DPhil Oxford, PhD Cambridge (titular), MA Tel Aviv (summa cum laude)
Office: 419 Michie
Phone: 3365 1445
gz@uq.edu.au
http://www.zuckermann.org/
http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/zuckermanng.html
http://uq.academia.edu/GhiladZuckerman
Author of
- Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan 2003)
- The bestseller Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli, a Beautiful Language: Hebrew as Myth) (Am Oved 2008)
- Numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters in 10 languages on language, culture, religion and identity, English as the world's language, borrowing, multisourced neologization, lexical engineering, linguistic hybridity, lexicography, second language acquisition, mnemonics, psychometrics, Israeli, Yiddish, Hebrew, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish, Estonian, Icelandic, German, Italian. For example, "Hybridity versus Revivability: Multiple Causation, Forms and Patterns", Journal of Language Contact Varia 2: 40-67. LINK: http://www.zuckermann.org/pdf/Hybridity_versus_Revivability.pdf
Research interests include historical linguistics, language contact, lexicology, Jewish languages, sociolinguistics, language genesis and evolution.
Current research includes language revitalization, revival and survival, multiple causation, the genesis of the Israeli language, alternative language teaching methods, language planning, language academies, Maori, Aboriginal languages.