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Mohamed Jlassi

Dr. Mohamed Jlassi is a visiting scholar in the Syntax Lab here at ARiEAL. He has had a long and diverse teaching and research tenure in North Africa and the Middle East (MENA). There, he taught English language, theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics. Dr. Jlassi received his PhD in theoretical linguistics from the University of Newcastle, UK. His research interest is mainly about Arabic dialect syntax within the general endeavor of discourse-syntax interface that is based on findings in variationist sociolinguistics, grammaticalization, pragmatics and syntax. He is in particular working on discourse markers in a number of Arabic varieties to understand the nature of the higher functional domain of clause structure in Arabic. He is equally interested in the syntax of exceptives, existential constructions and subject doubling in Arabic. His other research interests relate to second language learning and teaching that have been informed by his ESL and TESOL teaching experience.

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PhD in theoretical linguistics, University of Newcastle, UK (2013)

MA in Linguistics, University of Manouba, Tunisia (2002)

BA in English Language, Literature and Linguistics, University of Manouba, Tunisia (1996)

Jlassi, M. (Forthcoming). The Syntax of Confirmationals in Omani Arabic. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL), February27- March 1, the University of Arizona in Tucson, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Jlassi, M. (2020). The Syntax of Confirmationals in Omani Arabic, presented at the 34thAnnual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL), February27-March 1, the University of Arizona in Tucson, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Jlassi, M. (2018). Syntacticizing discourse in Arabic: evidence from discourse markers in Tunisian Arabic, presented at the 2018 SNU International Conference on Linguistics (2018 SNUICL), June 15-16, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

Jlassi, M. (2017). Existential vs. locational ‘theres’ in Tunisian Arabic (TA) and Definiteness Effects (DE) revisited, presented at the 31stAnnual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL), March 30 – April 1st, Oklahoma University, Norman, Oklahoma, USA.

Jlassi, M. (2016). Syntacticizing discourse particles in Arabic: evidence from a three-tiered speech acts structure in Tunisian Arabic (TA), presented at GLOW39, April 5-April 8, University of Gottingen, Germany.

Jlassi, M. (2016). Chomsky’s Theory of Language: Concept & Apparatus. Plenary talk given for the Annual Graduate Conference of Misamis University, August 6, 2016, Ozamiz, the Philippines.

Jlassi, M. (2014). Just More Faith in Tunisian Arabic, Dialect Syntax-The State-of-the-Art Workshop, December 5-6, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.