Olga Kapeliuk

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Prof. Olga Kapeliuk, who is professor emeritus of linguistics and African studies, was cited as being among the most important Israeli linguists and researchers of Semitic languages, especially of Ethiopian languages and modern Aramaic dialects. She has earned an international reputation as one of the leading experts in the Amharic language of Ethiopia. With the development of the large-scale Aliyah, she served an important function as an advisor to the nation’s educational system. In 2005 she received the Israel Prize for General Linguistics.

Publications

[The language of dialogue in modern Amharic literature] [in Hebrew]. Ph.D. dissertation. The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1968.
"Auxiliaires descriptifs en amharique", in: Proceedings of the international conference on Semitic studies. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanitied 1969, pp. 116-131.
"L'emploi de la marque de l'accusatif -n en amharique", in: Israel Oriental Studies 2 (1972), pp. 183-214.
"Il semble que ou il semble qui - un problème de syntaxe amharique", in: Dwight W. Young (ed.), Studies Presented to Hans Jakob Polotsky, Eisenbrauns 1981 (ISBN 0960560807), pp. 51-67.
Nominalization in Amharic. Äthiopistische Forschungen 23. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden 1988. ISBN 3515045120.
"Some common traits in the evolution of Neo-Syriac and of Neo-Ethiopian", in: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 12 (1989), pp. 294-320.
"Miscellanea Neo-Syriaca", in: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 15 (1992), pp. 60-73.
Syntax of the noun in Amharic. Äthiopistische Forschungen 37. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1994. ISBN 3447034068.
"The evolution of ərswo and ərsaččäw as sociolinguistic variants", in: Harold G. Marcus, Grover Hudson (eds.), New trends in Ethiopian studies : papers of the 12th international conference of Ethiopian studies, Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press 1994, pp. 1270-1274. [link]
"Possessive and determining nominal complexes in Semitic", in: Gideon Goldenberg, Shlomo Raz (eds.), Semitic and Cushitic studies Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1994 (ISBN 3447034475), pp. 65-69. [link]
"Is modern Hebrew the only “Indo-Europeanized“ Semitic language? And what about Neo-Aramaic?", in: Israel Oriental Studies 16 (1996), pp. 59-70.
"Reflections on the Ethio-Semitic gerund", in: Katsuyoshi Fukui, Eisei Kurimoto, Masayoshi Shigeta (eds.), Ethiopia in broader perspective : papers of the XIIIth International conference of Ethiopian studies, Kyoto: Shokado 1997, vol. 1, pp. 492-498. [link]
"The Ethio-Semitic possessive pronouns as predicalizers in historical perspective", in: Aethiopica 1 (1998), pp. 148-163. [link]
"The gerund and gerundial participle in Eastern Neo-Aramaic", in: Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 51/3 (1998), pp. 276-288. [link]
"Regularity and deviation in peripheral Neo-Semitic", in: Lutz E. Edzard & Mohammed Nekroumi (eds.), Tradition and innovation : norm and deviation in Arabic and Semitic linguistics, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1999, pp. 11-21. [link]
"Some suprasentential constructions in Amharic", in: Andrzej Zaborski (ed.), New data and new methods in Afroasiatic linguistics : Robert Hetzron in memoriam, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2001 (ISBN 3447044209), pp. 75-83. [link]

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