Biography

Dr. Basima is a Lecturer in Linguistics at Salahaddin University-Erbil, specializing in morphological change and language regularization in contemporary English. She earned her PhD in Linguistics from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, through the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (EMIIY Project), with a dissertation titled "Language Change and (Ir)regularization."

Beyond teaching and research, she has participated in numerous academic development programs in Iraq and Europe and has served in editorial, organizational, and advisory roles for various conferences and workshops. She is also committed to community engagement, including volunteer work for NGOs.

Research Interest

  • Language Change
  • Language Acquisition
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Morphosyntax
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Conversation Analysis

Publications

  • 2018: Language Change and (Ir)regularization: The Synchronic and Diachronic Analyses of (Ir)regularization. Doctoral Thesis, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
  • 2023: Looking for Kurdish Learners’ Correspondences of Shape-Sound Symbolism in the Classic Takete-Maluma Phenomenon. Published in Journal of the Kurdish Academy (Issue No. 56). DOI: 10.56422/ka..56.342. Available here.
  • 2023: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Frequency Effects in English Pluralization. Accepted by Journal of Babylon (Ref: 691 / H, Date: 28th Sept. 2023). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Journal link.
  • 2023: Conjunctive Formations in Old English and Modern English: A Comparative Study. Accepted by Alustath Journal for Human and Social Science (UJHSS), College of Education-Ibn Al Rushd, University of Baghdad (Ref: 408, Date: 11th Dec. 2023). Journal link.
  • 2021: Inflectional Changes of Double Marked Form: Evidence from a Corpus Study of English Verbal System. Published in Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, Salahaddin University. DOI: 10.2127/zjhs.25.6.14.
  • 2010: Syllable Stressed Patterns of English. Published in ZANCO, Salahaddin University.
  • 2009: Grammatical and Discourse Features of Commercial E-mail Messages. Published in ZANCO, Salahaddin University.
  • 2006: Conversation Analysis of Internet Relay Chat. Master’s Thesis, University of Baghdad.

Teaching

  • Linguistics
  • Morphology
  • Generative Syntax
  • Semantics

 

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