Malka Rappaport Hovav - Biography#

Malka Rappaport Hovav graduated from MIT in 1984 with a thesis on phonological and morphological aspects of Tiberian Hebrew. She was associated with the Lexicon Project at the Center for Cognitive Science at MIT in the years 1984-1987. She taught linguistics in the English department at Bar Ilan from 1984-1999, when she moved to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she became a founding member of the Language, Logic and Cognition Center and is now Henya Sharef Chair in Humanities as well as Professor of Linguistics. Rappaport Hovav has held numerous administrative and leadership roles at Hebrew University, including Chair of the Department of English and Founder and Head of the School of Language Sciences. She has also served as President of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL) and as member of committees for the Council for Higher Education of Israel, the Israel Science Foundation, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She is author, with Beth Levin, of "Unaccusativity" (MIT Press, 1995) and "Argument Realization" (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and editor, with Edit Doron and Ivy Sichel, of "Syntax, Lexical Semantics and Event Structure" (Oxford University Press, 2010).