Malka Rappaport Hovav#
| Membership Number: | 6784 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | https://en.linguistics.huji.ac.il/people/malka-rappaport-hovav |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0688-5829 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Henya Sharef Chair in Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2000 - present Professor, Department of English/Linguistics, The Hebrew University
- 1999 - 2000 Associate Professor, Department of English, The Hebrew University
- 1992 - 1999 Associate Professor, Department of English, Bar Ilan University
- 1993 - 1994 Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University
- 1989 - 1992 Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Bar Ilan University
- 1984 - 1989 Lecturer, Department of English, Bar Ilan University
- 1984 - 1986 Visiting Scientist, Center for Cognitive Science, MIT
- 1984 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cognitive Science, MIT
Fields of Scholarship
- Polysemy
- Argument structure
- Syntax
- Event semantics
- Lexical semantics
- Lexical and grammatical aspect
- Semantics-cognition interface
- Morphology
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Humboldt Research Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2022 Head of the Academic Committee, Academit Hemdat Teachers College, Netivot, Israel
- 2016, Chair, Selection Committee, Israel Prize in Linguistics
- 2015 - 2017 Provost, Rothberg International School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2014 - 2017 Chair of the Council of Higher Education/Planning and Budgeting Committee Standing Committee for Humanities
- 2010 - 2016 Member, Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council of Higher Education
- 2010 - 2015 Member, Academic Board, Israel Science Foundation
- 2006 - 2008 President, Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics
- 2002 - 2003 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
- 1985 Founding Member of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics
