is Professor of Linguistics and Endangered
Languages and
Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow at the
University of Adelaide , Australia. He is the author of the
controversial bestseller
Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli - A Beautiful Language) Language
Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew Language Revival and Multiple Causation
(Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He is an expert of revival
linguistics, language contact and lexicology. He is also
Distinguished Visiting Professor and Oriental Scholar at
Shanghai International Studies University (China) and Visiting
Professorial Scientist at the
Weizmann
Institue of Science (Israel) and at the Israel Institute for
Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He serves as
Editorial Board member of the Journal of Language Contact .
He has been Gulbenkian Research Fellow at
Churchill College, Cambridge , has taught at the
University of Cambridge ,
The University of Queensland and
National University of Singapore , and has been research fellow
at the
Rockefeller Foundation 's Study and Conference Center (Villa
Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy),
Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT) (Institute for
Advanced Study,
La Trobe University ),
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at
Austin) and
Kokuritu Kokugo Kenkyuuzyo (National Language Research Institute,
Tokyo) . Read More
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