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Rammie Cahlon

rammie.cahlon@mail.huji.ac.il

Rammie Cahlon is a PhD candidate enrolled in a joint program with Leiden University (Supervised by Prof. W.F.H Adelaar and Dr. Eitan Grossman).

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His research focuses on linguistic diversity and language chang and his doctorate research, titled "linguistic diversity: a Quechuan case-study", deals with the role of variance in the stabilization process of unstable features. His research interests include areal typology, language typology, language change pathways, transitivity and argument structure, Creoles, Andean and Scandinavian languages. Rammie Cahlon is a fellow at the Mandel School PhD honors program.

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Maya Inbar

maya.inbar1@mail.huji.ac.il

Maya Inbar is a graduate student in the joint HUJI-TAU program in Linguistics, under the supervision of Dr. Eitan Grossman.

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Focuses on Linguistic Typology from a usage-based perspective, emphasizing the formative role of talk-in-interaction and extra-linguistic factors in guiding language change. Awarded the M.A. excellence prize of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (2016).

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Eliana Kessler

eliana.kessler@mail.huji.ac.il

BA in Linguistics and Hebrew from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2014).

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Eliana is a second year MA student in the Department of Linguistics, was awarded the 2016 Rector's Award for academic achievements, and is a student in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel MA Honors Program. She is a member of the Middle Persian Dictionary Project directed by Prof. Shaul Shaked under the auspices of the Israel Science Foundation, and is working on Middle Persian valency patterns. Main areas of interest include Iranian languages of all periods, as well as alignment, transitivity and information structure. 

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Hagay Schurr

hagay.schurr@mail.huji.ac.il
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Hagay Schurr is a graduate student in linguistics, awarded a full scholarship in the honors program of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (2014-2016).

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His research interests revolve around linguistic diversity and language variation and change. His current projects concern morpho-syntactic phenomena in Romance languages, set on the background of linguistic typology in general. His MA dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Eitan Grossman is titled Differential Argument Coding in Romance: Towards a revised typology. This project tackles questions of variation and change in nominal and pronominal argument structure from two perspectives: the family-level syntactic typology, including minority and substandard languages, and a usage-based study in French and Spanish, based on diachronic corpora. More generally, he is also interested in grammaticalization and contact-induced change cross-linguistically.

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