Publications
Ancient Egyptian verbal reduplication: typology, diachrony and the morphology-syntax interface. In Graz Conference on Reduplication 2007: Diachrony & Productivity. Univ. Graz, 2007.
"Coptic relative tenses: The profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device." In Focus Strategies in African Langages : The Interaction of focus and grammar in Niger–Congo and Afro–Asiatic, edited by Enoch O. Aboh, K. Hartmann and M. Zimmermann, 185-220. Vol. 191. Trends in Linguistics 191. Berlin: Mouton, 2007.
Morphological Copying and Layered VP Structure. In Incontro di Grammatica Generativa 33. Univ. Bologna, 2007.
"Réduplication et temps-aspect-mode : l’exemple de l’égyptien ancien." Faits de Langues 29 (2007): 145-160.
"Variable pronunciation sites and types of wh-in-situ." In The copy theory of movement, edited by N. Corver and J. Nunes, 249-287. Vol. 107. Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 107. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2007.
Irrealis and conditional structures: a temporal and/or aspectual issue? In CIL'18. Korea University, Seoul: Linguistic Society of Korea, 2008.
"Tractarian Sätze, Egyptian hierogliphs, and the very idea of script as picture." The Philosophical Forum 39 (2008): 1-19.
"Ancient Egyptian verbal reduplication: typology, diachrony, and the morphology-syntax interface." Morphology 19 (2009): 135-157.
Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics. Brill, 2009.
"Spontaneous syntactic change." In Historical syntax and linguistic theory, edited by G. Longobardi and P. Crisma, 41-57. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics. Brill, 2010.
"Coordination, converbs and clause chaining in Coptic Egyptian: Typology and structural analysis." In Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy; Syntax and pragmatics, edited by I. Brill, 203-265. Vol. 121. Studies in Language Companion Series 121. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2010.
"Review of David Lightfoot ’How new languages emerge’." Journal of Linguistics 46 (2010): 239-249.
Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics. Brill, 2011.
"A descriptive analysis of the Coptic conjunctive conjugation." In Converbs, medial verbs, clause chaining and related issues, edited by Sascha Völlmin, Silvia Zaugg-Coretti and Christian Johann Rapold, 163-184. Vol. 19. Frankfurter Afrianistische Blätter 19. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011.
"The evolution of the Ancient Egyptian Stative: Diachronic stability despite inflectional change." Folia Orientalia 48 (2011): 7-97.
"High analyticity and Coptic particle syntax: A phase-based approach." The Linguistic Review 28 (2011): 533-599.
"The oral compositional form of Pyramid Text discourse." In Narratives of Egypt and the Ancient Near East: literary and linguistic approaches, edited by F. Hagen, J. Johnston, W. Monkhouse, K. Piquette, J. Tait and M. Worthington, 3-54. Vol. 189. Orientalia Lovaniensa Analecta 189. Louvain: Peeters, 2011.
Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics. Brill, 2012.
"Macroparametric Change and the Synthetic–Analytic Continuum: The Case of Ancient Egyptian." In Parameter Theory and language change, edited by Ch. Galves, Sonia Cyrino, R. Lopes and J. Alvelar, 144-169. Ch. Galves, S. Cyrino, R. Lopes & J. Alvelar (eds.) ed. Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics. Oxford University Press, 2012.
"The Morpho-Syntax of Alternating Complementizers in Coptic Relative Clause Constructions." Folia Orientalia 49 (2012): 395−419.
"A historical syntax of asyndetic and syndetic relatives clauses." Journal of Coptic Studies 15 (2013): 127-148.
"Sapirian “Drift” towards Analyticity and Long-term Morphosyntactic Change in Ancient Egyptian." In Historical Linguistics 2011: Selected Paper from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25−30 July 2011 , 289−328. R. Kikusawa and L. A. Reid ed. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2013.
Coptic Negative Tense–Aspect–Moods in a Typological Perspective In Negation in Ancient Egyptian. INALCO, Pôle des langues et civilisation, Paris, 2014.
The Eventive-Stative Alternation in Coptic Egyptian In 42nd North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics,. Leiden, Netherlands, 2014.
The Inferential Evidential in Sahidic Coptic In Workshop Empirical Evidence for Evidentiality. Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2014.
"The Legal Debate on Same-Sex Civil Unions in Brazil: The Construction of Equal Citizenship within a Socio-Cultural Context of Heterosexism and Homophobia." In Queering Paradigms IV: North−South Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms, 187−214. E.L. Lewis, R. Borba, B. Falabella Fabrício & D. de Sousa Pinto ed. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2014.
The Old Egyptian śḏm(.w)=f Passive and Its Implications for the Origin of the Internal Passive in Central Semitic In 42nd North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics,. Leiden, Netherlands, 2014.
The Polyfunctionality of Coptic Egyptian Relative Complementisers In 21st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stefan Müller ed. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2014.
Predicative (Clausal) Possession in Old and Early Middle Egyptian In Workshop on Possession in Ancient Egyptian-Coptic. Liège, Belgium, 2014.
"Increasing Morphological Complexity and How Syntax Drives Morphological Change." In Syntax over Time: Lexical, Morphological, and Information-Structural Interactions, 125−145. Th. Biberauer and G. Walkden ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
"The Old and Early Middle Egyptian Stative: Morphosyntax − Semantics − Typology. ." In Egyptian−Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective , 387−454. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2015.
"The Old Egyptian śḏm(.w)=f Passive Revisited: Morphology − Typology− Diachronic Connections." In Fuzzy Boundaries (Festschrift Antonio Loprieno), 175−226. Hans Amstutz, Andreas Dorn, Miriam Ronsdorf, Matthias Müller & Sami Uljas ed. Vol. volume 1. Hamburg: Kai Widmeier Verlag, 2015.
"Syntactic Conditions on Special Inflection: Evidence from Hausa and Coptic Egyptian." Lingua 166, no. part A (2015): 127-148.
"Analytical Challenges of the Earlier Egyptian Passive Voice and Related Constructions." Lingua Aegyptia 23 (2016): 289-386.
Coptic Linguistics 2012–2016, keynote address In 11th International Congress of Coptic Studies, Claremont Graduate University, California., 2016.
Diagnosing phase boundaries in participial relative clauses In Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics (BCGL) 9: Phase Theory. KU Leuven (Brussels), 2016.
Die allomorphischen Varianten des sdm.t(j)=f Passivums mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der frühmittelägyptischen Sargtexte, In Die klassisch-ägyptische Sprache im Schnittpunkt von Philologie und Linguistik. Ein akademisches Symposium zu Ehren von Wolfgang Schenkel. Berlin: Berliner-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften , 2016.
"Marked and Unmarked Word Orders, Verbal Inflection and the Cartography of Early Egyptian Sentence Structures." In Coping with Obscurity: The Brown Workshop on Earlier Egyptian Grammar , 45-95. J.P. Allen, M.A. Collier and A. Stauder ed. Atlanta, GA: Lockwood Press, 2016.
"Rethinking Parameter Theory Diachronically: A Macrocomparative Approach to the Analyticization of the Verbal Tense–Aspect Systems of Brazilian Portuguese and Coptic Egyptian." In Rethinking Parameters, 329-385. A. Mendikoetxea, O. Fernandez Soriano and L. Eguren ed. Vol. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
"TENSE/ASPECT AND POLARITY-SENSITIVE COMPLEMENTIZER ALTERNATIONS IN COPTIC RELATIVE CLAUSE CONSTRUCTIONS." In COPTIC SOCIETY, LITERATURE AND RELIGION FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES, 1349-1359. P. Buzi, A. Camplani & F. Contardi ed. Vol. Volume II. Louvaine: Peeters, 2016.
Copto-Graeco Adjectives. In Copto-Graeco Adjectives. , 2017.
Diagnosing Phase Boundaries in Participial Relative Clauses In Generative Linguistics in the Old World 40. University of Leiden Center of Linguistics, l’Université de Leiden., 2017.
Diagnosing Phase Boundaries in Participial Relative Clauses In invited lecture, Université de Göttingen., 2017.
Graeco–Copto Adjectives: Adjectival Borrowing into an Adjective-Poor Language In 45th North Atlantic Conference for Afro-Asiatic Linguistics. University of Leiden Center of Linguistics, l’Université de Leiden., 2017.
A New Typology of the Morphology–Syntax Interface in Language Change In Séminaire SynSem. Département de linguistique, l’Université de Nantes., 2017.
Spontaneous Syntactic Change: An Anti-Inertia Approach In Linguistics in Göttingen: A Platform for Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics., Université de Göttingen., 2017.
"Analyticization and the Syntax of the Synthetic Residue DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198747307.003.0010." In Word Order Change , .179-201. Oxford University Press ed., 2018.
Coptic Egyptian (Sahidic Dialect): A Learner’s Grammar In Africanist Study books. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag ed. Vol. 15., 2018.
The Morphosyntax of Participial Relative Clauses Cross-linguistically In 2ème Journée Relatives, LABEX EFL/ l’Université de Paris/Diderot., 2018.
Dative-Benefactive Possessive Sentences in Early Egyptian In Crossroads VI Conference: Between Egyptian Linguistics and Philology. Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, l’Université d'Uppsala, Suède. , 2020.
Residual Verb Movement in an Analytic Language In Workshop in Honor of Chris Reintges. Département de linguistique, LLING. l’Université de Nantes., 2020.
"Bendjaballah, Sabrina and Chris Reintges (2021) Nominal Gender in Coptic Egyptian: Typology and Morphological Analysis. Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 148(1): 31–49. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaes-2021-0106 ." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 148, no. 1 (2021): 31-49.
Coptic Hidden Movement In The Move and Agree Forum 2021, Université de British Columbia & Université McGill. [Online]., 2021.
The Binary [± FUTURE] Tense System of Early Egyptian In Workshop Looking for Non-Future Tense. Université de Nantes LLING., 2022.
"Coptic Language [eaahaa00423]." In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, 1-29. John Wiley & Sons ed., 2022.
Direct and Indirect Modification in Coptic In This Time for Africa. Leyde, 2022.
"Polarity Focus in Coptic Egyptian." Quaderni di Lavoro dell’Atlante Sintattico d’Italia (ASIt): Festschrift Cecilia Poletto (2022): 1-.
"Coptic Linguistics 2012–2016: Deconstructing Current Research Trends and Interdisciplinary Diversity ." In Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Coptic Studies, Claremont Graduate University (25–30/07/2016). Leuwen: Peters, Sous presse.
"Wearing Its Logical Form on Its Sleeve: Syntactically Covert Ā-movement and Overt Extraction Morphology in the Derivation of Coptic Wh-in situ Questions ." In Proceedings of the Move & Agree Conference, 1-57. AmsterdamPhiladelphia: John Benjamins, Sous presse.
"Dative Possessive Sentences in Early Egyptian ." Uppsala Studies in Egyptology (Soumis): 1-30.
"Direct and Indirect Modification Adjectives in Coptic Attributive Constructions ." Zeitschrift der Deutsch-Morgenländischen Gesellschaft – Supplementa (Soumis).
"Syntactically Covert Ā-movement and Lower Copy Pronunciation: Evidence from Coptic wh-in-situ interrogation ." Journal of Historical Syntax, no. Special Issue: Proceedings of the Diachrony in Generative Syntax Conference 23 (Soumis).
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