Shmuel Bolozky
Dr. Shmuel Bolozky is the Associate Director of NMELRC for Infrastructure Building
Shmuel Bolozky (Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana in Linguistics,
1972) is a Professor of Hebrew at the Department of Judaic and Near
Eastern Studies of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he
has been on the faculty since 1978, coordinating the Hebrew program and
teaching Hebrew language (at all levels) and Hebrew linguistics, and
served as chairperson between 1985-90, 1995-98. In 2005 he was
appointed Assistant Dean of Advising at the Faculty of Humanities and
Fine Arts. He also taught linguistics at Tel Aviv University
(1972-1978), and Hebrew Linguistics - as a Visiting Professor - at the
Hebrew departments of Ben-Gurion University, the Hebrew University, Tel
Aviv University, and the University of Central Florida. Professor
Bolozky served as the President of the National Association of
Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) in 2001-2003, and has been a member of the
Program Committee of the NAPH's annual International Conference on
Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture since 1993. From 2002 he has
been serving as an Associate Director for Hebrew language at the
National Middle East Language Resource Center, funded by a Title VI
U.S. Department of Education grant administered through Brigham Young
University.
Professor Bolozky's specializations are in the areas of phonology
(sound systems of languages) and morphology (word formation) in
general, and in Modern Hebrew phonology and morphology in particular.
He is also interested in the application of linguistic methodology to
the teaching of Hebrew as a foreign language, and in corpus
linguistics.
PUBLICATIONS
Professor Bolozky is the author of a book on word formation in Israeli
Hebrew, "Measuring Productivity in Word Formation: the Case of Israeli
Hebrew," Leiden: Brill, 1999; a textbook, "Barron's 501 Hebrew Verbs,"
1996; the co-author with Edna Coffin of "A Reference
Grammar of Modern Hebrew," Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005;
and co-editor of "Textures and Meaning: Thirty Years of Judaic Studies
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst," (electronic publication),
ed. Leonard H. Ehrlich, Shmuel Bolozky, Robert A. Rothstein, Murray
Schwartz, Jay R. Berkovitz, and James E. Young. He has published a number of
chapters in books, mostly on Hebrew and Semitic linguistics, and his
articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as Hebrew Studies,
Hebrew Linguistics, Afroasiatic Linguistics, Journal of Higher Hebrew
Education, Shofar, Mehqarim Be-Lashon, Ha-'ivrit Ve-'ahyoteha, Lashon
Ve-'ivrit, The Modern Language Journal, Hebrew Annual Review, Hadoar,
Hed Ha-'ulpan, Al-'arabiyya, Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik,
Linguistic Analysis, Journal of Linguistics, Linguistic Inquiry, Glossa
SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, and in a number of
festschrifts. He served or has been serving on the editorial boards of
a number of journals related to Hebrew Language and Jewish Studies -
Hebrew Studies, Shofar, Journal of Higher Hebrew Education, Hebrew
Annual Review.