PhD in Linguistics, Title of doctoral dissertation: Vagueness, Gradability, and Typicality – A comprehensive semantics analysis, Supervisor: Dr. Nirit Kadmon, The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University.

2001-2007

MA in Linguistics, with special distinction, Title of MA thesis: Predicate interpretations as intensions restricted along dimensions, Supervisor Prof. Fred Landman, The Cognitive Program, The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University.

1996-2001

Mathematics and computer sciences – introductory courses, The department of computer sciences, Tel Aviv University.

1996-1997

BA, General (Interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities) and Cinema (Faculty of the Arts), Tel Aviv University.

1992-1995

The Pratt post-doctoral scholarship; Supervisor: Dr. Ariel Cohen, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.

2007-2009

Vagueness, Gradability and Typicality

2008-2009

Introduction to Semantics

2007-2008

Guided Reading in Linguistics

2003-2007

Formal Semantics

Introduction to Semantics

Introduction to Linguistics

Communication, Language and Society 

Syntax-A 

Introduction to Pragmatics

2000-2003; 2005-2007

2000-2003; 2005-2006

1999-2000

1999-2000

1998-2000

1998-1999

Introduction to Natural Language

1999-2000

Assistant of Prof. Asa Kasher in an FMRI research project on the neural basis of Pragmatics (basic speech acts), conducted jointly by Tel Aviv University and Chaim Sheba Medical Center; was sent to work for 5 weeks at the Brain Mapping Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where Prof. Eran Zeidel heads the research.

2000-2003

Assistant of Prof. Alexander Grosu (Tel Aviv University) in a research project on the syntax semantics interface in relative clauses.

2001-2002

Measurement theory in linguistics, Synthese, a special issue on Vagueness, edited by Robert van Rooij.

2009           (to appear)

Semantics with clusters of properties. In: Kissine Mikhail and Philippe De Brabanter (Eds.), Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive models, CRISPI, Emerald group publishing.

2009

The Notion of Typicality, Jean R. Lapaire, Guillaume Desagulier, Jean .B. Guignard (Eds.) From Gram to Mind: Grammar as Cognition, Vol. II, 217-36. Presses Universitaires De Bordeaux, France (peer reviewed).

2008

Graded Individuals, Vague Discourse Entities, Falk, Yehuda (Ed.), Proceedings of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics 24, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

2009

Vagueness in Degree Constructions. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, CLC publications.

2009

Negative predicates – The quantity metaphor and transformation values. Tova Friedman and Satoshi Ito (Eds.) Proceedings of SALT XVIII, CLC publications (peer reviewed; acceptance rate about 1/3).

2009

The Logic of the Typicality Judgments, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, September 21-23, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (acceptance rate about 1/3).

2007

Typicality – An Improved Analysis, Falk, Yehuda (Ed.), Proceedings of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics 21, The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.

2005

Semantics with clusters of properties, Falk, Yehuda (Ed.), Proceedings of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics 18, Bar Ilan Uni., Israel.

2002

Review of Bas Aarts, David Denison, Evelien Keizer and Gergana Popova (Eds.), Fuzzy Grammar, A Reader, 2004, Oxford: Oxford University Press. The linguist list, http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-3335.html.

2004

Multidimensional adjectives versus nouns, Falk, Yehuda (Ed.), Proceedings of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics 25, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. (forthcoming)

2010

Taste functions, Subjective meaning workshop: alternatives to relativism, Workshop of the 2010 Conference of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS), February 24-26, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany.

Restricted quantification over tastes, Seventeenth Amsterdam Colloquium, December 16-18.

Evaluativity, Mini-Workshop: Degrees Under Discussion, October 30, Utrecht.

Multidimensional adjectives versus nouns, The 25th Conference of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics, October 12-13, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.

Multidimensional adjectives versus nouns, LoMoReVI - Logical Models of Reasoning with Vague Information, September 14-17, Čejkovice, Czech Republic.

"More", "twice", and measurement theory's classification of scalar properties, WORKSHOP: Vagueness, Approximation, and Granularity (VAAG), June 25-26, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin.

Three sources of vagueness in degree constructions, The 24^th Conference of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics, October 26-27, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2008

Three sources of vagueness in degree constructions, Sinn und Bedeutung 13, September 30 – October 1-2, Stuttgart.

2008

Multidimensional adjectives versus nouns, A corpus-based study, ESPP, The European Society of Philosophy and Psychology, June 26-28, Utrecht.

2008

Vagueness pertaining to numerical degree constructions, Vagueness and Language use, April 7-9, Paris.

2008

Negative predicates – The quantity metaphor and transformation values, SALT 18, March 21-23, Umass, Amherst, MS.

2008

Acquisition order helps bootstrapping semantic knowledge, The Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, October 5-7, Munich University, Munich.

2006

The logic underlying the typicality effects, Sinn und Bedeutung 11, September 21-23, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.

2006

Category structure, context and truth conditions, The First Brussels Workshop on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models, June 23-24, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels.

2006

Typicality: Findings, Analysis and Practical Implications, Script – The Israel Association for Literacy, The 20^th Conference, July 7, Nir-Etzion.

2005

Typicality – An Improved Analysis, The 21^st Conference of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics, June 23, The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.

2005

The Notion of Typicality, From Gram to Mind : Grammar as Cognition, May 20, University of Bordeaux 3, Bordeaux.

2005

Learning Models - An improved Analysis, Poster Presentation, Experimental Pragmatics, April 15, Cambridge, UK.

2005

What does typicality stand for? A formal analysis of typicality as an effect of the gradual learning of predicate meaning, The 6^th Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory, July 7, Leipzig School of Management, Leipzig.

2004

Semantics with clusters of properties, The 18^th Conference of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan.

2002

TBA,  The interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Linguistics Department, May 6, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.

Noun-Adjective distinction, LeGO Seminar, December 11, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (University of Amsterdam).

Negative adjectives, Vagueness Circle meeting, June 16, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (University of Amsterdam).

Multidimensional adjectives versus nouns, A corpus-based study, June 10, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.

2008

Negative predicates and transformation values, May 20, Department of English, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan.

2008

Negative predicates and transformation values, May 27, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

2008

Vagueness pertaining to degree constructions – Two case studies, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.

2008

Nouns, adjectives and more, The interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Linguistics Department, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.

2007

Nouns, adjectives and more, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.

2007

What does typicality stand for?, June 1^st, Department of English, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan.

2004

What does typicality stand for?, June 8, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.

2004

Semantics with clusters of properties, October 17, The Syntax and Semantics Seminar, University of California, Los Angeles.

2003

Semantics with clusters of properties, The interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Linguistics Department, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.

2002

The Pratt post-doctoral scholarship; Supervisor: Dr. Ariel Cohen, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.

2007-2008

The Sara and David Orgler Scholarship for excellent PhD students in the Humanities, Tel Aviv University.

2004-2006

Scholarships funded by the Rector and the Dean of the Humanities, Tel Aviv University.

2001-2003

Scholarships funded by the grant of Prof. Alexander Grosu, Tel Aviv University.

2001-2002

Scholarship for study-encouragement in memory of the Krakov Community Saints, New York.

1996-1997

Study-Funding Scholarships of The Dean of Students, Tel Aviv University.

1993-1996

The Cognitive Science Society's award for the best student contribution at the 16^th annual meeting of The European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, June 26-29, 2008, Utrecht University, the Netherlands (the monetary prize was of 250$).

2008