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Malka Rappaport Hovav
מלכה רפופורט חובב
Academic background
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Doctoral advisorMorris Halle
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplineLexical Semantics, Morphosyntax
WebsiteHUJI faculty page

Malka Rappaport Hovav (Hebrew: מלכה רפופורט חובב) is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI). Her research focuses on lexical semantics and morphosyntax, and she has published on topics like nominalizations, adjectival passives, and lexical aspect, among others.[1]

Biography

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After earning a BA from Brooklyn College in 1979, Rappaport Hovav earned her PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 with a dissertation entitled, "Issues in the Phonology of Tiberian Hebrew" under the supervision of Morris Halle.[2][3]

Rappaport Hovav taught at Bar Ilan University from 1984 until 1999, excepting one year as a visiting professor at Rutgers University from 1993/1994, and in 1999 she began working at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[4]

She was a founding member, and later director, of HUJI's Language, Logic and Cognition Center, and since 2012 has held the Henya Sharef Chair in Humanities.[4]

Awards and honors

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In 2016, Rappaport Hovav served as chair of the selection committee for the Israel Prize in Linguistics.[4][5]

In 2022, Rappaport Hovav received the Humboldt Research Award[6]

In 2024, Rappaport Hovav was elected to the Academia Europaea.[4]

Selected publications

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  • Levin, Beth; Rappaport Hovav, Malka (1995). Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-62094-4.
  • Levin, Beth; Rappaport Hovav, Malka (2005). Argument Realization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-66331-8.
  • Rappaport Hovav, Malka; Levin, Beth (March 2008). "The English dative alternation: The case for verb sensitivity". Journal of Linguistics. 44 (1): 129–167. doi:10.1017/S0022226707004975. ISSN 1469-7742.
  • Rappaport Hovav, Malka (2008). "Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events" (PDF). Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect (13). Retrieved 7 March 2025.

References

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  1. ^ "Prof. Malka Rappaport Hovav". en.linguistics.huji.ac.il. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  2. ^ "Issues in the phonology of Tiberian Hebrew" (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  3. ^ "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  4. ^ a b c d "Academy of Europe: Rappaport Hovav Malka". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  5. ^ "פרופ' עידית דורון" [Prof. Idit Doron]. פרס ישראל [Israel Prize] (in Hebrew). The State of Israel, Ministry of Education. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  6. ^ "Prof. Dr. Malka Rappaport Hovav". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
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