Courses taught

Undergraduate:

• Introduction to the Study of Language
• Principles and Parameters in Universal Grammar
• Readings in Language and Learnability
• Introduction to English Linguistics
• Language, Thought, Evolution
• Syntactic Theory
• Language and Social Identity
• Syntactic Structures

Graduate:

• A-movement and Non-finite Complementation
• Recent Developments in the Minimalist Program
• Contemporary Syntax
• Nominalization and the Structure of DP
• Issues in the Syntax and Semantics of Reconstruction (co-taught with Danny Fox)
• Issues in the Syntax and Semantics of Negation and Polarity (co-taught with Luka Crnič)
• Towards a Sociolinguistics of Modern Hebrew: Language, Gender, and Nation
• Competence and Performance: The grammar, acquisition, and processing of pronouns.
• Pronominal Competitions

MA Thesis Supervision

• Shira Farbi (2005). The Difference between Strong and Weak Islands for Wh-Movement. Graduated with honors from the English department.
• Yulia Spivak (2005). The Status of Local Scrambling in Russian. Graduated with honors from the department of Cognitive Science.
• Tanya Benchetrit (2005). The Syntax of French-Speaking Children’s Relatives. MA thesis, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Shireen Siam (2010) Resumptive Pronouns in Palestinian Arabic.
• Einat Keren (2012). A Diachronic Study of the History of Negative Concord in Modern Hebrew. MA thesis, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Odelia Ahdut (2016). The Syntax-semantics Interface in Hebrew Psychological Nominalizations.
• Tamar Lan (2016). Overlapping Reference and its Implications for the Binding Theory.
• Yair Yitzhaki (in progress). Vehicle Change in Ellipsis: pronouns and N-words.

PhD thesis Supervision

• Tanya Benchetrit. (2014) Resumptive Pronouns, Pied Piping, and the Subset Problem in French-Speaking Children’s Relatives.
• Ilona Spector (2015) The Syntax of Clefts in Modern Hebrew.
• Einat Keren (in progress). The Syntax and Semantics of Neg-Concord and Neg-Polarity.