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