Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun
Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun
T: +43-1-4277-43428
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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. (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




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. (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



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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.

1/04/1930/09/24

Intra-Bedouin Isoglosses in Tunisia: old ones revisited and new ones proposed

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

22 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Negative copulae in Tunisian Arabic and in a wider Maghrebi context

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

8 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gender distinction in Tunisian Arabic dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

12 Apr 202314 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Revisiting Traditional Isoglosses within Tunisian Bedouin Dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

3 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience 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 presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience 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 presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience 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 presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience 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 presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

30 Jun 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


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 presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience 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 presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience 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 presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience 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 presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Beduinische Poesie aus Südtunesien: Sprachliche und formale Aspekte

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

2 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience 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 presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

9 May 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


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


Arabic Idioms in Comparative Perspective

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

8 Jul 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Agreement in Tunisian Arabic: The Bedouin South

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

7 Jul 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Conditional Structures in South Tunisian Bedouin Dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

26 May 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


fi- as Direct Object Marker in South Tunisian Bedouin Dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

12 Nov 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

29 Mar 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Between myth and reality: Camel-specific terminology in Arabic

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Contributor)

5 Oct 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


South Tunisian Bedouin Poetry in Written Sources

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Invited speaker)

23 Jun 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

16 Dec 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

13 Oct 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Maledictions and Blessings in the Dialect of Southern Tunisia.

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

31 Aug 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

5 Sep 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Dialectal Oral Poetry in Southern Tunisia

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Speaker)

5 Apr 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Tunisia’s Linguistic terra incognita

Ritt-Benmimoun, V.

1/04/1930/09/24

Project: Research funding


Department of Near Eastern Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Room: 2C-O1-46

T: +43-1-4277-43428

veronika.ritt@univie.ac.at