Ahmed H. Alhuwayshil

Visiting fellow (October 2025, A05, MGK)
Project: The Arabic Past Tense for Future Reference: Register-Sensitive Marker of Common Ground Commitment and Social Authority

Ahmed Hussain Alhuwayshil is a PhD researcher in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. He holds an MA in Linguistics from University College London (UCL) and lectured in linguistics at King Faisal University before starting his PhD. Ahmed is a formal semanticist working at the interface of semantics, logic, and the philosophy of language. His research focuses on scalar implicatures and on the semantics of tense and aspect. He uses tools from formal semantics, logic, and cognitive science, alongside experimental methods, employing intensional logic, type theory, and probabilistic game-theoretic models of communication to explain how temporal and pragmatic meaning is structured.
During his fellowship in the SFB project ‘register and grammar’ (SFB 1412 A05, Area A: Register and grammar) at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in collaboration with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Ahmed will develop game-theoretic and logical models of speaker choice and temporal reference. This work aims to capture how grammatical systems encode context-sensitive variation in tense and aspect and how such variation interacts with general theories of meaning and inference.

Projects

MGK Integrated Graduate School
A05 Modeling meaning-driven register variation: Politeness and face management

Contact

a.alhuwayshil@ed.ac.uk