Jewish Language Research Website

Ghil`ad Zuckermann

Academic Affiliation

• The University of Queensland, Australia

Contact Information

• Email: gz @ uq.edu.au
• Website: http://www.zuckermann.org/

Research Interests

• Language, culture and identity: language contact, historical linguistics, contact lexicology, linguistic genetics, hybridity and evolution, Israeli language, society and religion, language revival (e.g. Hebrew) and survival (e.g. Yiddish), linguistic borrowing, language planning, language academies, lexical engineering, purism, language revitalization (Maori, Aboriginal languages), sociolinguistics, Jewish civilization, semantics, morphology, lexicography (dictionary making and evaluating), pidgins and creoles, multiple causation, camouflage, relexification, etymythology (folk-etymology), socio-philology, theo-linguistics, deifying Zionism and defying religion through ideoglogically-manipulative secularization of Hebrew within Israeli
• Applied linguistics: applied lexicology, psychometrics, mnemotechnics, English as the world's language, teaching a second language through songs
• Poetics, poetry (e.g. Yehuda Amichai), constrained literature (e.g. palindromic stories, bilingual homophonous poems), logology, Israeli songs, film
• Politics and academia, Israel and the Middle East, globalization, internationalization

Publications

• Online list: books
• Online list: articles