Churchill College , Cambridge
Which employer did Ghil'ad Zuckermann work for between Dec 2002 and Jan 2003?
Ghilad Zuckermann Ghilad Zuckermann ( , ; ) is an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics , lexicology and the study of language , culture and identity . Zuckermann is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide , Australia . He is the president of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies . Biography . Zuckermann was born in Tel Aviv in 1971 and raised in Eilat . He attended the United World College ( UWC ) of the Adriatic in 1987–1989 . In 1997 he received an M.A . in Linguistics from the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University . In 1997–2000 he was Scatcherd European Scholar of the University of Oxford and Denise Skinner Graduate Scholar at St Hughs College , receiving a D.Phil . ( Oxon. ) in 2000 . While at Oxford , he served as President of the Oxford University LChaim Society . As Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College , Cambridge ( 2000–2004 ) , he was affiliated with the Department of Linguistics , Faculty of Modern and Medieval Studies , University of Cambridge . He received a titular Ph.D . ( Cantab. ) in 2003 . He taught at the University of Cambridge ( Faculty of Oriental Studies , now known as Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies ) , University of Queensland , National University of Singapore , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , East China Normal University , University of Miami , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik and Middlebury College . In 2010-2015 he was Chinas Ivy League Project 211 Distinguished Visiting Professor , and Shanghai Oriental Scholar professorial fellow , at Shanghai International Studies University . He was Australian Research Council ( ARC ) Discovery Fellow in 2007-2011 and was awarded research fellowships at the Rockefeller Foundations Bellagio Study and Conference Center , Villa Serbelloni , Bellagio , Lake Como , Italy ) ; Braginsky Center , Weizmann Institute of Science ; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center ( University of Texas at Austin ) ; Israel Institute for Advanced Studies ( Hebrew University of Jerusalem ) ; Tel Aviv University ; Research Centre for Linguistic Typology ( Institute for Advanced Study , La Trobe University , Melbourne ) ; National Institute for Japanese Language ( Tokyo ) ; and Mahidol University . He was awarded a British Academy Research Grant , Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship , Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarship and Chevening Scholarship . Currently , Zuckermann is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide . He is elected member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the Foundation for Endangered Languages . He serves as Editorial Board member of the Journal of Language Contact ( Brill ) , consultant for the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) , and expert witness in ( corpus ) lexicography and ( forensic ) linguistics . Since February 2017 he has been the president of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies ( AAJS ) . In 2013-2015 he was President of the Australasian Association of Lexicography ( AustraLex ) . In 2017 Zuckermann was awarded a five-year research project grant from Australias National Health and Medical Research Council ( NHMRC ) to explore the effects of Indigenous language reclamation on social and emotional wellbeing . Zuckermann is a hyperpolyglot . Public impact . Zuckermann applies insights from the Hebrew revival to the revitalization of Aboriginal languages in Australia . According to Yuval Rotem , the Israeli Ambassador to Australia , Zuckermanns passion for the reclamation , maintenance and empowerment of Aboriginal languages and culture inspired [ him ] and was indeed the driving motivator of the establishment of the Allira Aboriginal Knowledge IT Centre in Dubbo , New South Wales , Australia , on 2 September 2010 . He proposes Native Tongue Title , compensation for language loss , because linguicide results in loss of cultural autonomy , loss of spiritual and intellectual sovereignty , loss of soul . He uses the term sleeping beauty to refer to a no-longer spoken language and urges Australia to define the 330 Aboriginal languages , most of them sleeping beauties , as the official languages of their region , and to introduce bilingual signs and thus change the linguistic landscape of the country . So , for example , Port Lincoln should also be referred to as Galinyala , which is its original Barngarla name . His edX MOOC Language Revival : Securing the Future of Endangered Languages has had 20,000 learners from 190 countries . Zuckermann proposes a controversial hybrid theory of the emergence of Israeli Hebrew according to which Hebrew and Yiddish acted equally as the primary contributors to Modern Hebrew . Scholars including Yiddish linguist Dovid Katz ( who refers to Zuckermann as a fresh-thinking Israeli scholar ) , adopt Zuckermanns term Israeli and accept his notion of hybridity . Others , for example author and translator Hillel Halkin , oppose Zuckermanns model . In an article published on 24 December 2004 in The Jewish Daily Forward , pseudonymous column Philologos , Halkin accused Zuckermann of political agenda . Zuckermanns response was published on 28 December 2004 in The Mendele Review : Yiddish Literature and Language . As described by Reuters in a 2006 article , Zuckermanns lectures are packed , with the cream of Israeli academia invariably looking uncertain on whether to endorse his innovative streak or rise to the defense of the mother tongue . According to Omri Herzog ( Haaretz ) , Zuckermann is considered by his Israeli colleagues either a genius or a provocateur . Reclamation of the Barngarla language . In 2011 [ ... ] Zuckermann contacted the Barngarla community about helping to revive and reclaim the Barngarla language . This request was eagerly accepted by the Barngarla people and language reclamation workshops began in Port Lincoln , Whyalla and Port Augusta in 2012 ( Barngarla man Stephen Atkinson , 2013 ) . The reclamation is based on 170-year-old documents . Adelaide Language Festival . Zuckermann is the founder and convener of the Adelaide Language Festival . Contributions to linguistics . Zuckermanns research focuses on contact linguistics , lexicology , revivalistics , Jewish languages , and the study of language , culture and identity . Zuckermann argues that Israeli Hebrew , which he calls Israeli , is a hybrid language that is genetically both Indo-European ( Germanic , Slavic and Romance ) and Afro-Asiatic ( Semitic ) . He suggests that Israeli is the continuation not only of literary Hebrew ( s ) but also of Yiddish , as well as Polish , Russian , German , English , Ladino , Arabic and other languages spoken by Hebrew revivalists . Zuckermanns hybridic synthesis is in contrast to both the traditional revival thesis ( i.e . that Israeli is Hebrew revived ) and the relexification antithesis ( i.e . that Israeli is Yiddish with Hebrew words ) . While his synthesis is multi-parental , both the thesis and the antithesis are mono-parental . Zuckermann introduces revivalistics as a new transdisciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation ( e.g . Barngarla ) , revitalization ( e.g . Adnyamathanha ) and reinvigoration ( e.g . Irish ) . Complementing documentary linguistics , revivalistics aims to provide a systematic analysis especially of attempts to resurrect no-longer spoken languages ( reclamation ) but also of initiatives to reverse language shift ( revitalization and reinvigoration ) . His analysis of multisourced neologization ( the coinage of words deriving from two or more sources at the same time ) challenges Einar Haugens classic typology of lexical borrowing . Whereas Haugen categorizes borrowing into either substitution or importation , Zuckermann explores cases of simultaneous substitution and importation in the form of camouflaged borrowing . He proposes a new classification of multisourced neologisms such as phono-semantic matching . Zuckermanns exploration of phono-semantic matching in Standard Mandarin and Meiji period Japanese concludes that the Chinese writing system is multifunctional : pleremic ( full of meaning , e.g . logographic ) , cenemic ( empty of meaning , e.g . phonographic – like a syllabary ) and simultaneously cenemic and pleremic ( phono-logographic ) . He argues that Leonard Bloomfields assertion that a language is the same no matter what system of writing may be used is inaccurate . If Chinese had been written using roman letters , thousands of Chinese words would not have been coined , or would have been coined with completely different forms . Selected publications . Zuckermann has published in English , Hebrew , Italian , Yiddish , Spanish , German , Russian , Arabic and Chinese . Books . - , Oxford University Press , 2020 . / - Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew . Palgrave Macmillan , 2003 . / - Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics , 2012 . - Jewish Language Contact ( Special Issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language , Vol . 226 ) , 2014 . - Engaging – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People , and their Arts Practices and Intellectual Property , 2015 . - Dictionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language , 2018 . Barngarlidhi Manoo - Part 2 Filmography . - Frys Planet Word , Stephen Fry interviewing Ghilad Zuckermann - SBS : Living Black : S18 Ep9 - Linguicide - Babbel : Why Revive A Dead Language ? - Interview with Prof . Ghilad Zuckermann - Barngarla people rediscover their language , SBS News - edX MOOC Language Revival : Securing the Future of Endangered Languages’’ External links . - University of Adelaide : Researcher Profile : Ghilad Zuckermann - University Staff Directory : Ghilad Zuckermann - Ghilad Zuckermann , Academia - Ghilad Zuckermanns website