Samira Farwaneh

Interests

Teaching

Arabic linguistics; Arabic language; TAFL; general linguistics; sociolinguistics; phonology; morphology

Research

Arabic phonology; Arabic morphology; language and gender; dialectology and variation; language attitude

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Farwaneh, S. (2021). Diglossia, variation, and Structural complexity. In Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics(pp 61-89). Cambridge U. Press.
• Farwaneh, S. (2020). Non-sound’ verb Inflection in Arabic: Allomorphic variation and paradigmatic uniformity. In Morphology (journal)(pp 61-89). Morphology: Springer. doi:10.1007/s11525-020-09350-
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  This paper examines the structure of non-sound verbs, including hollow and weak verbs, within the framework of Optimality Theory. This is a journal article not a book chapter. I cannot go back and fix this.
• Farwaneh, S. (2016). Sequential Constraints on Codas in Palestinian Arabic. In Challenging Sonority: Cross-Linguistic Evidence(pp 122-143). Equinox.
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  The aim of this edited collection is to extend our knowledge of the important phonological concept ofsonority to a range of other languages (several of them under-described languages). In previouswork, sonority has most often been applied to languages commonly described in the linguisticsliterature. This expanded collection includes languages of Africa, Asia, and the Americas, as well asphonological development in lesser reported languages. The challenges to sonority that thesestudies reveal is discussed in the concluding chapters where alternatives to this concept are explored.
• Farwaneh, S. (2016). Sequential Constraints on Codas in Palestinian Arabic. In Challenging Sonority. Equinox.
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  This collection extends our knowledge of the important phonological concept of sonority to a range of languages (many of them under-described languages).Until now, sonority has most often been applied to languages commonly described in the linguistics literature. This volume expands the application of sonorityto include languages of Africa, Asia, and the Americas, as well as phonological development in lesser reported languages. The challenges to sonority thatthese studies reveal is discussed in the concluding chapters where alternatives to this concept are explored.Mine is the eighth chapter and the book will be presented at our meeting.

Presentations

• Farwaneh, S. (2020, February). Do languages really ‘undress”? Arabic varieties between simplicity and complexity. 34 Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, 2020 (Keynote Speaker). Tucson: Arabic Linguistics Society.
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  I was one of four keynote speakers for the 34th symposium on Arabic Linguistics organized by Dr. Mahmoud Azaz in Tucson.
• Farwaneh, S. (2016, April 15). A Typology of Vowel Hiatus Resolution in Arabic. CMES/MENAS Colloquium. University of Arizona: CmES.