Completed PhD Dissertations in Linguistics

Zehavit Segal (supervisors: Tova Rapoport and Idan Landau)
“Placing and Detaching: The Different Directions of the Locative Alternation” (2020)

Tanya Philippova (supervisors: Nomi Shir and Idan Landau)
“Prepositional Repercussions in Russian: Pronouns, Comparatives and Ellipsis” (2018)

Lena IbnBari (supervisors: Idan Landau and Nomi Shir)
“Right Node Raising Structures in Russian: Properties and Constraints in the Framework of the Multidominance Approach” (2015)

Rachel Eitan (supervisors: Nomi Shir and Jeannette Schaeffer)
“The Acquisition of (Double) Object Placement by Hebrew Acquiring Children” (2014)

Nurit Levy (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“Texplicating Ulysses: A Structural Journey in Search of Meaning in James Joyce's Ulysses” (2014)

Liron Shokty (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“A Semiotic Analysis of the Narrative of Lesbian-Themed Movies” (2014)

Lavi Wolf (supervisor: Ariel Cohen)
“Degrees of Assertion” (2014)

Gila Haran (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“The Analysis of the Narratives of Children Raised in Lesbian Families” (2013)

Daphna Cohen (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“The Influence of Orthography on the Culture of Speaking of Literate Israeli Hebrew-Speaking Professional Adults” (2012)

Alexandra Beytenbrat (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“The Russian Case System: A Sign-Oriented Approach” (2011)

Inna Oaknin (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“Women and Their Relationship with Men in Selected Works of Dostoevsky: A Semiotic Approach” (2011)

Lisa Rochman (supervisor: Nomi Shir)
“The Role of Focus Structure and Intonation in Quantifier Floating” (2011)

Elena Simkin (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“The Verb and Nominal Systems of English according to the Theory of Phonology as Human Behavior” (2011)

Hila Green (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“The Contour of Prosodic Intonation in Spoken Language of Children with High Functioning Autism/Asperger according to the Theory of Phonology as Human Behavior” (2010)

Aviya Hacohen (supervisors: Nomi Shir and Jeannette Schaeffer)
“On the Acquisition of (Hebrew) Compositional Telicity” (2010)

Claudia Enba (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“A Study of Prosody in Buenos Aires Spanish According to the Theory of Phonology as Human Behavior” (2009)

Judith Shalmon (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“A Monosemic Analysis of the Suffix –ik in Hungarian” (2009)

Olga Kuminova (supervisors: Yishai Tobin and Gerda Elata-Alster)
“Text as an Encounter: The Interpersonal Aspect of Reading in the Humanities” (2008)

Orit Dvash Fuks (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“Israeli Sign Language (ISL) according to the Sign-Oriented Approach of the Columbia School and the Theory of Phonology as Human Behavior” (2007)

Galina Gordishevsky (supervisors: Nomi Shir and Jeannette Schaeffer)
“Subject Omission in Adult and Child Russian” (2007)

Orit Weissman (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“The Arab-Jewish Conflict: Three Layers of Significance Revealed Through a Semiotic Analysis of Word Systems and Gesture-Word Mismatches” (2007)

Ira Slabidor (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“Applying Linguistic Theory to Foreign Language Reading Comprehension on the Beginning Level for Israeli Students on the University Level” (2006)

Natalia Strahov (supervisor: Nomi Shir)
“Topic and Focus in Russian Syntax” (2006)

Inessa Roe-Portianski (supervisor: Yishai Tobin)
“The Language of the Natural and the Supernatural in the Novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov: A Semiotic Approach” (2005)

Leah Gedalyovich (supervisors: Nomi Shir and Jeannette Schaeffer)
“Towards an Explanation of the First Language Development of Complex Sentences Formed by Coordination” (2004)