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Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun
Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun
T: +43-1-4277-43428
Fischer, J. G., Persohn, B., & Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2024). Phasal polarity in Tunisian Arabic. Studies in Language, 48(1), 121-180. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.22043.fis
Dressler, W., Mattiello, E., & Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2023). Morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, German and English diminutives. In S. Manova, L. Grestenberger, & K. Korecky-Kröll (Eds.), Diminutives across Languages: Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains (pp. 335-361). De Gruyter Mouton. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs Vol. 380 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792874-014
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2023). Interrogatives in Tunisia with a focus on the Arabic varieties spoken in North-western, Central and Southern Tunisia. Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, 77(2), 52-71.
Benkato, A., & Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2023). Voice archives in Arabic dialectology: the case of the southern Tunisian recordings in the Berliner Lautarchiv. The Journal of North African Studies, 28(5), 1142-1162. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2022.2116011
Abdelfattah, I., & Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2022). Language attitudes in Northwestern Tunisia and their implication for speech patterns. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2022(278), 259-283. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2022-0008
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2022). "Behnstedt, Peter / Woidich, Manfred: Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte. Band IV: Funktionswörter, Adverbien, Phraseologisches: eine Auswahl. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2021. XIV, 567 S. m. Abb. 8° = Handbuch der Orientalistik 100.4. Hardbd. € 245,00. ISBN 978-90-04-46264-9.". Orientalistische Literaturzeitung : Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft vom ganzen Orient und seinen Beziehungen zu den angrenzenden Kulturkreisen, 117(4-5), 402-404. https://doi.org/10.1515/olzg-2022-0121
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2022). Traditional recipes from il-Kǟf (Northwestern Tunisia). In M. Klimiuk (Ed.), Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change (pp. 331-343). Heidelberg University Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.859.c13972
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2022). Tunisia's Linguistic Terra Incognita: An Investigation into the Arabic Varieties of Northwestern and Central Tunisia (TUNOCENT). In G. Chikovani, & Z. Tskhvediani (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. 256-264). Akaki Tsereteli State University. https://ejournals.atsu.ge/aida/index.php?dir=Sections&page=Sections.php
Mattiello, E., Ritt-Benmimoun, V., & Dressler, W. (2021). Asymmetric use of diminutives and hypocoristics to pet animals in Italian, German, English, and Arabic. Language & Communication: an interdisciplinary journal , 76, 136-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2020.11.004
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2021). First new data from Tunisia’s dialectal terra incognita: a preliminary report. Etudes Linguistiques, 6, 29-59.
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2021). Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik 69 2019–72 2020. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung : Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft vom ganzen Orient und seinen Beziehungen zu den angrenzenden Kulturkreisen, 178-180.
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2020). Beduinische Poesie aus Südtunesien: Gedichte und Lieder im arabischen Dialekt der Region Douz . Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Estudios de Dialectología Árabe
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2020). Conditional Structures in South Tunisian Bedouin Dialects. Mediterranean Language Review, 27, 29-59.
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2018). Diminutives in South Tunisian Bedouin Arabic: A Formal, Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 108, 181-228.
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2017). The Preposition fi-as an Object and Aspect Marker in a South Tunisian Bedouin Dialect. Journal of Semitic Studies, 62(2), 319–355.
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2017). Agreement with Plural Heads in Tunisian Arabic: The Bedouin South. In V. Ritt-Benmimoun (Ed.), Tunisian and Libyan Arabic Dialects : Common Trends - Recent Developments - Diachronic Aspects (pp. 261-287). Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza.
Ritt-Benmimoun, V., Grigore, S., Owens, J., & Owens, J. (2017). Three Idioms, Three Dialects, One History: Egyptian, Nigerian and Tunisian Arabic. In V. Ritt-Benmimoun (Ed.), Tunisian and Libyan Arabic Dialects: Common Trends - Recent Developments - Diachronic Aspects (pp. 43-84). Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Coleccíon Estudios de Dialectología Árabe Vol. 13
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Ed.) (2017). Tunisian and Libyan Arabic Dialects: Common Trends - Recent Developments - Diachronic Aspects. Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Estudios de dialectología árabe Vol. 13
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2016). A Formal Analysis of Curses and Blessings in a Bedouin Dialect of Southern Tunisia. Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, 64, 34-68.
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2016). Holes, Clive; de Jong, Rudolf (eds.): Ingham of Arabia. A Collection of Articles Presented as a Tribute to the Career of Bruce Ingham. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 106, 346-349.
Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun
Associate Professor
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Postal address:
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4
1090 Vienna
Austria
Email: veronika.ritt@univie.ac.at

Research Interests

  • Arabic language and linguistics
  • North African Arabic varieties
  • Bedouin-type varieties
  • Popular literature (vernacular poetry) and culture in North Africa

Curriculum vitae

  • 1996-2002: Enrolled in the programme for Arabic at the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna; courses on Cairene Arabic, Ancient South Arabic.
  • 2002: MA in Arabic Studies, University of Vienna (Austria)
  • 05/2004 - 02/2006: Collaborator in the project “Dialect, Culture, and Popular Religion in a Changing Bedouin Society: The Marazig Tribe of Southern Tunisia”; financed by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) in Vienna (Austria)
  • 2005: PhD in Arabic Studies, University of Vienna (Austria)
  • 03/2006 - 07/2011: University Assistant in the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna (Austria)
  • 2008-2009: Collaborator in the Amadeus (Vienna)-Picasso (Zaragoza)-Égide (Aix-en Provence) joint project: “Women’s World – Women’s Word: Female Life as Reflected in the Arabic Dialects”; financed by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research.
  • 04/2010: Guest lecturer at the University of Cádiz (Spain) within the “Erasmus Lehrendenmobilität 2009/10”.
  • 10/2012 - 07/2013: Visiting professor for Semitic Studies at the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near East at Heidelberg University (Germany)
  • since 08/2013: Tenure Track position in the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna
  • since 2014: Collaborator in the digital dictionary of Tunis Variety within VICAV (Vienna Corpus of Arabic Varieties), a co-operation between the Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Vienna and the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • since 04/2019: FWF-project "Tunesiens linguistische Terra incognita"
  • since 01/2021: Associate Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies

Projects

Tunisia’s Linguistic terra incognita

Ritt-Benmimoun, V.

1/04/19 → 30/09/24

Negative copulae in Tunisian Arabic and in a wider Maghrebi context

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

8 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Gender distinction in Tunisian Arabic dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

12 Apr 2023 → 14 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Revisiting Traditional Isoglosses within Tunisian Bedouin Dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

3 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Arabic dialect spoken in Kasserine (Central Tunisia) and its position within Tunisia's dialectal landscape

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

7 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

From šnōwa to šinhu and from waqtǟš to wēmta: The use of interrogatives in North-western and Central Tunisia

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The impact of language typology and pragmatics on diminutive formation: A comparison of Tunisian Arabic with Italian, German and English

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker), Wolfgang Dressler (Speaker) & Elisa Mattiello (Speaker)

11 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Typological impact of morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, German, and English diminutives

Wolfgang Dressler (Speaker), Elisa Mattiello (Speaker) & Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

31 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

A comparative look on linguistic urbanisation trends in Northwestern and Central Tunisia

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

30 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science 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 presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

it-tǟlīfūn ysōni w-il-firšēṭa fi-l-kūžīna: Romance influence on the Tunisian lexicon

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

12 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Pet-directed vs. child-directed use of diminutives in German, Italian and Arabic

Wolfgang Dressler (Speaker), Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Contributor), Elisa Mattiello (Contributor) & Katharina Korecky-Kröll (Speaker)

11 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

First new data from Tunisia’s dialectal terra incognita

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker), Ilona Bruckner (Contributor) & Aleksandra Ercegovcevic (Contributor)

20 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The perception of “rural” as “backward” and “urban” as “advanced” and the resulting linguistic behavior in Central Tunisia

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker) & Ilona Bruckner (Speaker)

21 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Beduinische Poesie aus Südtunesien: Sprachliche und formale Aspekte

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

2 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Tunisia’s Linguistic terra incognita: An Investigation into the Arabic Varieties of Northwestern and Central Tunisia (TUNOCENT)

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

11 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Stadt- und Beduinendialekte in Tunesien: Prestige liegt im Auge des Betrachters

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

9 May 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Diminutives in Tunisian Dialects: A formal and pragmatic analysis

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

31 May 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Arabic Idioms in Comparative Perspective

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

8 Jul 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Agreement in Tunisian Arabic: The Bedouin South

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

7 Jul 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Conditional Structures in South Tunisian Bedouin Dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

26 May 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

fi- as Direct Object Marker in South Tunisian Bedouin Dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

12 Nov 2013

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

A grammatical sketch of the Bedouin dialect spoken in Kasserine (Tunisia). A preliminary study.

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

29 Mar 2011

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Between myth and reality: Camel-specific terminology in Arabic

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Contributor)

5 Oct 2010

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

South Tunisian Bedouin Poetry in Written Sources

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Invited speaker)

23 Jun 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Zeitgenössische Dialektpoesie bei den Beduinen in Südtunesien

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

16 Dec 2008

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

The Images of Women in the Dialectal Poetry of Southern Tunisia.

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

13 Oct 2008

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Maledictions and Blessings in the Dialect of Southern Tunisia.

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

31 Aug 2008

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

A Lexical Study on Composite Nouns with bū and umm in Tunisian Bedouin Dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

5 Sep 2006

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Dialectal Oral Poetry in Southern Tunisia

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

5 Apr 2006

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Tunisia’s Linguistic terra incognita

Ritt-Benmimoun, V.

1/04/19 → 30/09/24

Project: Research funding

Department of Near Eastern Studies

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Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4 (Campus)
1090 Wien
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T: +43-1-4277-43428

veronika.ritt@univie.ac.at