "Bedouin-Sedentary split" used in the classification of Arabic dialects?

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

30 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Derivation oder Flexion? Verbale Pluralität im Arabischen mit einem besonderen Fokus auf die Dialekte Anatoliens und der Syrischen Steppe

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

7 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How useful is the dichotomy "Bedouin versus Sedentary" for Arabic dialectology?

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

3 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Berge in der islamischen Kosmologie: Mit einem Ausblick auf „heilige Berge“ im islamischen Volksglauben

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

20 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Where does Bedouin Arabic go? A preliminary study on the leveling process in the Bedouin dialects of Tunisia and the Western Fertile Crescent

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker), Ilona Abdelfattah (Speaker) & Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

23 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Wide distribution – low prestige: Linguistic and socio-linguistic myths and facts regarding the spoken varieties of Arabic

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

18 Dec 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


More than a century of linguistic research on Tunis Arabic: Retrospective and prospective thoughts

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

21 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Elektronische Lehrbehelfe im Arabischunterricht

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

21 Jan 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Arabische Wörter in der deutschen Sprache: eine Spurensuche

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

14 Jan 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Die Arabische Hochkultur und ihre positiven Einflüsse auf das europäische Mittelalter

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

9 Dec 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


The typology of adjectival attributes in Arabic dialects

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

29 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Iraqi indefinite marker fard from a diachronic and areal perspective

Bettina Leitner (Speaker) & Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

1 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ali: Schwiegersohn Muhammads und „Herr der Bienen“

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

27 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Polar questions in Tunis Arabic

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

11 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Alois Musil und die Erforschung der Beduinen

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

20 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Der große österreichische Orientalist Alois Musil

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

26 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Romantisches Symbol der Freiheit und stereotypes Feindbild des Antisemitismus: Streiflichter auf das Bild der Nomaden im Westen

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

22 Jan 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Der Erhalt der Femininendung -at im Status absolutus: Archaismus, Innovation oder beides?

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ifriqiya: Tunesien als Zentrum arabischer Kultur in der islamischen Frühzeit

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

11 Dec 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


The indefinite marker /fard/ in the Arabic Dialects of Iraq and Khuzestan

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker) & Bettina Leitner (Speaker)

5 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Machtverhältnisse und Sprachkontakte in der Syrischen Steppe: Die Beziehungen zwischen Beduinen und Sesshaften im Spiegel der Dialekte

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

27 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Morphologie und verbale Pluralität im Arabischen

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Wortartwechsel im Arabischen

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

8 Dec 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The concept of reincarnation among the Nusayri-Alawi community of Cilicia

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker) & Gisela Prochazka-Eisl (Speaker)

1 Dec 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Diminutives in Tunisian Dialects: A formal and pragmatic analysis

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker) & Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

31 May 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Stimmen der Freiheit: Musik in der ägyptischen Revolution

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

21 Jan 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Agreement in Tunisian Arabic I: The Urban North.

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

7 Jul 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Forms and functions of active participles in Šāwī Arabic.

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

26 May 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A Corpus of Tunisian Arabic

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

25 Apr 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Zur Konstruktion von attributiven Adjektiven in den arabischen Dialekten am nördlichen Rand des Fruchtbaren Halbmonds

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

10 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Die Alawiten in Syrien und in der Türkei an der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert.

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

7 Jan 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Bible Reception in Islamic Art.

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

10 Jul 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Popular Music and its Role during the ‘Arab Spring’ - An Overview.

Stephan Prochazka (Keynote speaker)

11 Apr 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The Vienna Corpus of Arabic Varieties: building a digital research environment for Arabic dialects.

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

13 Nov 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Zur Stellung des Marokkanisch-Arabischen innerhalb der arabischen Dialekte.

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

11 Jul 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Phraseologie und Idiomatik: Bemerkungen zum Dialekt von Damaskus sowie den arabischen Dialekten in der Türkei.

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

9 Jul 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The social and political role of the Alawis in the Middle East.

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

3 Jul 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Presentatives in Syrian and Lebanese dialects.

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

6 Jun 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Eastern and Western Arabic: Salient grammatical features of Syrian Arabic in a comparative perspective.

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

15 Mar 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The Voice of Freedom – Egyptian Revolution Pop: Provocation or Encouragement?

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

6 Oct 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Visual art and popular religion: The iconography of Muslim devotional posters

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

11 Sep 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Facts and myths about the genesis and spread of Arabic dialects

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

31 Mar 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Between myth and reality: Camel-specific terminology in Arabic

Stephan Prochazka (Contributor)

5 Oct 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Alois Musil als Arabist unter den Beduinen

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

27 Nov 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The zār-cult in the Shaṭṭ al-ʿArab region

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

14 Oct 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Between Tarsus and Tartus: Remarks on the reflexes of /a/ along the north-eastern shores of the Mediterranean.

Stephan Prochazka (Speaker)

31 Aug 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


From Lake Van to the Cilician Gates: Arabic dialects in Southern and South-Eastern Turkey.

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

5 Jun 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Pilgerstätten in Veränderung: Bericht über eine Forschung zu arabisch-alawitischen Pilgerstätten in der Cukurova

Stephan Prochazka (Contributor)

10 Apr 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Let's twist again - Tongue twisters in the Arabic dialects

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

9 Sep 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Despised, but in everyone's mouth - the Arabic dialects

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

26 Apr 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther




The language of the Arab minority in Southern Iran

El Zarka, D. & Prochazka, S.

1/08/2031/07/24

Project: Research funding


Sprachl.Dynamik in Tunis

Prochazka, S.

11/03/1310/03/16

Project: Research funding


Sharing Ancient Wisdoms

Prochazka, S.

15/06/1030/06/13

Project: Research funding


Arabisch im Mittleren Atlas

Prochazka, S.

1/08/0931/07/12

Project: Research funding


Epistolographie in Ägypten

Prochazka, S.

1/12/0831/08/15

Project: Research funding


Beduinen Tunesiens

Prochazka, S.

1/01/0430/04/07

Project: Research funding


Department of Near Eastern Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Room: 2D-O1-26

T: +43-1-4277-43422

stephan.prochazka@univie.ac.at