Ghil'ad Zuckermann





























Ghil'ad Zuckermann

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Ghil'ad Zuckermann

Born
(1971-06-01) 1 June 1971 (age 47)

Tel Aviv, Israel
Alma mater
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Tel Aviv University
United World College of the Adriatic
Known for Hybridic theory of Israeli Hebrew,
Classification of camouflaged borrowing,
Phono-semantic matching,
Revivalistics,
Language reclamation and mental health
Scientific career
Fields
Linguistics,
Language revitalization
Institutions
The University of Adelaide
Churchill College, Cambridge
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Weizmann Institute of Science
The University of Queensland
National University of Singapore
University of Texas at Austin


Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Hebrew: .mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-size:1.15em;font-family:"Ezra SIL","Ezra SIL SR","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey Ashkenaz","Taamey David CLM","Taamey Frank CLM","Frank Ruehl CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli","SBL BibLit","SBL Hebrew",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}גלעד צוקרמן‬ , pronounced [ɡi'lad ˈtsukeʁman], born 1 June 1971) is a linguist and revivalist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity.[1] Zuckermann is professor of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide, Australia.




Contents






  • 1 Biography


  • 2 Public impact


    • 2.1 Reclamation of the Barngarla language


    • 2.2 Adelaide Language Festival




  • 3 Contributions to linguistics


  • 4 Selected publications


    • 4.1 Books and book chapters


    • 4.2 Journal articles




  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Biography


Zuckermann was born in Giv'atayim, Israel on 1 June 1971, and grew up in Eilat. He attended the United World College (UWC) of the Adriatic in 1987–1989. He did his military service in the Israel Defense Forces in Unit 8200, an elite cyberwarfare unit. In 1997 he received an M.A. in Linguistics at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University. In 1997–2000 he was Scatcherd European Scholar of the University of Oxford and Denise Skinner Graduate Scholar at St Hugh's College, Oxford, receiving a D.Phil. (Oxon.) in 2000.[2] As Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge (2000–2004), he was affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Studies, University of Cambridge. He received a titular Ph.D. (Cantab.) from the University of Cambridge in 2003.[2]


He taught at the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Oriental Studies, now known as Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies), University of Queensland, National University of Singapore, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, East China Normal University, University of Miami, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik.[2][3] In 2010-2015 he was China's Ivy League Project 211 Distinguished Visiting Professor, and "Shanghai Oriental Scholar" professorial fellow, at Shanghai International Studies University.[2]


He was Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in 2007–2011 and was awarded research fellowships at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center (Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy); Braginsky Center, Weizmann Institute of Science;[4]Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin); Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Tel Aviv University; Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University, Melbourne); and National Institute for Japanese Language (Tokyo). He won a British Academy Research Grant, Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarship[5] and Chevening Scholarship.


Zuckermann is professor of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide. He is elected member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the Foundation for Endangered Languages.[6] He serves as Editorial Board member of the Journal of Language Contact (Brill),[7] consultant for the Oxford English Dictionary (OED),[8] and expert witness in (corpus) lexicography and (forensic) linguistics.[2]


He is President of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS).[9] He was President of the Australasian Association of Lexicography (AustraLex) in 2013-2015.[10]


In 2017 Zuckermann was awarded a five-year research project grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) "to explore the effects of Indigenous language reclamation on social and emotional wellbeing".[11][12][13]


Zuckermann is a hyperpolyglot.[14]



Public impact


Zuckermann applies insights from the Hebrew revival to the revitalization of Aboriginal languages in Australia.[15] According to Yuval Rotem, the ambassador of the State of Israel to the Commonwealth of Australia, Zuckermann's "passion for the reclamation, maintenance and empowerment of Aboriginal languages and culture inspired [him] and was indeed the driving motivator of" the establishment of the Allira Aboriginal Knowledge IT Centre in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia, on 2 September 2010.[16]


He proposes "Native Tongue Title", compensation for language loss, because "linguicide"[17][18] results in "loss of cultural autonomy, loss of spiritual and intellectual sovereignty,[19] loss of soul".[20] He uses the term sleeping beauty to refer to a no-longer spoken language[21][14] and urges Australia "to define the 330 Aboriginal languages, most of them sleeping beauties, as the official languages of their region", and to introduce bilingual signs and thus change the linguistic landscape of the country. "So, for example, Port Lincoln should also be referred to as Galinyala, which is its original Barngarla name."[22] His edX MOOC Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages has had 11,043 learners from 185 countries.[23]


Zuckermann proposes a controversial hybrid theory of the emergence of Israeli Hebrew according to which Hebrew and Yiddish "acted equally" as the "primary contributors" to Modern Hebrew.[24][25] Scholars including Yiddish linguist Dovid Katz (who refers to Zuckermann as a "fresh-thinking Israeli scholar"), adopt Zuckermann's term "Israeli" and accept his notion of hybridity.[26] Others, for example author and translator Hillel Halkin, oppose Zuckermann's model. In an article published on 24 December 2004 in The Jewish Daily Forward, pseudonymous column "Philologos", Halkin accused Zuckermann of political agenda.[24] Zuckermann's response was published on 28 December 2004 in The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language.[27]


As described by Reuters in a 2006 article, "Zuckermann's lectures are packed,[28] with the cream of Israeli academia invariably looking uncertain on whether to endorse his innovative streak or rise to the defense of the mother tongue."[29] According to Omri Herzog (Haaretz), Zuckermann "is considered by his Israeli colleagues either a genius or a provocateur".[30]


Zuckermann's alternative theories also often spark debate. Especially his controversial adaptation of the Australian Aboriginal flag which changes the yellow centre to pink, to signify language through the colour of a tongue.[31] His reasoning being that "language is in fact the mouth of both the land and the people in many Aboriginal spiritualities."



Reclamation of the Barngarla language


"In 2011 [...] Zuckermann contacted the Barngarla community about helping to revive and reclaim the Barngarla language. This request was eagerly accepted by the Barngarla people and language reclamation workshops began in Port Lincoln, Whyalla and Port Augusta in 2012" (Barngarla man Stephen Atkinson, 2013).[32] The reclamation is based on 170-year-old documents.[14][33]



Adelaide Language Festival


Zuckermann is the founder and convener of the Adelaide Language Festival.[34][35]



Contributions to linguistics


Zuckermann's research focuses on contact linguistics, lexicology, revivalistics, Jewish languages, and the study of language, culture and identity.


Zuckermann argues that Israeli Hebrew, which he calls "Israeli", is a hybrid language that is genetically both Indo-European (Germanic, Slavic and Romance) and Afro-Asiatic (Semitic). He suggests that "Israeli" is the continuation not only of literary Hebrew(s) but also of Yiddish, as well as Polish, Russian, German, English, Ladino, Arabic and other languages spoken by Hebrew revivalists.


Zuckermann's hybridic synthesis is in contrast to both the traditional revival thesis (i.e. that "Israeli" is Hebrew revived) and the relexification antithesis (i.e. that "Israeli" is Yiddish with Hebrew words). While his synthesis is multi-parental, both the thesis and the antithesis are mono-parental.[36][37]


Zuckermann introduces revivalistics as a new transdisciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation (e.g. Barngarla), revitalization (e.g. Adnyamathanha) and reinvigoration (e.g. Irish).[2] Complementing documentary linguistics, revivalistics aims to provide a systematic analysis especially of attempts to resurrect no-longer spoken languages (reclamation) but also of initiatives to reverse language shift (revitalization and reinvigoration).[38]


His analysis of multisourced neologization (the coinage of words deriving from two or more sources at the same time)[39] challenges Einar Haugen's classic typology of lexical borrowing.[40] Whereas Haugen categorizes borrowing into either substitution or importation, Zuckermann explores cases of "simultaneous substitution and importation" in the form of camouflaged borrowing. He proposes a new classification of multisourced neologisms such as phono-semantic matching.


Zuckermann's exploration of phono-semantic matching in Standard Mandarin and Meiji period Japanese concludes that the Chinese writing system is multifunctional: pleremic ("full" of meaning, e.g. logographic), cenemic ("empty" of meaning, e.g. phonographic – like a syllabary) and simultaneously cenemic and pleremic (phono-logographic). He argues that Leonard Bloomfield's assertion that "a language is the same no matter what system of writing may be used"[41] is inaccurate. "If Chinese had been written using roman letters, thousands of Chinese words would not have been coined, or would have been coined with completely different forms".[39]



Selected publications


Zuckermann has published in English, Hebrew, Italian, Yiddish, Spanish, German, Russian, Arabic and Chinese.



Books and book chapters




  • Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli – A Beautiful Language). Tel Aviv: Am Oved. 2008. ISBN 978-965-13-1963-1..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  • Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Macmillan. 2003.
    ISBN 978-1403917232 [1].


  • Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2006). ""Etymythological Othering" and the Power of "Lexical Engineering" in Judaism, Islam and Christianity. A Socio-Philo(sopho)logical Perspective". In Tope Omoniyi & Joshua A Fishman. Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 237–258.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)



Journal articles




  • "Language Contact and Globalisation: The Camouflaged Influence of English on the World's Languages – with special attention to Israeli (sic) and Mandarin". Cambridge Review of International Affairs. 16: 287–307. 2003.


  • "Cultural Hybridity: Multisourced Neologization in "Reinvented" Languages and in Languages with "Phono-Logographic" Script" (PDF). Languages in Contrast. 4: 281–318. 2004.


  • "A New Vision for "Israeli Hebrew": Theoretical and Practical Implications of Analysing Israel's Main Language as a Semi-Engineered Semito-European Hybrid Language". Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. 5: 57–71. 2006.


  • "Hybridity versus Revivability: Multiple Causation, Forms and Patterns". Journal of Language Contact. 2: 40–67. 2009.


  • Zuckermann, Ghil'ad; Walsh, Michael (2011). "Stop, Revive, Survive: Lessons from the Hebrew Revival Applicable to the Reclamation, Maintenance and Empowerment of Aboriginal Languages and Cultures". Australian Journal of Linguistics. 31: 111–127.



References





  1. ^ "edX". Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann. Retrieved May 24, 2018.


  2. ^ abcdef "Researcher Profile: Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann". The University of Adelaide. Retrieved August 20, 2016.


  3. ^ United World Colleges (UWC) - Impact: Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Australasia, accessed September 2, 2016


  4. ^ The Weizmann International Magazine of Science and People 8, pp. 16-17


  5. ^ "Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann". Wingate Scholarships. Retrieved August 19, 2016.


  6. ^ Linguistics News


  7. ^ "Journal of Language Contact: Evolution of Languages, Contact and Discourse". Brill. Retrieved September 19, 2014.


  8. ^ "Consultants, Advisers and Contributors". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved September 2, 2016.


  9. ^ Australian Association for Jewish Studies.


  10. ^ Australasian Association of Lexicography (AustraLex).


  11. ^ NITV/SBS News by Claudianna Blanco: Could language revival cure diabetes?, 21 February 2017.


  12. ^ NHMRC Grants.


  13. ^ Grant awarded for research into the link between language revival and well-being.


  14. ^ abc Dr Anna Goldsworthy on the Barngarla language reclamation, The Monthly, September 2014


  15. ^ "Aboriginal languages deserve revival". The Australian. August 26, 2009.; as well as Zuckermann, Ghil'ad; Walsh, Michael (2011). "Stop, Revive, Survive: Lessons from the Hebrew Revival Applicable to the Reclamation, Maintenance and Empowerment of Aboriginal Languages and Cultures". Australian Journal of Linguistics. 31 (1): 111–127. doi:10.1080/07268602.2011.532859. Retrieved September 19, 2014.


  16. ^ Ambassador Yuval Rotem - Address for the opening of the Allira Aboriginal Knowledge IT Centre, Dubbo, NSW, Australia, September 2, 2010, accessed August 24, 2016.


  17. ^ Zuckermann, Ghil'ad, "Stop, revive and survive", The Australian Higher Education, June 6, 2012.


  18. ^ "Australia’s first chair of endangered languages, Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann from the University of Adelaide puts it bluntly: Those policies have resulted in 'linguicide'", Shyamla Eswaran, Aboriginal languages a source of strength, Green Left Weekly, 6 December 2013.


  19. ^ "As put by Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann, language is part of the ‘Intellectual Sovereignty’ of Indigenous people", p. 2 in Priest, Terry (2011) Submission to the Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Language Learning in Indigenous Communities, Research Unit, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, August 2011.


  20. ^ Arnold, Lynn (2016), Lingua Nullius: A Retrospect and Prospect about Australia's First Languages (Transcript), Lowitja O'Donoghue Oration, May 31, 2016.


  21. ^ See pp. 57 & 60 in Zuckermann's A New Vision for "Israeli Hebrew": Theoretical and Practical Implications of Analysing Israel's Main Language as a Semi-Engineered Semito-European Hybrid Language, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 5: 57–71 (2006).


  22. ^ Sophie Verass (NITV) Indigenous meanings of Australian town names, 10 August 2016.


  23. ^ University of Adelaide, Researcher Profile - Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages, accessed May 24, 2018.


  24. ^ ab Hillel Halkin ("Philologos") (December 24, 2004). "Hebrew vs. Israeli". The Jewish Daily Forward. Retrieved September 19, 2014.


  25. ^ John-Paul Davidson (2011), Planet Word, Penguin. pp. 125-126.


  26. ^ Katz, Dovid (2004). Words on Fire. The Unfinished Story of Yiddish. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465037285.


  27. ^ Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (December 28, 2004). "The Genesis of the Israeli Language: A Brief Response to 'Philologos'". The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language. 8 (13). Retrieved September 19, 2014.


  28. ^ See, for example, YouTube - השפה הישראלית: רצח יידיש או יידיש רעדט זיך? פרופ' גלעד צוקרמן The Israeli Language: Hebrew Revived or Yiddish Survived? - PART 1, PART 2, PART 3


  29. ^ "Hebrew or Israeli? Linguist stirs Zionist debate: Ghil'ad Zuckermann argues that modern Hebrew should be renamed 'Israeli'". Reuters. November 29, 2006. Retrieved September 19, 2014.


  30. ^ Omri Herzog (September 26, 2008). עברית בשתי שקל [Hebrew for two Shekels]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved September 19, 2014. הוא נחשב על ידי עמיתיו הישראלים גאון, או פרובוקטור


  31. ^ http://ourlanguages.org.au/voices-of-the-land/


  32. ^ Language lost and regained / Barngarla man Stephen Atkinson, The Australian, 20 September 2013


  33. ^ Section 282 in John Mansfield (judge)'s Federal Court of Australia: Croft on behalf of the Barngarla Native Title Claim Group v State of South Australia (2015, FCA 9), File number: SAD 6011 of 1998; Australia’s unspeakable indigenous tragedy, Lainie Anderson, 6 May 2012]; Barngarla: People, Language & Land; Barngarla language reclamation, Port Augusta; Barngarla language reclamation, Port Lincoln; Waking up Australia's sleeping beauty languages; Hope for revival of dormant indigenous languages; Reclaiming their language, Port Lincoln; Awakening the "sleeping beauties" of Aboriginal languages; Cultural historical event begins, Whyalla; Group moves to preserve Barngarla language, Port Augusta; An interview with Stolen Generation Barngarla man Howard Richards and his wife Isabel, Port Lincoln; Calls for compensation over 'stolen' Indigenous languages;Language revival could have mental health benefits for Aboriginal communities; Language More Important than Land.


  34. ^ Ellis, David (1 May 2014). "Adelaide Language Festival celebrates diversity".


  35. ^ Savage, Crispin (November 22, 2017). "One-Day Festival Offers taste of 26 Languages". Retrieved May 24, 2018.


  36. ^ Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2006). "Complement Clause Types in Israeli". In R. M. W. Dixon; Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. Complementation: A Cross-Linguistic Typology (PDF). Oxford University Press. pp. 72–92. Retrieved August 19, 2016.


  37. ^ John-Paul Davidson (2011), Planet Word, Penguin. pp. 125-126.


  38. ^ Zuckermann, Ghil'ad; Walsh, Michael (2011). "Stop, Revive, Survive: Lessons from the Hebrew Revival Applicable to the Reclamation, Maintenance and Empowerment of Aboriginal Languages and Cultures" (PDF). Australian Journal of Linguistics. 31 (1): 111–127. doi:10.1080/07268602.2011.532859. Retrieved September 2, 2016.


  39. ^ ab Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003). Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1403917232.


  40. ^ Haugen, Einar (1950). "The Analysis of Linguistic Borrowing". Language. 26: 210–231. doi:10.2307/410058.


  41. ^ Bloomfield, Leonard (1933), Language, New York: Henry Holt, p. 21.




External links



  • University of Adelaide: Researcher Profile: Ghil'ad Zuckermann

  • University Staff Directory: Ghil'ad Zuckermann

  • Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Academia

  • Jewish Language Research Website: Ghil'ad Zuckermann

  • Ghil'ad Zuckermann's website

  • Australian of the Day: Ghil'ad Zuckermann

  • edX MOOC Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages









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