Beatrice Primus

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Beatrice Primus (born September 12, 1953 in Brașov ; † November 29, 2019 in Puchheim ) was a German linguist and from 1998 to 2019 Professor of German Linguistics at the Institute for German Language and Literature I at the University of Cologne .

Life

Beatrice Primus was born in Transylvania and grew up bilingual. After graduating from the Honterusgymnasium in Kronstadt , Beatrice Primus studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) in Munich from 1975 to 1980 , where she passed her first state examination in the subjects of German and English .

In 1986 Primus received his doctorate with a thesis on grammatical hierarchies ( summa cum laude ). From 1980 to 1995 she worked as a research assistant for German and theoretical linguistics at the Institute for German Philology at LMU. In 1995 she completed her habilitation there with a thesis on cases and thematic roles , before taking up a professorship for German as a foreign language philology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1996 to 1997 , followed by a professorship for German linguistics at the 1997-1998 University of Stuttgart followed.

Since 1998 Primus has held the Chair for German Linguistics at the University of Cologne . From 2006 to 2011 Primus was chair of the Scientific Advisory Board and the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for the German Language, Mannheim .

Since 2003 she has been chairwoman of the evaluation committee for the Offermann Hergarten prizes and a member of the evaluation committee for project applications to the RheinEnergie Foundation. Since 2012 she has been a member of the Senate and Approval Committee for the Graduate Schools of the German Research Community (DFG) and a full member of the German Academy for Language and Literature.

Act

The main focus of Beatrice Primus in research and teaching was experimental linguistics (in particular syntax , semantics and pragmatics ), writing systems and mediality of language, grammar theory as well as issues related to case , semantic roles and grammatical relations. In the field of writing systems, the focus of interest is on the one hand punctuation in contemporary German, in other languages ​​and historical language levels of German, and on the other hand the genesis and development of the letter forms of the modern Roman alphabet.

As a co-applicant of the International Research College “Morphomata: Genesis, Dynamics and Mediality of Cultural Figurations” , Primus has been working on the project area “Mediality of Language - Genesis and Dynamics of Writing Systems” since 2009.

In 2002 Primus was the project leader of the subproject B10 "Synchronous and diachronic case variations in psychic verbs" of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 282 "Theories of the Lexicon" of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

In 2007 Primus coordinated the exhibition “Cosmos of Signs - Typeface and Image Formula in Antiquity and the Middle Ages” at the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne as the lead organizer of the linguistic department “Cosmos of Characters” .

Primus was editor of the magazine Written Language and Literacy (John Benjamin, Amsterdam / Philadelphia) and the book series Linguistic Works (de Gruyter, Berlin / New York). In addition, she was a member of the advisory board of the Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (de Gruyter, Berlin / New York).

Publications (selection)

  • Grammatical hierarchies. A description and explanation of regularities in German without grammatical relations (= studies on theoretical linguistics. Volume 7). Fink, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-7705-2489-6 (Zugl .: Munich, Univ., Diss., 1986).
  • Cases and thematic roles. Ergative, accusative and active (= linguistic works. Volume 393). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-30393-X ; Online reprint: De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2010, ISBN 3-11-091246-5 .
  • Semantic roles (= short introductions to German linguistics. Volume 12). Carl Winter, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8253-5977-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary for Professor Dr. Beatrice Primus. University of Cologne, Philosophical Faculty, Institute for German Language and Literature I, December 2, 2019, accessed on December 3, 2019 .
  2. ^ German Academy for Language and Poetry - Academy - Members - Beatrice Primus - Self-introduction. In: deutscheakademie.de. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
  3. ^ Homepage Internationales Kolleg Morphomata ( Memento from May 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: ik-morphomata.uni-koeln.de, May 2, 2011.
  4. ^ Exhibition “Cosmos of Signs” in the Roman-Germanic Museum Cologne ( Memento from August 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: uni-koeln.de/scriptio .
  5. ↑ See “Board” on the homepage of the magazine Written Language and Literacy at doi: 10.1075 / wll , accessed on August 17, 2020, with the list of published publications . In: benjamins.com, accessed August 17, 2020.
  6. ↑ Homepage Linguistic Works. In: degruyter.com, accessed on August 17, 2020.
  7. ↑ Homepage Journal for Linguistics. In: degruyter.com, accessed on August 17, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Primus, Beatrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Brașov
DATE OF DEATH 29th November 2019
Place of death Puchheim