“La linguistique en Tunisie : acquis et perspectives” is the title of the conference, Veronika (leader of the TUNOCENT-project) is attending for two days. As the international conference, organised by the Association Tunisienne de Linguistique (ATL) and the Faculté des Lettres, des Arts et des Humanités de la Manouba (FLAHM) deals with approaches and perspectives of linguistics in Tunisia, many cooperation partners of the TUNOCENT project arrive at the meeting as well. However, all interested parties are following Veronika’s presentation of the project with enthusiastic support: While the project is still completely new to some, Veronika also surprises those, who just already knew about the TUNOCENT-project, with an update of the progress and happily shares what the TUNOCENT-team achieved within the ten months the project is ongoing.
Furthermore, the two Austrian dialect specialists Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun and Stephan Procházka use the possibility to get in touch with members of the Association Derja . whom they share their passion for the Tunisian dialect. Holding a conference, the association, also exhibits an impressive collection of books written in different Tunisian dialectal varieties — that kind of literature Arabic dialect researchers love.
