Olga Kapeliuk
Encyclopedia
Prof. Olga Kapeliuk is an Israel
i linguist.
Kapeliuk, who is professor emeritus of linguistics
and African studies
, was cited as being among the most important Israeli linguists and researchers of Semitic languages
, especially of Ethiopian languages and modern Aramaic dialects. She has earned an international reputation as one of the leading experts in the Amharic language of Ethiopia. With the development of the large-scale immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, she served an important function as an advisor to the nation’s educational system.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i linguist.
Kapeliuk, who is professor emeritus of linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
and African studies
African studies
African studies is the study of Africa, especially the cultures and societies of Africa .The field includes the study of:Culture of Africa, History of Africa , Anthropology of Africa , Politics of Africa, Economy of Africa African studies is the study of Africa, especially the cultures and...
, was cited as being among the most important Israeli linguists and researchers of Semitic languages
Semitic languages
The Semitic languages are a group of related languages whose living representatives are spoken by more than 270 million people across much of the Middle East, North Africa and the Horn of Africa...
, especially of Ethiopian languages and modern Aramaic dialects. She has earned an international reputation as one of the leading experts in the Amharic language of Ethiopia. With the development of the large-scale immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, she served an important function as an advisor to the nation’s educational system.
Publications
- The language of dialogue in modern Amharic literature [in Hebrew]. Ph.D. dissertation. The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1968.
- "Auxiliaires descriptifs en amharique", in: Proceedings of the international conference on Semitic studies. Israel Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesIsrael Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesThe Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem, was set up in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between scholars from the sciences and humanities in Israel, to advise the government on research projects of national importance, and to promote excellence. It comprises...
1969, pp. 116-131. - "L'emploi de la marque de l'accusatif -n en amharique", in: Israel Oriental Studies 2 (1972), pp. 183-214.
- "Il semble que ou il semble qui - un problème de syntaxe amharique", in: Dwight W. Young (ed.), Studies Presented to Hans Jakob Polotsky, Eisenbrauns 1981 (ISBN 0-9605608-0-7), pp. 51-67.
- Nominalization in Amharic. Äthiopistische Forschungen 23. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden 1988. ISBN 3-515-04512-0.
- "Some common traits in the evolution of Neo-Syriac and of Neo-Ethiopian", in: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and IslamJerusalem Studies in Arabic and IslamJerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam is a peer reviewed, international academic journal devoted to the study of classical Islam, Islamic religious thought, Arabic language and literature, the origins of Islamic institutions, and the interaction between Islam and other civilizations. The founding...
12 (1989), pp. 294-320. - "Miscellanea Neo-Syriaca", in: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 15 (1992), pp. 60-73.
- Syntax of the noun in Amharic. Äthiopistische Forschungen 37. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1994. ISBN 3-447-03406-8.
- "The evolution of ərswo and ərsaččäw as sociolinguistic variants", in: Harold G. Marcus, Grover Hudson (eds.), New trends in Ethiopian studies : papers of the 12th international conference of Ethiopian studies, Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press 1994, pp. 1270-1274. http://www.ilx.nl/blonline/blonlinesearch2.php?ficheid=101010205589
- "Possessive and determining nominal complexes in Semitic", in: Gideon Goldenberg, Shlomo Raz (eds.), Semitic and Cushitic studies Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1994 (ISBN 3-447-03447-5), pp. 65-69. http://www.ilx.nl/blonline/blonlinesearch2.php?ficheid=101010209831
- "Is modern Hebrew the only “Indo-Europeanized“ Semitic language? And what about Neo-Aramaic?", in: Israel Oriental Studies 16 (1996), pp. 59-70.
- "Reflections on the Ethio-Semitic gerund", in: Katsuyoshi Fukui, Eisei Kurimoto, Masayoshi Shigeta (eds.), Ethiopia in broader perspective : papers of the XIIIth International conference of Ethiopian studies, Kyoto: Shokado 1997, vol. 1, pp. 492-498. http://www.ilx.nl/blonline/blonlinesearch2.php?ficheid=200000037456
- "The Ethio-Semitic possessive pronouns as predicalizers in historical perspective", in: Aethiopica 1 (1998), pp. 148-163. http://www.ilx.nl/blonline/blonlinesearch2.php?ficheid=200000084696
- "The gerund and gerundial participle in Eastern Neo-Aramaic", in: Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 51/3 (1998), pp. 276-288. http://www.ilx.nl/blonline/blonlinesearch2.php?ficheid=200000048250
- "Regularity and deviation in peripheral Neo-Semitic", in: Lutz E. Edzard & Mohammed Nekroumi (eds.), Tradition and innovation : norm and deviation in Arabic and Semitic linguistics, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1999, pp. 11-21. http://www.ilx.nl/blonline/blonlinesearch2.php?ficheid=200000084713
- "Some suprasentential constructions in Amharic", in: Andrzej Zaborski (ed.), New data and new methods in Afroasiatic linguistics : Robert HetzronRobert HetzronRobert Herzog sitting third from right]]Robert Hetzron, born Herzog , was a Hungarian-born linguist known for his work on the comparative study of Afro-Asiatic languages, as well as for his study of Cushitic and Ethiopian Semitic languages.-Biography:Born in Hungary, Hetzron studied at the...
in memoriam, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2001 (ISBN 3-447-04420-9), pp. 75-83. http://www.ilx.nl/blonline/blonlinesearch2.php?ficheid=200000117188