Publications and communications of Stéphane Polis

Theses and dissertations

Doctoral thesis

Polis, S. (2009). Étude de la modalité en néo-égyptien [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/65291

Master dissertations

Polis, S. (2002). Martial : Livre 7. Édition - traduction - commentaire [Master’s dissertation, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/64618

Publications

Books

Direction and/or edition of collective works (including proceedings of scientific meetings, special issues of journals)

Dorn, A., & Polis, S. (Eds.). (2018). Outside the Box. Selected papers from the conference “Deir el-Medina and the Theban Necropolis in Contact” Liège, 27–29 October 2014. Liège, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Liège – Sciences humaines (PULg – SH).

Klinkenberg, J.-M., & Polis, S. (Eds.). (2018). Signatures. (Essais en) sémiotique de l'écriture. Signata. Annales des Sémiotiques, 9.

Collombert, P., Lefèvre, D., Polis, S., & Winand, J. (Eds.). (2016). Aere perennius. Mélanges égyptologiques en l'honneur de Pascal Vernus. Belgium: Peeters.

Polis, S., Winand, J., & Gillen, T. J. (Eds.). (2013). Texts, Languages & Information Technology in Egyptology. Selected papers from the meeting of the Computer Working Group of the International Association of Egyptologists (Informatique & Égyptologie), Liège, 6-8 July 2010. Liège, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Liège.

Articles and book chapters

Articles in journals with peer reviewing

Klinkenberg, J.-M., & Polis, S. (2024). L’orthographe du français dans une perspective typologique : les fonctions graphémiques de l’écriture. Le Français Moderne, 26.

Polis, S. (2023). Trouver de l’argent et de l’or pour Masaharta. Un ostracon de la Vallée des rois de la 21e dynastie. Bulletin de la Société d'Égyptologie, 33.

Polis, S., & Seyr, P. (2023). Enigmatic Texts from Deir el-Medina. On the Transmission and Decipherment of ‘Cryptographic’ Compositions in the Community of Workmen. Revue d'Egyptologie, 73, 56.

Georgakopoulos, T., & Polis, S. (01 June 2022). New avenues and challenges in semantic map research (with a case study in the semantic field of emotions). Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 41 (1), 1-30. doi:10.1515/zfs-2021-2039

Polis, S. (2022). Der Codeknacker. Jean-Franҫois Champollion und die Entzifferung der Hieroglyphen. Antike Welt, 5/22, 21–29.

Georgakopoulos, A., Grossman, E., Nikolaev, D., & Polis, S. (2021). Universal and macro-areal patterns in the lexicon. A case-study in the perception-cognition domain. Linguistic Typology. doi:10.1515/lingty-2021-2088

Georgakopoulos, A., & Polis, S. (2021). Lexical Diachronic Semantic Maps. Mapping the evolution of time-related lexemes. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 11 (3), 367–420. doi:10.1075/jhl.19018.geo

Polis, S., Desert, L., Dils, P., Grotenhuis, J., Razanajao, V., Richter, T. S., Rosmorduc, S., Schweitzer, S. D., Werning, D. A., & Winand, J. (2021). The Thot Sign List (TSL). An open digital repertoire of hieroglyphic signs. Égypte nilotique et méditerranéenne, 14, 55-74.

Demarée, R., Dorn, A., & Polis, S. (November 2020). Les listes de maisonnées de Deir el-Médina ("Stato civile"). Nouveaux fragments de l'Ifao et localisation de l'archive d'une lignée de scribes. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 120, 171-220.

Lttr 13, Badir, S., Provenzano, F., & Polis, S. (17 June 2020). Figuras da enunciação. Os gestos discursivos do saber. Translatio, 17, 158-181.

Polis, S., Gabler, K., Müller, M., Sojic, N., Töpfer, S., Unter, S., Greco, C., Loprieno, A., Hertel, E., & Pietri, R. (June 2020). Crossing Boundaries: Understanding Complex Scribal Practices in Ancient Egypt (with a 2019 Progress Report). Rivista del Museo Egizio, 4, 15. doi:10.29353/rime.2020.2952

Lttr13, Badir, S., Polis, S., & Provenzano, F. (March 2020). Benveniste seria hoje un linguista da enunciação? Revista Virtual de Estudos da Linguagem, 18/34, 39-67.

Polis, S., & Winand, J. (2020). Louer l'âne de Nebnéfer (O. Winand 1). Revue d'Egyptologie, 70, 203-204.

Lttr13, Badir, S., Polis, S., & Provenzano, F. (March 2018). Narração e argumentação. Retorno à análise do discurso em ciências sociais. Estudos Semióticos, 14 (1), 55-64. doi:10.11606/issn.1980-4016.esse.2018.144310

Georgakopoulos, A., & Polis, S. (2018). The semantic map model. State of the art and future avenues for linguistic research. Linguistics and Language Compass. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12270

Grossman, E., & Polis, S. (2018). Swimming against the typological tide or paddling along with language change? Dispreferred structures and diachronic biases in affix ordering. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 388-443. doi:10.1075/jhl.17027.gro

Klinkenberg, J.-M., & Polis, S. (2018). On scripturology. Signata. Annales des Sémiotiques, 9, 57-102.

Klinkenberg, J.-M., & Polis, S. (2018). De la scripturologie. Signata. Annales des Sémiotiques, 9, 9-56.

Polis, S. (2018). The functions and toposyntax of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Exploring the iconicity and spatiality of pictorial graphemes. Signata. Annales des Sémiotiques, 9.

Polis, S., & Razanajao, V. (December 2016). Ancient Egyptian texts in contexts. Towards a conceptual data model (the Thot Data Model - TDM). Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 59 (2), 24-41. doi:10.1111/j.2041-5370.2016.12036.x

Dorn, A., & Polis, S. (2016). Nouveaux textes littéraires du scribe Amennakhte (et autres ostraca relatifs au scribe de la Tombe). Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 116, 57-96. doi:10.4000/bifao.454

Grossman, E., & Polis, S. (2014). On the pragmatics of subjectification: The grammaticalization of verbless allative futures (with a case study in Ancient Egyptian). Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 46 (1), 25-63. doi:10.1080/03740463.2014.956007

Polis, S., & Rosmorduc, S. (2013). Réviser le codage de l’égyptien ancien. Vers un répertoire partagé des signes hiéroglyphiques. Document Numérique, 16 (3), 45-67.

Polis, S. (2009). Interaction entre modalité et subjectivité en néo-égyptien. Autour de la construction mri + iw circ. "souhaiter que". Lingua Aegyptia, 17, 201-229.

Polis, S., & Stasse, B. (2009). Pratiques du document. Entre tradition et renouvellement. MethIS: Méthodes et Interdisciplinarité en Sciences Humaines, 2, 7-12.

Polis, S., & Stasse, B. (2009). Pour une nouvelle philologie numérique : réflexions sur la relation texte(s) - document(s). MethIS: Méthodes et Interdisciplinarité en Sciences Humaines, 2, 153-177.

Polis, S. (2008). Langue et réalité. De l'usage de l'iconicité en linguistique. MethIS: Méthodes et Interdisciplinarité en Sciences Humaines, 1, 21-67.

Polis, S. (2006). Les relations entre futur et modalité déontique. À propos des sens du futur III en néo-égyptien. Lingua Aegyptia, 14, 233-250.

Articles in journals without peer reviewing

Dorn, A., Pietri, R., Polis, S., Seyr, P., & Widow, C. (2023). Analyse et restauration des superstructures du complexe funéraire attribué au Scribe de la Tombe Amennakhte (v) – Saison 2022. Bulletin Archéologique des Écoles françaises à l'Etranger, 4–12 (= §2–13.

Dorn, A., Pietri, R., Polis, S., & Widow, C. (July 2022). La chapelle d’Amennakhte (v) et l’étude des puits afférents (P. 1335, 1336a, 1336b, 1337, 1338, 1340). Bulletin Archéologique des Écoles françaises à l'Etranger, Égypte 2022, 23–37 (= §54–80.

Articles in proceedings

Nederhof, M.-J., Polis, S., & Rosmorduc, S. (2023). Unicode Control Characters for Ancient Egyptian. In O. el-Aguizi & B. Kasparian, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE XII), 3rd–8th November 2019 Cairo, Egypt, Volume 2 (pp. 845-852). Cairo, Egypt: IFAO.

Demarée, R., Gabler, K., & Polis, S. (2022). A Family Affair in the Community of Deir el-Medina: Gossip Girls in two 19th Dynasty Letters. In S. Gülden, T. Konrad, ... U. Verhoeven (Eds.), Ägyptologische ‚Binsen‘-Weisheiten IV. Hieratisch des Neuen Reiches: Akteure, Formen und Funktionen. Akten der internationalen und interdisziplinären Tagung in der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz im December 2019 (pp. 43–126). Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Dorn, A., & Polis, S. (2022). The hymn to ptah as a demiurgic and fertility god on O. Turin CGT 57002: Contextualising an autograph by Amennakhte son of Ipuy. In S. Töpfer, P. Del Vesco, ... F. Poole (Ed.), Deir el-Medina Through the Kaleidoscope. Proceedings of the International Workshop. Turin 8th-10th October 2018 (pp. 424–450). Modena, Italy: Franco Cosimo Panini Editore S.p.A.

Polis, S. (2022). The Messy Scribe from Deir el-Medina. A Paleographical Journey through the Texts of a Draughtsman, Scribe and Poet from the 19th Dynasty: Pay (i). In S. Gülden, T. Konrad, ... U. Verhoeven (Eds.), Ägyptologische ‚Binsen‘-Weisheiten IV. Hieratische des Neuen Reiches: Akteure, Formen und Funktionen. Akten der internationalen und interdisziplinären Tagung in der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz im December 2019 (pp. 405-453). Mainz, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Polis, S., & Winand, J. (2015). Structuring the lexicon. In N. Lazaridis & P. Kousoulis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Egyptologists. University of the aegean, rhodes 22-29 May 2008 (pp. 1503-1512). Leuven, Belgium: Peeters.

Winand, J., Polis, S., & Rosmorduc, S. (2015). Ramses. An Annotated Corpus of Late Egyptian. In N. Lazaridis & P. Kousoulis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Egyptologists. University of the aegean, rhodes 22-29 May 2008 (Peeters, pp. 1513-1521). Louvain, Belgium: Peeters.

Gohy, S., Martin Leon, B., & Polis, S. (2013). Automated text categorization in a dead language. The detection of genres in Late Egyptian. In S. Polis & J. Winand (Eds.), Texts, Languages & Information Technology in Egyptology. Selected papers from the meeting of the Computer Working Group of the International Association of Egyptologists (Informatique & Égyptologie), Liège, 6-8 July 2010 (pp. 61-74). Liège, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Liège.

[Lttr 13], Badir, S., Polis, S., & Provenzano, F. (2013). La vie terminologique de l’énonciation. In L. Dufaye & L. Gournay (Eds.), Benveniste après un demi-siècle, regards sur l'énonciation aujourd'hui (pp. 109-128). Paris, France: Ophrys.

Polis, S., Honnay, A.-C., & Winand, J. (2013). Building an Annotated Corpus of Late Egyptian. The Ramses Project: Review and Perspectives. In S. Polis & J. Winand (Eds.), Texts, Languages & Information Technology in Egyptology. Selected papers from the meeting of the Computer Working Group of the International Association of Egyptologists (Informatique & Égyptologie), Liège, 6-8 July 2010 (pp. 25-44). Liège, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Liège.

Polis, S., & Rosmorduc, S. (2013). Building a Construction-Based Treebank of Late Egyptian. The Syntactic Layer in Ramsès. In S. Polis & J. Winand (Eds.), Texts, Languages & Information Technology in Egyptology. Selected papers from the meeting of the Computer Working Group of the International Association of Egyptologists (Informatique & Égyptologie), Liège, 6-8 July 2010 (pp. 45-59). Liège, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Liège.

Polis, S., & Winand, J. (2013). The Ramses project : Methodology and practices in the annotation of Late Egyptian Texts. In I. Hafemann (Ed.), Perspektiven einer corpusbasierten historischen Linguistik und Philologie : Internationale Tagung des Akademienvorhabens „Altägyptisches Wörterbuch“ an der BBAW, 12.-13. Dezember 2011 (pp. 81-108).

[Lttr 13], Badir, S., Polis, S., & Provenzano, F. (24 July 2012). Benveniste serait-il aujourd’hui un linguiste de l’énonciation ? Arts et Savoirs, 2.

Rosmorduc, S., Polis, S., & Winand, J. (2009). Ramses. A New Research Tool in Philology and Linguistics. In N. Strudwick (Ed.), Information Technology and Egyptology in 2008. Proceedings of the meeting of the Computer Working Group of the International Association of Egyptologists (Informatique et Egyptologie), Vienna, 8–11 July 2008 (pp. 133-142). Gorgias Press.

Book chapters

Klinkenberg, J.-M., & Polis, S. (2024). Pour une grammaire générale des registres graphiques. De la sémiose visuo-spatiale de l’écriture. In C. Ragazzoli & F. Albert (Ed.), Questions sur la scripturalité égyptienne. Des registres graphiques aux espaces d’écriture (pp. 57). Le Caire, Egypt: IFAO.

Klinkenberg, J.-M., & Polis, S. (2024). Le sens du support : préfigurer l’écrit. In H. Barthelmebs & M. Colas Blaise (Eds.), Matérialité du discours rapporté. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Academia.

Dorn, A., & Polis, S. (2022). La vita e le opere di un antico scriba e poeta: Amennakht, figlio di lpuy. In C. Gobeil, P. Marini, C. Greco (Ed.), ... C. Rossi (Ed.), I Creatori dell'Egitto Eterno. Scribi, artigiani e operai al servizio del faraone. Marsilio Arte.

Polis, S. (2022). Le point de vue de Champollion sur son déchiffrement : historicisation de ses prédécesseurs et narration de son œuvre. In J. Winand & G. Chantrain, Les hiéroglyphes avant Champollion. Depuis l’Antiquité classique jusqu’à l’expédition d’Égypte (pp. 193-216). Liège, Belgium: Presses universitaires de Liège.

Polis, S. (2022). Langues et écritures d’Égypte antique. Repères chronologiques et terminologiques. In S. Polis, Guide des écritures d'Égypte antique (pp. 5). Le Caire, Egypt: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale.

Polis, S. (2022). La fréquence des fonctions dans l’écriture égyptienne. In S. Polis, Guide des écriture d'Égypte antique (pp. 3). Le Caire, Egypt: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale.

Polis, S. (2022). Deux siècles après Champollion : les conditions d’un déchiffrement. In S. Polis, Guide des écritures d'Égypte antique (pp. 11). Le Caire, Egypt: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale.

Polis, S. (2022). Comment fonctionne l’écriture hiéroglyphique ? In S. Polis, Guide des écritures d'Égypte antique (pp. 5). Le Caire, Egypt: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale.

Polis, S. (2020). Methods, tools, and perspectives of hieratic palaeography. In V. Davies & D. Laboury (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography (pp. 550-565). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.39

Polis, S. (2020). Papyrus Leopold II-(Amherst). An Ancient Investigation into the Plundering of the Theban Necropolis. In S. Connor & D. Laboury, Tutankhamun. Discovering the forgotten Pharaoh (pp. 294-297). Liège, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Liège.

Polis, S. (2020). Mosquitos in Egypt. In S. Connor & D. Laboury, Tutankhamun. Discovering the forgotten pharaoh (pp. 275). Presses Universitaires de Liège.

Lttr13, Badir, S., Polis, S., & Provenzano, F. (2019). Narration et argumentation. Retour sur l’analyse du discours en sciences sociales. In D. Bertrand, J.-F. Bordron, I. Darrault, ... J. Fontanille (Eds.), Greimas aujourd'hui : l'avenir de la structure (pp. 192-201). Paris, France: AFS.

Dorn, A., & Polis, S. (2019). Le scribe de la Tombe Amennakhte : Deux nouveaux documents remarquables dans le fonds de l’IFAO. In G. Annie & F. Albert (Ed.), Études de documents hiératiques inédits. Les ostraca de Deir el-Medina en regard des productions de la Vallée des Rois et du Ramesseum. Travaux de la première Académie hiératique – Ifao (27 septembre – 1er octobre 2015) (pp. 13-35). Cairo, Egypt: IFAO.

Dorn, A., Polis, S., & Kamal, F. (Other coll.). (2019). O. IFAO OL 200 : Un exercice sur des formules épistolaires de la seconde moitié du règne de Ramsès III. In F. Albert & A. Gasse, Études de documents hiératiques inédits. Les ostraca de Deir el-Medina en regard des productions de la Vallée des Rois et du Ramesseum. Travaux de la première Académie hiératique – Ifao (27 septembre – 1er octobre 2015) (pp. 53-60). Cairo, Egypt: IFAO.

Polis, S. (2019). Papyrus Léopold II-(Amherst). Une enquête antique sur le pillage de la nécropole thébaine. In S. Connor & D. Laboury, Toutankhamon. À la découverte du pharaon oublié (pp. 294-297). Liège, Belgium: Presses universitaires de Liège.

Polis, S. (2019). Le moustique en Égypte. In S. Connor & D. Laboury, Toutankhamon. À la découverte du pharaon oublié (pp. 275). Liège, Belgium: Presses universitaires de Liège.

Dorn, A., Gillen, T. J., & Polis, S. (2018). Deir el-Medina studies. Current situation and future perspectives. In A. Dorn & S. Polis (Eds.), Outside the Box. Selected papers from the conference “Deir el-Medina and the Theban Necropolis in Contact” Liège, 27–29 October 2014 (pp. 7-16). Liège, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Liège – Sciences humaines (PULg – SH).

Hassan, K., & Polis, S. (2018). Extending the corpus of Amennakhte’s literary compositions. Palaeographical and textual connections between two ostraca (O. BM EA 21282 + O. Cairo HO 425). In A. Dorn & S. Polis, Outside the Box. Selected papers from the conference “Deir el-Medina and the Theban Necropolis in Contact” Liège, 27–29 October 2014 (pp. 245-264). Liège, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Liège – Sciences humaines (PULg – SH).

Grossman, E., & Polis, S. (2017). Polysemy networks in language contact. The borrowing of the Greek-origin Preposition κατά (kata) in Coptic. In P. Dils, E. Grossman, T. S. Richter, ... W. Schenkel (Eds.), Greek Influence on Egyptian-Coptic (pp. 229-262). Hamburg, Germany: Widmaier.

Polis, S. (2017). The scribal repertoire of Amennakhte son of Ipuy. Describing variation across Late Egyptian registers. In J. Cromwell & E. Grossman (Eds.), Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period (pp. 89-126). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Polis, S. (2017). Linguistic variation in Ancient Egyptian. An introduction to the state of the art (with special attention to the community of Deir el-Medina). In J. Cromwell & E. Grossman (Eds.), Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period (pp. 60-88). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Dorn, A., & Polis, S. (2016). A re-examination of O. Cairo JdE 72460 (= O. Cairo SR 1475). Ending the quest for a 19th Dynasty queen’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings. In P. Collombert, D. Lefèvre, S. Polis, ... J. Winand, Aere perennius. Mélanges égyptologiques en l'honneur de Pascal Vernus (pp. 129-161). Belgium: Peeters.

Lttr13, Badir, S., Polis, S., & Provenzano, F. (2016). Figures de l'énonciation : les gestes discursifs du savoir. In A. Biglari & G. Salvan (Eds.), Figures en discours (pp. 93-116). Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Academia.

Lttr13, Badir, S., Polis, S., & Provenzano, F. (2016). Actualités du modèle darwinien en linguistique. In C. Blanckaert, J. Léon, ... D. Samain (Eds.), Modélisations et sciences humaines. Figurer, interpréter, simuler (pp. 271-288). Paris, France: L'Harmattan.

Polis, S., & Rosmorduc, S. (2015). The Hieroglyphic Sign Functions. Suggestions for a Revised Taxonomy. In S. Uljas, H. Amstutz (Ed.), A. Dorn (Ed.), M. Müller (Ed.), ... M. Ronsdorf (Ed.), Fuzzy Boundaries. Festschrift für Antonio Loprieno. volume I (pp. 149-174). Hamburg, Germany: Widmaier Verlag.

Grossman, E., & Polis, S. (2012). Navigating polyfunctionality in the lexicon. Semantic maps and Ancient Egyptian lexical semantics. In E. Grossman, S. Polis, ... J. Winand (Eds.), Lexical Semantics in Ancient Egyptian (pp. 175-225). Hamburg, Germany: Lingua Aegyptia.

Grossman, E., & Polis, S. (2012). Lexical semantics in Ancient Egyptian. An introduction. In E. Grossman, S. Polis, ... J. Winand (Eds.), Lexical Semantics in Ancient Egyptian (pp. 1-15). Hamburg, Germany: Lingua Aegyptia.

Polis, S. (2011). Le serment du P. Turin 1880, v° 2,8-19. Une relecture de la construction iw bn sDm.f à portée historique. In M. Collier & S. Snape (Eds.), Ramesside Studies in Honour of K. A. Kitchen (pp. 387-402). Bolton, United Kingdom: Rutherford Press Limited.

Polis, S. (2005). Le formes "contingentes" en égyptien ancien : une catégorisation en question. In C. Cannuyer (Ed.), La langue dans tous ses états.

Prefaces, postfaces, glossaries

Collombert, P., Lefèvre, D., Polis, S., & Winand, J. (2016). Introduction. Aere perennius ... regalique situ pyramidum altius. In P. Collombert, D. Lefèvre, S. Polis, ... W. Jean, Aere perennius. Mélanges égyptologiques en l'honneur de Pascal Vernus. Belgium: Peeters.

Polis, S. (2013). Texts, Languages & Information Technology in Egyptology. Introduction. In S. Polis & J. Winand (Eds.), Texts, Languages & Information Technology in Egyptology. Selected papers from the meeting of the Computer Working Group of the International Association of Egyptologists (Informatique & Égyptologie), Liège, 6-8 July 2010 (pp. 7-10). Liège, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Liège.

Others

Goldwasser, O., Polis, S., & Stauder, A. (08 August 2023). Hieroglyphs: Studies in Ancient Hieroglyphic Writing. Introduction. Hieroglyphs: studies in ancient hieroglyphic writing, 1, 3–6.

Computer developments

Others

Glass, A., Grotenhuis, J., Nederhof, M.-J., Polis, S., Rosmorduc, S., & Werning, D. A. (2021). Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts.

Glass, A., Hafemann, I., Nederhof, M.-J., Polis, S., Richmond, B., Rosmorduc, S., & Schweitzer, S. (2017). A method for encoding Egyptian quadrats in Unicode.

Nederhof, M.-J., Rajan, V., Lang, J., Polis, S., Rosmorduc, S., Richter, T. S., Hafemann, I., & Schweitzer, S. (2017). A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text in Unicode.

Scientific popularization and diffusion for general audience

Articles in magazines or newspapers

Polis, S. (2013). Censure de l'écrit et tabous en Égypte pharaonique. Culture, le Magazine Culturel de l'Université de Liège.

Polis, S., & Winand, J. (2010). Les langues égyptiennes à l'époque amarnienne : Point de révolution sous le soleil d'Aton. Culture, le Magazine Culturel de l'Université de Liège.

Unpublished conferences and communications

Communications to congresses and symposiums

Nederhof, M.-J., Glass, A., Grotenhuis, J., Polis, S., Rosmorduc, S., & Werning, D. A. (09 August 2023). New Unicode control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text [Paper presentation]. XIIIth International Congress of Egyptologists, Leiden, Netherlands.

Polis, S., Dils, P., Grotenhuis, J., Seyr, P., & Werning, D. A. (09 August 2023). The Thot Sign List. Recording paleographic diversity in diachrony [Paper presentation]. XIIIth International Congress of Egyptologists, Leiden, Netherlands.

Badir, S., & Polis, S. (13 May 2022). Les cartes sémaniques en typologie des langues. Gestes et imaginaire de modes multiples de représentations visuelles dans le discours linguistique [Paper presentation]. Les diagrammes en sciences du langage, Paris, France.

Seyr, P., Polis, S., & Grotenhuis, J. (07 April 2022). From Frequent Hieroglyphic Signs to the Fringes of the Repertoire: History and Prospects of the TSL [Paper presentation]. Towards a Digital Inventory of Early Dynastic Hieroglyphic Signs, Cologne, Germany.

Polis, S., & Seyr, P. (19 November 2021). Encoding the Sacred: New Lights on Ramesside Enigmatic Writing [Paper presentation]. Rethinking the visual aesthetics of ancient Egyptian writing.

Pietri, R., & Polis, S. (13 May 2021). Altering writing. Neutralizing and re-activating the agency of animate signs in less or non-figurative graphic registers [Paper presentation]. Altering images. Iconoclasm in Egypt, Liège, Belgium.

Ahishakiye, E., & Polis, S. (16 April 2021). The eyes cannot hear nor feel? A contrastive view on perception verbs in Ancient Egyptian and Kirundi [Paper presentation]. Language, Semantics and Cognition: Saying and conceptualizing the world from Ancient Egypt to Modern Times, Yale, United States.

Polis, S. (19 November 2020). Le ‘non-linguistique’ et l’intertextuel dans trois projets numériques égyptologiques. Les pratiques et outils de Ramses Online, Crossing Boundaries et la Thot Sign List [Paper presentation]. Édition numérique de corpus textuels complexes en égyptologie, Paris, France.

Grossman, E., & Polis, S. (20 January 2020). Expecting the unexpected. Mistakes and variation in Late Egyptian [Paper presentation]. Crossroads VI, The Sixth International Conference of Egyptian Linguistics: Between Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala, Sweden.

Georgakopoulos, A., & Polis, S. (17 December 2019). A Linguistic Perspective on Emotions. Egyptian Data in Typological Perspective [Paper presentation]. Visualizing Emotions in Ancient Egypt: Pictures and Texts / Visualiser les émotions dans l’Égypte ancienne : images et textes, Liège, Belgium.

Polis, S. (10 December 2019). Tracking the writings of a 19th dynasty scribe. The ‘messy polygraph’ from Deir el-Medina [Paper presentation]. Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten IV. Hieratisch des Neuen Reiches: Akteure, Formen und Funktionen, Mainz, Germany.

Polis, S., Winand, J., Desert, L. (Other coll.), Dils, P. (Other coll.), Grotenhuis, J. (Other coll.), Hafemann, I. (Other coll.), Razanajao, V. (Other coll.), Richter, S. (Other coll.), Rosmorduc, S. (Other coll.), Schweitzer, S. D. (Other coll.), & Werning, D. (Other coll.). (05 November 2019). The Thot Sign List (TSL). A digital repertoire of hieroglyphic signs [Paper presentation]. 12th International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, Egypt.

Georgakopoulos, A., & Polis, S. (21 August 2019). Computer-assisted approaches to semantic maps. A qualitative approach to large-scale lexical datasets [Paper presentation]. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig, Germany.

Dorn, A., & Polis, S. (09 October 2018). The hymn to Ptah of O. Turin CG 57002. Expanding the corpus of Amennakhte’s literary compositions [Paper presentation]. Deir el-Medina Through the Kaleidoscope – 2018 Turin International Workshop, Turin, Italy.

Cigana, L., Georgakopoulos, A., & Polis, S. (July 2018). Hjelmslev as a ‘forerunner’ of the semantic map method in linguistic typology [Paper presentation]. 20th International Congress of Linguists - Workshop: 'History of linguistics and its significance', Cape Town, South Africa.

Polis, S. (18 January 2018). The Thot Sign-list. Introducing the online hieroglyphic sign-list (aka TSL) [Paper presentation]. The Thot ontologies and sign-list, Liège, Belgium.

Georgakopoulos, A., Grossman, E., Polis, S., & Nikolaev, D. (Other coll.). (14 December 2017). Weighted lexical semantic maps for areal lexical typology. Verbs of perception and cognition as a case study [Paper presentation]. 12th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Canberra, Australia.

Georgakopoulos, A., & Polis, S. (09 September 2017). Towards a web-based platform for plotting, visualizing and enriching diachronic semantic maps: With a case study on the Greek and Egyptian temporal semantic field [Paper presentation]. International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL 13), London, United Kingdom.

Grossman, E., & Polis, S. (01 August 2017). Universally dispreferred structures through change. The diachrony of affix ordering in Egyptian-Coptic [Paper presentation]. The 23rd international conference on historical linguistics, San Antonio, United States.

Georgakopoulos, A., & Polis, S. (31 July 2017). Dynamicized semantic maps of content words. Comparing long-term lexical changes in Ancient Egyptian and Greek [Paper presentation]. The 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, United States.

Georgakopoulos, A., & Polis, S. (12 July 2017). Mapping the diachrony of content words: Ancient Greek and Ancient Egyptian as sources for diachronic semantic maps of lexical items [Paper presentation]. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference - 14. Linguistic diversity and cognitive linguistics, Tartu, Estonia.

Grossman, E., & Polis, S. (21 October 2016). The genesis of a negative agentive nominalizer. The journey of jwtj between Old Egyptian and Coptic [Paper presentation]. Die klassisch-ägyptische Sprache im Schnittpunkt von Philologie und Linguistik. Ein akademisches Symposium für Wolfgang Schenkel, Berlin, Germany.

Polis, S., Razanajao, V., & Sojic, N. (05 October 2016). Towards a data model for (inter)textual relationships. Connecting Ancient Egyptian texts and understanding scribal practices [Paper presentation]. Digital Scholarly Editing: Theory, Practice, Methods (ESTS 13 - DiXiT 3), Antwerpen, Belgium.

Polis, S., & Rosmorduc, S. (11 July 2016). Hieroglyphic encoding: The Thot Sign-List (TSL) data model and the hieroglyphic signs in Unicode [Paper presentation]. 1st Cambridge IT in Egyptology Workshop, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Lttr13, Badir, S., Polis, S., & Provenzano, F. (18 May 2016). Débats autour du concept de type en typologie des langues [Paper presentation]. Problématiques de la notion de type en SHS, Toulouse, France.

Polis, S. (10 February 2016). Historical Linguistics. Bridging the gap between Philology and Typology in Egyptian Linguistics [Paper presentation]. Ancient Egyptian-Coptic in Typological Perspective, Jerusalem, Israel.

Grossman, E., & Polis, S. (21 November 2015). Diachronic lexical semantics in Ancient Egyptian–Coptic: The Egyptianness of basic vocabulary in Coptic [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), Atlanta (GA), United States.

Coulon, L., Elwert, F., Morlock, E., Polis, S., Razanajao, V., Rosmorduc, S., Schweitzer, S., & Werning, D. A. (30 October 2015). Towards a TEI compliant interchange format for Ancient Egyptian-Coptic textual resources [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the TEI Consortium: Connect, Animate, Innovate, Lyon, France.

Polis, S., & Rosmorduc, S. (27 August 2015). A shared repository of hieroglyphic signs: The Thot sign-list [Paper presentation]. International Congress of Egyptologists XI, Florence, Italy.

Polis, S., Rosmorduc, S., & Winand, J. (27 August 2015). Ramses goes Online. An annotated corpus of Late Egyptian texts in interaction with the Egyptological community [Paper presentation]. International Congress of Egyptologists XI, Florence, Italy.

Grossman, E., & Polis, S. (23 March 2015). Dispreferred structures through language change: the diachrony of affix ordering in Ancient Egyptian - Coptic [Paper presentation]. Workshop on Verbs, Verb Phrases & Verbal Categories, Jerusalem, Israel.

Polis, S. (February 2014). Predicative Possession in Late Egyptian (with special attention to incipient grammaticalization processes) [Paper presentation]. Possession in Ancient Egyptian-Coptic, Liège, Belgium.

[Lttr13], Badir, S., Polis, S., & Provenzano, F. (24 January 2014). Actualités du modèle darwinien en linguistique [Paper presentation]. Colloque SHESL-HTL 2014 - Modèles et modélisations en sciences du langage, de l'homme et de la société. Perspectives historiques et épistémologiques, Paris, France.

Polis, S. (20 September 2013). Polysemy in Language Contact. Borrowing of the Greek-origin adposition κατά in Coptic [Paper presentation]. 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Workshop Typology of Adposition and Case Marker Borrowing, Split, Croatia.

Winand, J., & Polis, S. (15 June 2012). The Ramses Project. Exploring Ancient Egyptian linguistic data using a richly annotated corpus [Paper presentation]. Exploring Ancient Languages Through Corpora, Oslo, Norway.

[Lttr 13], Badir, S., Polis, S., & Provenzano, F. (09 September 2011). La subjectivité : lectures critiques entre grammaire et texte [Paper presentation]. GRATO 2011 - 2nd International Conference on Grammar and Text, Lisbonne, Portugal.

Polis, S. (05 April 2011). Linguistic innovations and evolution of registers in the Deir el-Medineh community: Scribal networks and families during the 20th dynasty [Paper presentation]. Scribes as Agents of Language Change, Cambridge, St John's College, United Kingdom.

Grossman, E., & Polis, S. (11 November 2010). On the Pragmatics of Subjectification: Emergence and Modalization of an Allative Future in Ancient Egyptian [Paper presentation]. GramiS – Int’l Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Conferences in universities or research centers

Grotenhuis, J., Dils, P., Polis, S., & Werning, D. (28 September 2022). Hieroglyphic Sign-lists, the Thot Sign List (TSL) and towards an Unicode Hieroglyphic expansion [Paper presentation]. Lecture at the Oriental Institute, Chicago, Chicago, United States.

Polis, S. (09 November 2021). De la matérialité à l’œuvre. La philologie digitale en égyptologie au XXIe siècle [Paper presentation]. De la tablette à l’écran. Avancées technologiques dans les Sciences de l’Antiquité (Séminaire doctoral Synoikismos), Liège, Belgium.

Klinkenberg, J.-M., & Polis, S. (26 November 2019). De la tablette d’argile à la tablette numérique : émergences et renouvèlements de l’écrit [Paper presentation]. Cours-conférence du Collège Belgique. De la Vallée des Rois à la Silicon Valley : les écritures, Namur, Belgium.

Klinkenberg, J.-M., & Polis, S. (19 November 2019). Les fonctions de l’écriture : un modèle général [Paper presentation]. Cours-conférence du Collège Belgique. De la Vallée des Rois à la Silicon Valley : les écritures, Namur, Belgium.

Polis, S. (17 April 2018). Plotting and exploring lexical semantic maps: Resources, tools, and methodological issues [Paper presentation]. Seminar at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

Polis, S. (16 April 2018). Diachronic and areal patterns: New applications of the semantic map model in lexical typology [Paper presentation]. Seminat at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

Dorn, A., & Polis, S. (06 December 2017). The Turin Papyrus Map: New Insights About a Complex History [Paper presentation]. Les conférences archéologiques de l'IFAO, Cairo, Egypt.

Motte, A., & Polis, S. (08 February 2017). Le Projet Ramsès. Explorer la langue des pharaons au XXIe siècle [Paper presentation]. Deux siècles au service des Sciences humaines. Contribution(s) de l'Université de Liège (1817-2017), Liège, Belgium.

Polis, S., & Razanajao, V. (06 October 2016). Digital editions, annotated corpora, sign-lists, metadata, data models & LOD Resources for Ancient Egyptian. A bird’s eye (and subjective) view of text related projects [Paper presentation]. Global Philology Project (Initial Planning Seminar), Berlin, Germany.

Polis, S. (25 November 2015). Ramses: An annotated corpus of Late Egyptian texts. Background information, recent developments and work in progress [Paper presentation]. Towards DARIAH-BE: a kick-off meeting with the launch of the Digital Humanities Research Community Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium.

Dorn, A., & Polis, S. (30 September 2015). Suivre la main du scribe Amennakhte dans la documentation hiératique de la XXe dynastie [Paper presentation]. Les conférences de l'IFAO, Le Caire, Egypt.

Polis, S. (29 September 2015). Les mains de l'Enseignement d'Amennakhte. Reconnecter le littéraire au documentaire [Paper presentation]. 1re Académie Hiératique. Étude de documents hiératiques inédits. Initiation aux techniques d'édition des textes hiératiques, Le Caire, Egypt.

Dorn, A., & Polis, S. (28 September 2015). À propos de l'O. Caire JdE 72460 : faut-il continuer la quête de la tombe d'une reine de la XIXe dynastie dans la Vallée des Rois ? [Paper presentation]. 1re Académie Hiératique. Étude de documents hiératiques inédits. Initiation aux techniques d'édition des textes hiératiques, Le Caire, Egypt.

Polis, S. (27 September 2015). Ramses Online. Un outil pour aider à l'édition de textes hiératiques [Paper presentation]. 1re Académie Hiératique. Étude de documents hiératiques inédits. Initiation aux techniques d'édition des textes hiératiques, Le Caire, Egypt.

Polis, S. (06 May 2015). Towards a typology of hieroglyphic sign functions. Categorization and fluidity in the description of semiotic systems [Paper presentation]. Vortrag im Ägyptischen Museum, Bonn, Germany.

Grossman, E., & Polis, S. (11 December 2014). Prohibitive strategies and prohibitive cycles in Ancient Egyptian [Paper presentation]. Negation in Ancient Egyptian, Paris, France.

Polis, S. (29 November 2014). De la fonction des signes hiéroglyphiques : fluidité et catégorisation dans la description d’un système sémiotique [Paper presentation]. Journée du Groupe de contact FNRS -Égyptologie, Liège, Belgium.

Polis, S., & Rosmorduc, S. (10 May 2014). Le projet Ramsès : état et perspectives d'un corpus annoté du néo-égyptien au moment de sa mise en ligne [Paper presentation]. Journée du Groupe de contact FNRS - Égyptologie, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Posters

Goldwasser, O., Polis, S., & Stauder, A. (10 August 2023). Hieroglyphs. Studies in ancient hieroglyphic writing [Poster presentation]. XIIIth International Congress of Egyptologists, Leiden, Netherlands.

Gabler, K., Greco, C., Loprieno, A., Müller, M., Polis, S., Sojic, N., Töpfer, S., & Unter, S. (07 November 2019). Crossing Boundaries: Understanding Complex Scribal Practices in Ancient Egypt [Poster presentation]. 12th International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, Egypt.

Gabler, K., Greco, C., Loprieno, A., Müller, M., Polis, S., Sojic, N., Töpfer, S., & Unter, S. (06 July 2019). Crossing Boundaries: Understanding Complex Scribal Practices in Ancient Egypt [Poster presentation]. 51. Ständige Ägyptologenkonferenz. „Ägyptologie und Methodik: Potenzial und Prioritäten“, Basel, Switzerland.

Georgakopoulos, A., & Polis, S. (September 2017). Lexical Diachronic Semantic Maps [Poster presentation]. International Summer School on Typology and Lexicon (TyLex), Moscow, Russia.

Lttr13, Badir, S., Polis, S., & Provenzano, F. (30 August 2012). An archaeology of 'Intersubjectivity'. Mapping conceptual splits in linguistics and beyond [Poster presentation]. 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm, Sweden.

Conferences given outside the academic context

Grotenhuis, J., Polis, S., Winand, J., Desert, L. (Other coll.), Razanajao, V. (Other coll.), Dils, P. (Other coll.), Hafemann, I. (Other coll.), Richter, S. (Other coll.), Rosmorduc, S. (Other coll.), Schweitzer, S. D. (Other coll.), & Werning, D. (Other coll.). (2020). De Thot Sign List (TSL), Een digitaal repertoire van hiëroglyfische tekens.