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Hamid Ouali, Assistant Professor

Office: Curtin Hall 883
Phone: 414-229-1113
e-mail: ouali@uwm.edu
Website: http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/hamid.ouali/

Degree:
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Michigan
M.A., Linguistics, University of Tromso, Tromso Norway

Research Interests:
Semitic Languages: Standard Arabic and Arabic dialects.
Berber Languages including Tamazight, Tarifit, Tashelhit, Taqbaylit, Touareg and Siwa.
Theoretical Linguistics: Principles and Parameters, Minimalism, Syntax/Comparative Syntax, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax-Phonology
Interface, Semantics.

Teaching Interests:
Arabic, General Linguistics, Syntax

Recent Publications:
To appear. Negative Expressions in Moroccan Arabic and Standard Arabic: NPI's or NCI's?. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics. John Benjamins.

2008. 'On C-to-T Phi-Feature Transfer: the nature of Agreement and Anti-Agreement in Berber'. Agreement Restrictions, edited by Roberta D'Alessandro, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson and Susann Fischer. Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter.

2007. 'The Syntax of Complex Tense in Moroccan Arabic' with Catherine Fortin. In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIV, Elabbas Benmamoun ed. John Benjamins Publishers, pp. 175-190.

2006. 'Agreement Suppression Effects and Unification via Agree'. Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 25 (WCCFL 25). Cascadilla Press.

2005. 'Negation and negative polarity items in Berber'. In Marc Ettlinger, Nicholas Fleisher, and Mischa Park-Doob (eds.), Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 330-340. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2005. 'Complex tenses, Agreement and Wh-Extraction'. With Acrisio Pires. In R. T. Cover and Y. Kim (eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 249-260. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

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