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John Myhill

Academic Affiliation

• University of Haifa, Israel

Contact Information

• Email: john @ research.haifa.ac.il

Research Interests

Jewish Sociolinguistics

• Myhill, J. 2004. Language in Jewish Society: Towards a New Understanding. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
• Myhill, J. 2004. A Parameterized View of the Concept of "Correctness". Multilingua 23/3.
• Myhill, J. 2003. The Native Speaker, Identity, and the Authenticity Hierarchy. Language Sciences 23/1.

Biblical Hebrew: Functional Syntax

• Myhill, J. 1998. A Study of Imperative Usage in Biblical Hebrew and English. Studies in Language 12/2: 125-180.
• Myhill, J. & Xing, Z. 1996. Towards an Operational Definition of Discourse Contrast. Studies in Language 20/2: 313-370.
• Myhill, J. 1995. Non-emphatic Fronting in Biblical Hebrew. Theoretical Linguistics 21/2-3: 93-144.
• Myhill, J. & Xing, Z. 1994. A Comparison of the Function of Voice in Biblical Hebrew, Chinese, and English. Language Sciences 16/2: 253-283.
• Myhill, J. & Xing, Z. 1993. The Discourse Functions of Patient Fronting: A Comparative Study of Biblical Hebrew and Chinese. Linguistics 31/1: 25-57.
• Myhill, J. 1992. Verb Position in Future Clauses in Biblical Hebrew. Language Variation and Change 4/3: 289-309.

Biblical Hebrew: Semantics

• Myhill, J. 1997. What Is Universal and What Is Language-Specific in Emotion Words?: Evidence from Biblical Hebrew. Pragmatics and Cognition 5/1: 77-127.
• Myhill, J. 1997. Subjective Hebrew ra` and Objective English evil: A Semantic Analysis. In K. Namiki (ed.), Humanities: Christianity and Culture 28. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture, International Christian University. 1-28.
• Myhill, J. 1996. Problems in Lexical Semantics in the Old Testament: ra` and yr'. In K. Simms (ed.), Proceedings of the Conference on the Linguistic Foundations of Translation. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi. 211-234.
• Myhill, J. 1996. Is BAD a Semantic Primitive? Evidence from Biblical Hebrew. Lexicology 2/2: 99-126.

Modern Hebrew

• Myhill, J. 2001. Suppletion, Lexical Meaning, Semantic Primitives, and Translation Data. Linguistics 39/4: 761-802.