Robert Hetzron (1937 – 1997) was a linguist who specialized in Afroasiatic languages and whose work embraced comparative studies, semantic analysis and theoretical aspects of grammar. 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist or linguistician. ... Map showing the distribution of Afro-Asiatic languages The Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family of about 240 languages and 285 million people widespread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia. ... In computer science, semantic analysis is a pass by a compiler that adds semantical information to the parse tree and performs certain checks based on this information. ... Grammar is the discovery, enunciation, and study of rules governing the use of language. ...
Robert Hetzron (ed.) 1997. The Semitic Languages. Routledge: London. ISBN 0-415-05767-1.
RobertHetzron was appointed Assistant Professor in the (then) Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1966 to initiate a program in Hebrew language and literature.
Robert's development as a linguist proceeded from an early phase of intralingual description and analysis outward toward a comprehensive interlingual perspective focusing on comparison and theory.
* Gideon Goldenberg, "In memoriam RobertHetzron", in: Aethiopica 2 (1999), pp.
There over the years Robert always welcomed his friends, and entertained everyone with his conversational expertise and, if you were lucky, by his gourmet cooking as well, and by a short walk down the hill to watch sunset over the Channel Islands.
At least there was RobertHetzron, and the many who did not know him can benefit from his rich and encompassing body of work, in which one can always find lengthy and thorough reference to prior work, typically with generous acknowledgements of his consultations with others.
Robert's ex-wife Gabriella Barber is cataloging and organizing the unfinished papers which Robert left behind to see that this work completed and made available.
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