Position:
Lecturer in Classical Hebrew Language
Faculty / College Address:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Email:
dorota.molin@ames.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
Biblical Hebrew and its pronunciation traditions, Neo-Aramaic, language contact (Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish, Modern Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic), word order typology, tense-aspect-modal systems
Current Projects:
1. Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: A Linguistic History of Minorities in the Near East, ERC Advanced Grant (Research associate)
2. The shared folkloristic heritage of Kurds, Syriac Christians and Jews of Iraq, Cambridge Open Book Publishers (volume contributor and editor)
3. A Comparative Grammar of Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic based on the dialect of Dohok (monograph)
4. Post-predicate Elements in Iranian: Inheritance, Contact and Inform. Structure, Alexander von Humbolt Stiftung (edited volume contributor)
5. The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic database (contributor and editor)
Courses Taught:
Beginner Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew texts for beginners
Recent Publications:
Geoffrey Khan, Dorota Molin, Masoud Mohammadirad and Paul Noorlander, eds. Forthcoming 2022. The shared folkloristic heritage of Kurds, Syriac Christians and Jews of Iraq.
Noorlander, Paul and Molin, Dorota. Forthcoming 2022. ‘Word Order Typology in North Eastern Neo-Aramaic: Towards a Corpus-Based Approach.’ Language Typology and Universals 75(3).
Molin, Dorota. 2020. ‘Biblical Quotations in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Their Contribution to the Study of the Babylonian Reading Tradition.’ In Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions, edited by Aaron D. Hornkohl and Geoffrey Khan, 148–70. Semitic Languages and Cultures. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
2020. ‘Israeli Hebrew in the Mouths of Native Negev Arabic Speakers: Characteristic Interference Features in Phonology, Syntax and Morphology.’ Mediterranean Language Review 27: 143-166.
Full / Other Publications:
2019. ‘The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Dohok: Two Folktales and Selected Features of Verbal Semantics.’ In Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic, edited by Geoffrey Khan and Paul M. Noorlander. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
Noorlander, Paul and Molin, Dorota. Forthcoming 2022. ‘Word Order Typology in North Eastern Neo-Aramaic: Towards a Corpus-Based Approach.’ Language Typology and Universals 75(3).
Heijmans, Shai, edited in collaboration with Ivri Bunis and Dorota Molin. Forthcoming 2022. The Mishnah: A Diplomatic Edition of Codex Kaufmann.
2021. Review of Jastrow, Otto, and Shabo. Talay. 2019. Der neuaramäische Dialekt von Midyat (Miḏyoyo). Band I: Texte. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden (Semitica Viva, 59). Bibliotheca Orientalis 1-2.
Further Information:
Times of Israel Blogger
The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic database
Youtube Modern Aramaic folklore
