Charbel El-Khaissi
Position: PhD Student, Linguistics
School and/or Centres: School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
Thesis topic: 'The Diachrony of Definiteness in Syriac’
Charbel has a diverse background in commercial, public and not-for-profit sectors. He has demonstrated capabilities in providing linguistic solutions in large-scale artificial intelligence programs for global-tech giants.
His PhD project examines (morpho)syntactic change within the nominal paradigm of Syriac, a late dialect of Aramaic. His research focus is on the reanalysis of grammatical definiteness features.
Website: https://www.celkhaissi.com/
Historical linguistics, syntax, language change, generative grammar, L2 pronunciation, romanisation.