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Dr. Bettina Leitner, BA MA
Bettina Leitner
T: +43-1-4277-43424

Consultation hours: wednesday 9-10 am

Winter term 2025
141200 SE Arabic Dialects at the periphery
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Leitner, B., & Prochazka, S. (2025). Arabic language contact. In J. Darquennes, J. C. Salmons, & W. Vandenbussche (Eds.), Language Contact: An International Handbook (Vol. 2, pp. 56-78). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110443011-004
Leitner, B., & Madlener, P. L. (2025). A case study of the features and functions of the Syrian discourse marker lak. Arabic Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1075/arli.24018.lei
Leitner, B. (2025). A text on childbirth and healing practices in the marshland Arabic dialect of Hoveyzeh (southwest Iran). In Bridging Cultures, Building Legacies through Arabic: A Festschrift for George Grigore (pp. 387-410). Bucharest University Press.
Leitner, B., El Zarka, D., & Ziagos, S. (2024). An attempt at categorizing clitics in an Arabic variety. Brill's journal of afroasiatic languages and linguistics, 16(2), 273–310.
Leitner, B. (2024). Khuzestani Arabic. In G. Haig, M. Rasekh-Mahand, D. Stilo, L. Schreiber, & N. Schiborr (Eds.), Post-predicate elements in the Western Asian Transition Zone: A corpus-based approach to areal typology Language Science Press. https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/395
Leitner, B., & Bahrani, N. (2024). Khuzestani Arabic. In Language Diversity in Iran De Gruyter.
Leitner, B. (2023). A text in the Arabic dialect of Masirah, Oman. Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, 77(2), 86-104.
Leitner, B. (2022). CLAUSE-FINAL VERBAL COPULAE IN KHUZESTAN ARABIC AND OTHER EASTERN ARABIC VARIETIES. 165-175. Paper presented at AIDA - 13th International Conference, Kutaisi, Georgia.
Leitner, B. (2022). Conversations Among Women: A Text in the Arabic Dialect of Khuzestan (Southwest Iran). In L. R. Kurtz (Ed.), Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change (pp. 275-289). Heidelberg University Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.859.c13967
Leitner, B. (2022). Grammar of Khuzestani Arabic: A Spoken Variety of South-Western Iran. Brill.
Leitner, B. (2021). New perspectives on the urban-rural dichotomy and dialect-contact in the Arabic gələt-dialects in Iraq and South-West Iran. Languages, 6(4), Article 198. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6040198
Leitner, B., & Prochazka, S. (2021). The polyfunctional lexeme /fard/ in the Arabic dialects of Iraq and Khuzestan: More than an indefinite article. Brill's journal of afroasiatic languages and linguistics, 13(2), 143-186. https://doi.org/10.1163/18776930-20210005
Leitner, B., German, F., & Prochazka, S. (2021). Lehrbuch des Irakisch-Arabischen: Praxisnaher Einstieg in den Dialekt von Bagdad. Harrassowitz Verlag. Semitica Viva - Series Didactica Vol. 7
Leitner, B., Anonby, E., Taheri-Ardali, M., & El Zarka, D. (2021). A first description of Arabic on the south coast of Iran: The Arabic dialect of Bandar Moqām, Hormozgan. Journal of Semitic Studies, 66(1), 215-261. https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgaa040
Leitner, B., & Hasani, A.-S. (2021). Arabic Proverbs and Idioms as a Mirror of Gender and Society: A Case Study from al-Guṣba (Southern Iran). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 111, 99-120.
Leitner, B. (2021). Arnold, Werner & Klimiuk, Maciej : Arabic Dialectology: Methodology and Field Research. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019, XX, 326 S. ISBN: 978-3-447-11275-8. € 78,00 [D] / € 80,20 [A]. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 111, 386-387.
Leitner, B. (2020). Bar-Moshe, Assaf:The Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Baghdad. Phonology, Morphology, and Texts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2019. XII, 302 S. 8° = Semitica Viva 58. Brosch. € 58,00. ISBN 978-3-447-11171-3. Orientalische Literaturzeitung (OLZ), 115(3), 246-248. https://doi.org/10.1515/olzg-2020-0084
Leitner, B. (2020). Khuzestan Arabic. In C. Lucas, & S. Manfredi (Eds.), Arabic and contact-induced change: A handbook Language Science Press.
Leitner, B. (2019). Khuzestan Arabic and the Discourse Particle ča. Paper presented at 12th International Conference of AIDA, Marseille, France. https://books.openedition.org/iremam/3939
Bettega, S., & Leitner, B. (2019). Agreement Patterns in Khuzestani Arabic. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 9–37.
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Bettina Leitner
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Postal address:
Kendlerstr. 41/5/30
1160 Wien
Austria

Employment

Reviewer

HR Operations

University of Vienna

Wien, Austria

1 Sept 2024 → 30 Sept 2024

External lecturer

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Vienna

Wien, Austria

1 Mar 2017 → 28 Feb 2019

Student assistant

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Vienna

Wien, Austria

1 Mar 2013 → 31 Jul 2014

Predoc

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Vienna

Wien, Austria

1 Feb 2016 → 31 Jan 2020

Postdoc

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Vienna

Wien, Austria

1 Sept 2021 → present

Publications

Arabic language contact

Leitner, B. & Prochazka, S., Apr 2025, Language Contact: An International Handbook. Darquennes, J., Salmons, J. C. & Vandenbussche, W. (eds.). Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, Vol. 2. p. 56-78 23 p. (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (HSK); No. 2, Vol. 45).

A case study of the features and functions of the Syrian discourse marker lak

Leitner, B. & Madlener, P. L., 2025, In: Arabic Linguistics.

A text on childbirth and healing practices in the marshland Arabic dialect of Hoveyzeh (southwest Iran)

Leitner, B., 2025, Bridging Cultures, Building Legacies through Arabic: A Festschrift for George Grigore. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, p. 387-410

An attempt at categorizing clitics in an Arabic variety

Leitner, B., El Zarka, D. & Ziagos, S., 2024, In: Brill's journal of afroasiatic languages and linguistics. 16, 2, p. 273–310

Khuzestani Arabic

Leitner, B., 2024, Post-predicate elements in the Western Asian Transition Zone: A corpus-based approach to areal typology . Haig, G., Rasekh-Mahand, M., Stilo, D., Schreiber, L. & Schiborr, N. (eds.). Language Science Press, 18 p. (Contact and Multilingualism, Vol. 8).

Khuzestani Arabic

Leitner, B. & Bahrani, N., 2024, Language Diversity in Iran . De Gruyter, 35 p.

A text in the Arabic dialect of Masirah, Oman

Leitner, B., 2023, In: Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik. 77, 2, p. 86-104

CLAUSE-FINAL VERBAL COPULAE IN KHUZESTAN ARABIC AND OTHER EASTERN ARABIC VARIETIES

Leitner, B., 2022, p. 165-175. 10 p.

Conversations Among Women: A Text in the Arabic Dialect of Khuzestan (Southwest Iran)

Leitner, B., 2022, Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change. Kurtz, L. R. (ed.). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, p. 275-289

Grammar of Khuzestani Arabic: A Spoken Variety of South-Western Iran

Leitner, B., 2022, Leiden: Brill.

New perspectives on the urban-rural dichotomy and dialect-contact in the Arabic gələt-dialects in Iraq and South-West Iran

Leitner, B., Dec 2021, In: Languages. 6, 4, 22 p., 198.

The polyfunctional lexeme /fard/ in the Arabic dialects of Iraq and Khuzestan: More than an indefinite article

Leitner, B. & Prochazka, S., Oct 2021, In: Brill's journal of afroasiatic languages and linguistics. 13, 2, p. 143-186 44 p.

Lehrbuch des Irakisch-Arabischen: Praxisnaher Einstieg in den Dialekt von Bagdad

Leitner, B., German, F. & Prochazka, S., Mar 2021, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 274 p. (Semitica Viva - Series Didactica, Vol. 7).

A first description of Arabic on the south coast of Iran: The Arabic dialect of Bandar Moqām, Hormozgan

Leitner, B., Anonby, E., Taheri-Ardali, M. & El Zarka, D., 2021, In: Journal of Semitic Studies. 66, 1, p. 215-261 47 p.

Arabic Proverbs and Idioms as a Mirror of Gender and Society: A Case Study from al-Guṣba (Southern Iran)

Leitner, B. & Hasani, A.-S., 2021, In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 111, p. 99-120 21 p.

Arnold, Werner & Klimiuk, Maciej : Arabic Dialectology: Methodology and Field Research. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019, XX, 326 S. ISBN: 978-3-447-11275-8. € 78,00 [D] / € 80,20 [A].

Leitner, B., 2021, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 111, p. 386-387.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf:The Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Baghdad. Phonology, Morphology, and Texts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2019. XII, 302 S. 8° = Semitica Viva 58. Brosch. € 58,00. ISBN 978-3-447-11171-3.

Leitner, B., 2020, In: Orientalische Literaturzeitung (OLZ). 115, 3, p. 246-248

Khuzestan Arabic

Leitner, B., 2020, Arabic and contact-induced change: A handbook. Lucas, C. & Manfredi, S. (eds.). Language Science Press

Khuzestan Arabic and the Discourse Particle ča

Leitner, B., 24 Jan 2019.

Fink, A.: Der arabische Dialekt von Hasankeyf am Tigris (Osttürkei). Geschichte – Grammatik – Texte – Glossar

Leitner, B., 2019, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 109, p. 375–378.

Activities

The Arabic varieties of South Iran: An attempt to determine their position within the dialect continuum of Eastern Arabia and Southern Iraq

Leitner, B. (Speaker) & Prochazka, S. (Speaker)

4 Sept 2025

The Rise of Arabic Discourse Markers

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

23 May 2024

Documenting the spoken Arabic of Masirah Island and the Sharqiyah region of Oman

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

8 Nov 2023

Arabisch ist nicht gleich Arabisch

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

Oct 2022

Arabic Varieties in South Iran: A new language documentation project

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

Jul 2022

Passive Constructions in Eastern Arabian Dialects

Leitner, B. (Speaker) & Albader, Y. (Speaker)

Jun 2022

Arabic of south Iran: The dialect of Bandar Moqam in Hormozgan Province

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

19 Aug 2021

The Iraqi indefinite marker fard from a diachronic and areal perspective

Leitner, B. (Speaker) & Prochazka, S. (Speaker)

1 Jul 2019

Clause-final Verbal Copulae in Arabic

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

11 Jun 2019

Language contact phenomena in Khuzestan-Arabic

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

19 Oct 2018

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

Prochazka, S. (Speaker) & Leitner, B. (Speaker)

5 Jul 2018

Khuzestan Arabic and the Discourse Particle ča

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

30 May 2017
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The Arabic varieties of South Iran: An attempt to determine their position within the dialect continuum of Eastern Arabia and Southern Iraq

Leitner, B. (Speaker) & Prochazka, S. (Speaker)

4 Sept 2025

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

The Rise of Arabic Discourse Markers

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

23 May 2024

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

Documenting the spoken Arabic of Masirah Island and the Sharqiyah region of Oman

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

8 Nov 2023

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

Arabisch ist nicht gleich Arabisch

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

Oct 2022

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

Arabic Varieties in South Iran: A new language documentation project

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

Jul 2022

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

Passive Constructions in Eastern Arabian Dialects

Leitner, B. (Speaker) & Albader, Y. (Speaker)

Jun 2022

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

Arabic of south Iran: The dialect of Bandar Moqam in Hormozgan Province

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

19 Aug 2021

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

The Iraqi indefinite marker fard from a diachronic and areal perspective

Leitner, B. (Speaker) & Prochazka, S. (Speaker)

1 Jul 2019

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

Clause-final Verbal Copulae in Arabic

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

11 Jun 2019

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

Language contact phenomena in Khuzestan-Arabic

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

19 Oct 2018

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

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

Prochazka, S. (Speaker) & Leitner, B. (Speaker)

5 Jul 2018

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

Khuzestan Arabic and the Discourse Particle ča

Leitner, B. (Speaker)

30 May 2017

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

Department of Near Eastern Studies

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T: +43-1-4277-43424

bettina.leitner@univie.ac.at