Faculty
Shmuel Bolozky, professor
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Shmuel
Bolozky is Professor of Hebrew at the Department of Judaic and Near
Eastern Studies of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where
he has been on the faculty since 1978 and where he previously served as chairperson
between 1985-90, 1995-98 and 2010-12. Since 2005, he has also been serving as Assistant Dean of Advising at the UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts. He taught linguistics at Tel Aviv
University (1972-1978), and Hebrew Linguistics – as a Visiting
Professor – at the Hebrew departments of Ben-Gurion University,
the Hebrew University, and Tel Aviv University. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Linguistics
in 1972.
Professor
Bolozky's specializations are in the areas of phonology (sound systems
of languages) and morphology (word formation) in general, and in
Modern Hebrew phonology and morphology in particular. He is also
interested in the application of linguistic methodology to the teaching
of Hebrew as a foreign language. Professor Bolozky is the author
of a book on word formation in Israeli Hebrew, Measuring Productivity
in Word Formation: the Case of Israeli Hebrew, Leiden: Brill,
1999, a textbook, Barron's 501 Hebrew Verbs, 1996, A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew, 2005, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (co-suthor), and a
number of chapters in books, mostly on Hebrew and Semitic linguistics.
His articles and reviews have appeared in Hebrew Studies,
Hebrew Linguistics, Afroasiatic Linguistics, Journal
of Higher Hebrew Education, Shofar, Mehqarim Be-Lashon,
Lashon Ve-`ivrit, The Modern Language Journal, Hebrew
Annual Review, Hed Ha-'ulpan, Al-`arabiyya, Zeitschrift
für arabische Linguistik, Linguistic Analysis, Journal
of Linguistics, Linguistic Inquiry, Glossa, and
a number of festschrifts.
Professor
Bolozky has been serving on the editorial boards of a number of
journals related to Hebrew Language and Jewish Studies – Hebrew
Studies, Shofar, Journal of Higher Hebrew Education – and as President of the National Association of Professors
of Hebrew (NAPH). He has also been a member of the Program Committee
of the NAPH's annual International Conference on Hebrew Language
and Literature since 1993, and serves as the Associate Director
for Hebrew at the National Middle East Language Resource Center
(headquarters: Brigham Young University).
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