Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun

T: +43-1-4277-43428

veronika.ritt@univie.ac.at

Sprechstunde: Sprechstunden nach Vereinbarung

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

Wintersemester 2025

141118 UE Arabische Grammatik und Sprachwissenschaft I

141199 VU Arabic Dialects from Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives

141270 VO STEOP-Einführung i. d. Arabische I

Sommersemester 2025

141000 UE Arabische Grammatik und Sprachwissenschaft II

141017 PS Proseminar II

141028 VU Arabischer Dialekt - Mittelstufe: Tunesisch-Arabisch

141213 VU Die arabischen Dialekte Nordafrikas

Wintersemester 2024

141118 UE Arabische Grammatik und Sprachwissenschaft I

141199 VU Arabische Dialekte in diachroner und synchroner Perspektive

141270 VO STEOP-Einführung i. d. Arabische I

141292 VU Arabischer Dialekt - Grundstufe: Tunesisch-Arabisch

Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2025). Linguistic levelling trends in the Bedouin-type dialects of Western and Central Tunisia. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 115, 265-303. https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.684_10

Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2025). The Arabic Dialect Spoken in Sidi Bouzid: A Ghoul-Story from Central Tunisia. in G. Bițună, O. Pietrăreanu, & L. Sitaru (Hrsg.), Bridging Cultures, Building Legacies through Arabic: A Festschrift for George Grigore (S. 557-570). Bucharest University Press.

Fischer, J. G., Persohn, B., & Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2024). Phasal polarity in Tunisian Arabic. Studies in Language, 48(1), 121-180. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.22043.fis

Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2024). The Arabic Dialect Spoken in Southeastern Kasserine (Central Tunisia): Texts and Linguistic Peculiarities. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 114, 73-103. https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:2114353

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. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792874-014

Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2023). Interrogatives in Tunisia with a focus on the Arabic varieties spoken in North-western, Central and Southern Tunisia. Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, 77(2), 52-71. https://doi.org/10.13173/ZAL.77.2.052

Benkato, A., & Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2023). Voice archives in Arabic dialectology: the case of the southern Tunisian recordings in the Berliner Lautarchiv. The Journal of North African Studies, 28(5), 1142-1162. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2022.2116011

Abdelfattah, I., & Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2022). Language attitudes in Northwestern Tunisia and their implication for speech patterns. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2022(278), 259-283. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2022-0008

Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2022). "Behnstedt, Peter / Woidich, Manfred: Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte. Band IV: Funktionswörter, Adverbien, Phraseologisches: eine Auswahl. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2021. XIV, 567 S. m. Abb. 8° = Handbuch der Orientalistik 100.4. Hardbd. € 245,00. ISBN 978-90-04-46264-9.". Orientalistische Literaturzeitung : Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft vom ganzen Orient und seinen Beziehungen zu den angrenzenden Kulturkreisen, 117(4-5), 402-404. https://doi.org/10.1515/olzg-2022-0121

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

Mattiello, E., Ritt-Benmimoun, V., & Dressler, W. (2021). Asymmetric use of diminutives and hypocoristics to pet animals in Italian, German, English, and Arabic. Language & Communication: an interdisciplinary journal , 76, 136-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2020.11.004

Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2021). First new data from Tunisia’s dialectal terra incognita: a preliminary report. Etudes Linguistiques, 6, 29-59.

Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2021). Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik 69 2019–72 2020. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung : Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft vom ganzen Orient und seinen Beziehungen zu den angrenzenden Kulturkreisen, 178-180.

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. (2020). Conditional Structures in South Tunisian Bedouin Dialects. Mediterranean Language Review, 27, 29-59.

Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2018). Diminutives in South Tunisian Bedouin Arabic: A Formal, Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 108, 181-228.

Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (2017). The Preposition fi-as an Object and Aspect Marker in a South Tunisian Bedouin Dialect. Journal of Semitic Studies, 62(2), 319–355.

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.

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. (Projektleiter*in)

1/04/19 → 30/09/24