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Youssef Haddad

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Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Coordinator and Undergraduate Major Advisor

Office Hours — Spring 2022

  • By appointment

Bio

Youssef A. Haddad is a Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics. His research focus is on syntax, pragmatics, and their interface. In his research, he examines phrase and sentence structure of human language and investigates the social conditions on language use. He has published broadly on these topics. His publications include two books: Control into Conjunctive Participle Clauses: The Case of Assamese (Mouton de Gruyter) and The Sociopragmatics of Attitude Datives in Levantine Arabic (Edinburgh University Press). He has co-edited two volumes of Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics (John Benjamins Publishing Company). He is also the author of the textbook Introduction to Arabic Linguistics (Wiley Blackwell).

 Selected Publications

Books:

  • 2018. The Sociopragmatics of Attitude Datives in Levantine Arabic. Edinburgh University Press.
  • 2011. Control into Conjunctive Participle Clauses: The Case of  Assamese. Mouton de Gruyter.

Articles and Book Chapters:

  • 2018. The Pragmatics-Syntax Division of Labor: The Case of Personal Datives in Lebanese Arabic. In Elabbas Benmamoun and Reem Bassiouney (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. Routledge.
  • 2017. The Merge Condition on Adjuncts: Evidence from Circumstantial Clauses in Lebanese Arabic. In Hamid Ouali (Ed.), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIIII. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  • 2016. Possessively Construed Dative Constructions in Lebanese Arabic. Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Literatures 8: 37-75.
  • 2014. Attitude Datives in Lebanese Arabic and the Interplay of Syntax and Pragmatics. Lingua 145: 65-103.
  • 2013. Pronouns and Intersubjectivity in Lebanese Arabic Gossip. Journal of Pragmatics 49: 57-77.
  • 2011. The Syntax of Southern American English Personal Datives: An Anti-locality Account. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 56(3): 1001-1010.