Diversity across the Arabian Peninsula

Janet C.E. Watson holds the Leadership Chair for Language@Leeds at the University of Leeds, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2013. Her current research areas are on Modern South Arabian, and the language–nature relationship. Her main research interests lie in the documentation of Modern South Arabian languages and modern Arabic dialects, with particular focus on phonetic and theoretical phonological and morphological approaches to language varieties spoken within the south-western Arabian Peninsula. Her publications include The Phonology and Morphology of Arabic (2007), The Structure of Mehri (2012), A Comparative Cultural Glossary of Modern South Arabian (with M. Morris, D. Eades & native speakers, 2019) and Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia (co-edited with J.C. Lovett and R. Morano, 2023). She is co-director of the Centre for Endangered Languages, Cultures and Ecosystems (CELCE) at the University of Leeds.