PROF. ALEXANDER BORG

Date & Place of Birth January 15, 1941, Malta

Address

Department of Hebrew Language

The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Beersheva

84105Israel

email:

Education

B.A. 1958.62 UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, England. Bachelor of Arts

Degree in English, French, and Latin.

Teacher fs Cert. 1961.62 UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, England.

M.A. 1969.71 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, USA. M.A. in

Linguistics and the TESOL Certificate.

Ph.D. 1972.78 THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM,

Institute of Asian and African Studies.Supervisor: Prof. Haim Blanc, Thesis: A Historical and Comparative Phonology and

Morphology of Maltese.

1978Ph.D. awarded summa cum laude.

Habilitation 1981.83 UNIVERSITAT ERLANGEN-NURNBERG,

Germany.

Sponsor: Professor Dr. Wolfdietrich Fischer.

Thesis: Cypriot Arabic: A Historical and

Comparative Investigation into the Phonology

and Morphology of the Arabic Vernacular

Spoken by the Maronites of Kormakiti

)N.W.Cyprus.(

Habilitation awarded after public

examination held in German at the Faculty of

Arts of the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg

in May 1984.

.3Employment history

1969.1972UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, USA,

Department of Linguistics (Teaching Assistant.(

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1978.1981TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY, Ramat Aviv. Department of

Linguistics (Lecturer.(

1983.1987TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY, Ramat Aviv. Department of

Arabic (Senior Lecturer.(

Feb.July 1987 Sabbatical leave at the INSTITUT FUR ARABISTIK

DER FREIEN UNIVERSITAT, Berlin.

Feb.July 1988.89 UNIVERSITY OF MALTA. Department of Arabic (Senior

Lecturer.(

1989.1990THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM. Director of

Publications at the Institute of Asian and African

Studies.

1991.1994THE JACOB BLAUSTEIN FOR DESERT RESEARCH, Sede

Boqer, Israel. I was employed as a researcher in the

dialectology and linguistic anthropology of the Negev

Bedouin. Concurrently, I taught 2hrs a week at the Ben -

Gurion University fs (Department of Behavioral

Sciences.(

1991.1993TEL -AVIV UNIVERSITY , Ramat Aviv. Aranne School of

History. Taught 2 hrs a week a course entitled

gLanguage and culture in the Mediterranean h

)Senior Lecturer.(

From April 1994 THE JACOB BLAUSTEIN FOR DESERT RESEARCH, Sede

Boqer, Israel and the Department of Behavioral

Sciences of the Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva.

Sept 97.Jan 98 UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, Guest Professor at

the Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Oriental Languages.

Taught two courses: (i) the Structure of Maltese for

Arabists; (ii) Arabic in Spain: A linguistic appraisal.

Feb 98-July 99 UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM, Guest Professor at the

Department of Arabic.

From Sept 99 BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV. Associate

Professor at the Department of Hebrew and at the

Department of Middle Eastern Studies.

.4Professional activities

Teaching

Undergraduate courses in Arabic and general linguistics taught at Tel-Aviv

University (1978.1981:(

An introduction to Arabic dialectology

Classical Arabic for intermediate students

The syntax of Palestinian Arabic

The history of linguistic thought (linguistics in Ancient Greek and Rome(

The history of the Italian language

Selected themes in the historical and comparative grammar of the Arabic component

of Maltese

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Undergraduate courses taught at the Dept of Arabic of the University of

Malta (1988.89(

An introduction to Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry

The Structure of Classical Arabic: phonology and morphology

Towards a history of vernacular Arabic

MA course taught at Tel-Aviv University fs Aranne School of History (1991-3(

Selected topics in the area of language and culture in the Mediterranean

Undergraduate course taught at Ben-Gurion University fs Department of

Behavioral Sciences

From 1993: An introduction to anthropological linguistics.

Graduate courses taught at Ben-Gurion University fs Department of Middle

Eastern Studies

:(1999)Readings of Classical Arabic texts

:(2001)The history of the Arabic language

:(2001.2)Anthropological aspects of language and culture in the Arab world

:(2001.2)An introduction of genres of Bedouin folk poetry

Graduate courses taught at Ben-Gurion University fs Department of Hebrew

:(1999)An introduction to Neo-Aramaic (The .uroyo language(

(2000.1)Selected topics on Comparative Semitic linguistics

(2000.1)An introduction to the Maltese Language

(2001.2)Language contact in the Semitic Sprachraum

Awards, honors, research fellowships:

)a) The Lucius Littauer Foundation (New York:(

August.September 1999: $3400 for research on the Bedouin Arabic lexicon;

)b) The Swedish Research Council (Humanistisk-Samhaltsvetenskapliga For

skningsradet), Stockholm:

Feb 1999: a subvention of 22,000 Kronor towards the publication of my

anthology, The Language of Color in the Mediterranean

)Almkvist/Wiksell, Stockholm;(

)c) Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Bonn:(

E Jan.Feb 1998: Visiting scholar at the Oriental Institute of Universitat Freiburg;

E Nov 1993: a lecture tour of former E.German Universities (Leipzig and Halle;(

E Feb.July 1987: visitor at the Institut fur Arabistik der Freien Universitat Berlin

for a research project on Arabic dialectology;

E Feb 1981-Jan 1983: Stipendiat at the Orientalisches Seminar der Universitat

Erlangen-Nurnberg for a research project on the special Arabic dialect of Cyprus;

)d) Lady Davis Scholarship at the Hebrew University:

E Oct 1976-Sept 1977: received financial aid towards my doctoral dissertation.

)e) Faculty of Humanities, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A: .

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E Oct 1969-July 1972: Teaching assistant at the Department of Linguistics.

.6Scientific publications

)a) Books

.1Cypriot Arabic.A historical and comparative investigation into the phonology

and morphology of the Arabic vernacular spoken by the Maronites

of Kormakiti village in the Kyrenia district of N.W. Cyprus. Appeared in

.1985Publisher: Franz Steiner (Stuttgart) for the German Oriental Society:

204pp. (Thirteen reviews of this work have appeared.(

.2The Language of Color in the Mediterranean. An anthology of 13 articles

on linguistic and ethnographic aspects of color terms: Prologue (Alexander

Borg) | Basic color terms: Twenty-five years after (Robert MacLaury| (

The vocabulary of color with particular reference to Ancient Greek and

Classical Latin (Sir John Lyons) | The emergence of basic color lexicons

hypothesis: A comment on eThe vocabulary of color with particular reference

to Ancient Greek and Classical Latin, f by John Lyons | Les termes

fondamentaux de couleur en francais (Barbara Schafer) | Color terms in

Egyptian Arabic (Devin J. Stewart) | Linguistic and ethnographic observations

on the color categories of the Negev Bedouin (Alexander Borg| (

|ini ebleu f and burtuqali eorange f: A historical note on early Chinese coffee

cups (David Warburton) | The historical background of two non-basic

terms for eblue f in the Arabic dialect of the Negev Bedouin (Sylvia Powels(

|Berber color terms (Karl-G. Prasse) | Quelques observations sur le role

de la couleur bleue dans le Maghreb traditionnel (Pessah Shinar) | On

color and the sacred in the Hebrew Bible (Athalya Brenner) | Elements

pour une etude des couleurs en judeo-espagnol (Christine Varol) | Colors

and the social order: Symbolic classification in Central Africa (Anita

Jacobson-Widding). Appeared in August 1999. Publisher: Almkvist/ Wiksell,

Stockholm.

.3Alexander Borg, A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic.

Appeared in 2004 (514 pp): Publisher: E.J.Brill, Leiden.

.4Ron Barkai & Alexander Borg, An Andalusi Arabic Morisco Text on Folk

Medicine. Publisher: E.J. Brill (accepted for publication;(

.5Alexander Borg, A Historical and Comparative Grammar of Maltese. An

updated and expanded version of my doctoral dissertation (in preparation.(

)b) Chapters in collective volumes

.1Alexander Borg, gSome Maltese toponyms in historical perspective. h Appeared

in Studia Linguistica et Orientalia Memoriae Haim Blanc Dedicata (Paul Wexler,

ed.): Wiesbaden (1989): 63.85.

.2Alexander Borg, gOn some Mediterranean influences on the lexicon of Mal

tese. h (Invited article). Appeared in Romania Arabica: Festschrift fur Reinhold

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Kontzi zum 70. Geburtstag (ed., Jens Ludtke, Heidelberg): Publisher: Gunter

Narr Verlag, Tubingen (1996): 129.150.

.3Alexander Borg, gOn some levantine linguistic traits in Maltese. h Appeared in

Studies in Modern Semitic Languages (Israel Oriental Studies 16: 1996), ed.

Shlomo Izre.el and Shlomo Raz eds.(.

.4Alexander Borg, gMaltese Phonology. h (Invited article). Appeared in Phonologies

of Asia and Africa, (Alan Kaye, ed.). Publisher: Eisenbrauns, Winona

Lake, IN. USA, 1997:245.285.

.5Alexander Borg, gCypriot Arabic Phonology. h (Invited article). Appeared in

Phonologies of Asia and Africa, (Alan Kaye, ed.). Publisher: Eisenbrauns, Winona

Lake, IN. USA, 1997:219.244.

.6Alexander Borg, gLinguistic and ethnographic observations on the color catego

ries of the Negev Bedouin. h Appeared in The Language of Color in the Mediter

ranean (A.Borg ed.(.

.7Alexander Borg, gSome observations on the Yom ha-shishi syndrome in the

Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls. h Appeared in Diggers at the Well. Proceedings of

a Third International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben

Sira (T.Muraoka & J.F.Elwolde eds.). Leiden: E.J.Brill 2000:26.39.

.8Alexander Borg, gEncoding the boundary between the secular and the sacre: A

phonological note on the Prophet fs name in the dialect of the Negev and Sinai

Bedouin. h Appeared in Linguistic and Cultural Studies on Arabic and Hebrew

)J.Rosenhouse and Ami Elad-Bouskila eds.):49.59.

.9Alexander Borg, gAramaic substrata with special referemce to Cypriot Arabic. h

Appeared in: Yaakov Bentolila Jubilee Volume (Daniel Sivan & Pablo Itshak

Halevy-Kirtchuk). Beer Sheva.

.10Alexander Borg, gThe lexicon at the periphery . The case of Cypriot Arabic. h

To appear in: Festschrift for Sasson Somekh.

.11Alexander Borg, Translations into English of 75 legal documents from the

Libyan Sharia courts. Appeared in: Aharon Layish, Legal Documents on Libyan

Tribal Society in Process of Sedentarization. Publisher: E.J.Brill, Leiden.

.12Alexander Borg, gOrality, language, and culture in Arabic juridical discourse. h

in Aharon Layish, Legal Documents on Libyan Tribal Society in Process of Seden

tarization. Publisher: E.J.Brill, Leiden: 317.351.

.13Alexander Borg. gTowards a history and typology of color categorization in

colloquial Arabic. h In Anthropology of Color (Robert E.MacLaury, Galina

Paramei, & Don Dedrick eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Com

pany:263.294.

.14Alexander Borg. 2008. gLexical Aramaisms in Nomadic Arabic Vernaculars. In:

Prochazka, Stephan & V. Ritt-Benmimoun: Neue Beiheft zur Wiener Zeitschrift fur

die Kunde des Morgenlandes:89.111.

.15Alexander Borg, gBetween typology and diachrony: Some linguistic parallels in

Hebrew and Maltese. h Appeared in ZAPHENATH-PANEAH . Linguistic Studies

Presented to Elisha Qimron On the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (eds. Daniel

Sivan, David Talshir, and Chaim Cohen): *15.*98.

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)c) Refereed articles in scientific journals

.1Alexander Borg, gThe segmental phonems of Maltese. h Appeared in Linguistics

.5.11:(1970) 109

.2Alexander Borg, gMaltese numerals. h Appeared in Zeitschrift der Deutschen

Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, Band 124 (1974), Heft 2: 291.305.

Some Maltese toponyms in historical perspective. h Appeared in Studia

Linguistica et Orientalia Memoriae Haim Blanc Dedicata (Paul Wexler, ed:(.

Wiesbaden (1989): 63.85.

.3Alexander Borg, gMaltese morphophonemics. h Appeared in Journal of Maltese

Studies 10 (1975):11.28.

.4Alexander Borg, Review of Manuel d farabe algerien moderne (N.Tapiero.(

Appeared in Linguistics 113 (1976):81.86.

.5Alexander Borg, gThe imala in Maltese. h Appeared in Israel Oriental Studies

)Tel-Aviv University) VI:191.223.

.6Alexander Borg, gReflexes of pausal forms in Maltese rural dialects? h Appeared

in Israel Oriental Studies (Tel-Aviv University) VII (1977):211.225.

.7Alexander Borg, gHistorical aspects of auxiliary vowels in Maltese. h Appeared in

Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 70. Band (1978): 1.34.

.8Alexander Borg, gKormakiti Arabic: Phonological notes and texts. h Appeared in

Zeitschrift fur Arabische Linguistik 13 (1984):68.85.

.9Alexander Borg, gSome evolutionary parallels and divergences in Cypriot Arabic

and Maltese. Appeared in Mediterranean Language Review 8 (1994):41.67.

.10Alexander Borg and Gideon Kressel, gBedouin Personal names in the Negev

and Sinai. Appeared in Zeitschrift fur arabische Linguistik 40 (): 33.70.

.11Alexander Borg, gThe enigma of SLM-names among the Negev and Sinai

Bedouin. h Appeared in Mediterranean Language Review 13 (2001):175.193.

.12Review of Arne Ambros, Boncornu, kif int? Einfuhrung in die maltesische

Sprache (Wiesbaden 1998). Appeared in Zeitschrift fur arabische Linguistik 14

.87.92:(2002)

.13Alexander Borg, gTowards an ethnography and dialectology of a glassmaking

community: The work words of the glassblowers of Altare (Liguria, Italy). h To

appear.

.14Alexander Borg, gThe basic colour terms of Maltese. To appear in Zeitschrift

fur arabische Linguistik (2011.(

)d) Unrefereed professional articles

.1Review (in Hebrew) of Yakov Mansur, Dictionary of Jewish Baghdadi Arabic.

Appeared in Peamim 21 (1984):147.150.

.2gIntroduction to the Maltese language. h (Invited article). Appeared in Malta:

Culture and Identity (Henry Frendo and Oliver Friggieri eds.) Malta, 1994:190.

.209

.3Review of Clinto Bailey fs Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev (1991:

Clarendon Press, Oxford). Appeared in Ariel 96 (1994):91.94.

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.7Invited lectures and presentations at meetings and seminars

December 1990: Universidad Complutense, Madrid

February 1992: The Mediterranean Institute of the University of Malta

E The Mediterranean as a unified language and culture area

E The language if a medieval guild in contemporary Italy: A report on fieldwork

among the glassmakers of Altare (Liguria.(

March 4, 1992: Institutionen for orientaliska sprak, Goteborgs Universitet, Goteborg

E The evolutionary process that yielded present-day Maltese

March 5-6, 1992: Institut for Orientalsk Filologi of the University of Copenhagen

E Introduction to the Maltese language

E Color categorization among the Negev Bedouin

November 4, 1992: Institut fur Romanische Philologie der Freien Universitat Berlin

E Les elements romans en maltais

November 13, 1992: Seminar fur Arabistik, Islamwissenschaft und Semitistik der

Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg

E Einfuhrung in die maltesische Sprache

November 11, 1992: Fachbereich Orientalistik und Afrikanistik, Universitat Leipzig

E Die Stellung des Malta-Dialekts unter den arabischen Dialekten

December 7, 1993: Seminar fur Semitistik und Arabistik der Freien Universitat

Berlin

E Religion and language: The case of the Arabic-speaking Maronites in Cyprus

December 21, 1993: Orientalisches Seminar der Universitat Tubingen

E Der Charakter der maltesischen Sprache

November 2, 1994: Volkerkundemuseum der Universitat Zurich

E Die Sprache der Farben bei den Negev Beduinen

February 17.18, 1997: Carsten Niebuhr Institute for the Languages of the Middle

East, University of Copenhagen

E Maltese phonology

E The significance of personal names among the Negev Bedouin

May 12, 1997: Institut d fEthnologie Mediterraneenne et Comparative; C.N.R.S-.

Universites de Marseilles I et III: Colloque organise par l fIDEMEC:

L fanthropologie de la Mediterranee: Unite, diversite et perspectives

E The semiotics of linguistic form in the Middle East and the Mediterranean

November 26, 1998: Volkerkundemuseum der Universitat Zurich

E Beduinische Personennamen

November 28, 1998: Swedish Oriental Institute, Istanbul, Turkey.

E Eschatological aspects of name-giving among the Negev and Sinai Bedouin