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CURRICULUM VITAE
Research Interests
Syntax, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), Computational Linguistics, Information Packaging
Education
1997-2002
University of
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
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:
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,
2001-2002 Dean's Normative Time Fellowship,
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
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