Amer Asiri
I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, College of Education, Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia. My research focuses on syntax and semantics, as well as the issues at the interface between them. Using fieldwork, I particularly focus on Arabic varieties as well as the understudied dialects/languages of Southern Arabia (such as Tihami Arabic) to inform the linguistic theory. I have worked on different linguistic topics, including definiteness, indefiniteness, specificity, Genericity, individual-/stage-level distinction, and the syntax of DP.
Talks
2022 "Double light verbs in Tihami Arabic" at 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Washington D.C
Papers
Under review. (with John Gluckman) "Revisiting definiteness: Insights from two types of definite articles in Tihami Arabic"
PH.D. Dissertation
2024 "Definite and Indefinite Affixes in Tihami Arabic", University of Kansas
M.A. Theses
2022 (with John Gluckman)"Individual and Situation Specificity in Tihami Arabic" at TripleAFLA 2022, University of Manchester
2023 (Invited) "Two types of definites in Tihami Arabic" at Child Language Proseminar, Spring 2023, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
2023 "Two types of definites in Tihami Arabic" at The 36th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA.
2021 "Light verbs in Tihami Arabic", University of Kansas
2017 "Non-active Voice in Modern Standard Arabic", Wayne State University