About the author

Karim Bensoukas

I am currently a senior lecturer (Professeur de l’Enseignement Supérieur) in the Department of English at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, which I joined in the academic year 1994-1995. I earned a Doctorat d’Etat in linguistics in 2001 in Joint-Supervision with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. I have been a Fulbrighter twice (1999-2000 and 2005, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA).

I am a permanent member of the LLAC Research Laboratory and the 2LACS Research Center. I am also expert-évaluateur with Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST)- Rabat. I am the winner of the 2014 IRCAM Award for Research and Scientific Thinking.

Most of my work in linguistics is centered on phonology, morphology, the phonology-morphology/ morphology-syntax interfaces, as well as language contact, variation and change. I have been working on the various Amazigh varieties, mostly Tashlhit, as well as Moroccan Arabic.

My interests extend to applied sociolinguistics and university pedagogy, particularly the integration of ICT in teaching.

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