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. (Project Lead)
1/04/19 → 30/09/24
Linguistic peculiarities of the Arabic dialect spoken in Kasserine (Central Tunisia)
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Intra-Bedouin Isoglosses in Tunisia: old ones revisited and new ones proposed
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Negative copulae in Tunisian Arabic and in a wider Maghrebi context
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Gender distinction in Tunisian Arabic dialects
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Revisiting Traditional Isoglosses within Tunisian Bedouin Dialects
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
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
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
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
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
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
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker), Dressler, W. (Speaker) & Mattiello, E. (Speaker)
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
Dressler, W. (Speaker), Mattiello, E. (Speaker) & Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
A comparative look on linguistic urbanisation trends in Northwestern and Central Tunisia
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
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
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker), Abdelfattah, I. (Speaker) & Prochazka, S. (Speaker)
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
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Pet-directed vs. child-directed use of diminutives in German, Italian and Arabic
Dressler, W. (Speaker), Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Contributor), Mattiello, E. (Contributor) & Korecky-Kröll, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
First new data from Tunisia’s dialectal terra incognita
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker), Bruckner, I. (Contributor) & Ercegovcevic, A. (Contributor)
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
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker) & Bruckner, I. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Beduinische Poesie aus Südtunesien: Sprachliche und formale Aspekte
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
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)
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Stadt- und Beduinendialekte in Tunesien: Prestige liegt im Auge des Betrachters
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Diminutives in Tunisian Dialects: A formal and pragmatic analysis
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker) & Prochazka, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Arabic Idioms in Comparative Perspective
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Agreement in Tunisian Arabic: The Bedouin South
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Conditional Structures in South Tunisian Bedouin Dialects
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
fi- as Direct Object Marker in South Tunisian Bedouin Dialects
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
A grammatical sketch of the Bedouin dialect spoken in Kasserine (Tunisia). A preliminary study.
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Between myth and reality: Camel-specific terminology in Arabic
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
South Tunisian Bedouin Poetry in Written Sources
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Zeitgenössische Dialektpoesie bei den Beduinen in Südtunesien
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The Images of Women in the Dialectal Poetry of Southern Tunisia.
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Maledictions and Blessings in the Dialect of Southern Tunisia.
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
A Lexical Study on Composite Nouns with bū and umm in Tunisian Bedouin Dialects
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Dialectal Oral Poetry in Southern Tunisia
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Tunisia’s Linguistic terra incognita
Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Project Lead)
1/04/19 → 30/09/24
Project: Research funding
Department of Near Eastern Studies
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1090 Wien
Room: 2C-O1-46
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