mr. Safwat Ali Saleh

• Address: Office C30, County south, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, LA1 4YL, United Kingdom

sfwt2007@yahoo.co.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 77 17 100 445

About me

Iam an assistant lecturer in department of Linguistics in Cairo University.

Currently, I am a PhD student in Applied Linguistics (by thesis and coursework), department of Linguistics and English Language. I am working, under supervision of Dr. Andrew Hardie and prof. Tony Mcenery, on Arabic corpus linguistics. My interests are in Building Arabic Corpora: designing, compiling, annotating, analysing. I am also interested in investigating collocational patterns. I have built some corpora for Arabic, but my recent project now is Building a representative, balanced, annotated corpus i.e. Modern Written Corpus of Contemporary Arabic (MWcoca). The corpus contains more than one billion words, derived from newspapers, magazines and websites, covering 15 domains during the last 10 years

Research Interest

Generally speaking, I am interested in Applied Linguistics. But my particular research interests currently include:

• Arabic Corpus Linguistics;
• Corpus design, compilation and annotation;
• Collocational patterns;
• Semantic Preferences;
• Semantic Prosody;

my PhD Project

my phd focuses on statestically identifying collocation patterns in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).

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