Education:
l964-l967: The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Departments of Philosophy and Hebrew Literature; B.A.
l967-l969: The Hebrew University, Departments of Comparative Literature and Philosophy; M.A.
l972-l976: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. program of the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics; Ph.D. degree awarded in August l976; Thesis Supervisor: Prof. N. Chomsky.

Current research and teaching areas:
Theoretical linguistics:  Syntax, Semantics, Discourse, the theory of the Interface. Media and cultural studies.

Recent books (2006)
Downloadable Papers in Linguistics
Downloadable Political articles
Books on the Middle East
 

Selected publications: Syntax and Semantics; Discourse; Literature

Syntax and Semantics:  

• "The Processing Cost of Reference-Set Computation: Acquisition of Stress Shift and Focus" (to appear in: Language Acquisition,  12.2, 2004) (MS Word)
• "Processing or Pragmatics? - Explaining the Coreference Delay" (to appear in Ted Gibson and Neal Pearlmutter (eds) The processing and acquisition of reference, MIT Press) ( MS Word)
• With Tal Saloni, "Thematic Arity Operations and Parametric Variations", OTS working papers in linguistics, TL-03-001, 2003 (MS Word,  .pdf).
• "The Theta System: An Overview". Theoretical Linguistics 28(3), pp. 229-290, 2002. (MS Word,  .pdf)
• "Strategies of anaphora resolution", in Hans Bennis, M. Everaert and E. Reuland (eds) Interface Strategies North Holland Amsterdam, p.295-324, 2000 (MS Word,  .pdf). 
• With Ad Neeleman: "Scrambling and the PF interface" in W. Cobler & M. Butt (eds) Projecting form the Lexicon, CSLI, Stanford, 1997 (MS Word,  .pdf).
• "Quantifier-Scope: How labor is divided between QR and choice functions", Linguistics and Philosophy, 20:335-397, 1997. (MS Word,  .pdf).
• "Wh-in-situ in the framework of the minimalist program" OTS working Papers, 1994, Natural Language Semantics 6:29-56, 1998. ( MS Word,  .pdf).
• With E. Reuland, "Reflexivity" in Linguistic Inquiry, vol 24 no 4, 1993, 657-720.
• With Y. Grodzinsky "The innateness of binding and coreference", Linguistic Inquiry, vol 24, no 1, 1993, 69-101
• "wh-in-situ - An apparent paradox" in P. Dekker and M. Stokhof(eds) Proceedings of the eight Amsterdam Colloquium, Holland, 1992.
• With E. Reuland, "Anaphoric territories" Groningen Working papers in Linguistics, 1992
• With E. Reuland, "Anaphors and Logophors: An argument-structure Perspective", in E. Reuland and J. Koster, eds. Long-Distance Anaphora, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• "Elliptic conjunctions: Non-Quantificational LF", in A. Kasher, ed. The Chomskyan Turn, Blackwell, 1991
• With S. Lappin, "Presuppositional Effects of Strong Determiners: A Processing account", Linguistics, Vol 26 -6, 1988, 1021-1037.
• "Specifiers and Operator Binding," in E. Reuland & A. ter Meulen, eds., The Representation of (In)definites, MIT Press, l987, l30-l67.
• "On the Interpretation of Donkey-Sentences," in Traugott et al., eds., On Conditionals, Cambridge University Press, l986, l03-l22.
• "Center and Periphery in the Grammar of Anaphora," in Barbara Lust, ed., Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora, Reidel, l986, l23-l50.
• Anaphora and Semantic Interpretation. Croom Helm Press, London, l983. Paperback edition: Univ. of Chicago Press, l984
• "Coreference and Bound Anaphora: A Restatement of the Anaphora Questions," Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 6, l983, 47-88.
• "Definite NP Anaphora and C-Command Domains," Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. l2, No. 4, l98l, 605-635.
• "A Second COMP Position," in A. Belletti et al., eds., Theory of Markedness in Generative Grammar, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, l98l, 5l8-557.
• "On the Position of Extraposed Clauses," Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. II, No. 3, l980, 62l-624.
• "Syntactic Domains for Semantic Rules," in F. Guenthner & S.J. Schmidt, eds., Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language, Synthese Language Library, D. Reidel, l979, l07-l30.
• "On Certain Ambiguities and Uncertain Scope," in Grossman et al., eds., Papers from the Eleventh Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, l975, 45l-464.
• The Syntactic domain of anaphora, PhD dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Distributed by MITWPL, Linguistics, MIT, Cambridge, Mass 02139.

Discourse:

• "Topics and the conceptual interface", in H. Kamp and B. Partee (eds.), Context Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning, Amsterdam: Elsevier Press, 2004, p. 275 - 305.

• "Principles of Gestalt Perception in the Temporal Organization of Narrative Texts," Linguistics, Vol. 22, l984, 779-809. French version in Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes. Formes hommage a Mitsou Ronat, No. l4/l5, l986, 45-92.

• "Point of View in Language," in Gisa Rauch, ed., Essays on Deixis, Gunter Narr Verlag, Tubingen, l983, l69-l94.

• "Pragmatics and Linguistics: An Analysis of Sentence Topics," Philosophica, Vol. 27, No. l, Special Issue on Pragmatic Theory, l98l, 53-93. Distributed also by Indiana University Linguistics Club.

• "Conditions for Text-Coherence," Poetics Today, Vol. I, No. 4, l980, l6l-l80.

Literature:

• From Cubism to Madona: Representation and Subject in 20th century art IN HEBREW, 'haKibutz haMeuxad', Tel Aviv, 2000.

• "From Text to Meaning: Evaluation Devices" IN HEBREW. An Overcoat for Benjamin, Papers on Literature for Benjamin Harshav. Hakibutz Hameuxad, Tel Aviv, 1999.

• "Reported Consciousness and Point of View," PTL (Poetics and the Theory of Literature), Vol. IV, No. 4, l979, 63-75.

• "On Understanding Poetic Metaphors," Poetics, Vol. 5, l976, 383-402. Reprinted in M.K. Ching, M.C. Haley & R.F. Lunsford, eds., Linguistic Perspectives in Literature, Routledge Kegan Paul, l980, 9l-ll4.

• "Patterns, Intuitions, and the Sense of Nonsense: An Analysis of Cummings', 'anyone lived in a pretty how town'," PTL (Poetics and the Theory of Literature), Vol. I, No.l, l976, l90-209.