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26-470: The framework is detailed in Borer 's two 2005 books In Name Only and The Normal Course of Events , part of a trilogy entitled Structuring Sense , and a number of her and others' papers in morphosyntax . The main idea of the exoskeletal model is a divorce between the structure and the lexicon , but a strong correspondence between structure and meaning. Words in isolation have no syntactic category , it

52-643: A group of other colleagues to Gaza in order to attend a linguistics conference at the Islamic University of Gaza . Following that trip, they all co-signed a statement entitled Nous accusons... on how the mainstream media fails to report on Israeli atrocities against civilians in Gaza , also published in French. Hedy Epstein Hedy Epstein (née Wachenheimer ; August 15, 1924 – May 26, 2016)

78-604: A news article in The Stanford Daily . After an "appalled" reaction from members of Stanford's Jewish community, event organizers stated that no "direct comparison" was intended by the posters, or would be heard in Epstein's remarks. Epstein echoed these sentiments, avoided comparisons between Nazis and Israelis, and spent little time discussing her background in Nazi Germany, wrote The Daily . However, throughout

104-512: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hagit Borer Hagit Borer (born 1952) FBA is a professor of linguistics at Queen Mary University of London . Her research falls within the area of Generative Grammar . Borer also is an activist for the rights of Palestinians in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict . Hagit Borer was born in Israel . Disillusioned with

130-429: Is a much larger trend of anti-Semitism on college campuses today." He added that Epstein's ISM colleagues have "direct ties to terrorist organizations" and that the "atmosphere currently on campuses is not one in which a constructive dialogue about the conflict can legitimately take place." In contrast, a supporter of Epstein condemned these as "misrepresentations and false charges", citing off-campus activists who, "with

156-501: Is only when they appear in a structure that they acquire these categories. More specifically, words in and of themselves are not nouns or verbs, nouns are not themselves mass or count , and verbs are not themselves telic or atelic . Rather it is the noun phrase ( DP ) as a whole that is mass or count, and the verb phrase (VP) that is telic or atelic. The framework is implemented so that it avoids type-shifting and lexical ambiguity . This linguistic morphology article

182-650: Is the author of several books in linguistics, including the three books (Borer 2005a,b, 2013) which outline the workings of the Exoskeletal Model in nominals, in event structure, and in morphology . In 2014, Borer was elected Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America . In July 2018 she was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). Borer has been a member of various organizations and campaigns which advocate peace with justice in

208-526: The Free Gaza Movement 's ship attempting to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza, but had to cancel due to poor health. In 2010, she embarked on one of the ships that intended to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, but decided in Cyprus not to take part in the trip. She reportedly had also planned to take part in the 2011 flotilla but did not. She was on board "The Audacity of Hope" ready to join

234-652: The Middle East , and which protest the Israeli occupation and Israeli violations of human rights. She has lectured extensively and has written on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and on Palestinian solidarity activism. Borer was a passenger on the vessel Audacity of Hope , a member of the 2011 Freedom Flotilla II which, sailing from Greece , attempted to break the Israeli Blockade of

260-778: The West Bank to work with the International Solidarity Movement . She returned once a year, saying that she had been strip searched and cavity searched in 2004 by guards at Ben Gurion International Airport . Epstein spoke about the situation in the occupied territories , and about her own life and experiences, for audiences in the United States. Prior to a talk at Stanford University on October 20, 2004, fliers promoting her presentation "juxtaposed an image of Jews in Nazi Germany with an image of Palestinians at Israeli checkpoints", according to

286-641: The pro-choice movement , and the antiwar movement . In 1982, in response to news reports of massacres committed by a Lebanese Phalangist militia during the 1982 Lebanon War , Epstein developed a different perspective on the Arab–Israeli conflict ; she began to express opposition to Israel 's military policies. In 2001, she founded a St. Louis chapter of the Women in Black , an anti-war group that originally focused on Israel's occupation. In 2003 she traveled to

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312-642: The "disclaimer did not undo the damage" and that "[Epstein] made several remarks drawing the [Israeli–Nazi] parallel". Nathan Mintz, vice-president of the Stanford Israel Alliance, condemned "Epstein's rhetoric of drawing comparisons of the initial stages of the Holocaust to the current situation in Gaza and the West Bank" as "outright demonization of Jews" representing "only one piece of what

338-695: The Gaza Strip . Fellow passengers included Hedy Epstein and Alice Walker . Before the voyage, the Los Angeles Times carried an op-ed by Borer in which she explained her motivation and wrote that "a society built on conquest and dispossession would have to dehumanize the conquered in order to continue to dispossess and oppress them" and "We wish to say to the Palestinians that, yes, there are people in Israel who know that any viable future for

364-595: The Israeli government and with Zionism , she left for the United States in 1977. She became a US citizen in 1992. Borer earned her PhD in linguistics in 1981 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where she was a student of Noam Chomsky . She has held academic positions at University of California, Irvine and University of Massachusetts Amherst prior to her hire at the University of Southern California in 1997. In 2012 she moved to

390-543: The Jews was the only thing that the Arab world had in common, the center of Arab politics became anti-Semitism. Stanford student Ahmed Ashraf responded with an op-ed contrasting the "pro-Israelis (sic) outraged by Epstein's support for the Palestinians" to the "perfectly respectful" behavior of Arab and Muslim attendees to Wisse's talk, "even as the acidic torrent of hate rained down on them." An Anti-Defamation League report from

416-584: The Middle East must be based on a just peace – not the forced imposition spelled out by Netanyahu to Congress – or else we are all doomed." After the voyage, she stated that the Greek commandos who took the ship and forced it back to a Greek port "arrived with machine guns. It was quite scary. They seemed ready for a fight. The commandos looked threatening, they wore helmets and their faces were covered." In October 2012, Borer travelled with Noam Chomsky and

442-539: The UK to take a position as a Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London . Her theoretical approach shifts the computational load from words to syntactic structure, and pursues the consequences of this shift in morphosyntax, in language acquisition , in the syntax-semantics interface , and in syntactic inter-language variation. She initiated the Exoskeletal Model , which implements this idea. She

468-554: The event." In response to controversy over the paper's initial coverage of the story, reader editor Jennifer Graham of the Stanford Daily acknowledged that "plenty – if not unfairly too much" coverage was given to the claims of Epstein's critics. She also apologized for the "wrong" and "misleading" decision to run Mintz's op-ed criticizing Epstein's speech before it had happened. "There are claims, that I can neither confirm nor deny, that Mintz's column factually misrepresents

494-435: The intention of disrupting the event", handed out fliers "demonizing" Epstein and "frequently yelled at and interrupted" her. "At one point, he wrote a man suddenly jumped up while Epstein was talking and recited what appeared to be a prepared statement informing her of pending legal actions against her." He asked why Mintz "failed to mention any of the egregious events" of this sort and "submitted his op-ed before actually seeing

520-465: The next year characterized Epstein's talk as an "example of anti-Israel campus activism" which "would meet both the United States government's and [Israeli cabinet] Minister Nathan Sharansky 's definitions of anti-Semitism," for "comparing Nazi treatment of Jews to Israeli treatment of Palestinians." An online publication of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs cited Epstein's talk on

546-725: The same subject at the University of California, Santa Cruz among "activities that spill over into various forms of hate-speech demonizing both Israelis and Jews" [which] "compared Israel to a Nazi state and Israeli soldiers to Nazis." In 2008, the Missouri regional director for the Anti-Defamation League noted, "For someone like Hedy, who came out of the Jewish community at a very difficult time, to criticize Israel ... well, it's difficult. Some people perceive it as disloyal." In August 2008, Epstein planned to be on board

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572-514: The speech, audience members, many associated with off-campus Jewish organizations, interrupted her talk with shouts of outrage, and extra campus security quietly moved in. Reactions to the talk were sharply divided. Adina Danzig, president of Stanford's Hillel organization called the lecture "an abuse of history" and hoped that "this event and the isolated interruptions by a few individuals were an aberration". While acknowledging Epstein's general statement about avoiding comparison, Danzig stated that

598-506: The substance of Epstein's speech", she wrote. As a "constructive response" to Epstein's presentation, members of several campus Jewish organizations invited Harvard professor Ruth Wisse to speak at Stanford. "While her audience ate Challah bread and drank champagne for the Kiddush ", wrote The Stanford Daily , Wisse placed sole blame for Palestinian suffering on the Arab world and on Palestinian politics, and argued that since opposition to

624-728: Was a German-born Jewish-American political activist and Holocaust survivor known for her support of the Palestinian cause through the International Solidarity Movement . Born in Freiburg to a Jewish family, she was rescued from Nazi Germany by the Kindertransport in 1939. She immigrated to the United States in 1948, married Arnold Epstein (?-1977), and lived in St. Louis , Missouri , for many years. Hedy Wachenheimer

650-610: Was born to a Jewish family in Freiburg, and in 1939 fled Nazi persecution via the Kindertransport to England. All but two of her family were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust . During World War II she worked in munitions factories and joined a group of left-wing German Jewish refugees who hoped to re-introduce democracy in their homeland – "the foundation of my political education which still stands me in good stead today," she said. Some 60 years later, she

676-689: Was interviewed about this experience for the film Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport . After the war, Epstein worked with the Allied occupying forces in Germany , including working on the Doctors' trial at Nuremberg. In 1948 she immigrated to New York City , then moved to Minneapolis , and then to St. Louis, Missouri. There, she took up activism for affordable housing ,

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