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Mustafa Mughazy Associate professor of Arabic and Linguistics Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office: 818 Sprau Tower Email: mustafa.mughazy@wmich.edu Phone: (269) 387-2933

 

Education

• Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004
• M.A. in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
• M.A. in Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University, 1999
• B.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, 1995

 

Current professional positions

• Arabic Linguistics Society, Executive Director
• American Association for Teachers of Arabic, President
• Georgetown University Press Language Advisory Board, Board member
• Al-Arabiyya Journal of the American Association for Teachers of Arabic, book review editor
• National Advisory Board for the Center for Language Education and Research, Board member

 

Biography

Mustafa Mughazy is an Associate Professor of Arabic and Linguistics at Western Michigan University, where he coordinates the Arabic program. Dr. Mughazy earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State University, and a B.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Alexandria University, Egypt. He is the author of Dardasha: Introduction to Egyptian Arabic and the editor of Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX, in addition to a series of articles and book chapters. His research interests include the interface of semantics and pragmatics and the issues of temporal reference in Arabic. His passion is developing print and on-line teaching materials.

 

Publications

Books

• 2007 (ed.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• 2004 Dardasha: Elementary Egyptian Arabic. Madison: National African Language Resource Center.
• In progress. Arabic-English Translation Manual. New York: Hippocrene Books.
• In progress. (ed.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXII. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Alaa Elgibaali

 

Articles and Book Chapters

• In press. “The Information Structure of Definite Existentials in Egyptian Arabic.” Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic. Ed. Alaa Elgibali & Jonathan Owens. New York: Routledge.

• In press. “Reading Despite Ambiguities.” Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic 39.

• In press. “Relative Clauses,” Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Ed. Mushira Eid, Alaa El-Gibaly, and Kees Versteegh. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.

• 2008. “An Information Structure Analysis of So-called Emphatic Negation.” Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXI. Ed. Parkinson Dilworth, 69-83. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

• 2008. “The Many Faces of Negation: The Negative Operator as a Discourse Marker in Egyptian Arabic.” Linguistics in an Age of Globalization: Perspectives on Arabic Language and Teaching, 156-176. Ed. Zeinab Ibrahim and Sanaa Makhlouf. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.

• 2008. “Pragmatics”. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Vol. 3. Ed. Mushira Eid, Alaa El-Gibaly, and Kees Versteegh. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 676-683.

• 2008. “Nominalization”. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Vol. 3. Ed. Mushira Eid, Alaa El-Gibaly, and Kees Versteegh. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 388-394.

• 2008. “Performatives”. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Vol. 3. Ed. Mushira Eid, Alaa El-Gibaly, and Kees Versteegh. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 570-573.

• 2006 “Ellipsis.” Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Vol 2. Ed. Mushira Eid, Alaa El-Gibaly, and Kees Versteegh. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 18-21.

• 2006 “Review of Approaches to Arabic Dialects: A Collection of Articles Presented to Manfred Woidiche on the Occasion of his 60 th Birthday. Eds. Haak, De Jong & Versteegh. Middle Eastern Studies Association Bulletin 39:2.276.

• 2005 “Rethinking Lexical Aspect in Egyptian Arabic.” Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XVII. Ed. Elabbas Benmamoun and M. T. Alhawary. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 133-173.

• 2004 “Semantic and Pragmatic Constraints on Adjectival Passive Participles in Egyptian Arabic.” Linguistic Typology and Representation of African Language. Ed. John Mugane. New York: Africa World Press. 217-228.

• 2003 “Discourse Particles Revisited: The Case of wallaahi in Egyptian Arabic.” Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIII . Eds. Dilworth Parkinson and Samira Farawanrh. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 3-29.

• 2003 “Metalinguistic Negation and Truth Functions: The Case of Egyptian Arabic.” Journal of Pragmatics 35.8:1143-1160.

• 2003 “The Spread of Arabic in Africa” (with Elabbas Benmamoun). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Ed. Paul Zeleza and Dickson Eyoh. New York: Routledge. 38-39.

• 2003 “ Alexandria in the 20 th Century.” Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Ed. Paul Zeleza and Dickson Eyoh. New York: Routledge. 27-28.

• 2002 “Adjectival Passives and Thematic Roles in Egyptian Arabic: A Cognitive Semantics Approach.” Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 32:143-153.

• 2000 “Pragmatics of the Evil Eye in Egyptian Arabic.” Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 30:147-58.