​Dr. Marwan Al-Jarrah participated in the annual conference of the British Linguistics Association held at Newcastle University. His participation involved presenting two specialized papers on modern syntactic theory.​

In this conference, we offered novel evidence, which is based on complementizer agreement patterns in Jordanian Arabic (JA), that head movement is a narrow-syntax operation (contra Chomsky 2001, but consistent with Matushansky 2006; Roberts 2010 among others). This evidence draws on the fact that head movement (particularly the movement of a phasal head) extends the edge of a phase which is widely assumed to be a narrow-syntax object.