Graduate Student, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
PhD research
Trinity College
Thesis Title: Grammar of Jewish Zakho, the Endangered Dialect of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic of the Jews of Zakho (North West Iraq)
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Prof. Geoffrey Khan
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About
Currently, I am doing fieldwork in Aramaic in Jerusalem for my doctoral thesis, working in the community on recording J-Zakho and analysing it (at the moment: morphosyntax);
and writing a book about Hebrew on the Internet (together with Dr Carmel Vaisman), surveying the use of language on the Hebrew web environments and applications (expected early 2011, Keter Publishing).
PhD - Semitic linguistics (2009--), U of Cambridge. (2nd year).
MA - Semitic Linguistics (2009, Summa cum Laude), Tel-Aviv U. Thesis: "The Morphophonology of the Verbal Root in Spoken Israeli Hebrew".
BA (2005, Magna cum Laude), Tel-Aviv U, Dept's of Linguistics and East Asian Studies.
Teaching assistant (Cantab. 'Supervisor') in Beginners' Israeli Hebrew, U of Cambridge (2009-2010).
Several positions as a research assistant in linguistics and philology of Israeli Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic & Amharic.
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