Anthony Rowley

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Anthony Rowley (2010)

Anthony Rowley (born July 22, 1953 in Skipton , Yorkshire ) is a linguist from Great Britain who researches the Bavarian dialects as a dialectologist and lexicographer . Since 1988 he has been editor-in-chief of the Bavarian dictionary .

Live and act

After graduating from Skipton in 1971, Rowley studied at Reading University in Great Britain. Between 1975 and 1977 he was a DAAD scholarship holder to study German at the University of Regensburg . In 1975 he received a BA from Reading University. 1981 followed the doctorate to Dr. phil. at the University of Bayreuth with a thesis on the Bavarian dialect in Fersental in Trentino . In 1987 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the morphology of the dialects of Northeast Bavaria. Rowley has been editor-in-chief of the ten-volume Bavarian Dictionary (BWB) since 1988 , which is published by the Commission for Dialect Research at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Rowley likes to comment on the fact that an Englishman became the head of the BWB with the bon mot: "Perhaps the jury thought: the main thing is, it's okay!" As head of the Commission for Dialect Research, he works closely with the Franconian dictionary .

Since 1989 Rowley has also been teaching as an adjunct professor of German studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Media appearances

Rowley can be seen on weekdays in the show Wir in Bayern produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk , for which he explains the meaning of a Bavarian word puzzled by a viewer.

Fonts

  • Morphological systems of the north-east Bavarian dialects in their linguistic-geographical interdependence. Steiner, Stuttgart 1997 (= Journal for Dialectology and Linguistics, Supplement 93), ISBN 3515067000 .
  • Fersental dictionary Dictionary of the German language island dialect of the Fersental in the province of Trient / Northern Italy - Vocabolario del dialetto inglese della Valle del Fersina nel Triento. Hamburg, Buske, 1982 (= Bayreuth contributions to linguistics, dialectology, 2), ISBN 3-87118-593-0 .
  • Liacht as de spoke. Grammatica della lingua mòchena / grammar of the German heel throat. Edited by the Istituto Culturale Mòcheno-Cimbro / Cultural Institute for the Fersental and Lusern / Cultural Institute Bersntol-Lusérn. Palù del Fèrsina (Trento) 2003, ISBN 88-900656-1-3 (digital copy : PDF ).
  • Numerous word articles in the Bavarian Dictionary, Vol. 1 ff., Munich, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2002 (1st delivery 1993).

Web links

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  1. ↑ DAAD - Alumni from the category Yesterday scholarship holder - and today?
  2. ^ Commission for dialect research of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  3. ↑ Between heaven and earth. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 18, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The Bavarian word guessing ( memento of the original from May 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the BR. Retrieved January 26, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.br.de
personal data
SURNAME Rowley, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British linguist in Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Skipton , Yorkshire