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is an Associate Professor and
ARC Discovery Fellow at
The University of Queensland, Australia.
He has been Gulbenkian Research Fellow at
Churchill College, Cambridge, and has been affiliated with the
Department of Linguistics,
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Studies,
University of Cambridge.
After studying at the
United World College of the Adriatic (Collegio
del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico; Duino, Trieste) and performing
several years of military service, he was selected for the Adi
Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students of
Tel Aviv University, where he studied philosophy, psychology,
classics, literature, law and mathematics, and specialized in
linguistics, receiving his M.A. (97%, summa cum laude) from the
Department of Linguistics in 1997. As Scatcherd European Scholar
of the
University of Oxford and Denise Skinner Graduate Scholar of
St Hugh's College, Oxford, he gained his D.Phil., entitled
'Camouflaged Borrowing: "Folk-Etymological Nativization" in the
Service of Puristic Language Engineering', in 2000.
He has published in English, Israeli ('Ivrit'), Italian, Yiddish,
Spanish, German and Russian. His book
Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew came
out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2003, and
Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli a Beautiful Language - Hebrew as Myth)
is in press (2008) with Am Oved. He is currently preparing three
further volumes: (1)
Language Genesis and Multiple Causation, (2) Language, Religion
and Identity, and (3) Language Academies.
Prof. Zuckermann has taught various undergraduate and graduate
courses at the
University of Cambridge (Faculty of Oriental Studies),
National University of Singapore,
University of Miami,
University of Haifa and
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
He 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). He has held a range of fellowships and scholarships,
including a British Academy Research Grant, Memorial Foundation of
Jewish Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harold Hyam Wingate
Scholarship, British Chevening Scholarship and Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship.
He has delivered keynote speeches, other conference papers and
invited public lectures in Adelaide, Ann Arbor (Michigan), Armidale,
Atlanta (Georgia), Auckland (NZ), Austin (Texas), Bangkok, Beer
Sheva, Beijing, Bellagio, Bergamo, Berkeley (California),
Bloomington (Indiana), Boston (Massachusetts), Boulder (Colorado),
Brisbane, Cambridge, Christchurch (NZ), Dunedin (NZ), Gainesville
(Florida), Haifa, Hamilton (NZ), Hong Kong, Honolulu, Istanbul,
Jerusalem, Jinan (China), Kfar Saba, London, Los Angeles, Madrid,
Melbourne, Miami (Florida), Moscow, Munich, Nanjing (China), New
Brunswick (New Jersey), New York City, Orlando (Florida), Oxford,
Princeton (New Jersey), Roehampton (UK), San Diego (California),
Santiago de Cuba, Shanghai, Singapore, Stanford (California),
Sydney, Tampa (Florida), Tel Aviv, Tempe (Arizona), Tianjin (China),
Tiv`on, Tucson (Arizona), Tokyo, Vilnius and Wellington (NZ).
Dr Zuckermann is a member of the
Philological Society,
Linguistic Society of America (LSA),
Centre for Research on Language Change (CRLC),
European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX),
Association for Jewish Studies (AJS),
European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS),
Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society (IALS),
Australasian Association for Lexicography (AUSTRALEX),
Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquee (AILA),
National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH),
Australian Linguistic Society (ALS),
Australian Association of Jewish Studies (AAJS),
Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL),
Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics (SAAL),
Cambridge Institute of Language Research (CILR).
Assoc. Prof. Zuckermann has been an invited speaker on various TV
and radio programmes in Israel (e.g. Channel 2) and Australia (e.g.
four ABC Lingua Franca programmes, various SBS interviews in
Israeli, Yiddish, Italian and English), and has featured in many
newspaper articles in the USA (e.g. The Forward) and Israel (e.g.
Maariv, YNet).
In 1993-6 he taught preparatory courses for various psychometric
examinations and co-authored several books in this field. Other
interests include opera (in particular Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti and
Mozart), film, photography, poetry, constrained literature,
paleo-anthropology and human migration, cultural immersion through
travel, and world politics.
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