Harvard University
6 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138

Email: aljallad@fas.harvard.edu

Biography: Ahmad is a second year Ph.D. student in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) at Harvard University. He is interested in the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages, focusing on morphosyntax and historical syntax. Most of his research concentrates on the Central Semitic languages and the decipherment, interpretation, and classification of the epigraphic material from North Arabia.

Current Research Interests: historical syntax (modality, markedness, relativization, negation, agreement), contact linguistics and dialectology, derivational morphology, Central Semitic, North Arabian and Northwest Semitic Epigraphy, the linguistic history of neo-Arabic.

CV: Al-Jallad-cv.pdf