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Nurit Melnik

nurit@eyron.com

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

 

Research Interests

Syntax, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), Computational Linguistics, 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" [available online]

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

1993                Computer programmer at Amdocs (Israel) Ltd.

1993-1997       System analyst at Eyron Ltd.

1999                Graduate Student Instructor for Introduction to Linguistics at UC Berkeley. Instructor: Leanne Hinton.

2001                Graduate Student Instructor for Introduction to Syntax and Semantics at UC Berkeley. Instructor: Andreas Kathol.

2003-2004       Postdoctoral Fellow at The Department of Computer Science at the University of Haifa. Sponsor: Shuly Wintner.

2003-2004       Project Coordinator. Project for developing a gesture-speech language for a virtual reality environment.

Grants and Fellowships

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

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

2003-2004       Post-doctoral fellowship, Israel Science Foundation and The Casearea Edmond Benjamin Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science.

Presentations

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

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

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 Arabic and Spanish

References: upon request