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

To appear. 'The Syntax of Complex Tense in Moroccan Arabic' with Catherine Fortin. In Elabbas Benmamoun ed., Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIV, John Benjamins Publishers.

To appear. 'Complex Tense, Agreement and Wh-extraction' with Acrisio Pires. In Berkeley Linguistic Society Proceedings 31. Berkeley, California.

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: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2003 'Sentential Negation in Berber: A Comparative Study', in Linguistic Description: Typology and representation of African languages. In John Mugany (ed.)Trends in African Linguistics Vol. 8, pp. 243-256. Africa World Press. Trenton, New Jersey.

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