Education:

• 1971/2-1973/4: Tel Aviv University; B.A. in Hebrew and Semitic Linguistics (with distinction), 1975.
• 1974/5-1975/6: Tel Aviv University; M.A. in Semitic Linguistics (summa cum Laude), 1977.
• 1977-1984: Tel Aviv University; PhD, 1985.

• Since the academic year 1975/6 has been teaching at Tel Aviv University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Department of Semitic Linguistics, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Department of Hebrew Culture Studies.
• Since 2005: Head, Section of Semitic Linguistics, Department of Hebrew Culture Studies.
• 1995-2005: Coordinator, Section of Semitic Languages, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages.

• 1988; 1991/2: Visiting Scholar at The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1976-1982: Associate editor, Newsletter for Ugaritic Studies.
• Since 1995: Member of the editorial board of the series LINCOM Studies in Semitic Linguistics.
• 1996-2000: General editor of Israel Oriental Studies, annual of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University.
• 1999: Convener of the symposium Semitic Linguistics: The State of the Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Tel Aviv University)
• Two courses in Corpus Linguistics (The Tuscan Word Centre, Italy, April and October 1999)
• 1999/2000: Visiting scholar at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• 2000: Convener (with Benjamin Hary) of the conference Corpus Linguistics and the Study of Modern Hebrew (Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
• 2005: The Case for a Corpus - Spoken and Written Corpora, The Tuscan Word Centre, Certosa di Pontignano, Italy - member of the teaching staff.
• 2006: ELCO: École Thématique Linguistique de Corpus Oraux, Nantes, France - member of the scientific committee and of the teaching staff

 
• Has participated in numerous international conferences in Assyriology and linguistics.
• Has taken part in numerous professional and academic committees

 

Israeli Hebrew; Linguistic variation; Corpus Linguistics; The language of the Akkadian mythological texts; Akkadian metrics; the background and origins of Hebrew.
 

Publications (click here)
 

Courses taught:

• Introduction to Semitic Linguistics
• Hebrew and the Semitic Languages
• Language and Script
• Semitic Language Samples: Eastern and Northwest Semitic Languages
• Languages in Contact in the Semitic World
• TMA (Tense-Mood-Aspect) in Semitic Languages
• TMA in Israeli Hebrew
• Morphology of Israeli Hebrew
• Synchronic Analysis of Israeli Hebrew
• Characteristics of Spoken Language
• Linguistic Variation and Cultural Variation
• Linguistic Variation: Examples from Semitic Languages
• Beginning Akkadian
• Advanced Akkadian
• Literary Akkadian
• Peripheral Akkadian
• Akkadian Dialects
• Canaano-Akkadian: The Mixed Language of the Amarna Letters
• Northwest Semitic Languages
• Ugaritic
• Ancient Aramaic
• The History of Aramaic
• Phoenician

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