Ghil'ad Zuckermann

Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Hebrew: גלעד צוקרמן‎ , simplified Chinese: 诸葛漫; traditional Chinese: 諸葛漫; pinyin: Zhūgěmàn) (born June 1, 1971, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-Italian-British-Australian linguist, expert of language revival, contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. Zuckermann is Professor of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide and holds an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellowship, as well as a Project 211 Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Shanghai International Studies University. According to Zuckermann, "Israeli" (his term for Modern Hebrew) is a Semito–European hybrid language, simultaneously based on Hebrew, Yiddish and other languages such as Russian and Polish. His multi-parental hybridization model is in contrast to both the traditional revival view (i.e. that "Israeli" is Hebrew revived) and the relexification position (i.e. that "Israeli" is Yiddish with Hebrew words). Zuckermann...