Work in Progress

last updated 20/August/2009

This index now includes links to my unpublished papers in information studies (2006-2007). I will be including a section for notes and outlines in generative masoretics (2007-2009).

The .TTF Greek, Hebrew and IPA fonts are also in this directory. (You may also want to visit the SIL site whence I obtained them: www.sil.org).

You are free to read and use these documents, provided only that you give me critical feedback.

Doctoral Thesis

The thesis takes the so-called enigma of the Hebrew verbal system as a problem in generative grammar. The formal model integrates phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatic/discourse analysis. Important proposals include verb movement and topicalization in an SVO system, and an alternative analysis of tense, mood and aspect. Both proposals have an obvious bearing on exegesis and discourse analysis.

ISBN: 0-612-02741-4
Diss. Abstracts: AAT NN02741
ILLO University of Toronto: theses NEAST 1995 Ph.D. 6298 ROBA

Electronic Publications

• "Hebrew Linguistics and Biblical Criticism: A Minimalist Programme",
  Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 3 (2000-2001)
  [now published in Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures (2006)]

Manuscripts

• " Theme and Variation in Psalm 111: Phrase and Foot in Generative-Metrical Perspective"
  (revised draft 8)
• "On the Semantics of Modal Coordination in Biblical Hebrew: A Strictly Compositional Approach to Truth-Functional Operators for Natural Language"
  (draft 2, 2001)

Information Studies (2006-2007)

• "Investigating the Value of Qualitative Citation Analysis for the Work of Academic Reference Librarians: A Case Study in Feminist Geography."
• "La Trahison des Bibliothécaires: A Century of Collection-Development Philosophy."
• "There is no F in QWERTY: On the Locking-in of KE Classification Three Decades Later."
• "Margaret Bloy Graham (1920- )."
• "On the Child's Right to Information under Articles 13 and 17 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Public Librarian's Moral Obligation to Both Empower and Protect."
• "Information Malpractice: Understanding the Liabilities of the Independent Information Professional (IIP)."
• "Knowledge Management as Trojan Horse: Subversive Aspects of an Age-old Concept."

Generative Masoretics (2007-2009)

• "The Clitic in Tiberian Hebrew: A Constraints-Based Approach."
  (notes, March, 2008)
• "The Clitic in Biblical Hebrew Poetry: A Constraints-Based Approach."
  (notes, March, 2008)
• "Bi-phrasal Mashal Psalms with both Poetic and Prose Accentuation: Comparison and Analysis."
  (revised, with new notation, and proposed transformations, 22 Sept, 2008)
• "Theme and Variation in Jonah 2: A Tri-phrasal Accentual Analysis (Poetic System) of Qinah Metre."
  (scansion 09/Sept/2008)
• "Theme and Variation in Lamentations 3: A Double Bi-phrasal Accentual Analysis (Prose System) of Qinah Metre."
  (scansion 12/Sept/2008)
• "Theme and Variation in Psalm 119: A Double Bi-phrasal Accentual Analysis (Prose System) of an Acrostic Psalm."
  (scansion [proof of concept 119:1-40] 12/Sept/2008)
• "Theme and Variation in Psalm 19: Strict Mashal and Qinah (Poetic System)."
  (accentual scansion 13/Sept/2008)
• "On the Formal Definition of "Long Word" in Tiberian Hebrew: Diagnostic, Database, Generative Analysis, and Implications."
  IOMS/SBL paper in Boston (24/Nov/2008)
• "A Taxonomy of Clitics in Tiberian Hebrew: Evidence from the Dechi Phrase."
  summary notes (Summer 2009)
• "On the Placement of Secondary Metheg (Musical Ga`ya) in Tiberian Hebrew: Evidence from the Dechi Phrase."
  summary notes (Summer 2009)
• "The Fundamental Prosodic Principles of Tiberian Hebrew Phonology."
  notes (July 2009)
• "A Prosodic Framework for Tiberian Phonology: A Three-layered Prosodic Interface."
  notes (July 2009)
• "An Optimality-theoretic (OT) Syntax-to-phonology Algorithm for Tiberian Hebrew."
  proof of concept (version 5.0, August 2009)
• "The Eight Phonemic Vowels of Tiberian Hebrew: Evidence from Segholate Nouns."
  paper for revision (June 1999) [doc]
• "Collated List of Occurrences of Nesiga"
  (August 2009) [doc]
• "A Prosodic Analysis of Stress-retraction (Nesiga) in Tiberian Hebrew: Prosodic Structure and Optimality-theoretic Constraints."
  proofs of concept (Aug/2009): D3/D4 [doc], Poetry [pdf], "Oddballs" [pdf]