Curriculum Vitae

Education

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
2000 establishing and heading of linguistic advisory team for Softjet, Sophisticated Lingual Technologies (developing Parsers, MT programs etc.)

Born 1945, Haifa.