Linguistics in Arabia

Janet Watson, Chair of Language at Leeds, gave a keynote speech entitled 'The documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of the Modern South Arabian languages'. This was reported within the context of the conference in two Saudi newspapers: Arab News (http://www.arabnews.com/news/487731) and Okaz (http://www.okaz.com.sa/new/issues/20131207/Con20131207660043.htm)

Melinda Whong (Language, Linguistics and Translation Research Group) and her PhD student, Rasha Soliman, gave papers on second language acquisition, and Maathar al-Rawi, a former Leeds student supervised by Diane Nelson (Language, Linguistics and Translation Research Group), presented a syntactic analysis of ʔal-.