Positions
- 1961-1967: Piano teacher, Conservatoire and Academy of Music, Tel Aviv.
- 1963-1969: Free lance simultaneous interpreter.
- 1967-1969: Teaching assistant in Linguistics, Tel Aviv University.
- 1969-1971: Teaching assistant in Linguistics, The Ohio State University.
- 1972-present: Tel Aviv University member of the academic staff (linguistics).
- 1973: Senior lecturer, Tenure.
- 1978: Associate professor.
- 1982: Full professor. Emeritus since October 2005.
- 1980-1983, 1988-1993, 1995-1995: Chair of linguistics.
- 1975 (summer): Universities of Pretoria and the Witswatersrand, visiting lecturer.
- 1975-6: University of California at Los Angeles, visiting associate professor.
- 1978: University of South Africa, visiting associate professor.
- 1983-4: The Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, Holland, research fellow.
- 1990: University of Stuttgart, D.A.A.D. fellow (July, August).
- 1990: Université de Montreal, Visiting Professor (September, October)
- 1991: University of Ottawa, Visiting Professor (September)
- 1991, 1992, 1993: Université Paris 7, Visiting Professor (February)
- 1994: Université de Montreal, Visiting Professor (September-December)
- 1995: University of Bucharest, Visiting Scholar (October)
- 1999: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Visiting Scholar (July)
- 2000: Université Paris 3, Visiting Scholar (March-May)
- 2003: University of Leiden, Visiting Scholar (March, April).
- 2003: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Visiting Scholar (May, June)
- 2003: La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, Visiting Scholar (July, August)
- 2006: University of Bucharest, Visiting Scholar (May)
- 2008: Babes-Boliay University, Cluj-Napoca, Visiting Scholar.