Letizia Cerqueglini

Biographic Data

ID2098162
NAMELetizia Cerqueglini
GIVEN NAMESLetizia
FAMILY NAMECerqueglini
SIGNATURECERQUEGLINI L
AFFILIATIONSTel Aviv University
ORCID0000-0002-4426-170X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Ya ṛaḅḅíː! Tanṭīni binéːt: Ǧbēne in the Traditional Muṯallaṯ Arabic of Bāḳa l-Ġarbiyye

    Open AccessLetizia CerquegliniARTICLEFolia Orientalia2024

    This article offers a local version of the Palestinian folktale of Ǧbēne, audio recorded in 2018 in the town of Bāḳa l-Ġarbiyye in the Muṯallaṯ area. The tale of Ǧbēne represents the feminine passage from infancy to adulthood and marriage. These stages are marked by the opposition of white and black, which symbolically evoke complex cultural values. After a background to folktales in general, and in the Palestinian Arabic speaking area in particu…

  • Negev Bedouin daḥīyah Songs: Celebrating Brotherhood Above War and Love

    Open AccessLetizia CerquegliniARTICLEFolia Orientalia2023

    While much attention has been paid to several dialectal Arabic narrative and poetic genres, Negev Arabic (NA) daḥīyah songs (NA diḥḥiyyih, also known as daḥḥa) have received little scholarly attention. I report here eight traditional Negev Bedouin daḥīyah songs, one neo- daḥīyah, and one haǧīn (NA hiǧnih) - recorded during personal meetings with informants from 2017 to 2019 - in transcription and translation with some stylistic and linguistic com…

  • Spatial prepositions min and ʕan in Traditional Negev Arabic

    Open AccessRoni Henkin, Letizia CerquegliniARTICLEStudies in Language2023

    The Arabic prepositions min and ʕan in their prototypical spatial use relate to the Source domain, translating as ‘(away) from’. In many contemporary dialects ʕan is absent or limited to secondary, non-spatial meanings. In Traditional Negev Arabic, however, both prepositions are used complementarily. The proto-scene of ablative min is a Figure (F) exiting from a 3-dimensional Ground (G)-source, with ‘containment’ and ‘boundary-crossing’ typical c…

  • Cross-generational differences in linguistic and cognitive spatial frames of reference in Negev Arabic

    Letizia CerquegliniARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2022

    This paper analyses the impact of landscape on linguistic and cognitive spatial frames of reference (FoRs) in three generations of speakers of Negev Arabic (NA): Traditional (TNA), Middle (MNA), and Young (YNA). When locating one object (the figure) with respect to a reference object (the ground), TNA strategies rely on pragmatic properties attributed to the ground (e.g. familiarity) and to axial constraints (alignment between figure, ground, and…

  • Reference frames in language and cognition: Cross-population mismatches

    Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Eve Danziger et al.ARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2022

    Numerous studies have found evidence of a speech community’s referential practices in discourse being predictive of its members’ behavior in nonverbal tasks. In this article, we discuss a series of exceptions to this alignment pattern, drawing on data from eleven populations of Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and Central America, and Oceania. These exceptions have not been discussed in conjunction with one another and the striking commonalit…

  • Cross-generational Differences in Spatial Language in aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic

    Open AccessLetizia CerquegliniCHAPTERStudies on Arabic Dialectology…2019

    I compare linguistic representations of projective spatial relations in two varieties of aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic: Traditional aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic (TAA), spoken by those over age 67, and New aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic (NAA), spoken by the rest of the tribe. My comparison pertains to spatial prepositions and Frames of Reference (FoRs). FoRs – Intrinsic/Relative/Absolute ̶ are semantic strategies used to project coordinate systems onto spatial arrays in order to locate an…

  • Referential complementarity in traditional Negev Arabic

    Letizia Cerqueglini, Roni HenkinARTICLEBrill's Journal of Afroasiatic…2018

    Spatial Frames of Reference (FoRs) are mental coordinate systems applied to locate a Figure ( F ) with respect to a Ground ( G ). In Levinson’s theory (2003), every language selects a dominant FoR among Intrinsic, Relative and Absolute, leaving non-dominant FoRs for restricted sets of cases. Bohnemeyer (2011) enlarged this typology, describing ‘referentially promiscuous systems’, as characterized by free switch among FoRs and absence of a default…

  • Spatial Language and Culture: Cardinal Directions in Negev Arabic

    Letizia Cerqueglini, Roni HenkinARTICLEAnthropological linguistics2016

    Negev Arabic displays a unique spatial system characterized by referential complementarity: Intrinsic, Relative, and Absolute frames of reference serve all speakers and are selected according to properties of the Ground. The Absolute frame of reference, employing cardinal directions, represents the lateral axis of all Ground-objects and serves as a default frame for problematic cases, such as modern, culturally alien objects; this frame of refere…