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

Sprechstunde: Sprechstunden nach Vereinbarung

Fachbereich: Arabische Welt
Forschungsschwerpunkt
Arabische Dialektologie: Tunesische Dialekte, Beduinische Dialektpoesie;
Alltagskultur
FWF-Projekt TUNOCENT


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 (Hrsg.), Diminutives across Languages: Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains (S. 335-361). De Gruyter Mouton. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs Band 380 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792874-014





Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2022). Traditional recipes from il-Kǟf (Northwestern Tunisia). in M. Klimiuk (Hrsg.), Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change (S. 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 (Hrsg.), Studies on Arabic Dialectology and Sociolinguistics: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (June 10-13, 2019) of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA) (S. 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 (Hrsg.), Tunisian and Libyan Arabic Dialects : Common Trends - Recent Developments - Diachronic Aspects (S. 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 (Hrsg.), Tunisian and Libyan Arabic Dialects: Common Trends - Recent Developments - Diachronic Aspects (S. 43-84). Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Coleccíon Estudios de Dialectología Árabe Band 13

Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (Hrsg.) (2017). Tunisian and Libyan Arabic Dialects: Common Trends - Recent Developments - Diachronic Aspects. Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Estudios de dialectología árabe Band 13



Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun
Assoziierte Professorin
Institut für Orientalistik
Postadresse:
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4
1090 Wien
Österreich
E-Mail: veronika.ritt@univie.ac.at

Forschungsinteressen

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

Lebenslauf

  • 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

Tunesiens linguistische Terra incognita

Ritt-Benmimoun, V.

1/04/1930/09/24

Negative copulae in Tunisian Arabic and in a wider Maghrebi context

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

8 Dez. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Gender distinction in Tunisian Arabic dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

12 Apr. 202314 Apr. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Revisiting Traditional Isoglosses within Tunisian Bedouin Dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

3 Juni 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience 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 (Vortragende*r), Wolfgang Dressler (Vortragende*r) & Elisa Mattiello (Vortragende*r)

11 Dez. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Wolfgang Dressler (Vortragende*r), Elisa Mattiello (Vortragende*r) & Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

31 Aug. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

30 Juni 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience 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 (Vortragende*r), Ilona Abdelfattah (Vortragende*r) & Stephan Prochazka (Vortragende*r)

23 Juni 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

12 Mai 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Wolfgang Dressler (Vortragende*r), Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Autor*in), Elisa Mattiello (Autor*in) & Katharina Korecky-Kröll (Vortragende*r)

11 Feb. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


First new data from Tunisia’s dialectal terra incognita

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r), Ilona Bruckner (Autor*in) & Aleksandra Ercegovcevic (Autor*in)

20 Feb. 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r) & Ilona Bruckner (Vortragende*r)

21 Nov. 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Beduinische Poesie aus Südtunesien: Sprachliche und formale Aspekte

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

2 Juli 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



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

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

9 Mai 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Diminutives in Tunisian Dialects: A formal and pragmatic analysis

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r) & Stephan Prochazka (Vortragende*r)

31 Mai 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Arabic Idioms in Comparative Perspective

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

8 Juli 2015

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


Agreement in Tunisian Arabic: The Bedouin South

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

7 Juli 2015

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


Conditional Structures in South Tunisian Bedouin Dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

26 Mai 2015

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


fi- as Direct Object Marker in South Tunisian Bedouin Dialects

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

12 Nov. 2013

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere



Between myth and reality: Camel-specific terminology in Arabic

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Autor*in)

5 Okt. 2010

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


South Tunisian Bedouin Poetry in Written Sources

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Invited speaker)

23 Juni 2009

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere



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

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

13 Okt. 2008

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


Maledictions and Blessings in the Dialect of Southern Tunisia.

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

31 Aug. 2008

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


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

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

5 Sep. 2006

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


Dialectal Oral Poetry in Southern Tunisia

Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (Vortragende*r)

5 Apr. 2006

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


Tunesiens linguistische Terra incognita

Ritt-Benmimoun, V.

1/04/1930/09/24

Projekt: Forschungsförderung


Institut für Orientalistik

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T: +43-1-4277-43428

veronika.ritt@univie.ac.at