Na’ama Pat-El

Contact Information Dept. of Middle Eastern Studies Voice: (512) 232-8292 306 Inner Campus Drive F9400 The University of Texas, Austin E-mail: [email protected] Austin, Texas 78712-1029 WWW: utexas.academia.edu/NaamaPatEl WWW: naamapatel.net

Education , Cambridge, MA USA Ph.D., Semitic Philology, May 2008 M.A., Semitic Philology, May 2004

Hebrew University, , M.A., Semitic Linguistics (summa cum laude), May, 2002 University Rector’s Honors List 2000/1, 2001/2

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel B.A., Germanic Linguistics (summa cum laude), May, 1998 Humanities Dean’s Honors List 1997/8, 1998/9, 1999/2000

Professional The University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX Positions Associate Professor August, 2014 - present Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin Affiliations: Linguistics; Religious Studies; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Jewish Studies; Me- dieval Studies.

Assistant Professor August, 2008 - 2014 Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin Affiliations: Religious Studies; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Medieval Studies. Monographs Publications 1. Studies in the Historical Syntax of Aramaic (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012; ISBN 978-1- 59333-645-5; 260 pp) Reviews: Dennis Pardee (2014), in Journal of Near Eastern Studies. Christian Stadel (2014), in Aramaic Studies. Esther-Miriam Wagner (2015), in Journal of Semitic Studies.

Edited Volumes

2. Language and Nature: Papers presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Ed. Rebecca Hasselbach and Na’ama Pat-El (Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2012; ISBN 978- 1-885923-91-2; 476 pp.).

3. Journal of Language Contact: a special issue Contact between Genetically Related Languages, Ed. Patience Epps, John Huehnergard and Na’ama Pat-El. (2013) Non-Canonical Subjects within and across language families: The Reykjavík/Eyjafjallajökull papers. Ed. Jóhanna Barðdal, Na’ama Pat-El and Stephen M. Carey. (under contract, John Benjamins. expected publication: 2018)

The . Ed. John Huehnergard and Na’ama Pat-El (under contract, Routledge. expected publication: 2019)

Re-engaging Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies. Ed. Daniel Birnstiel and Na’ama Pat-El (under contract, Harrassowitz Verlag. expected publication: 2019)

Akkadian Historical Linguistics. Ed. Rebecca Hasselbach and Na’ama Pat-El (under contract, Eisenbrauns. expected publication: 2019).

Diversity in Language Change: Historical Linguistics and Endangered Languages. Ed. Patience Epps, Danny Law and Na’ama Pat-El (proposal under review, Routledge).

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

”Different Evidence, Higher Credence: towards a clearer methodological distinction between historical linguistics and typology.” Daniela Helbig and Na’ama Pat-El (in preparation).

”On the Alleged Aramaic Substrate of Arabic.” Na’ama Pat-El and Phillip W. Stokes (in prepa- ration).

4. ”The etymology of Syriac lwāt: a tale of two prepositions” (under review; Aramaic Studies). 5. ”The Subgrouping of Samalian: Arguments in Favor of an Independent Branch.” Na’ama Pat- El and Aren Wilson-Wright (under review; MAARAV). 6. ”Features of Aramaeo-Canaanite.” Na’ama Pat-El and Aren Wilson-Wright (accepted; Journal of the American Oriental Society). 7. “The Origin of the Semitic Relative Marker.” John Huehnergard and Na’ama Pat-El, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 81/2 (2018). 8. ”Israelian Hebrew: a re-evaluation.” Vetus Testamentum 67 (2017): 1-37. 9. “The Development of Predicates with Prepositional Subjects in Hebrew.” Uri Mor and Na’ama Pat-El, Journal of Semitic Studies 61/2 (2016): 327-346. 10. ”The features of Canaanite: a re-evaluation.” Na’ama Pat-El and Aren Wilson-Wright, Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 166 (2016): 41-55. 11. ”Contact Among Genetically Related Languages: problems and approaches.” Patience Epps, John Huehnergard and Na’ama Pat-El, Journal for Language Contact 6/2 (2013): 209-219. 12. ”Contact or Inheritance? Criteria for distinguishing internal and external change in geneti- cally related languages” Journal for Language Contact 6/2 (2013): 313-328. 13. ”On Verbal Negation in Semitic.” Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 162/1 (2012): 17-45. 14. “Third Person Possessive Suffixes as Definite Articles in Semitic.” John Huehnergard and Na’ama Pat-El, Journal of Historical Linguistics 2/1 (2012): 25-51. 15. “On Canaanite and Historical Linguistics: A Rejoinder to Anson Rainey.” Jo Ann Hackett and Na’ama Pat-El, Maarav 17/2 (2010): 173-188. 16. ”On Periphrastic Genitive Constructions in Biblical Hebrew.” Hebrew Studies 51 (2010): 43-48. 17. ”The Origin and Function of the So-Called “Correlative” in Classical Syriac.” Folia Orientalia 45-46 (2009-2010): 125-133. 18. ”The Origin of the Official Aramaic Quotative marker lʾmr.” Aramaic Studies 7/1 (2009): 27-38. 19. ”The Development of the Definite Article in Semitic: A Syntactic Approach.” Journal of Semitic Studies 54/1 (2009): 19-50. 20. ”On Adnominalization of Prepositional Phrases and Adverbs in Semitic.” Na’ama Pat-El and Alexander Treiger, Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 158 (2009): 265-352. 21. ”Traces of Aramaic Dialectal Variation in Late Biblical Hebrew.” Vetus Testamentum 58 (2008): 650-655. 22. ”Some Notes on the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew zeh.” Zeitschrift für Althebraistik 20 (2007): 150- 158. 23. ”Syntactical Aspects of Negation in Syriac.” Journal of Semitic Studies 51/2 (2006): 329-348.

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

”Proto-Semitic: a typological perspective” in The Semitic Languages, J. Huehnergard and N. Pat-El, eds.. (in preparation)

”Introduction” John Huehnergard and Na’ama Pat-El, in The Semitic Languages, J. Huehner- gard and N. Pat-El, eds.. (in preparation)

24. ”Pre Modern Aramaic: Syriac” in The Semitic Languages, J. Huehnergard and N. Pat-El, eds.. (accepted. Routledge; submitted) 25. ”Typological Approaches and Historical Linguistics” In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Lin- guistics. R. Janda, B. D. Joseph and B. Vance eds. (accepted. Oxford: Oxford University Press) 26. ”The diachrony of non-canonical subjects in Northwest Semitic.” Non-Canonical Subjects within and across language families: The Reykjavík/Eyjafjallajökull papers. Jóhanna Barðdal, Na’ama Pat- El and Stephen M. Carey, eds. (accepted. Philadelphia: John Benjamins) 27. ”Digging up archaic features: Neo-Arabic and comparative Semitics in the quest for proto Arabic” Arabic in Context. A. Al-Jallad, ed. (Leiden: Brill. 2017). 441-475. 28. “The Function and Etymology of the Aramaic Particle LM”, Contemporary Examinations of Clas- sical Languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Greek), T. M. Lewis, A. G. Salvesen A. and B. Turner, ed. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. 2016). 121-138. 29. ”Deir ‘Allā as a Canaanite Dialect: A Vindication of Hackett.” Na’ama Aren Wilson Wright, in Epigraphy, Philology and the Hebrew Bible. J. Hutton and A. Rubin, eds. (Atlanta, GA: SBL. 2015). 13-24. 30. ”A Note on Segholate Adjectives in Biblical Hebrew” Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextu- alized. A Festschrift for Jan Retsö. Lutz Edzard, ed. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgen- landes; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2015). 425-428 31. ”The morphosyntax of nominal antecedents in Semitic, and an innovation in Arabic.” L. Edzard and J. Huehnergard, eds. Proceedings of the Oslo-Austin Workshop in Semitic Linguistics (Ab- handlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2014). 28-47. 32. “On Negation in Phoenician”. The Phoenician Language: Studies in Writing and Linguistics. R. Holmstedt and A. Schade, eds. (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013). 47-67. 33. “Syntactic Aramaisms as a Tool for Internal Biblical Chronology.” Biblical Diachrony. C. Miller & Z. Zevit, eds. (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2012). 245-263. 34. ”The Syntax of ʾǎšer and šeC- Yet Again.” Language and Nature: Papers presented to John Huehn- ergard on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. R. Hasselbach & N. Pat-El, eds. (Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2012). 319-327. 35. ”Historical Syntax of Aramaic: A Note on Subordination”. Aramaic in its Historical and Lin- guistic Setting. H. Gzella and M. L. Folmer, eds. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2008). 55-76. 36. ”Some Aspects of the Cleft in Semitic Languages.” John Huehnergard and Na’ama Pat-El, in Studies in Semitic and General Linguistics in Honor of Gideon Goldenberg. E. Cohen and T. Bar, eds. (Münster: -Verlag, 2007). 325-342.

Solicited Publications and Reviews

37. Book Review: Kogan, L. Genealogical Classification of Semitic: The Lexical Isoglosses. In Oriental- istische Literaturzeitung 112/2 (2017):153-157. 38. Book Review: Mutzafi, H. Comparative Lexical Studies in Neo-Mandaic. In Mediterranean Lan- guage Review 23 (2016): 179-181. 39. Book Review: Wilmsen, D. Arabic Indefinites, Interrogatives, and Negators: A Linguistic History of Western Dialects. In Journal of Semitic Studies 61/1 (2016): 292-295. 40. Book Review: Gzella, H. (ed.). Languages from the World of the Bible. In Journal of the American Oriental Society 134/3 (2014): 525-527. 41. Encyclopedia entries: “stative”, “inalienable possession”, “possession”. In G. Khan, ed., En- cyclopedia of and Linguistics (Leiden: Brill. 2013). 42. Book Review: Moshavi, A. Word Order in the Biblical Hebrew Finite Clause. In Journal of the American Oriental Society 133/4 (2013): 771-772. 43. Review Essay: ”Features of Archaic Biblical Hebrew and the Linguistic Dating Debate. A review of Vern, R. Dating Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry.” Na’ama Pat-El and Aren Wilson- Wright. In Hebrew Studies 54 (2013): 387-410. 44. Book Review: Hendery, R. Relative Clauses in Time and Space. In Journal of Historical Syntax 2/2 (2013): 1-10. 45. Book Review: Jastrow, O. Lehrbuch der Ṭuroyo Sprache. In Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 16/1 (2013): 178-181. 46. Book Review: Isaksson, B., H. Kammensjö and M. Persson. Cirumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic. The case of Arabic and Hebrew. In Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 108 (2013): 37-38. 47. Book Review: Häberl, C. The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr. In Journal of Anthropological Linguistics 54/1 (2012): 96-97. 48. Book Review: Li, T. The Verbal System of the Aramaic of Daniel. In Hebrew Studies 53 (2012): 101-103. 49. Book Review: Blau, J. Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew: An Introduction. In Journal of the American Oriental Society 131/1 (2011): 139-141. 50. Book Review: Shisha Halevy A. and G. Goldenberg. Egyptian, Semitic and General Grammar: Studies in Memory of H. J. Polotsky. In Journal of the American Oriental Society 131/1 (2011): 138- 139. 51. Book Review: Kim Y.-K. The Function of the Tautological Infinitive in Classical Biblical Hebrew. In Horizons in Biblical Theology 32/2 (2010): 233-236. Research Office of the Vice President for Research (SRG) AY 2016-17 Grants/awards ”Historical Syntax of Relative Clauses in Semitic”

European Institute for Advanced Studies (EURIAS) AY 2012-13 ”Contact Among Genetically Related Languages: Semitic as a test case”

Leif Eriksson Mobility Grant summer 2012 ”Parallel Development and Syntactic Reconstruction: Semitic as a Test Case”

COLA subvention grant 2012 ”Studies in the Historical Syntax of Aramaic”

COLA Dean’s fellowship Fall 2011

Summer Research Award summer 2011 ”The Development of Clausal Subordination in the Semitic Languages”

Conference The Society of Biblical Literature [SBL] (Denver, CO) November 2018 Presentations ””hǎyēlkû šənayim yaḥdāw biltî ￿im nô￿ādû: notes on historical linguistics and comparative philology” in the session ”Philology in Hebrew Studies”

The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (Pittsburg, PA) March 2018 ”The Origin of the Semitic Relative Marker” with John Huehnergard

The Society of Biblical Literature [SBL] (Boston, MA) November 2017 ”Samalian: A Separate Branch of Northwest Semitic” with Aren Wilson Wright

The International Conference on Historical Linguistics [ICHL] (San Antonio, TX) August 2017 ”The Origin of the Semitic Relative Marker” with John Huehnergard

The International Conference on Historical Linguistics [ICHL] (San Antonio, TX) August 2017 ”The Influence of Aramaic on the Modern Arabic Dialects of the Levant and Mesopotamia: A Crit- ical Re-evaluation” with Phillip Stokes, in the session Arabic and Contact-Induced Change

The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (Los Angeles, CA) March 2017 ”Features of Aramao-Canaanite” with Aren Wilson Wright

The Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society [DGfS] (Saarbrücken, Germany) March 2017 ”The Semitic Perfect and the problem of zero subjects” in the workshop Sprachliche Kodierungs- Asymmetrien, Gebrauchsfrequenz und Informativität

The Linguistic Society of America [LSA] (Austin, TX) January 2017 ”What’s “similar” about “similar pathways”? The case of the definite article” with Tonya Kim Dewey-Findell

The Society of Biblical Literature [SBL] (San Antonio, TX) November 2016 ”Aramao-Canaanite: Arguments in Favor of a New Micro Sub-Grouping” with Aren Wilson Wright

The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (Boston, MA) March 2016 ”On the fallacy of Source-to-Target path of change”

The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (Boston, MA) March 2016 ”Parallel Development and Historical Linguistics” The North American Conference for Afroasiatic Linguistics [NACAL] (Austin, TX) Feb. 2016 ”Afroasiatic: A Reevaluation from a Semitic Perspective” with Aren Wilson Wright

The Society of Biblical Literature [SBL] (Atlanta, GA) November 2015 ”Dialects of Biblical Hebrew: a re-examination”

Historical Linguistics and Typology: Assessing a Partnership (Austin, TX) September 2015 ”Different Evidence, Higher Credence: towards a clearer methodological distinction between his- torical linguistics and typology” with Daniela Helbig

International Conference on Historical Linguistics [ICHL] (Naples, Italy) June 2015 ”The Development of Definite Articles: A counter revolution” with Tonya Kim Dewey

The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (New Orleans, LA) March 2015 ”Deir Allā as a Canaanite Dialect” with Aren Wilson Wright

The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (New Orleans, LA) March 2015 ”The Semitic Perfect and the Problem of Third-Person Zero Morpheme”

The North American Conference for Afroasiatic Linguistics [NACAL] (Washington, DC) Feb. 2015 ”Features of Aramao-Canaanite” with Aren Wilson Wright

Österreichische Linguistiktagung (Vienna, Austria) December 2014 ”The Origin of the Relative Clause in Semitic” (accepted, unable to attend)

15th Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (Rome, Italy) September 2014 ”Features of Canaanite: a re-evaluation” with Aren Wilson Wright

Horizons of Islamic Theology (Frankfurt, Germany) September 2014 “How archaic are the dialects? Arabic in light of comparative Semitics” in the session Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies

The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (Phoenix, AZ) March 2014 “Watkins on Typology and Historical Syntax”

Arabic in its Semitic Context (Leiden, The Netherlands) Nov. 2013 “Digging up archaic features: Neo-Arabic and comparative Semitics in the quest for proto Arabic”

International Conference on Historical Linguistics [ICHL] (Oslo, Norway) Aug. 2013 ”The Importance of Being a Process: the Aramaic definite article as a test case”

16th International Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem, Israel) Aug. 2013 “The Origin and Diachrony of the Biblical Hebrew ṭôb lô pattern” with Uri Mor, in the session Biblical Hebrew in the Light of Theoretical and Historical Linguistics

Semitic Workshop (Oslo, Norway) May 2013 ”The morphosyntax of nominal antecedents in Semitic, with particular attention to Arabic”

The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (Portland, OR) March 2013 “Neo-Arabic as a Conservative Semitic Branch”

Workshop on Historical Semitic Linguistics (Austin, TX) Oct. 2012 ”Subordination in Semitic: reconstructing the relative” Hebrew, Arabic, and wider Semitic: past and present (Oslo, Norway) Aug. 2012 “Digging up archaic features: Neo-Arabic and comparative Semitics in the quest for proto Arabic”

Societas Linguistica Eueropaea, Exaptation Workshop (Stockholm, Sweden) Aug. 2012 “Syntactic exaptation and its continuing legacy: the case of the Central Semitic definite article”

Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects (Reykjavík, Iceland) June 2012 “The diachrony of non-canonical subjects in Central-Semitic”

Intl. Symposium: Contact Among Genetically Related Languages (Austin, TX) April 2012 “Contact or Inheritance? Criteria for distinguishing internal and external change in genetically related languages”

The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (Boston, MA) March 2012 “The Proto Semitic Origin of the Amharic Definite Article” (with J. Huehnergard).

The North American Conference for Afroasiatic Linguistics [NACAL] (New Brunswick, NJ) Feb. 2012 “The Morphosyntax of Nominal Antecedents in Semitic”.

International Conference on Historical Linguistics [ICHL] (Osaka, Japan) June 2011 “On Structurally Shared Innovations: the Diachrony of Adverbial Subordination in Semitic” in the Workshop on Reconstructing Syntax

The North American Conference for Afroasiatic Linguistics [NACAL] (Austin, TX) Feb. 2011 Canaanite and Historical Linguistics: A Rejoinder to Anson Rainey” (with JA Hackett)

The North American Conference for Afroasiatic Linguistics [NACAL] (Austin, TX) Feb. 2011 “Semitic Relatives: a Diachrony”

The Society of Biblical Literature [SBL] (Atlanta, GA) Nov. 2010 “Syntactic Aramaisms as a Tool for Internal Biblical Chronology”

The North American Conference for Afroasiatic Linguistics [NACAL] (Austin, TX) Feb. 2010 “The Syntax of ʾǎšer and šeC Yet Again”

The XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics [ICHL] (Nijmengen, The Netherlands) Aug. 2009 “The Diachrony of Adverbial Subordination in Semitic” [accepted, unable to attend]

ARAM conference on Neo-Aramaic dialects (Oxford, UK) July 2009 “Cyclic changes and the development of the article in Neo-Aramaic” [accepted, unable to attend]

The North American Conference for Afroasiatic Linguistics [NACAL] (Albuquerque, NM) March 2009 “The Change in Demonstrative Position in Aramaic: A Syntactic Innovation”

The North American Conference for Afroasiatic Linguistics [NACAL] (Chicago, IL) March 2008 “The Origin of the Official Aramaic Quotative lʾmr”

The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (Chicago, IL) March 2008 “The Proleptic Genitive in Aramaic: A Re-evaluation”

The North American Conference for Afroasiatic Linguistics [NACAL] (San Antonio, TX) March 2007 ”The Origin and Function of the So-called ’Correlative’ in Classical Syriac” The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (San Antonio, TX) March 2007 ”The Function and Etymology of the Aramaic Particle LM”

Aramaic in its Historical and Linguistic Setting (Leiden, The Netherlands) Aug. 2006 ”Historical Syntax of Aramaic: A Note on Subordination”

The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (Seattle, WA) March 2006 ”Adnominal Prepositions in Semitic” (with A. Treiger)

The American Oriental Society annual meeting [AOS] (Philadelphia, PA) March 2005 ”Aspects of Cleft Sentences in Hebrew and Arabic” (with J. Huehnergard)

The North American Conference for Afroasiatic Linguistics [NACAL] (San Diego, CA) March 2004 ”Some Notes on the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew ze”

Invited Talks Linguistics Department and Near Eastern Department, Princeton University February 2018 Near Eastern Studies: ”Colloquial Arabic and comparative Semitics in the quest for proto Arabic” Judaic Studies: ”Hebrew and Aramaic: siblings, neighbors, authoritative languages” Linguistics: ”The Semitic ‘Perfect’ and the problem of 3rd person zero.”

Institute for the Study of Islamic Culture and Religion, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt, Germany) September 2017 ”The Aramaic Substrate of Arabic”

Aramaic – Linguistic Diversity across Three Millennia (Marburg, Germany) September 2017 ”The Classification of Aramaic within Semitic”

The Symposium About Language and Society (SALSA) (Austin, Texas) April 2017 Keynote speaker: ”Hebrew and Aramaic: siblings, neighbors, authorities”

Enoch Seminar (Austin, TX) May 2016 Plenary speaker: ”The Linguistic Dating of (Biblical) Texts”

Department of Oriental Languages (Oslo, Norway) May 2016 ”A new proposal for Northwest Semitic subgrouping”

The Society of Biblical Literature [SBL] (Atlanta, GA) November 2015 ”Philology and the Study of the Bible: shifting foci” in a special student-organized session ”Babel: The Role of Primary Languages in Graduate Studies”

Linguistics Department, Leiden University (Leiden, The Netherlands) November 2015 ”Tracing the Origin of the Relative Clause: the case of Semitic”

Mainz international Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew [MICAH] (Mainz, Germany) November 2015 Keynote speaker: ”Semitic Relatives and their Hebrew Reflexes”

Linguistics Department, University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria) October 2015 ”The Semitic ‘Perfect’ and the Problem of Third-Person Zero Morpheme”

Berkeley Workshop on Historical Linguistics and the Hebrew Bible (Berkley, CA) November 2014 ”Aramaic-Hebrew Interactions and Language Contact”

EURIAS Annual Meeting (Uppsala, Sweden) April 2013 ”Re-Evaluating Parallel Development in Historical Linguistics” Semitic Seminar, Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) March 2013 ”what historical syntax can do for Semitic linguistics: Aramaic as a test case”

The University of Bergen (Bergen, Norway) Nov. 2012 ”Demonstrative as Definite Article in Aramaic: a cautionary tale”

Collegium Fellows Seminar (Uppsala, Sweden) Nov. 2012 ”Features, Processes and Common Descent: re-evaluating parallel development in Historical Lin- guistics”

Semitic Seminar, Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) Nov. 2012 ”Subordination in Semitic: reconstructing the relative”

The Harvard Semitic Philology Workshop (Cambridge, MA) March 2009 ”Negation in Phoenician”

Conference and Akkadian Historical Linguistics May 2018 sessions with Rebecca Hasselbach-Ande Organization Special session in honor of Professor Jo Ann Hackett November 2017 At the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, with Jonathan Kaplan and M. L. Case

Panel: Endangered Languages and Historical Linguistics August 2017 At the International Conference on Historical Linguistics, with Patience Epps and Danny Law

Special session: Cross-linguistic Variability in Processes of Language Change January 2017 At the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, with Patience Epps and Danny Law

The North American Conference of Afroasiatic Linguistics 44 [NACAL] (Austin, TX) February 2016 with Aren Wilson-Wright

Historical Linguistics and Typology: Assessing a Partnership (Austin, TX) September 2015 with Hans Boas, Patience Epps, Danny Law and Marc Pierce

Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies (Frankfurt, Germany) September 2014 with Daniel Birnstiel

International Symposium: Historical Comparative Semitic Linguistics (Austin, TX) October 2012 with John Huehnergard

International Symposium: Contact Among Genetically Related Languages, (Austin, TX) April 2012 with Patience Epps and John Huehnergard

The North American Conference of Afroasiatic Linguistics 39 [NACAL] (Austin, TX) February 2011 with John Huehnergard and Jo Ann Hackett

The North American Conference of Afroasiatic Linguistics 38 [NACAL] (Austin, TX) February 2010 with John Huehnergard

The North American Conference of Afroasiatic Linguistics 37 [NACAL] (Albuquerque, NM) March 2009 with Rebecca Hasselbach

The North American Conference of Afroasiatic Linguistics 33 [NACAL] (Philadelphia, PA) March 2005 with Rebecca Hasselbach Supervision and • Øyvind Bjøru PhD-ANE, DMES co-supervisor Mentoring • Navdeep Sokhey, PhD-Arabic, DMES reader • Daniel Wang, PhD-ANE, DMES reader, graduated 2018 • Sarah L. Baker PhD-ANE, DMES co-advisor, graduated 2018 Current position: Curriculum Developer, Ridley College, Australia. • Benjamin Kantor PhD-ANE, DMES reader, graduated 2017 Current position: post doc, Cambridge University, UK. • Phillip Stokes, PhD-Arabic, DMES reader, graduated 2017 Current position: assistant professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. • Aren Wilson-Wright, PhD-ANE, DMES co-advisor, graduated 2016 Current position: post doc, Zürich Universität. • Philip Zhakevich, PhD-ANE, DMES reader, graduated 2016 Current position: lecturer, director of Hebrew program, Princeton University. • Alexander Magidow, PhD-Arabic, DMES reader, graduated 2013 Current position: assistant professor, University of Rhode Island. • Rosalie Melissa Town, MA-Arabic, DMES thesis supervisor, graduated 2010 • Lauren Grifka, MA, CMES reader, graduated 2010

Administrative, Service to the Profession Professional and • Editorial board, Harvard Semitic Museum Publication Series (Brill) 2017-present Public Service • Editorial board, Journal of Aramaic Studies (Brill) 2016-present • Editorial board, Journal of Language Evolution (Oxford) 2015-present • Member, International Conference on Historical Linguistics scientific committee 2015-17 • Director at Large, The American Oriental Society (elected office) 2018-present • Ancient Near East Section Chair, The American Oriental Society (elected office) 2012-2018 • Reviewer for the European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) • Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) • Reviewer for the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) • Reviewer for Oxford University Press, Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics. • Reviewer for Routledge Press, Routledge Studies in Historical Linguistics. • External Reviewer for pre-tenured faculty, The Catholic University of America • Reviewer, Journal of Semitic Studies, Journal of Historical Linguistics , Journal of Language Contact, Diachronica, Studies in Language, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Journal of Language Evolution, Folia Linguistics Historica , Hebrew Studies, Orientalia Suecana, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Aramaic Studies, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Service to the University • member, College of Liberal Arts, Faculty Council (elected office) 2015-2017 • member, the Faculty Rules and Governance Committee 2015-2017 • co-organizer, the Ancient Near Eastern Lecture Series 2015-present • co-organizer, Historical Linguistics round table 2014-present • member, the advisory board, the Linguistics Research Center 2012-present • chair, UT proposal committee for the International Conference on Historical Linguistics 2011-2013 • co-organizer, the Late Antiquity Workshop 2009-2015

Service to the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies • Department chair 2017-present • Graduate advisor, DMES 2017-present • Assistant Department Chair 2014-2017 • member, search committee for Associate Professor in Hebrew Bible 2016 • Assistant graduate advisor, CMES 2016-2017 • member, MES Executive Committee (elected office) 2009-present • Assistant graduate advisor, DMES 2013-2015 • member, search committee for Assistant Professor in Hebrew Bible 2012 • member, the Graduate Curriculum and Planning Committee 2012-2013 • chair, Undergraduate Curriculum and Planning Committee 2010-2012 • member, search committee for Visiting Scholar in Israel Studies 2009 • member, Dan C. Danciger Scholarship committee 2008-2010

Professional • The American Oriental Society since 2003 Affiliation • The Society of Biblical Literature since 2008 • National Association for Professors of Hebrew since 2009 • The International Association for Comparative Semitics since 2010 • Societas Linguistica Europaea since 2012 • The International Society for Historical Linguistics since 2011 • The Association for Linguistic Typology since 2009 • The Linguistic Society of America since 2003

References • Professor Geoffrey Khan, Cambridge University, England; [email protected] • Professor Steven Fassberg, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem; [email protected] • Professor Brian Joseph, Ohio State; [email protected] • Professor Joshua Katz, Princeton University; [email protected]