Hussein Al-Bataineh is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the department of English Language at Arab Open University, Kuwait. He received his PhD in Linguistics in 2021 from Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research interests lie in the area of theoretical syntax and morphology and in particular topics that concern the interaction between these two modules of grammar.
E304A: Exploring English Grammar (I)
E304B: Exploring English Grammar (II)
L201A: English in the World (I)
L201B: English in the World (II)
U214A: Worlds of English (I)
U214B: Worlds of English (II)
EL122: Writing Research
EL118: Reading
January/2022- Present: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Language Studies, Arab Open University, Kuwait
September/2017- May/ 2021: Research Assistant, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
September/2018- January/2020: Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
April/2014- August/2017: Full-Time Lecturer, Department of English Language, College of Science and Humanities in Hawtat Sudair, Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia
Al-Bataineh,
H. (2024). Arabic compound numerals: New insights on case, agreement, and
quantification. Languages, 9(5), Article 5.
Al-Bataineh,
H., & Saeed, S. T. (2024). The syntax of negative polarity items in Central
Kurdish. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 11(1), 2349404.
Al-Bataineh,
H. (2023). The structure of wh-exclamatives in Jordanian Arabic and beyond. Acta
Linguistica Hafniensia, 55(2), 216-248.
Al-Bataineh,
H. (2023). Exclamative constructions: An overview. L'Analisi Linguistica e
Letteraria, 33(1), 55-84.
Al-Bataineh,
H. (2022). The syntax of Tłıchǫ Yatıì verbal morphology. SKASE Journal of
Theoretical Linguistics, 19(2), 69-98.
Al-Bataineh,
H. (2021). The morphosyntax of Arabic exceptives: A minimalist approach. Journal
of Semitic Studies, 66(1), 441-482.
Al-Bataineh,
H. (2021). Alternations of classificatory verb stems in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì: A
cognitive semantic account. Folia Linguistica, 55(1), 163-194.
Al-Bataineh,
H. (2020). Clitic doubling in Hebrew and Arabic construct states: Overview and
counterarguments. MUN Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 3, 1-17.
Al-Bataineh,
H. (2020). The syntax of Arabic vocatives. Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic
Languages and Linguistics, 12(2), 328-360.
Al-Bataineh,
H. (2019). Emphasis harmony in Arabic: A critical assessment of
feature-geometric and optimality-theoretic approaches. Languages, 4(4),
79.
Al-Bataineh,
H. (2017). A pragmatic study of implicit compliments in Jordanian Arabic. International
Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture (LLC), 4(1), 89-111.
