Christoph Landolt

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Christoph Landolt (2019)

Christoph Landolt (* 1966 in Zurich ) is a Swiss linguist and lexicographer . Since 2019 he has headed the Swiss Idiotikon together with Hans Bickel .

Life

Landolt studied Comparative Germanic Linguistics , Nordic Philology and General History at the University of Zurich . In 1997 he became an editor at the Schweizerischer Idiotikon , of which he was appointed editor-in- chief in 2019. Together with Hans Bickel, he is also the author of Dudens for Swiss High German , a dictionary of the standard language in German-speaking Switzerland, published by the Swiss Association for the German Language . In addition to the Alemannic dialects , he also deals with Yiddish .

Landolt is an associated member of the Zurich Linguistics Center (LiZZ) and a member of the advisory commission of the phonogram archive of the University of Zurich , the nomenclature commission of the Canton of Zurich and the Swiss Duden Committee. He also participates in the Alemannic and German-language Wikipedia .

Publications (selection)

  • with Hans Bickel: Swiss High German. Dictionary of the standard language in German-speaking Switzerland. 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition. Dudenverlag, Berlin 2018 (1st edition: Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2012) ( content text ).
  • with Esther Hürlimann, Anina Rether, Erika Suter, Daniel Zinnenlauf, Christian Schoch: Fleischli, Luder, Schlumpf. Swiss names - thoroughly explained. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2017.
  • with Reto Wilhelm, Anina Rether, Daniel Zinnenlauf, Andy Roth: exit Arschwald. The somewhat different Swiss place directory. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2016.

Essays, handbook articles

  • Yiddish. In: Janet Duke (Ed.): EuroComGerm. Learn to read Germanic languages. Volume 2: Less commonly learned Germanic languages. Afrikaans, Faroese, Frisian, Yenish, Yiddish, Limburgish, Luxembourgish, Low German, Nynorsk. Shaker, Düren 2019, pp. 127–160 and 298 ( online ).
  • with Claudia Bucheli Berger: Dialect and denomination in German-speaking Switzerland. In: Elisabeth Frieben, Ulrich Kanz, Barbara Neuber, Ludwig Zehetner (eds.): Dialect and religion. Contributions to the 5th dialectological symposium in the Bavarian Forest, Walderbach, June 2012 (= Regensburger Dialektforum. Volume 20). Regensburg 2014, pp. 73-94 ( online ).
  • "The burgers are also completely repaid." The past participle of series IIIb with ablaut u in Alemannic. In: Journal for German Philology. No. 132, 2013, pp. 401-416 ( online ).
  • The Swiss Idioticon - a diachronic dictionary of the Swiss German language. In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverband 57/4 (2010): Historische Lexikographie des Deutschen, ed. by Holger Runow, pp. 410-418 ( online ).
  • Dialectal morphology and morphonology in transition - example Zurich German. In: Alemannic dialectology: ways into the future. Contributions to the 16th conference for Alemannic dialectology in Freiburg / Friborg from September 7th to 10th, 2008 (= ZDL supplement. Volume 141). Edited by Helen Christen, Sibylle Germann, Walter Haas, Nadia Montefiori, Hans Ruef. Stuttgart 2010, pp. 97-113 ( online ).
  • numerous word articles in the Swiss Idiotikon , Volumes XV – XVII.
  • several articles in the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde .

literature

  • Gabriela Frischknecht: Oberlanders pick sidebeeri. In: Zurich Oberland . September 28, 2011, p. 3 ( online at idiotikon.ch).
  • Bettina Leinenbach: "When I say I work at Idiotikon, many grin." In: Swiss Observer . No. 6, 2012, p. 24 f. ( online at idiotikon.ch).
  • Thomas Widmer: Mr. «Zue». In: Tages-Anzeiger . June 20, 2016, p. 17 ( online at idiotikon.ch).

Web links

Individual references and footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Christoph Landolt on idiotikon.ch (accessed on December 16, 2018)
  2. ↑ Hans-Peter Schifferle retired - Hans Bickel and Christoph Landolt new heads of the Swiss Idiotikon (accessed on February 4, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Landolt, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss linguist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich