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HUSSEIN HAMID HUSSEIN ALBATAINEH

HUSSEIN HAMID HUSSEIN ALBATAINEH

Faculty of Language Studies
Faculty of Language Studies
Assistant Dean/Faculty of English Language
Contact Information
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halbataineh@aou.edu.kw
Office FE516

Professional Biography

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. 

Courses Taught

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

EL117: writing

EL120: Introduction to Linguistics 


Professional Experience

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

Research Publications

  1. Al-Bataineh, H. (2025). The Morphosyntax of Deverbal Exclamatives in Arabic. Al-ʿArabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, 58(1), 63-98.
  2. Al-Bataineh, H. (2024). Arabic compound numerals: New insights on case, agreement, and quantification. Languages, 9(5), Article 5.
  3.  Al-Bataineh, H., & Saeed, S. T. (2024). The syntax of negative polarity items in Central Kurdish. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 11(1), 2349404.
  4. Al-Bataineh, H. (2023). The structure of wh-exclamatives in Jordanian Arabic and beyond. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 55(2), 216-248.
  5. Al-Bataineh, H. (2023). Exclamative constructions: An overview. L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria, 33(1), 55-84.
  6. Al-Bataineh, H. (2022). The syntax of Tłıchǫ Yatıì verbal morphology. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 19(2), 69-98.
  7. Al-Bataineh, H. (2021). The morphosyntax of Arabic exceptives: A minimalist approach. Journal of Semitic Studies, 66(1), 441-482.
  8. Al-Bataineh, H. (2021). Alternations of classificatory verb stems in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì: A cognitive semantic account. Folia Linguistica, 55(1), 163-194.
  9. Al-Bataineh, H. (2020). Clitic doubling in Hebrew and Arabic construct states: Overview and counterarguments. MUN Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 3, 1-17.
  10. Al-Bataineh, H. (2020). The syntax of Arabic vocatives. Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 12(2), 328-360.
  11. Al-Bataineh, H. (2019). Emphasis harmony in Arabic: A critical assessment of feature-geometric and optimality-theoretic approaches. Languages, 4(4), 79.
  12. 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.