Dorit Abusch
Dorit Abusch (* 1955 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli author, linguist with a focus on semantics and professor of linguistics at the Ivy League University Cornell University .
Life
Dorit Abusch studied philosophy, literature and linguistics at the University of Tel Aviv and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts . In Massachusetts she achieved a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy in the Arts and Sciences). From 1985 to 1990 Dorit Abusch taught in California, Texas and New York. From 1990 to 2000 she worked as a linguist at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Tübingen , where she collaborated on the DFG project : Comparison and synthesis of DRT, LSF and TLF from 1997 to 2000 under the direction of Professor Arnim von Stechow . She is Professor of Linguistics at Cornell University .
Dorit Abusch has been publishing poems, stories and novels since 1974.
Works (selection)
Fiction
- Tzel Aroch Rashum Be-Gir (English title: Long Shadow Drawn in Chalk ), Poetry and Tales, Achshav, 1979
- Hebrew הדים ורוחות: סיפורים Hedim Ve-Ruchot (English title: Sounds and Spirits ) short stories, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1984
- Kol Sheni (English title: Second Voice ), two short novels (English title: House of Friends and The Ventriloquist ), Hakibbutz Hameuchad / Siman Kriah, 1990
- Ha-Yored (English title: Fallen Man), Roman, Gvanim, 1996, ISBN 978-9654111935
- Lev Meshugam (English title: Crazy Heart), novel, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2007
Non-fiction
- On verbs and time . Dissertation , University of Massachusetts Amherst , 1985
Research contributions
- Verbs of Change, Causation, and Time, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University , 1986
- Generalizing tense semantics for future contexts, University of Stuttgart , 1997
- Epistemic NP modifiers, University of Stuttgart, 1997, with Mats Rooth
- Presupposition Triggering from Alternatives, 2009, published in Journal of Semantics , 2010, 27 (1), pp. 37 to 80.
Web links
- Dorit Abusch , The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
- Dorit Abusch - Professor , Cornell University
- Literature by and about Dorit Abusch in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Arnim von Stechow: Curriculum Vitae, PDF file, p. 2
- ↑ ON VERBS AND TIME (MONTAGUE GRAMMAR, SEMANTICS, ASPECT, TENSE)
- ^ Dorit Abusch: Presupposition Triggering from Alternatives, Cornell University .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abusch, Dorit |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli author and linguist with a focus on semantics |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |