Profile
Maather Al-Rawi is a professor at King Abdulazziz University, the Department of Modern Languages and Literature, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, the School of Modern Languages, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK and a MA in Linguistics from the same university.
Education
- 1999
Bachelor degree from European Languages- EnglishFaculty of Arts and Humanities, King Abduaziz University, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية
- 2000
Master degree from Departement of Linguistics andSchool of Modern Languages, University of Leeds- UK, ليدز, بريطانيا
- 2005
Doctorate degree from Department of Linguistics andSchool of Modern Languages, Leeds University-UK, ليدز, بريطانيا
Employment
- 1900-1900
, , , المملكة العربية السعودية
- 1900-2024
Professor, King Abdulaziz University, , المملكة العربية السعودية
- 2005-2020
Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz University , جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية
- 2007-2019
Post-graduates Coordinator, Department of European Languages and Literature, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية
- 2020-حاليا
Associate Professor, King Abdulaziz University, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية
Research Interests
Her major research interests have been in analysing the syntax of Semitic languages and in describing the syntactic features of the English varieties.
Scientific interests
Maather Alrawi is a Professor of Linguistics at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She is a member of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) and the Linguistic Association of Great Britain (LAGB), and the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). She received her PhD from the University of Leeds; the topic of her thesis is “The structure of determiner phrases in Standard Arabic” in 2004. She published several articles on Arabic syntax of both Standard and non-standard verities. Her research interest is the syntax of Arabic (Semitic) and its interfaces with form (morphology-phonology) and meaning (semantics), Minimalist Program, and Distributed Morphology. She is also interested in comparative syntax, World Englishes, Error Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, and gender and semiotic studies.