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Prof. Shlomo Raz

Prof. Shlomo Raz
1936-1999

Prof. Shlomo, a world renowned scholar of Ethiopian languages and modern Arabic dialects, was born in Tiberias in 1936.

Prof. Raz trained in linguistics in Jerusalem and London. He received a B.A. in General Linguistics and Semitic languages from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he mainly studied under Prof. H. J. Polotsky (1968). His doctoral dissertation, a grammar of the Tigre language based on fieldwork he conducted in Eritrea, was written at the School of Oriental and African Studies under the supervision of Prof. Edward Ullendorf (1974).

Between 1972 and 1999, he taught in a number of departments in Tel Aviv University: the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Arabic Language and Arabic Literature, and the Department of Semitic Linguistics in its various phases. He was Head of the Department of Hebrew Language and Semitic Linguistic between 1995 and 1997, and he headed the Teaching Committee of the Faculty of the Humanities.

He passed away tragically at 63.

Education

1968 B.A. in General Linguistics and Semitic Languages
  Tel Aviv University
1974 Ph.D.
  The School of Oriental and African Studies

Academic and Professional Experience

1972-1999 Lecturer
  Department of Semitic Linguistics, at the Department of Linguistics, at the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, and at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Tel Aviv University
1980-1981 Visiting Scholar
  Department of Africa, SOAS, The University of London
1985 Visiting Scholar
  Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
1990-1991 Member of the International Research Group on Living Semitic Languages and Comparative Linguistics,
  Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1990-1999 Member of the Editorial Board
  Israel Oriental Studies
1993 Visiting Scholar
  Department of Africa, SOAS, The University of London
1995-1997 Department Head
  Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Tel Aviv University
1995-1998 Committee Head
  Teaching Committee of the Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv Uniersity

Major Publications

Books

  • Tigre Grammar and Texts (Afroasiatic Dialects, 4) . Malibu, CA: Undena Publications. 1983.
  • Goldenberg, Gideon and Shlomo Raz (eds.). Semitic and Cushitic Studies. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 1994.
  • Izre'el, Shlomo and Shlomo Raz (eds.). Studies in Modern Semitic Languages. [=Israel Oriental Studies16].. Leiden: Brill. 1996.

Papers

  • "Complex Verbal Expressions of Time-Relations in Tigre." Israel Oriental Studies 7 (1977): 144-172.
  • "The Morphology of the Tigre Verb (Mansa Dialect), Parts 1 & 2." Journal of Semitic Studies 25 (1980): 66-84; 205-238.
  • "Tigre Syntax and Semitic Ethiopian". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 43/2 (180): 235-280
  • "Vowel Quantity in Tigre." In: G. Goldenberg (ed.). Ethiopian Studies: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference. Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema. 1986. 455-465.
  • "Areal Features as a Further Criterion in Elucidating the Term 'Ethiopian Semitic'"African Languages and Cultures 2.1 (1989): 93-108.
  • " Semitic South-Ethiopic: The Definite Future Revisited." In: Alan S. Kaye (ed.). Semitic Studies: In Honor of Wolf Leslau.. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 1991. 1248-1264.
  • "Archaic and Innovative Tense Forms in Gurage.". In: G. Goldenberg and S. Raz (eds.). Semitic and Cushitic Studies. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 1994. 197-205.
  • "Prominence and Vowel Duration in Some Spoken Arabic Dialects.". Israel Oriental Studies 16 (1995):193-199.
  • "Tigré." In: R. Hetzron (ed.). Semitic Languages. London: Routledge. 1997. 446-456