Dr. Ori Sachmon

Ori Sachmon
Dr.
Ori
Sachmon
Arabic Language and Literature
Faculty main building Room no.5325

Research Fields

  • Arabic dialectology
  • Palestinian Arabic
  • Yemeni Arabic
  • Arabic linguistics

About

Ori Shachmon is an Arabic dialectologist engaged in the study of spoken Arabic dialects. She deals mainly - though not exclusively - with Levantine and Yemeni Arabic. These two clusters of dialects - the former of which is spoken in the immediate geographic vicinity of Israel and the latter of which is found deep in the Southern Arabian peninsula - are essentially distinct in terms of linguistic history, internal development, and contact circumstances. Shachmon’s research is primarily based on first-hand materials collected through linguistic fieldwork among native speakers of the dialects she studies.

 

Selected Publications

Shachmon, Ori (to appear) Temōnit - The Jewish varieties of Yemeni Arabic. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz (the Semitica Viva series).

Shachmon, Ori and Michal Marmorstein (2021) “The introductive baka/bāki in Rural Palestinian Arabic”. Journal of Semitic Studies 66,1: 185-214. 

Shachmon, Ori and Noam Faust (to appear) “Avoidance of final monopositional vowels: Evidence from the k-dialects of Yemen”. Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 12,1.

Shachmon, Ori and Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal (to appear) “The derivatives of Barth`s Law in the light of modern Arabic dialects”. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Shachmon, Ori and Tom Fogel (to appear) “Phonetic, Analytic and Substitute Writing - Patterns and pitfalls in Goitein’s Yemenite archive”. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam.

 

Selected Awards

2010 The Golda Meir Fellowship (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2011 The Ben-Zvi institute prize for the study of Jewish Communities in the East

2019 Award for excellence in teaching

 

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses: Basic Arabic grammar;  Palestinian Dialects; Linguistic fieldwork (applied workshop); Modern Arabic literature

Master's degree courses: Advanced Topics in Arabic Dialectology; Topics in Arabic Socio-linguistics; Yemen: A window into the Arabic language