Abdel-Khalig Ali

Abdel-Khalig Ali is an Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics at the University of Toronto, affiliated with the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. He specializes in the phonology of contemporary Sudanese Arabic dialects and is on leave from July 2025 to June 2026.

Education:

• PhD, University of Toronto

Research Interests: His work focuses on synchronic and diachronic phonology, prosodic structure, morphophonology, and the interaction between phonology and syntax. Key topics include the phonology-syntax interface, metrical structure, and the emergence of morphophonological features in spoken Arabic dialects.

Publications: Recent works include Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII (2021), Post-lexical strata... (2019), and Prosodic domains... (2017), exploring themes like phrasal phonology, syllabification, and Sudanese Arabic dialectal features.

Teaching and research are central to his career, emphasizing dialectal analysis and linguistic theory.