Ph.D. supervision

I welcome Ph.D. students in any of the areas in which I have research or teaching interests. This means especially various areas of syntax, but also Relevance Theory and Philosophy of Linguistics. Within syntax I am particularly interested in work within Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Principles and Parameters theory. I am happy to supervise dissertations on any language.

At present I am supervising the following students:

Nushour Al-Duaij (Kuwait) – the second language acquisition of requests (jointly supervised with Beatriz de Paiva)

Mansour Alotaibi (Saudi Arabia) – wh-questions in Arabic

Abdulrahman Al-Qurashi (Saudi Arabia) – free relatives and related phenomena in Arabic

Issa Al-Qurashi (Saudi Arabia) – Arabic noun phrases

Abdulrahman Althawab (Saudi Arabia) – modality in Arabic (jointly supervised with Roger Hawkins)

Unaisa Khir Eldeen (Syria) – discourse connectives in Arabic

Mohamed Krer (Libya) – Arabic negation

Saeed Saeed (Iraq) – binomial expressions in Standard Arabic and English

Buthaina Shaheen (Syria) – the second language acquisition of relative causes (jointly supervised with Roger Hawkins)

Dr Syntax making a discovery, by Thomas Rowlandson

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