Ashraf Abdou
Address: Department of English Language and Linguistics, The University of Manchester, UK
email: Ashraf.mohamed-ali@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
PhD title: Arabic idioms: A corpus-based study and a database, with particular reference to their translation into English
Supervisor: Dr. Paul Bennett
Main Discipline area: Linguistics
Research specialism
Corpus linguistics, Phraseology, Contrastive linguistics
Conference Presentations:
'The syntactic behaviour of Arabic idioms: A corpus-based study' (accepted for presentation at the 22nd Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, to be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, March 8-9, 2008)
'The syntactic behaviour of Arabic idioms: A corpus-based study' (A poster presentation at The 17th International Postgraduate Research Linguistics Conference, The University of Manchester, February 7-8, 2008)
Membership of Professional Organisations
The Arabic Linguistics Society (membership starts in March, 2008)
Teaching Areas:
- Introduction to linguistics
- Arabic linguistics
- Arabic lexicography
- Arabic as a foreign language
Professional biography:
BA in Arabic Language and Islamic Studies (1997), Cairo University
MA in Linguistics (2003), Cairo University
MA in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (2005), The American University in Cairo