25 February 2026, Séminaire Occident islamique, Universités Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Sorbonne Université et l’équipe Islam médiéval de l’UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, Paris, on “L’influence de l’arabe en berbère au Moyen Âge”
27 November 2025, Journées d’étude en linguistique berbère, University of Tours, on “Word shape constraints and morphology in Siwi and beyond”
19 November 2025, Atelier de phonologie, SFL, Paris, on “Dental-bilabial initial correspondences in West Nilotic and their reconstruction”
12 November 2025, Linguistics departmental seminar, SOAS, London, on “Reconstructing syntactic change in Nilotic and beyond”
5 September 2025, Arabic Linguistics Forum, University of Vienna, on “Reasoning under uncertainty in Arabic historical linguistics” (as absent co-author, with Christopher Lucas as first author)
18 August 2025, 27th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 27), Santiago, Chile, on “Revisiting West Nilotic onsets”
18 August 2025, 27th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 27), Santiago, Chile, on “Keep CALM and carry on doing the comparative method (just not scientistically)” (with Christopher Lucas as first author)
26 June 2025, Arabic Deixis Days: pointing to something across the eras and the continents, Escuela de Estudios Árabes, CSIC, on “Demonstratives in Arabic”
12 May 2025, Final conference of the ComPLETE project, Sorbonne Nouvelle / ENS, Paris, on “Songhay complex predicates in an areal perspective”
11 December 2024, Seminar, Institute for Oriental Studies, University of Vienna, on “Arabic patterns in contact”
18 October 2024, The ‘Arabicate’ World, UCLA, on “Amazigh and the Arabicate”
6 September 2024, workshop “Per Africae gentes, deserta atque loca“, University of Barcelona, on “Continuity and rupture in North African toponymy since the Classical era”
9 May 2024, Workshop on (the) Afroasiatic Middle t-Morpheme, University of Edinburgh, on “Afroasiatic middle t- and its protean history”.
3 May 2024, LUCL Seminars, Leiden University, on “Afroasiatic middle t- and its protean history”.
21 November 2023: Workshop “Typologizing Interjections” (DDL, Lyon), on “Interjections in Korandje”.
17 November 2023: Workshop “Voyage into Islamic Manuscripts of West Africa” (CSMC, Hamburg), on Manuscripts as witnesses to sound change in Songhay”
4 September 2023: W7 – Interactions at the dawn of history: Methods and results in prehistoric contact linguistics, ICHL 26 (Munich), on “Prehistoric language contact in Berber”.
25-27 April 2023: University of Malta (invited speaker), on:
- “The Berber element in Maltese” (public lecture)
- “Fieldwork in the service of historical linguistics”
- “Maltese in a North African context”
13 April 2023: Conference Arabic in Africa, Bayreuth, on “Change-of-state BCāD between Arabic and Berber”.
10 March 2023: Workshop on Uninflectedness, DGfS 2023, Cologne, on “The diachronic stability of uninflectedness in Berber”.
19 January 2023: Workshop “Sahara, Nile Valley, and Beyond”, Università di Napoli L’Orientale, on “‘Nilo-Saharan’ in the Sahara”
15 November 2022: ComPLETE conference, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, on “Complex predicates from proto-Songhay to Korandje”.
5 October 2022: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Quoting and Speech Reporting, Special Panel on African Languages (Brussels), on “The use of Arabic dialogue in Korandje and Berber stories” (with Evgeniya Gutova)
4 July 2022: James Cook University Language & Culture Research Centre 2022 Colloquia Series (Brisbane) on “Korandje: Between Linguistic Areas” (virtual seminar).
8 June 2022: Ullendorff Lecture in Semitic Philology (Cambridge), on “How to borrow pattern morphology” (invited speaker).
3 June 2022 : Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN 2022): Macro and Micro Perspectives in Historical Sociolinguistics, thematic panel “Multilingualism and Linguistic Diversity: Reconstructing language ecologies of the past” (Murcia), on “Towards a historical sociolinguistics of Northern Songhay: Which languages in which roles?”
26 May 2022: Approches pour l’histoire de la langue berbère : Mise en perspective d’une langue à travers les âges (Tunis/Oudhna), on “Les termes de parenté en proto-berbère”
17 May 2022: Histoire du Sahara (jusqu’à 650 de notre ère) (Paris), on “Linguistic history of the Sahara” (invited speaker)
20 November 2021: Chadic Languages & Cultures, Yaoundé (virtual seminar) on “Pattern borrowing and hybridisation in Mubi”
4-6 August 2021: 15th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Edinburgh (virtual conference), on:
– Re-focalization in Songhay diachronic morphosyntax (with Jeffrey Heath)
– Pronominal paradigms in Songhay and Saharan
2 July 2021: Semitic Dialectology: Crises and Change, Heidelberg (virtual conference) on “Epenthetic Gemination in Algerian Arabic: From Phonology to Morphology”
1 July 2021: 4e congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans (GIS MOMM), Aix-Marseille (en virtuel), atelier “Le Sahara médiéval, espace d’échanges et de circulations“, on “La circulation des langues au Sahara”
19 December 2020: Approches pour l’histoire de la langue berbère, Paris, on “Les contacts inter-berbères et leurs traces” (virtual seminar)
19 November 2020: 2nd Workshop on African Voices in Islamic Manuscripts from Mali, CSMC, on “Orthographical choices in Songhay Ajami” (virtual seminar)
18 August 2020: SOAS Linguistics Departmental Seminar, on “Historical Linguistics of Korandje” [Facebook; Zenodo] (virtual seminar)
6-8 February 2020: 19th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna), on “Pattern morphology in contact” (invited speaker).
30 January 2020: Seminar series “Structures du lexique : Typologie et dynamiques” (LACITO and Labex EFL Axe 3 GL2, Paris), on “How a West African language becomes North African, and vice versa”.
6/7 December 2019: Journées de Linguistique Berbère (Nantes), on “The effects of contact with Berber” (invited speaker).
29 November 2019: Workshop: Arabic dialects in a typological perspective (Paris), on “Lexical typology and the substrata of Arabic dialects”
24 June 2019: NACAL 47 (Paris), on “Colexification across the Sahara: In what sense is Hausa West African?”
12 January 2019 – Yennayer : Pour la valorisation du patrimoine culturel immatériel, on “Les premiers emprunts du berbère en arabe maghrébin” (invited speaker).
31 October 2018 – African Voices in Islamic Manuscripts from Mali (Hamburg), on “Preliminary notes on a page of premodern Songhay and Tamasheq poetry from Timbuktu” (invited speaker).
26 August 2018 – WOCAL 9 (Rabat), on “Siwi verbal inflection in a historical perspective”.
6 July 2018 – AliF 8 (London), on “Arabic in Contact” (invited speaker).
3 April 2018 – Round-table discussion led by Fida Bizri on “Genre et Dynamiques de Pouvoir, les Langues au Féminin”, INALCO (Paris).
19 December 2017 – CEMA (Oran), on “La linguistique historique au Sahara / اللسانيات التاريخية في الصحراء الكبرى” (podcast)
8 December 2017 – SRPP (Paris), on “Epenthetic Gemination in Algerian Arabic”
29 November 2017 – Structures de lexique (LACITO seminar), on “Vers la reconstruction des termes de parenté en berbère”
22 November 2017 – Atelier de Phonologie (Paris), on “Epenthetic Gemination in Algerian Arabic”
12 September 2017 – SLE 50 (Zürich), workshop “Matter borrowing vs pattern borrowing in morphology”, on “When is templatic morphology borrowed?”
4 August 2017 – ICHL 23 (San Antonio, Texas), workshop “Arabic and contact-induced change”, on “Numeral phrase borrowing in Arabic and beyond”.
31 July 2017 – ICHL 23 (San Antonio, Texas), on “Verb-final vowel loss in Korandje”.
12 July 2017 – DLCE Workshop “Language shift and substratum interference in (pre)history” (MPI Jena), on “The distribution of substratum interference in Maghrebi Arabic”.
17 June 2017 – Workshop on Linguistic Islands in Africa (Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg), on “Songhay” (invited speaker).
11 June 2017 – NACAL 45 (Leiden), on “Kinship terms in proto-Berber”.
8 June 2017 – Għilm 6 (Bratislava), keynote on “Maltese and North African linguistics: Common roots and areal divergence” (invited speaker).
29 August 2016 – CALL 46 (Leiden), on “Final vowel loss in Korandje: A verb-specific sound change”.
22 August 2016 – Mini African Symposium, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena), on “What can linguistics tell us about the history of Songhay?” (invited speaker.)
14 January 2016 – External seminar, University of Stockholm, on “Typologically unusual agreement target-controller pairs in northern Africa” (invited speaker.)
12 November 2015 – Les trente ans de la revue Études et Documents Berbères » (MSH Paris Nord, Saint-Denis la Plaine), on “Le parler de Sokna (Libye) à la lumière de nouvelles données”.
24 June 2015 – Journée des jeunes chercheurs du LACITO, on “Etudier l’arabe chez les juifs originaires de l’Algérie” (with Benjamin Touati).
11 June 2015 – Workshop on Morphosyntactic interference in heritage languages, UWE (Bristol), on “Verbal infection interference among heritage speakers of Awjili Berber” (with Marijn van Putten).
27 May 2015 – 11th Conference of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA), Bucharest, on “From existential to indefinite determiner: kaš in Algerian Arabic”
29 January 2015 – Réunion du GLECS, Paris, on “La diffusion en Afrique du Nord : vers l’étude du contact intra-berbère”.
17 January 2015 – Journée d’études de la SLP “Diffusion, implantation, convergence” on “Diffusion in North Africa – What are our models hiding?”
23 September 2014 – Typologie de l’indéfini (LACITO) on “Des origines kašées : L’histoire et la polyfonctionnalité d’un déterminant indéfini en arabe algérien”
9 October 2014 – 11 October 2014 – 8. Bayreuth-Frankfurt-Leidener Kolloquium zur Berberologie (Bayreuth), on “Le substrat berbère non-touareg du Tadaksahak”.
28 August 2014 – Symposium “Language Contact: The State of the Art“, Linguistic Association of Finland (Helsinki), on “Borrowing Arabic elatives (comparatives): Root-and-Pattern morphology in language contact”.
1 July 2014 – Labex RT3 seminar, LACITO, on “Le contact linguistique comme cause de changement typologique au korandjé”.
14 May 2014 – Endangered Languages Outreach Day 2014 (Endangered Languages in the Middle East and North Africa), SOAS, London, on “Korandjé: An Algerian case of language endangerment in historical perspective”.
30 April 2014 – Conference series “Langues et sociétés” at Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines en Algérie and Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle, University of Oran Es-Senia, on “L’histoire du korandjé, une langue algérienne méconnue” (invited speaker.)
29 April 2014 – Conference series “Etudes sahariennes” at Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines en Algérie and Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle, University of Oran Es-Senia, on “Le contact linguistique au Sahara” (invited speaker.)
4 April 2014 – Problèmes d’analyse et de comparaison des langues (LACITO) on “L’emprunt de syntagmes en berbère : ses causes et ses effets”
15 February 2014 – NACAL 42, Leiden, on “Back consonants in Berber”.
19 December 2013 – Réunion du GLECS, Paris, on “Redoublement clitique et contact linguistique en arabe”.
12 November 2013 – AIDA 10, Doha, on “Clitic Doubling and Contact in Arabic”.
11 October 2013 – Creating Standards: Orthography, script and layout in manuscript traditions based on Arabic alphabet, Hamburg, on “Why Kabyle never developed a standard Arabic orthography” (invited speaker.)
20 September 2013 – 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europae, Split, on “Adposition borrowing and complement position in Northern Songhay”.
26 May 2013 – The Arabic Script in Africa 2, Brussels, on “Understanding a Decontextualised Ajami Manuscript”.
24 May 2013 – Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium 2013, Cologne, on “Songhay lexica and the trans-Saharan trade”.
21 March 2013 – Labex EFL seminar “Quantification, scalarité, pluralité”, Paris, on “Numeral syntax in northern Songhay: The syntactic impact of language contact”.
11 January 2013 – LACITO seminar, Paris, on “L’intonation en korandjé”.
26 October 2012 – Journée d’étude internationale : Le berbère dans une perspective typologique, Paris, on “Les déictiques en berbère oriental”.
5 October 2012 – Agreement from a diachronic perspective, Marburg, on “The Development of Indirect Object Agreement in Berber: Beyond nominal hierarchies”.
26 January 2012 – Réunion du GLECS, Paris, on “Du redoublement clitique à l’accord : le cas du berbère”.
9 December 2011 – Seminari di MNAMON, Pisa, on “Re-examining Libyco-Berber: how much do we know, and how does it fit into the family’s subclassification?”
18 November 2011: Journée scientifique (LLACAN), Paris, on “Indirect object agreement in Berber.”
30 September 2011: Journée d’études : aires linguistique (LACITO), Paris, on “Du Sahel au Maghreb : essai d’une histoire linguistique du korandjé, langue songhay loin de son aire d’origine.”
27 May 2011: African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology, Milan, on “Sub-Saharan Influence on North African Arabic and Berber.”
26 August 2010: Workshop on pluractionality: towards a typology of verbal plurality, Leiden, on “Kwarandzyey and the Semantic Typology of Pluractionality.”
23-25 August 2010: 40th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, on “The Subclassification of Songhay and its Historical Implications.”
18-21 July 2010: 6. Bayreuth-Frankfurt-Leidener Kolloquium zur Berberologie, Bayreuth, on “Siwi Indirect Object Agreement: Synchronic Description and Diachronic Perspectives.”
5-6 April 2010: The Arabic Script in Africa: Diffusion, Usage, Diversity, and Dynamics of a Writing System, Köln, on “Non-Arabic Arabic in Southwestern Algeria”
29 August – 4 September 2009: 1st Summer School of the Evolutionary Linguistics Association, Cortona, on “Oath Negation in Kwarandzyey” (poster)
17-21 August 2009: World Congress of African Linguistics 6, Cologne, on “Adposition Borrowing in Kwarandzyey”
13-16 July 2009: LFG09, Cambridge, on “Addressee agreement in Siwi demonstratives”
28-29 November 2008: 5000 Jahre Schrift in Afrika, Cologne, on “Ajami in West Africa”
8-11 October 2008: 5th International Colloquium on Berber Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, on “Kwarandzyey, the language of Tabelbala, and what it tells us about the history of Berber”
28-31 August 2008: AIDA 8, Colchester, about “Siwi and its significance for Arabic dialectology”
24-28 September 2007: ALT 7, Paris, where I spoke at the Typology of African Languages Workshop about “The Decay of Clitic Attraction across Berber: A Typological Overview”
27-29 August 2007: CALL 37, Leiden, about “Tondi Songway Kiini and the subclassification of Songhay”
20-21 March 2007: CamLing 2007, Cambridge, about “The Typology of Number Borrowing in Berber” (see above)
8-9 April 2005: CELCNA, Salt Lake City, where I gave a joint presentation with Laura Buszard-Welcher on “Building Virtual Speech Communities for Endangered Languages: The E-MELD Query Room”
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