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Education

• 2015–now: PhD in linguistics, Tel Aviv University (joint program with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Thesis title: Reference to subkinds. Advisor: Fred Landman.
• 2019–2020: Erasmus+ winter semester exchange studies in Konstanz University. Host: Maribel Romero.
• 2012–2015: BA in linguistics & literature, Tel Aviv University (summa cum laude).

Publications

• Erbach, Kurt & Aviv Schoenfeld. 2022. Object mass nouns and subkind countability. Glossa 7(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5788
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 2020. Abishai, Daniel and Hezekiah: Lexical secreted affixation in Biblical Hebrew personal names. Brill’s journal of Afroasiatic languages and linguistics 12(1). 74–98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18776930-01201006
• Schoenfeld, Aviv, Evan Cohen and Outi Bat-El. 2019. Variable base word positioning in blends. Lexis 14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/lexis.3781

Proceedings

• Schoenfeld, Aviv. To appear. Direct kind predication and Transitivity. Proceedings of IATL 2022.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. To appear. Possessive relations and maximality. Proceedings of the Fifty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

Conferences

• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 19/10/2022. Direct kind predication and Transitivity. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL) 33. Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 22/9/2022. Mass definite generics. Fifteenth Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 15). University of Udine.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 10/6/2022. Direct kind predication and Transitivity. 42nd TABU Dag 2022. University of Groningen.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 28/5/2022. (A)symmetry in the subkind relation. Northwest Linguistics Conference (NWLC) 38. Simon Fraser University.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 14/5/2022. Bare reference to kinds, number and Transitivity. Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL) 25. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 29/4/2022. Numeral modification of plural mass nouns. Manchester Forum in Linguistics (mFiL) 2022. The University of Manchester.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 4/3/2022. Mass definite generics. Theoretical Linguistics at Keio (TaLK) 2022. Keio University.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv & Kurt Erbach. 26/8/2021. The independence of instance and subkind countability. 15th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH). University of Pécs.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 6/5/2021. Possessive relations and maximality. Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS) 57. The University of Chicago.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 16/10/2017. Sound correspondences in Hebrew blends and puns: Asymmetry and stress. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL) 33. Tel Aviv University.

Workshops

• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 3/2022. Numeral modification of plural mass nouns. Divide and count: On the (morpho-)syntax and semantics of division, plurality and countability, Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) 2023. University of Cologne.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 26/8/2022. Bare reference to kinds and topicality. Disentangling topicality effects, 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). University of Bucharest.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 24/2/2022. Optional NP raising in partitives. Optionality and non-optionality of syntactic movement, Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) 2022. University of Tübingen.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 30/11/2018. Syntactic number features and count/mass determiners. PhD students workshop in linguistic features. University of Ferrara.
• Landman, Fred & Aviv Schoenfeld. 24/9/2017. Sorting neat nouns in Iceberg semantics. The 7th annual Bar-Ilan semantics workshop. Bar-Ilan University.

Colloquia

• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 21/12/2021. Bare NPs and the kind-instance ambiguity. Colloquium in linguistics. Ben-Gurion University.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 16/12/2021. Bare NPs and the kind-instance ambiguity. Thursday interdisciplinary colloquium. Tel Aviv University.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 22/4/2021. Inclusion in the subkind relation. Thursday interdisciplinary colloquium. Tel Aviv University.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 1/6/2020. The subkind relation in language. HUJI research brunch.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 15/1/2020. The subkind reading of nouns and hierarchical structure of kinds. Semantics group. Heinrich-Heine-Universität. Invited by Hana Filip and Peter R. Sutton.
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 28/4/2019. Approaches to phonal similarity asymmetry. Israel Phonology Circle (IPhonC).
• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 3/3/2019. Favorite animals and popular wines: The subkind reading of count and mass nouns. Susan Rothstein’s research group. Bar‑Ilan University, Israel.

Corpora

• Schoenfeld, Aviv. 2018. Corpus of minimal pair Hebrew blends and puns. https://avivschoenfeld.wordpress.com/minimal-pair-blends-puns/

Lecturing

• 2022–now: Lecturer (with Nicole Katzir). Introduction to Semantics (1 year). Tel Aviv University.
• 2020–2021. Lecturer. Foundations of Semantics in Natural Language (1 year). Ben-Gurion University.
• 2020–2021: Lecturer (with Alon Fishman). Introduction to Semantics (2 years). Tel Aviv University.
• 2017–2018: TA. Fundamentals of Formal Semantics (1 year). Tel Aviv University.
• 2016–2017: TA. Introduction to Semantics (2 years). Tel Aviv University.

Organizing conferences

• 2017: Organizer of IGDAL5.

Community service

• 2015–2018: Tutor, recruiter and coordinator. Keys.
• 2013–2018: Volunteer. Lasova youth center.

Languages

• Hebrew: Native
• English: Native
• Yiddish: Basic reading and writing (Advanced Yiddish)
• German: A1

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