H. J. P. - Teacher

Polotsky taught classes in  Egyptian and Coptic, Comparative Semitics, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic,
Amharic, Tigrinya, Neo-Aramaic, Turkish and Post-Classical Greek, as well as in General Linguistics.
Polotsky taught at  the Hebrew University's department of linguistics, which he established at 1953. 

 

Doctoral theses supervised by HJP:

Bar-Adon, Aharon. 1959. Spoken language of Children in Israel.

Groll, Sarah Israelit. 1962. Negated sentences in Late Egyptian.

groll   Groll sarah

Fiamenta, Moshe. 1964. Tense and aspect in the Jerusalem Arabic dialect* (Supervised by H. J. P. and S. D. Guytein*).

Goldenberg, Gideon. 1966. The Amharic tense system.
Gilula, Mordechai. 1968. Enclitic particles in Middle Egyptian. Download Hebrew version.☃
 

gilula  Gilula1


Kapeliuk, Olga. 1968. The language of dialogue in modern Amharic literature.

Kedar-Kopfstein, Benjamin. 1968.The Vulgate as a translation : some semantic and syntactical aspects of Jerome's version of the Hebrew Bible.
(Supervised together with Haim Rabin).

Shisha-Halevy, Ariel. 1972. The circumstantial sentence in Shenute's Coptic.

Erdal, Marcel. 1976. Voice and case in old Turkish.

Guy, Amikam. 1978. Adnominal adjuncts* in Semitic languages.

Schupak, Nili. 1984. Selected terms in Biblical wisdom literature in comparison to Egyptian wisdom literature.

Fludis, Alfred Gregory. 1984. Studies on copula position in Jarabaj Armenian.*

MA Theses supervised by HJP:

Lichtheim, Miriam.
 

Kapeliuk, Olga. 1959.

Hetzron, Robert. 1965.

Guy, Amikam. 1972.

Schupak, Nili. 1972.

Taube, Moshe. 1975.

Fludis, Alfred Gregory. 1984.