Ariel Shisha-Halevy, Ph.D. Professor

Born 1945, Haifa; Ph.D. 1973, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Lecturer 1973; Senior Lecturer 1978; Associate Professor 1984; Professor 1987; Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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E-Mail:	shisha@cc.huji.ac.il

• Celtic grammar, especially syntax
• Modern and Middle Welsh
• Modern Irish
• Egyptian and Coptic grammar
• Coptic-Greek contrastive grammar
• Typological-comparative grammar
• Text linguistics
• Modern Welsh Narrative Grammar: the main features of Kate Roberts' narrative syntax.

• Shenoute's Rhetorical Syntax
  4-year project, financed by the Israel Science Foundation.
• Elements of Bohairic-Coptic syntax
  This project examines the main syntactical phenomena of the Bohairic dialect of Coptic, on the basis of the unpublished manuscripts of the Pentateuch (Paris copte 1, Vat. copto 1)
• Syntactic patterns in Middle Welsh narrative
  This is a structural account of (a) nominal/pronominal predication; (b) “emphasis” (cleft sentence, augens); (c) the dialogue/narrative tense system in the Mabinogi.
• Modern literary Welsh syntax
  A study is made of the main features of Modern Welsh syntax, on the basis of the fictional works of Kate Roberts.

1. 1972: The Circumstantial Sentence in Shenoute's Coptic (Hebrew, English summary: Hebrew University Ph.D. Dissertation)
2. 1973: “Apodotic efswtm: a Hitherto Unnoticed, Late Coptic Tripartite Conjugation Form and its Diachronic Perspective”, Le Muséon 85:455-466
3. 1974: “Protatic efswtm: a Hitherto Unnoticed Coptic Tripartite Conjugation Form and its Diachronic Connections”, Orientalia 43:369-381
4. 1975a: “The Coptic Circumstantial Present with an Empty (Impersonal) Actor Suffix”, JEA 61:256-257
5. 1975b: “Two New Shenoute Texts from the British Library”, Orientalia 44:149-185, Plates ix-x (introduction, texts, translation)
6. 1975c: “Two New Shenoute Texts: Grammatical-Phraseological Commentary”, Orientalia 44:469-484
7. 1975d: “Unpublished Shenoutiana in the British Library”, Enchoria 5:53 -108, Plates 9-30 (introduction, texts, translation)
8. 1976a: “Unpublished Shenoutiana: Grammatical-Phraseological Commentary”, Enchoria 6:29-62
9. 1976b: “Akhmimoïd Features in Shenoute's Idiolect”, Le Muséon 89:353-366
10. 1976c: “The Coptic Circumstantial Present as a Substantival Relative”, JEA 62:134-137
11. 1977a: “Protatic efswtm: Additional Material”, Orientalia 46:127-128
12. 1977b: “Bohairic twoun: a Case of Lexemic Grammaticalization”, Enchoria 7:109-113
13. 1977c: “tw etw : the Shenoutean Idiom and its Analysis”, WZKM 69:33-39
14. 1977d: “Coptic: Language and Literature” (in Hebrew), Encyclopaedia Hebraica 29:453-454
15. 1978a: “A North-West-Semitic Text in the Egyptian Hieratic Script”, Orientalia 47:145-162
16. 1978b: “A Coptic Proverb”, Aegyptus 58:174-176
17. 1978c “Quelques thématisations marginales du verbe en néo-égyptien”, OLP 9:51-67
18. 1978d “A Shenoutean Pun”, JEA 64:141
19. 1980a: “À propos of a New Edition of the Instructions for King Merikare”, Orientalia 49:195-198
20. 1980b Review Article: Osing, Der spätägyptische Papyrus BM 10808, JEA 66:181-186
21. 1980c Review Article: Cherix, Etude de lexicographie copte, Chronique d'Egypte 55: 338-342
22. 1980d: “Shenoute Quotations in an Unbuplished British Library Manuscript”, BASP 17:167-172
23. 1981a “Bohairic-Late Egyptian Diaglosses: a Contribution to the Typology of Egyptian” in: D.W.Young (ed.), Studies Presented to H.J. Polotsky, Beacon Hill, 413-438
24. 1981b: “The Oracular Conference: a Text-Linguistic Case Study in Late Egyptian”, FLH 2:133-141
25. 1981c: “Recent Publications in Coptic Linguistics”, Studi Copti 7, in: Vetera Christianorum 18:222-230
26. 1983: “Middle Egyptian Gleanings”, Chronique d'Egypte 58:311-329
27. 1984a: “On Some Coptic Nominal Sentence Patterns”, in: Festschrift W. Westendorf, Göttingen, 175-189
28. 1984b: “The Existential Sentence in the Sahidic New Testament”, GM 77:67-77
29. 1985: “What's in a Name? On Coptic pa- ‘he of-’”, Enchoria 13:97-102
30. 1986a: Coptic Grammatical Categories: Structural Studies in the Syntax of Shenoutean Coptic, Rome : The Pontifical Institute (=Analecta Orientalia, 53)
31. 1986b “irf in the Coffin Texts: A Functional Tableau”, JAOS 106:641-658
32. 1987: “Grammatical Discovery Procedure and the Egyptian-Coptic Nominal Sentence”, Orientalia 56:147-175
33. 1988: Coptic Grammatical Chrestomathy: a Course for Academic and Private Study, Leuven:Peeters (=Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta, 30)
34. 1989a: The Proper Name: Structural Prolegomena to its Syntax - a Case Study in Coptic, Wien:VWGÖ (=Beihefte zur WZKM, 15) [~16.5 MB]
35. 1989b: “Papyrus Vandier recto: an Early Demotic Text in the Hieratic Script”, JAOS 109:421-435
36. 1989c: “Work Notes on Demotic Syntax”, Orientalia 58:28-60
37. 1989d “The Narrative Verbal System of Old and Middle Egyptian”, Orientalia 58:247-254
38. 1990: “The Tautological Infinitive in Coptic”, Journal of Coptic Studies 1 (Elanskaja Festschrift) 99-127
39. 1992a “Bohairic”, in: The Coptic Encyclopaedia 8:54-60
40. 1992b: “Sahidic”, in: The Coptic Encyclopaedia 8:194-202
41. 1992c: “The Shenoutean Idiom”, in: The Coptic Encyclopaedia 8:202-204
42. 1992d: “In Memoriam Hans Jakob Polotsky”, Orientalia 61:208-213
43. 1994: “Pluridimensional Oppositions: Case Studies from Scripture Bohairic”, in: Coptology: Past, Present and Future (= Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta 61) (Kasser Festschrift) Leuven:Peeters 225-247
44. 1995a “Some Reflections on the Egyptian Conjunctive”, in: Divitiae Aegyptii (Krause Festschrift) Wiesbaden:Reichert, 300-314
45. 1995b: “Structural Sketches of Middle Welsh Syntax (I): The Converter Systems”, Studia Celtica 29:127-223 [~10 MB]
46. 1995c: Review of G. King, Modern Welsh: a Comprehensive Grammar, Studia Celtica 29:321-325
47. 1997: “Modern Literary Welsh Narrative Grammar: Two Features Described”, Journal of Celtic Linguistics 6:63-102
48. 1998a: Structural Studies in Modern Welsh Syntax: Aspects of the Grammar of Kate Roberts, 1998 Münster:Nodus (=Studien und Texte zur Keltologie, 2)
49. 1998c: “A First Structural Grammar of Demotic”, BiOr 55 (5/6):587-600, 1998
50. 1999a: (with H. Satzinger) “The Snark is Dead”, Lingua Aegyptia 6:167-176, 1999
51. 1999b: “Structural Sketches of Middle Welsh Syntax (II): Noun Predication Patterns”, Studia Celtica 33:155-234 [~8 MB]
52. 1999c: “Bohairic Narrative Grammar”, in: ed. S. Emmel et al., Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit, II: Schrifttum, Sprache und Gedankenwelt, Acts of the 6th International Congress of Coptic Studies (Münster, 1996), Wiesbaden:Reichert, 375-389
53. 1999d: “Coptic Linguistics 1992-1996”, Acts of the 6th International Congress of Coptic Studies (Münster, 1996), Münster, 1997.
54. 2000: “Stability in Clausal/Phrasal Pattern Constituent Sequencing: 4000 Years of Egyptian (With Some Theoretical Reflections, also on Celtic)” in: Word Order - Stability and Change over Time, ed. R. Sornicola, E. Poppe, A. Shisha-Halevy, Amsterdam/Philadelphia:J. Benjamins, 71-100
55. 2000 (ed.): Word Order - Stability and Change over Time, with. R. Sornicola and E. Poppe, (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 213) Amsterdam/Philadelphia:J. Benjamins, 71-100
56. 2002: “The Focalizing Conversion: Structural Prelimiaries to a Chapter in the Grammar of Oxyrhynchite Coptic”, in: For the Children, Perfect Instruction: Studies in Honor of Hans-Martin Schenke (ed. H-G. Bethge et al.), Leiden/Boston:Brill, 309-340
57. 2002b: “An Emerging New Dialect of Coptic” (review article of Gardner, Alcock and Funk, Coptic Documentary Texts from Kellis), Orientalia 71:298-308
58. 2003a: “Future, Present, Narrative Past: a Triple Note on Oxyrhynchite Tempuslehre”, in: Sprache und Geist. Peter Nagel zum 65. Geburtstag. Herausgegeben von Walter Beltz, Ute Pietruschka und Jürgen Tubach (= Hallesche Beiträge zur Orientwissenschaft 35 (2003)), Halle (Saale) 2003, pp. 249-309.
59. 2003b: “A Definitive Sahidic Coptic Grammar” (review article of B. Layton's Coptic Grammar), Orientalia 71:424-459
60. 2003c: “Juncture Features in Literary Modern Welsh: Cohesion and Delimitation - Problematik, Typology of Exponents and Features”, Zeitschrift f. Celtische Philologie 53:230-258
61. 2003d: “Celtic Syntax, Egyptian-Coptic Syntax”, in: Das Alte Ägypten und seine Nachbarn: Festschrift Helmut Satzinger, Krems: Österreichisches Literaturforum, 245-302
62. 2004: “Juncture Features in Shenoutean Coptic: Linkage and Delimitation”, Coptic Studies on the Threshold of a New Milennium: Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, ed. M. Immerzeel and J. Van Der Vliet, Peeters:Leuven-Paris-Dudley, MA, 155-175
63. 2005: “Epistolary Grammar: Syntactical Highlights in Kate Roberts's Letters to Saunders Lewis”, Journal of Celtic Linguistics 9:83-103
64. 2006a: “On Conversion, Clause Ordination and Related Notions”, Proceedings, Ancient Egyptian, Neo-Semitic - Methods in Linguistics: Workshop in Memory of H.J. Polotsky, ed. G. Goldenberg and A. Shisha-Halevy, Jerusalem : The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 92-105
65. 2006b: (editor, with G. Goldenberg) Ancient Egyptian, Neo-Semitic, Methods in Linguistics: Workshop in Memory of H.J. Polotsky - Proceedings, Jerusalem : The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
66. 2006c: Review of Layton, Coptic Grammar, Second Edition, Orientalia
67. 2006d: “H.J. Polotsky Structuralist” in: After Polotsky: Proceedings of the Colloquium, Bad Honnef, September 2005, Lingua Aegyptia 14:1-8
68. 2007a: “H. J. Polotsky”, in: Lexicon Grammaticorum, 2nd ed., (ed. H. Stammerjohann) (with G. Goldenberg)
69. 2007b: “Determination-Signalling Environment in Old and Middle Egyptian: Work-Notes and Reflections”, in Studies in Semitic and General Linguistics in Honor of Gideon Goldenberg (Alter Orient und Altes Testament vol. 334), Ugarit Verlag, Münster, 223-254
70. 2007c: Topics in Coptic Syntax : Structural Studies in the Bohairic Dialect, Leuven: Peeters (= OLA 160). [contents]
71. 2009a: “Work-Notes on Shenoute's Rhetorical Syntax: ešje and ara - Suspension of Disagreement, Irony and reductio ad absurdum” in: Liber Amicorum: Jürgen Horn zum Dank (eds. A. Giewekemeyer et al.). Göttingen, = Göttinger Miszellen, Beihefte, 5, 113-129
72. 2009b: “A Note on Converbs in Egyptian and Coptic.” In: Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron, edited by Charles G. Häberl, 95-105. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars.
73. 2009c: “On Typology, Syntax and Aspect in Egyptian: a Question of Method”, review article on J. Winand, Temps et aspect en égyptien, Chronique d'Egypte 84, 2009, pp. 136-152
74. 2010: “Converbs in Welsh and Irish: A Note”, in: Kelten am Rhein: Akten des dreizehnten Internationalen Keltologiekongressesvon LVR Landesmuseum Bonn (Autor), Verein von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande Mainz:Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 270-277
75. 2011: “Rhetorical Narratives, Tableaux, and Scenarios: Work-Notes on Narrative Poetics in Shenoutean Sahidic Coptic”, in: Narratives of Egypt and the Ancient Near East, Leuven: Peeters (OLA 189)
76. 2012: (with Anne Boud'hors) "Two Remarkable Features of Coptic Syntax", ZÄS 139, 105-112


77. Forthcoming (a): 2009, “Musings on Neutralization in Coptic” (Festschrift)
78. Forthcoming (b): “Linguistic Symptoms of Shenoute's Authorship”, in: Coptica Argentoratensia. Conférences et documents de la 3e université d'été en papyrologie copte (Strasbourg, 18-25 juillet 2010) ed. A. Boud’hors, A. Delattre, C. Louis et S. Richter, à paraître en 2012 dans la collection Cahiers de la Bibliothèque Copte (Paris, De Boccard).
79. Forthcoming (c): “The Circumstantial Conversion in Coptic: Materials towards a Syntactic Profile” (Festschrift)
80. Forthcoming (d): “Structural/Interferential View of Greek Elements in Shenoute" (Proceedings of the Leipzig Conference on Loanwords in Coptic)