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Research interests
- Arabic linguistics with a special focus on Arabic dialectology
- Popular culture and religion in the Middle East and North Africa
- History of Oriental Studies in Austria
Curriculum vitae
- Born 20 September 1962 in Dornbirn (Austria)
- 1969 - 1981: school in Innsbruck
- 1981 - 1990: Enrolled in the programmes for Linguistics, Arabic and Turkish Studies at Innsbruck, Vienna, Tunis and Istanbul.
- November 1990: graduated as “Doctor der Philosophie” (PhD), University of Vienna
- 1991 – 2000: University assistant at the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna
- 2000: awarded venia docendi (“Habilitation”) for Arabic and Islamic Studies.
- 2000-2003: guest lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, teaching Arabic at the Institute for Languages and Cultures of the Middle East as well as Ancient Ethiopic and Koranic Sciences at the Faculty of Catholic Theology.
- 2003 – 2004: fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem; collaboration in the project “Study of Palestinian Arabic Dialects”.
- 2004 and 2011: guest lecturer at the University of Cádiz, Spain.
- 2006: guest lecturer at the University of Uppsala, Sweden
- 2006: appointed full professor of Arabic Studies, University of Vienna, and working in that capacity ever since.
- 2004 - 2015: President of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (Paris)
- 2017: Elected as a corresponding Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- April 2021: ERC Advanced Grant "What is Bedouin-type Arabic?" (2021-2026)
Administrative duties
2016 - 2018: Deputy Director of Studies
2018 - 2022: Director of Studies (SPL 14)
Editorial work
- Co-editor of the journal Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes.
- Member of the editorial Board of the Journal of Arabic Linguistics (Wiesbaden)
- Member of the editorial Board of the journal Folia Orientalia (Cracovia)
- Member of the editioral Board of the journal Romano - Arabica (Bucharest)
- Former member of the editorial Board of the journal Estudios de Dialectología Norteafricana y Andalusí (Zaragoza)
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WIBARAB: What is bedouin-type Arabic? The linguistic and socio-historical realities behind the millennia-old dichotomous concept of nomadic and sedentary people in the Middle East and North Africa
Prochazka, S. (Project Lead)
1/10/21 → 30/09/26
Project: Research funding
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The Shawi-type Arabic dialects spoken in South-eastern Anatolia and the Middle Euphrates region
Prochazka, S. (Project Lead) & Mörth , K. (Co-Lead)
1/02/21 → 31/01/27
Project: Research funding
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The language of the Arab minority in Southern Iran
El Zarka, D. (Project Lead) & Prochazka, S. (Project Lead)
1/08/20 → 31/08/25
Project: Research funding
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Arabic language contact
Leitner, B. & Prochazka, S., Apr 2025, Language Contact: An International Handbook. Darquennes, J., Salmons, J. C. & Vandenbussche, W. (eds.). Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, Vol. 2. p. 56-78 23 p. (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (HSK); No. 2, Vol. 45).Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed
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Conditional structures in the šāwi-type dialects of the Harran-Urfa region (Southeastern Turkey)
Prochazka, S., Jul 2025, Bridging cultures, building legacies through Arabic: A Festschrift for George Grigore. Biţună, G., Pietrăreanu, O. & Sitaru, L. (eds.). Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, p. 539-555 17 p.Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed
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English as a ‘global’ language in a geopolitically changing world – the telling patterns observable in historical precedents
Dobrić , N., Korenjak, M., Prochazka, S., Molina-Munoz, A. & Ruppel, A., Dec 2025, In: Asian Englishes: An International Journal of the Sociolinguistics of English in Asia/Pacific. p. 1-13 14 p.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Open Access
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Cosmopolitanization of English: Historical precedents and contemporary parallels
Dobrić , N. (Speaker) & Prochazka, S. (Speaker)
7 Dec 2025Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
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The Arabic varieties of South Iran: An attempt to determine their position within the dialect continuum of Eastern Arabia and Southern Iraq
Leitner, B. (Speaker) & Prochazka, S. (Speaker)
4 Sept 2025Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
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Contact in Bedouin Minority Settings: Arab al-Maslakh (Beirut) and the Arabs in the Plain of Harran (Turkey) as a comparative case study
Iriarte Díez, A. (Speaker) & Prochazka, S. (Speaker)
3 Sept 2025Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science