Brief Bio
1. Personal Information
Name: Dr. Khalsa Hamed Salem Al Aghbari
E-mail: khalsah@squ.edu.om
Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
Department: English
Specialization: Linguistics
Minor specialization: Phonology and Morphology
Address: Sultan Qaboos University, College of Arts & Social Sciences. P.O Box 42, P.C. 123. Al-Khod,
Sultanate of Oman.
2. Employment History
Place of Work (Institution)
Year
Occupation
Deanship of Postgraduate Studies, SQU July 2014 to present Assistant Dean
Dept. Of English, College of Arts and
May 2014 to July
Assistant Head
Social Sciences, SQU
2014
Dept. Of English, College of Arts and
June 2012 to present Assistant Professor
Social Sciences, SQU
3. Education and Qualifications
3- 1 Qualifications
Year
Qualification
Institution
2001
Bachelor's of Education, English Major
Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
2004
Master's of Arts, Linguistics
University of Victoria, Canada
University of Florida
2012
PhD in Linguistics
3-2 Courses Taught
Level
ENGL2023 Introduction to Language and Phonetics
Bachelor's 2nd year
ENGL2327 Phonology and Morphology
Bachelor's 2nd year
ENGL3128 Speaking
Bachelor's 3rd year
ENGL4580 Special Topic in Linguistics
Bachelor's 4th year or above
TRAN2031Arabic Morphology
Bachelor's 3rd year
TRAN2321 Translation I
Bachelor's 2nd year
4. Research
4-1 Research Interests
Phonology and Morphology
Discourse Analysis
TESOL
4-2 Papers (5 most important or recent papers)
Al Aghbari, Khalsa. (June 2010). Derogatory forms of personal names in Omani Arabic. Anthropological
Linguistics 52(3-4), 344- 357.
http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/geninfo.html
(refereed and international journal indexed in the Web of Science (JCR))
Al Aghbari, Khalsa. (2014b). Optimality theoretic analysis of ablaut plurals in Jebbāli. Linguistic Analysis
39(3 &4), 341-370.
Al Aghbari, Khalsa. (2014a). Vb infixed plurals in Jebbāli. Morphology 24(2), 105-119 (DOI:
10.1007/s11525-014-9236-x)
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11525-014-9236-x
(refereed and international linguistic journal indexed in Scopus)
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Al Aghbari, Khalsa. (2011). Fixed vocalism in the broken plurals of Muscat Arabic. Journal of
Languages and Linguistics 28: 1-20
http://www.lang-ling.on.ma/
(international refereed journal in linguistics based in Morocco)
. Al Aghbari, Khalsa. (2012). An optimality theoretic
analysis of broken plurals in Muscat Arabic. International Journal of Linguistics 4(2), 160-192.
http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijl
(international and peer-reviewed journal indexed in EBSCOhost, Gale's Academic Databases,
Google Scholar, PKP Open Archives, Harvester, ProQuest and J-Gate)
Conferences (5 most important or recent conferences)
North American Conference on Afro-Asiatic Languages 41 (2016)
‫(ملتقى عمداء ومديري معاهد وكليات ومراكز الترجمة السعودية والخليجية) والذي ينظمه معهد الملك عبدهللا للترجمة والتعريب بجامعة‬
‫اإلمام محمد بن سعود اإلسالمية‬
4-3
North American Conference for Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (NACAL 40) (2012)
Tampa Papers in Linguistics (2011)
4-4
Thesis Supervision (5 most recent theses)
5. Awards
6. Community Service
services (Lectures – Seminars – etc….)
Did an in-service teaching for SQU. Taught linguistics (phonological, morphological and lexical
awareness) to experienced English teachers from the Ministry of Education, a training program organized
by the Continuing Education and Community Service at SQU. (Five times)
6-1 Community
"Surveying Patterns of Noun Plurality in Jebbali". Paper presented at the Dept. of English seminars.
6-2 Committee membership (5 main committees)
Language Centre Promotion Committee
Curriculum Development Committee
Deanship of Postgraduate Studies Board Committee
Scholarship Committee
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