Eitan Grossman

53/3 Borochov Street, Jerusalem, Israel
eitan.grossman@mail.huji.ac.il

Current positions

Université de Liège, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Ramses Project).
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Kreitman Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Project title: ‘The sociolinguistic situation of Coptic in Early Islamic Egypt: evidence from documentary texts.’

Fields of Interest

Functional, typological and sociolinguistic approaches to language, diachronic linguistics, especially grammaticalization studies, language contact. Syntax and text-linguistics. Coptic and Egyptian, Yiddish, Celtic.

Education

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2005-2009	PhD, Linguistics, Summa cum laude Thesis title: ‘Structural Studies in the Syntax of Early Bohairic’ Supervisor: Prof. Ariel Shisha-Halevy
2003-2005	M.A., Linguistics, Summa cum laude
1999-2003	B.A., Linguistics (minors in Egyptology and Classical Studies) Summa cum laude

Courses taught (2011–2012)

41002

Introduction to historical linguistics

Publications

Grossman, E., 2010. ‘Typology, diachrony, and dialectology: the grammaticalization of prohibitive constructions in the Coptic dialects,’ forthcoming in: M. Haspelmath and T.S. Richter (eds.), Language typology and Coptic-Egyptian linguistics (Typological Studies in Language).
Grossman, E., 2010. ‘Periphrastic perfects in the Coptic dialects: a case study in grammaticalization,’ in: Lingua Aegyptia 17.
Grossman, E., 2010. ‘Innovation and Repertoire: the case of Late Egyptian,’ in: M, Bietak, O. Goldwasser and E. Grossman (eds.), The Hyksos Challenge - Cultural Interference in the New Kingdom (forthcoming).
Grossman, E., 2009. ‘The syntax of argument clauses in Sahidic Coptic,’ in: Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 136/1: 19-32.
Grossman, E., 2009. ‘Protatic efsôtm revisited,’ in: Antonia Giewekemeyer, Gerald Moers & Kai Widmaier (eds.), Liber amicorum - Jürgen Horn zum Dank, Göttinger Miszellen Beihefte 5, Göttingen, 47-56.
Grossman, E., 2008. ‘Nucleus-satellite analysis and conjugation mediation in Coptic and Later Egyptian,’ Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 135/2: 16-29.
Grossman, E., 2007. ‘Worknotes on Nitrian Bohairic Syntax: a hitherto unnoticed circumstantial conversion’ in: A. Boud’hors & N. Bosson (eds.), (Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Coptic Studies, Paris 2004, Peeters. Vol. II, p. 711-726).
Grossman, E., 2007. ‘Protatic iir=f zDm in the Report of Wenamun: a proto-Demotic feature?’ Göttinger Miszellen 215- 49-56.

Reviews

Review of M. Choat, Belief and Cult in the Fourth Century Papyri in Scripta Classica Israelica 26 (2007): 248-252.
Review of S. Torallas-Tovar, Identidad linguistica e identidad religiosa en el Egipto grecorromano in Scripta Classica Israelica 26 (2007): 246-248.

Books edited

Cromwell, J. & E. Grossman (eds.), Beyond Free Variation: Scribal Repertoires from Old Kingdom to Early Islamic Egypt (forthcoming).
Bietak, M., O. Goldwasser and E. Grossman (eds.) The Hyksos Challenge - Cultural Interference in the New Kingdom, special volume of Aegypten und Levante (forthcoming).

Lectures

‘How to get to the future without a verb of motion (or metaphors),’ Konzeptualisierung von Raum: Morphosyntax und Semantik spatialer Relatoren, Jahrestagung 2010 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft 32, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, (with Stéphane Polis).
‘Loan prepositions in the Coptic dialects’ Linguistic Borrowing in Coptic. Leipzig, April 2010.
‘What's integrated into what (and by whom)?’ Identifying and Describing Lexical Borrowing, Liège, March 2010.
‘Pragmatic inferencing and the rise of the to-future in Egyptian,’ Berlin, February 2010 (with Stéphane Polis).
‘Navigating polyfunctionality in the lexicon with a semantic map,’ Lexical Semantics in Ancient Egyptian, Liège, December 2009 (with Stéphane Polis).
‘Grammatical variation and language change: the case of Greek verb lexemes in the Coptic dialects,’ Beyond Free Variation: Scribal Repertoires from Old Kingdom to Early Islamic Egypt, Oxford, September 2010.
‘The grammaticalization of the periphrastic perfect in Coptic: a typological perspective’ Crossroads IV, Basel, March 2009.
‘Typology, dialectology, and diachrony: prohibitive constructions in the Coptic dialects,’ Language Typology and Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, March 2008.
‘Nominal determination and focus in Early Bohairic,’ 9th International Congress of Coptic Studies, Cairo, September 2008.
‘Besa’s Sahidic idiolect,’ Shenoute Workshop, Monserrat, 2006.
‘On Polotsky’s Relative-Clause Analysis of the the Coptic Second Tenses,’ After Polotsky, Bonn, 2005.
‘Worknotes on Nitrian Bohairic Syntax,’ 8th International Congress of Coptic Studies, Paris 2004.
‘Innovation and Repertoire: the case of Late Egyptian,’ Kulturkontakt und Innovation, Vienna, 2003.

Other lectures and workshops given

3rd International Summer School in Coptic Papyrology, Strasbourg, July 2010.
‘The semantic map of allatives in Biblical Hebrew: a typological approach to radical polysemy,’ Ben Gurion University.
‘On the grammaticalization of prepositions in modern Hebrew,’ Haifa University.
‘Coptic-Egyptian linguistics in Jerusalem 1944-2008,’ Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2008).
2nd International Summer School in Coptic Papyrology, Leipzig, July-August 2008.
‘Standardized languages as canonized linguistic repertoires,’ Simon-Dubnow-Institut for Jewish History and Culture, August 2008.
Ägyptologisches Institut, Universität Leipzig (Block seminar), Summer 2007.
‘The durative system of Later Egyptian in diachronic and typological perspective.’
‘Linguistic varieties of Bohairic Coptic.’
‘Ancient Egyptian translation practice and native grammatical theory.’
‘Towards a social history of the Egyptian language and its speakers.’

Conferences organized

Linguistic Borrowing into Coptic (Leipzig 2010), with S. Richter, organization underway
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Text Languages (Cambridge), with M. Wagner and M. Stenroos, organization underway.
Linguistic perspectives on prolepsis (Liège 2010), with H. Halla-Aho and D. Longrée, organization underway.
New Directions in Egyptian Syntax (Liège 2010), with St. Polis and J. Winand, organization underway.
Lexical Semantics in Ancient Egyptian (Liège 2009), with St. Polis and J. Winand.
Beyond Free Variation: Scribal Repertoires from Old Kingdom to Early Islamic Egypt (Oxford 2009), with J. Cromwell.
Linguistics section of the 9th International Congress of Coptic Studies (Cairo, 2008), with A. Shisha-Halevy.

Languages

English (native), Hebrew (near-native), Spanish (excellent), German, French, Yiddish (proficient)
Greek (classical and post-classical), Latin, Arabic, Welsh (Modern and Medieval), Irish, Geʿez, Amharic, Aramaic, Ancient Egyptian (Old, Classical, Late, Demotic, Coptic).