Selected Publications:
Hebrew and Jewish discourse and culture
‘The Grammar of Modern Hebrew’, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
(Editor) ‘Hebrew in Ashkenaz: A Language in Exile,’ Oxford University Press, 1993.
‘Inside the language planner’s head: Tactical responses to a mass migration’, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 16(5), pp. 351-372, 1995.
‘Toward a sociology of Ashkenazi Hebrew’, Jewish Social Studies 2(3), pp. 85-114, 1996.
At the seam of syntax and semantics: “as if” in Modern Hebrew’ in M. Bar-Asher (ed.) Studies in Hebrew and Jewish Languages Presented to Shelomo Morag, Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, pp. 15-32, 1996.
‘We never changed our language: Attitudes of British Hasidic educators to Yiddish’, Osnabrücker Beitrage zur Sprachtheorie, 54, pp. 60-88, 1997.
‘Lexicographic function and the relation between supply and demand.’ International Journal of Lexicography, 1998.
(Co-author: Miriam Isaacs) ‘Sacred Voices: The Language of Ultraorthodox Jews.’ Special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 138, 1999.
‘Golem: The making of a modern myth.’ Symposium 55(2), pp. 78-94, 2001.
(with KM Loewenthal and V Goldblatt) ‘Guarding the tongue: A thematic analysis of gossip control strategies among Orthodox Jewish women in London.’ Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 24 (3), pp. 513-524, 2004.
‘The Hasidic Tale and the Sociolinguistic Modernization of the Jews of Eastern Europe’ in Rella Kushelevsky & Avidov Lipsker (eds.) Ma’aseh Sippur, Bar Ilan University Press, 2006, pp. 7-36, 2006.
‘Minimizers in Second Temple/Mishnaic Hebrew: A syntactic-semantic analysis.’ In Steven Fassberg (ed.) Sha’arei Lashon: Studies in Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Languages presented to Moshe Bar-Asher. Mosad Bialik, pp. 103-128, 2007. [in Hebrew]
‘A typology of genitives in Contemporary Hebrew’. In John Healey & Janet Watson (eds.), Relative clauses and genitive constructions in Semitic: typology and diachrony. Special supplement of the Journal of Semitic Studies. pp. 113-133, 2009.
‘Language and religion’. In Geoffrey Khan et al (eds.) Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics. Brill, Leiden, 2014
‘Jewish Humor’. In Salvatore Attardo (ed.) Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. SAGE, 2014.
‘Conceptions of language and rhetoric in ancient and medieval Judaism’. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 22 (1), pp. 133–171, 2020