Prof. Dr. Malka Rappaport Hovav

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietAllgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaften, Typologie, Außereuropäische Sprachen
Keywordslexical semantics, argument structure, argument realization, syntax, morphology

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandIsrael
OrtJerusalem
Universität/InstitutionHebrew University of Jerusalem
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Linguistics

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Artemis AlexiadouInstitut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.02.2023

Programm(e)

2022Forschungspreis-Programm auf Gegenseitigkeit für Wissenschaftler*innen aus dem Ausland

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

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.