Professional Activities

STUDENTS

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Talia Rubovitz-Mann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2000 (committee member)
Topic: Extractions from relative clauses – an information structure account

Takaaki Hara, Utrecht University, 2002 (committee member)
Topic: Anaphoric dependencies in Japanese

Dana Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004 (committee member)
Topic: Intensive reflexives – from sentence to discourse

Noga Balaban, PhD student at Tel Aviv University, 2011 (supervision together with Naama Friedman)
Topic: Linguistic implications of acquired damage to “Theory of Mind”

Marit Shternau, PhD student at Tel Aviv University, 2005- (supervision together with Rachel Giora)
Topic: Levels of interpretation: Semantic meaning and inference

Nina Luskin, Hebrew University, 2007- (committee member)
Topic: Negative polarity items and discourse information structure

Oshri Weiss, Hebrew University, 2008- (committee member)
Topic: A pragmatic perspective of the differences between individuals in performing reasoning tasks

Elitzur Dattner, PhD student at Tel Aviv University, 2009-
Topic: Mapping Dative Constructions

Ofir Zussman, PhD student at Tel Aviv University, 2010-

Grammaticization processes of concessive constructions

MA STUDENTS

Nurit Assayag, 1999 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: Subject selection in discourse: Cognitive constraints and genre effects

Yafa Rosenfeld, 2000 (Tel Aviv University) (No thesis)

Evan Gary Cohen, 2003 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: The pragmatics-phonology interface: Accessibility and reduction – Hebrew possessives

Iman Midlige, 2003- (Tel Aviv University)

Ruti Kahalon-Berdeshtein, 2005 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: הפרגמטיקה של כמתי הקטנה בעברית (The pragmatics of Hebrew diminutive quantifiers)

Meira Hass, 2008 (Tel Aviv University) (No thesis)

Elitzur Dattner, 2008 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: Lower transitivity constructions in Hebrew: The case of motion verbs

Roey Gafter, 2008 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: Where they linger on: motivating the current distribution of plural feminine pronouns in Hebrew.

Fainan Ganem, 2008- (Tel Aviv University)

Tal Linzen, 2009 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: Hebrew Possessive Datives: The effects of affectedess

Hillel Taub-Tabib, 2009 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: Subject-verb inversion in Hebrew intransitive clauses

Dolly Goldenberg 2010- (Tel Aviv University)

Shaul Lev 2010- (Tel Aviv University)

MIRA ARIEL, Ph.D.

Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel, 69978

Phone No.: 972-3-6405026; Fax No.: 972-3-5221044

Email: mariel@post.tau.ac.il

Site: http://www.tau.ac.il/~mariel