CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Nurit Melnik

nurit@eyron.com

http://cl.haifa.ac.il/~nurit

 

Research Interests

Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), Information Packaging

Education

1997-2002          University of California at Berkeley, Department of Linguistics

Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2002

Dissertation: "Verb-Initial Constructions in Modern Hebrew"

Committee: Andreas Kathol (chair), Paul Kay, Johanna Nichols

M.A. in Linguistics, 1999

1989-1996          The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Studies towards an M.A. in an Individual Graduate Program in Cognitive Studies (ABD)

B.Sc. in Computer Science and in General Studies in the Humanities, 1993

Professional Experience

2003-present     Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Haifa
Sponsor: Shuly Wintner

2003-2004          Project Coordinator
Project: Developing a gesture-speech language for a virtual reality environment (MAFAT).

2001                   Graduate Student Instructor for Introduction to Syntax and Semantics at UC Berkeley

1999                   Graduate Student Instructor for Introduction to Linguistics at UC Berkeley

1993-1997          Systems analyst at Eyron Computerized Information Systems Ltd.

1993                   Computer programmer at Amdocs (Israel) Ltd.

Military Service

1984-1986          Service in the Intelligence involved computerized language processing in Arabic.

Grants and Fellowships

2003-2005          Post-doctoral fellowship, Israel Science Foundation and the Caesarea Edmond Benjamin Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science

2001-2002          Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

1997-2002          Block grants, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

Presentations

2004                   "A Constructional approach to Inverted Constructions in Modern Hebrew" presented at the Third International Conference on Construction Grammar, Marseille, France.

2004                   "A Constructional HPSG analysis of inversion in Modern Hebrew" presented at the colloquium of the Department of English at Bar Ilan University.

2003                   "The Licensing Conditions of Verb-Initial Constructions in Modern Hebrew" presented at the colloquium of the Departments of English at Haifa University and the Hebrew University.

2002                   "The Licensing Conditions of Free Inversion in Modern Hebrew" presented at the Stanford Syntax Workshop.

1999                   "A Multiple-Inheritance Hierarchical Representation of Hebrew Adjectives of Enablement" presented at the Workshop on Semitic Morphology at the LSA Summer Institute in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Publications

Melnik, Nurit. 1997. "The sound system of Lai." In Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 20.2:9-21.

Melnik, Nurit. 1997. "Verbal alternations in Lai." In Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 20.2:151-160.

Languages

Hebrew (native), English (near native), some Standard Arabic and Spanish

References: upon request