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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Applied Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages |
| Keywords | lexical semantics, argument structure, argument realization, syntax, morphology |
Current contact address
| Country | Israel |
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| City | Jerusalem |
| Institution | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Institute | Department of Linguistics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Artemis Alexiadou | Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/02/2023 |
Program(s)
| 2022 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Rappaport Hovav is an international authority in the fields of lexical semantics, argument structure and argument realization. She has been developing an approach to verbal meaning, according to which roots come with a kind of ontological categorization, which provides an interface between the grammatical system and the more fully articulated conceptual system. In Germany, she will continue her research on the construction of verb meaning by looking at cases of a root appearing in variable verbal environments, and cases of a root displaying semantic variability independent of the syntactic environment as well as the relationship between roots and conceptual content. |