Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Prochazka

T: +43-1-4277-43422

stephan.prochazka@univie.ac.at

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/persons/stephan-prochazka(62474e5a-0f9f-4c8e-9156-14c31bedb162).html

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

Winter term 2024

141016 VU Arabic Dialects of West Asia

141151 SE Basics of Arabic Linguistics and Philology

141312 VO Cultural and Economic Geography of the Near East and North Africa

Summer term 2024

090046 EX Study Trip: Religious Landscapes and Spaces in Cappadocia

141196 VU Practical aspects of Arabic dialectology (field studies, transcription, DH)

141499 SE Master Coaching Seminar

420011 SE Linguistic PhD Projects

Winter term 2023

141016 VU Arabic Dialects of West Asia

141120 SE Philological Seminar (with BA-Thesis)

141151 SE Basics of Arabic Linguistics and Philology

141312 VO Cultural and Economic Geography of the Near East and North Africa

Prochazka, S. (2024). How solid is the linguistic basis for the Bedouin sedentary split used in the classification of Arabic dialects? In C. Berlinches Ramos, J. Guerrero, & M. Benítez Fernández (Eds.), AIDA Granada: A pomegranate of Arabic varieties (pp. 359-370). Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. https://puz.unizar.es/img/cms/LIBRES/9788413408347.pdf

Prochazka, S. (2024). Otto Jastrow, Der arabische Dialekt der Christen von Kaʿbīye (Diyarbakir), Semitica Viva, vol. 60. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2022. Journal of Semitic Studies, 69(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad031

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

Anonby, E., Bettega, S., & Prochazka, S. (2022). Demonstratives in Musandam Arabic: Distinctive archaisms and innovations. Arabica: journal of Arabic and Islamic studies, 69(6), 675-702. https://doi.org/doi:10.1163/15700585-12341654

Prochazka, S. (2022). Towards a typology of attributive adjectives in Arabic dialects. Language Typology and Universals, 75(4), 525-553. https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2022-1062

Maas, U., & Prochazka, S. (2022). Nominal determination in Moroccan Arabic. Studies in Language, 46(4), 793-846. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.20040.maa

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). More than a century of linguistic research on Tunis Arabic: Retrospective and prospective thoughts. Revue de Linguistique Tunisienne, 6, 5-28.

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). Bar-Moshe, Assaf: The Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Baghdad. Phonology, Morphology, and Texts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2019. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 111, 388-390.

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

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

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

Prochazka, S. (2021). The preservation of the feminine -t in some bedouin-type dialects of Arabia and beyond. Journal of Semitic Studies, 66(1), 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgaa046

Prochazka, S. (Editorial Journalist). (2020). Betrifft Geschichte: Syrien - Ö1. Radio show

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)

Editorial work

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)

Functions and frequency of the adnominal linker /-in/ aka dialectal tanwīn

Stephan Prochazka (Invited speaker)

7 Jun 2024

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