Lina Choueiri is an Associate Professor in Linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 at the American University of Beirut

American University of Beirut

The American University of Beirut is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded as the Syrian Protestant College by American missionaries in 1866...

 (AUB). She was the Chairperson of the department of English from 2006 to 2009.

Her research in Syntax mainly focuses on Lebanese Arabic

Lebanese Arabic

Lebanese or Lebanese Arabic is a variety of Levantine Arabic, indigenous to and spoken primarily in Lebanon, with significant linguistic influences borrowed from other Middle Eastern and European languages, and is in some ways unique from other varieties of Arabic...

 and related semitic languages. She works within the generative framework.

Research

Within the study of grammar in the Generative linguistics

Generative linguistics

Generative linguistics is a school of thought within linguistics that makes use of the concept of a generative grammar. The term "generative grammar" is used in different ways by different people, and the term "generative linguistics" therefore has a range of different, though overlapping,...

 approach, Choueiri's research interests follow three lines of inquiry:

1. the application of formal grammars to the study of human language,
2. the comparative syntax of Semitic languages, and
3. the status of the syntactic component of the grammar with respect to the other components (i.e. phonological and semantic).

The empirical domain of her research revolves around the notion of 'displacement

Displacement (linguistics)

In linguistics, displacement is the capability of human language to communicate about things that are not immediately present.In 1960, Charles F. Hockett proposed displacement as one of 13 "design-features" that distinguish human language from animal language:...

' and the relationship between pronouns and their antecedents in constructions like questions and relative clauses. Some of her recent publications include articles in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory , is a leading international peer-reviewed quarterly journal in theoretical linguistics, founded in 1983 and currently published by Springer Netherlands...

, Linguistic Inquiry

Linguistic Inquiry

Linguistic Inquiry is a peer-reviewed academic journal in generative linguistics published by the MIT Press since 1970. Ever since its foundation, it has been edited by Samuel Jay Keyser. Many seminal linguistic articles first appeared on its pages. The volumes since 1998 are available online via...

, and the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. The Syntax of Arabic, which she co-authored with Joseph Aoun and Elabbas Benmamoun was published by Cambridge University Press. She had been a faculty member in the English Department, at AUB, and a member of CELRT since Fall 2000.

Selected publications

Book:

Joseph Aoun, ElAbbas Benmaamoun, Lina Choueiri - 2009 - The Syntax of Arabic - Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521659868 (0-521-65986-8)

Papers and chapters:

Aoun, Joseph and Lina Choueiri - 1999 - “Modes of Interrogation”. In Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics, Benmamoun, Elabbas (ed.), 7 ff.

J Aoun, L Choueiri, N Hornstein - 2001 - Resumption, Movement, and Derivational Economy - Linguistic Inquiry - MIT Press

J Aoun, L Choueiri - 2000 - Epithets - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory - Springer

Education

PhD - Linguistics - University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

, 2001

MA - Linguistics - University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

MS - Linguistics - Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

 - 1993

BA - French - Université Saint-Joseph

Université Saint-Joseph

Saint Joseph University is a private Catholic higher institute of education founded by the Jesuits in 1875 in Beirut, Lebanon, known for its school of medicine and its hospital, Hôtel-Dieu de France. The Lebanese state officially recognizes the university and the diplomas it grants in accord with...

 - 1991

BA - Mathematics - American University of Beirut

American University of Beirut

The American University of Beirut is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded as the Syrian Protestant College by American missionaries in 1866...

- 1989