Ariel Shisha-Halevy Curriculum Vitae Personal: Born 1945, in Haifa ...

Ariel Shisha-Halevy
Curriculum Vitae
(January 2003)
Personal:
Born 1945, in Haifa, Israel
Israeli citizenship
Home Address: 175 Freeman St., Brookline, 02446 MA
Office: Department of Linguistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus,
Jerusalem, Israel. Phone: +972-2-588-3851.
Home e-mail address: shisha@cc.huji.ac.il
Academic:
B.A. summa cum laude in Indo-European and Egyptian Linguistics, 1966, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
M.A. summa cum laude in Indo-European and Egyptian Linguistics, 1968, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. degree awarded 1972 (the Hebrew University), for the dissertation The
Circumstantial Sentence in Shenoute’s Coptic
Appointed Assistant Lecturer in Linguistics and Egyptian, 1968 (the Hebrew University)
Appointed Instructor in Linguistics and Egyptian, 1972 (the Hebrew University)
Appointed Lecturer in Linguistics and Egyptian, 1973 (the Hebrew University)
Post-Doctoral Research (in London, Oxford, Cambridge) 1973/4
Visiting Lecturer in Egyptian and Coptic, Tel-Aviv University, 1974-6
Appointed Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Egyptian, 1978 (the Hebrew University)
Sabbatical research leave (London) 1978/9
Appointed Professor in General and Egyptian Linguistics, 1984 (the Hebrew University)
Chair, Dept. of Linguistics, 1986-1990, 1998-
Elected Member, the National Israel Academy of Sciences, 2000
Guest Lecturer, the Egyptological Institute, Copenhagen (Summer 1979)
British Academy Visiting Professor, 1990
Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, 1984/5 and 1990
Visiting Professor, the Egyptological Seminar, University of Göttingen, 1984
Visiting Professor, the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, 1984/5
Visiting Professor, Dipartimento di Filologia Moderna, Università degli Studi di Napoli,
1998
Seminar given, College de France, Paris, December 2002
Member, The Philological Society
Member, The International Association for Coptic Studies
Member, The International Egyptological Society
2000- establishing and heading of linguistic advisory team for Softjet, Sophisticated
Lingual Technologies (developing Parsers, MT programs etc.)
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Courses given (selection)
Structural Elements of Coptic (Sahidic, Bohairic dialects)
Topics in Coptic Syntax
Coptic Dialectology
Typology of Egyptian and Coptic
Introduction to Egyptian Linguistics
Introduction to Demotic
Introduction to Structural Linguistics (for Egyptologists)
Structural Elements of Old and Middle Egyptian
Structural Elements of Late Egyptian
Topics in Old/Middle Egyptian Syntax
Topics in Late Egyptian Syntax
Structural Elements of Modern Welsh
Structural Elements of Middle Welsh
Structural Elements of Modern Irish
Topics in Modern Welsh Syntax
The Grammar of Kate Roberts
Topics in Modern Irish Syntax
Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Language
Introduction to Comparative Linguistics
Introduction to Diachronic Linguistics
Introduction to Linguistic Typology
Morphology
Syntactic Analysis
Comparative Linguistics
Diachronic Linguistics
Typological Comparison
Introduction to Text Linguistics
Advanced Topics in Text Linguistics