David Gil Curriculum Vitae BORN: 1 November 1953, London, England DEGREES: BSc. in Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, USA, 1972. M.A. in Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1978. Thesis: The Semantic Interpretation of Noun-Phrases. PhD in Linguistics, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, 1982. Dissertation: Distributive Numerals. EMPLOYMENT: 11.77 to 9.80 Teaching Assistant Dept. of Linguistics Tel Aviv University, Israel 7.80 to 6.81 Research Assistant Dept. of Linguistics UCLA, USA 10.81 to 9.82 Instructor Dept. of Linguistics Tel Aviv University, Israel 10.82 to 9.88 Lecturer Dept. of Linguistics Tel Aviv University, Israel 10.88 to 9.89 Senior Lecturer Dept. of Poetics Tel Aviv University, Israel 10.90 to 9.92 Senior Lecturer Dept. of English University of Haifa, Israel 7.92 to 7.95 Senior Lecturer Dept. of English National University of Singapore, Singapore 12.96 to 8.98 Associate Professor Dept. of Audiology and Speech Sciences Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia 10.98 to now Scientific Researcher Dept. of Linguistics Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany VISITING AND AFFILIATE POSITIONS: 1.90 to 3.90 Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics University of Washington, USA 9.95 to 9.98 Research Associate Dept. of Linguistics University of Delaware, USA -1- OTHER COURSES TAUGHT: "Quantification and Linguistic Typology", Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 9-20 August 1999. "Areal Typology", Department of Linguistics, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 20-21 June 2003. (With Bernard Comrie.) "How Different Can Languges Be?", Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences 2003, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2 July 2003. "Languages of Southeast Asia", Association for Linguistic Typology, Summer School in Linguistic Typology, Cagliari, Italy, 1-12 September 2004. "Numerals", Department of Linguistics, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 7-8 May 2004. (With Bernard Comrie.) "Future Prospects for Linguistic Research in West Sumatra", Universitas Bung Hatta, Padang, Indonesia, 31 May 2004. "Polyfunctionality", Department of Linguistics, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 27-28 May 2005. (With Bernard Comrie.) "Towards a Typology of Isolating Languages, A Cross-Linguistic Experiment", Fourth International School in Linguistic Typology and Anthropology, Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov, Russian State University for the Humanities, Tsaghkadzor, Armenia, 25 September 2005. "Recent Developments in Linguistic Research Methodology", Universitas Bung Hatta, Padang, Indonesia, 7 January 2006. (With Uri Tadmor.) "Research Methods in Malay/Indonesian Linguistics", Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, Jakarta, Indonesia, 13-14 February 2006. (With Uri Tadmor.) "Quantification", Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity, Leipzig, Germany, 20- 23 March 2006. "Macrofunctionality", Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity, Leipzig, Germany, 24 March 2006. GRANTS AND AWARDS: UCLA Travel and Research Grant 1980 UCLA National Science Foundation Grant (Logical Semantics) 1980 Tel Aviv University Alon Fellowship 1982 ACTIVITIES IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics cofounder 1985 Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics secretary/treasurer 1987 to 1989 1991 to 1992 Association for Linguistic Typology founding member 1995 South East Asian Linguistics Society president 1997 to 1998 THESES SUPERVISED: Umberto Ansaldo, Comparative Constructions in Sinitic, Areal Typology and Patterns of Grammaticalization, PhD dissertation, Department of Linguistics, Stockholms Universitet. (Opponent, Stockholm, Sweden, 19 March 1999.) -2- OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Member of NSF Project on Cross-Linguistic Quantification: Consultation: 10.88 Amherst 8.89 Tucson LSA Workshop Participant 7.89 to 9.89 Tucson Member of EUROTYP (ESF European Typology Programme): Plenary Meetings: 5.91 Castelvecchio Pascoli 9.92 San Sebastián Working Group Meetings: 2.90 Konstanz (Group 7, NP Structure) 12.90 Pavia 5.91 Castelvecchio Pascoli 9.91 Konstanz 4.92 Valletta 9.92 San Sebastián 9.93 Edinburgh 12.94 Konstanz 5.95 Moscow Member of NSF Project on East Asia Region Cooperative Research: Long Distance Reflexives in Languages: Consultation: 5.95 Newark 1.97 Singapore 4.97 Los Angeles 1.98 Singapore 7.98 Ujung Pandang Meetings: 7.95 Penang 1.97 Penang VOLUMES EDITED: Gil, David ed. (1993) Studies in Number and Quantification, EUROTYP Working Papers, Series 7, Number 19, The European Science Foundation, EUROTYP Programme, Berlin. Haspelmath, Martin, Matthew Dryer, David Gil and Bernard Comrie eds. (2005) The World Atlas of Language Structures, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Alves, Mark, Paul Sidwell and David Gil (2007) Papers from the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra. Geoffrey Sampson, David Gil and Peter Trudgill (to appear) Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Gensler, Orin and David Gil ed. (to appear) Malay / Indonesian Linguistics, Curzon Press, London. ARTICLES: Gil, David (1978) "HaÍofet Ben Zona: Hebrew Soccer Cheers and Jeers", Maledicta 2:129-145. Gil, David (1980) "A Note on Quantifier Scope, Coreferentiality, and Prosodic Structure", Journal of Literary Semantics 9:30-33. -3- Gil, David (1980) "Wool and Eggs", Maledicta 4:97-98. Stein, David and David Gil (1980) "Prosodic Structures and Prosodic Markers", Theoretical Linguistics 7:173-240. Gil, David (1982) "Case Marking, Phonological Size, and Linear Order", in P.J. Hopper and S.A. Thompson eds., Studies in Transitivity, Syntax and Semantics 15, Academic Press, New York, 117-141. Gil, David (1982) "Quantifier Scope, Linguistic Variation, and Natural Language Semantics", Linguistics and Philosophy 5:421-472. Gil, David (1982) "ʕikaron hašliši hanimnaʕ beʕivrit [The Law of the Excluded Middle in Hebrew]", Hebrew Computational Linguistics 19:18-19. (In Hebrew.) Gil, David (1983) "Intuitionism, Transformational-Generative Grammar, and Mental Acts", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 14:231-254. Gil, David (1983) "On the Role of Quantifier Scope in Logics for Natural Language: Some Data from Dutch, Hebrew, and Bengali", in S. Mordechay ed., UCLA Working Papers in Semantics, Los Angeles, 216-314. Gil, David (1983) "Quantifier Scope and Patient Prominence: Some Data from Batak, Buginese, and Tagalog", in S. Mordechay ed., UCLA Working Papers in Semantics, Los Angeles, 315-364. Gil, David (1983) "Stacked Adjectives and Configurationality", Linguistic Analysis 12:141-158. Gil, David (1984) "On the Notion of 'Direct Object' in Patient Prominent Languages", in F. Plank ed., Objects: Towards a Theory of Grammatical Relations, Academic Press, London, 87-108. Gil, David (1984) "Remarks on Nonrecursivity in Syntax", Linguistic Inquiry 15:344- 348. Gil, David and Ronit Shoshany (1984) "On the Scope of Prosodic Theory", in W.U. Dressler, O.E. Pfeiffer, and J.R. Rennison eds., Discussion Papers, Fifth International Phonology Meeting, Wiener Linguistische Gazette, Supplement Beiheft 3, 78-82. Gil, David (1985) "What Does Grammar Include?", Theoretical Linguistics 12:165-172. Gil, David (1986) "A Prosodic Typology of Language", Folia Linguistica 20:165-231. Gil, David (1987) "Definiteness, Noun-Phrase Configurationality, and the Count-Mass Distinction", in E. J. Reuland and A.G.B. ter Meulen eds., The Representation of (In)definiteness, MIT Press, Cambridge, 254-269. Gil, David (1987) "Gil Replies to Salkie", in S. Modgil and C. Modgil eds., Noam Chomsky, Consensus and Controversy, Falmer International Master-Minds Challenged: 3, Falmer Press, Barcombe, 143-145. Gil, David (1987) "On the Scope of Grammatical Theory", in S. Modgil and C. Modgil eds., Noam Chomsky, Consensus and Controversy, Falmer International Master- Minds Challenged: 3, Falmer Press, Barcombe, 119-141. Gil, David and Daniel Radzinski (1987) "Georgian Syllable Onsets: Some Arguments for Unordered Hierarchic Phonological Structures", in W.U. Dressler, H.C. Luschützky, O.E. Pfeiffer and J.R. Rennison eds., Phonologica 1984, Proceedings of the Fifth International Phonology Meeting, Eisenstadt, 25-28 June 1984, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, 59-64. Gil, David (1988) "Georgian Reduplication and the Domain of Distributivity", Linguistics 26:1039-1065. Gil, David (1989) "Freezes, Prosodic Theory, and the Modularity of Grammar", Folia Linguistica 23:375-386. -4- Gil, David (1989) "Korean -ssik, A Syntactic and Semantic Study", in S. Kuno, I-H. Lee, J. Whitman, S-Y. Bak, Y-S. Kang and Y-J. Kim eds., Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics III, Hanshin Publishing Company, Seoul, 423-430. Gil, David (1990) "hebetim beteoria prozodit: habayit hayambi-Ìal-yambi [Aspects of Prosodic Theory; The Iambic-over-Iambic Quatrain]", Hebrew Linguistics 28- 30:111-122. (In Hebrew.) Gil, David (1990) "Markers of Distributivity in Japanese and Korean", in H. Hoji ed., Japanese/Korean Linguistics, The Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, 385-393. Gil, David (1991) "Aristotle Goes to Arizona, And Finds a Language without And", in D. Zaefferer ed., Semantic Universals and Universal Semantics, Foris Press, Berlin, 96-130. Gil, David (1991) "Nouns, Verbs, and Quantification", EUROTYP Working Papers, Series 10, Number 1, The European Science Foundation, EUROTYP Programme, Berlin. Gil, David (1991)