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Hagit Borer

Expert on the "English only" debate and bilingual education, language acquisition, academic culture, Zionism and Israel

Professor of linguistics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Contact at: (213) 740-2986 or borer@rcf.usc.edu


Expertise:
  • linguistics and language abilities
  • language acquisition by children and by adults
  • the "English only" debate and bilingual education
  • standard and substandard language uses
  • academic culture and academic freedom
  • purpose and structure of higher education in the U.S.
  • Israel and Israeli society
  • Zionism and the history of Zionism
  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Additional Information:
  • Author of Parametric Syntax (1984)
  • Editor of The Syntax of Pronominal Clitics (1986)

Foreign Languages:
Hebrew

More:
For biographical information go to:

http://college.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003118