Supervisions

People who want to write an MA/PhD thesis under my supervision

I can supervise MA and PhD thesis.  MA/PhD students who would like to work under my supervision, they need to work on one of the following areas: Syntax, syntactic theory (particularly Lexical-Functional Grammar), information structure, linguistic interfaces and interface phenomena, prosody (experimental investigation), Arabic dialects (particularly Saudi dialects).

Currently, I am supervising/co-supervising the following:

• • Norah Al-Jadaan is doing her PhD thesis, investigating the effect of semantic priming on reading orthographically unvowelized Najdi Arabic words on adult native Najdi speakers, co-supervised wth Prof. Salman Al-Nasser (King Saud University).

Past Student(s)

• Rana Al-Ghamdi did her PhD thesis, investigating psychological predicates in Arabic, co-supervised with Dr. Diane Nelson (University of Leeds).

• Muna Al-Thaqafi (2018). "Prosodic Encoding of Focus in Thaqafi Arabic Dialect". MA dissertation, Taif University, Taif.

• Elham Al-Hemyani investigated  the intonation system  in Saudi Arabic.

• Kholoud Al-Ghamdi (2019) investigated  the relation between intonation and information structure in Southern dialect (Saudi dialect)

• Shorouq Al-Shareef  (2021) investigated seveal intonational pheneomena including interrogatively in Saudi Arabic.

Examination Committee

I was a member in the examination committee for the following students (MA/PhD VIVA):

• Nura Mohamad Almohimeed (15th of April, 2021). "English Language Policies in Saudi English Higher Education Departments: Female Students’ Beliefs about Language Use at the Department Level". Department of English Language and Literature, KSU, KSA.

• Amjad Rakan Alotaibi ( 28th of December, 2020). "Speech Acts of Requests by EFL Saudi Female University Students". Department of English Language and Literature, KSU, KSA.