Elvira Glaser

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Elvira Glaser (born February 6, 1954 in Edesheim , Pfalz ) is a Germanist who worked as a professor at the Universities of Augsburg and Zurich .

Life

From 1972 to 1978, Glaser studied Slavic , German , history and Albanology at the Universities of Konstanz and Munich . In 1983 she did her doctorate at the University of Augsburg on the subject of graphic studies on writing language change from the 13th to the 16th century. Comparison of different manuscripts of the Augsburg city book; In 1991 she completed her habilitation in Bamberg with the thesis Early stylus glossing from Freising. A contribution to the beginnings of Old High German writing .

From 1993 to 1995 Glaser was a professor at the University of Augsburg. In 1995 she took over the chair for Germanic Philology at the University of Zurich , which was held before her by Ludwig Tobler , Albert Bachmann , Wilhelm Wiget , Rudolf Hotzenköcherle and Stefan Sonderegger . She has been retired since 2019.

research

Focus of Glaser's research are German language history , graphematics of Early New High German , Old High German glosses , history of text type recipe , Alemannic and Bavarian dialectology , historical syntax of German, syntax of German dialects and language contact phenomena.

It is largely thanks to Glaser that the topic of "dialect syntax", which has been neglected for decades, has become a highly regarded research topic in the German-speaking world. Your project Syntactic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland , where the (SADS) syntax and morphosyntax of Swiss German is dedicated, it is in the tradition of Sprachatlasses German-speaking Switzerland , which represents the diversity of articulation, inflections and vocabulary mapped. Right from the start Glaser worked closely with Sjef Barbiers, who compiled a syntax atlas of the Dutch dialects at the University of Leiden . The Modeling Morphosyntactic Spatial Formation in Swiss German (SynMod) is a kind of continuation . The focus of her attention is also on the so-called kriegen- or get-periphrase, a type of sentence formation that exists in many Germanic languages ​​and varieties.

Another central topic of Glaser's work are the writing systems in Old High German and Early New High German times. The focus is on a systematic overall presentation of the abbreviations in Old High German stylus glosses .

Glaser is involved in numerous institutions and research organizations. For example, she has been a member of the management committee of the phonogram archive of the University of Zurich since 1997 (co-president since 2004), since 1998 a board member of the Association for the Swiss German Dictionary and since 2008 a member of the research council of the Institute for Cultural Research in Graubünden . From 2001 to 2010 she was also a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Section I) and from 2017 to 2018 President of the Dictionary Commission of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Graphic studies on the change in writing language from the 13th to the 16th century. Comparison of different manuscripts of the Augsburg city book (=  Germanic library. III. Series). Dissertation 1983. Winter, Heidelberg 1985.
  • Early stylus glossing from Freising. A contribution to the beginnings of Old High German written language (=  Studies on Old High German. 30). Habilitation thesis 1991. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996.
  • (Ed., Together with Helen Christen and Matthias Friedli :) Small linguistic atlas of German-speaking Switzerland. Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna, 2013. [2. Edition 2010; 3rd edition 2011; 4th edition 2012; 5th, revised and expanded edition 2013.]

Essays

  • On the structure of the loan vocabulary in Arbrisht. In: Francesco Altimari, Gabriele Birken-Silverman, Martin Camaj, Rupprecht Rohr (eds.): Atti del Congresso Internazionale di studi sulla lingua, la storia e la cultura degli albanesi d'Italia (Mannheim, 25–26 giugno 1987). Università della Calabria, Rende 1991, pp. 129-142.
  • Morphology and function of the indefinite article in Bavarian. In: Hans-Werner Eroms, Hermann Scheuringer (ed.): Language on the Danube, Inn and Enns. Lectures at the symposium on the language and culture of the Old Bavarian region in 1994. Linz 1996 (Writings on literature and language in Upper Austria 5), ​​pp. 149–169.
  • Dialect syntax: a research assignment. In: Report on the year 1996. Swiss German dictionary. Swiss Idioticon. [Zurich] 1997, pp. 11-30 ( digitized version ).
  • The Philippine and Sabina Welser's cookbooks. Philological and linguistic considerations on two early women's cookbooks. In: Mark Häberlein, Johannes Burkhardt (Ed.): The Welser. New research on the history and culture of an Upper German trading company. Akademie, Berlin 2002, pp. 510-549.
  • On the origin and character of the New High German written language: theory and empiricism. In: Raphael Berthele, Helen Christen, Sibylle Germann, Ingrid Hove (eds.): The German written language and the regions (=  Studia Linguistica Germanica. 65). de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, pp. 57-78.
  • (together with Claudia Bucheli Berger :) On the morphology of the (co) predicative adjective and participle II in Alemannic and Bavarian. In: Franz Patocka, Peter Wiesinger (ed.): Morphology and syntax of German dialects and historical dialectology of German. Contributions to the 1st Congress of the International Society for Dialectology of German, Marburg / Lahn, 5. – 8. March 2003. Present, Vienna 2004, pp. 189–226.
  • On the syntax of the Lëtzebuergeschen: sketch and research program. In: Claudine Moulin, Damaris Nübling (Ed.): Perspektiven einer linguistische Luxemburgistik. Studies on diachrony and synchrony. Winter, Heidelberg 2006, pp. 227–245.
  • Syntactic spatial images. In: Franz Patocka, Peter Ernst (ed.): Dialect geography of the future. Files of the 2nd Congress of the International Society for Dialectology of German (IGDD). Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, pp. 85-111.
  • (five essays, mostly in collaboration :) stylus glosses; Form congruence and functional adequacy; Graphematics and phonematics; Echternach manuscripts; Freising gloss manuscripts. In: Rolf Bergmann, Stefanie Stricker (Ed.): The Old High German and Old Saxon Glossography. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, pp. 202–229; 372-386; 995-1019; 1257-1278; 1353-1383.
  • (together with Walter Breu :) Voices of the past. The oldest Albanian sound recordings from 1907, 1914 and 1918 from Vienna and Berlin archives. In: Bardhyl Demiraj (ed.): We are yours. Studies on the Albanian language, literature and cultural history, dedicated to the memory of Martin Camaj (1925–1992). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 199-230.
  • (together with Claudia Bucheli Berger and Guido Seiler :) Is a syntactic dialectology possible? Contributions from Swiss German. In: Andrea Ender, Adrian Leemann, Bernhard Wälchli (Eds.): Methods in Contemporary Linguistics. Trends in Linguistics. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, pp. 93–119.
  • Types and functions of vernacular (Old High German) entries in the Latin context. In: Marry Garrison, Marco Mostert, Arpád Orbán (Eds.): Spoken and Written Language. Relations between Latin and the Vernaculars in the Earlier Middle Ages (=  Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy. 24). Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2013, pp. 277-302. [Revision of: Types and functions of vernacular (Old High German) entries in the Latin context. In: Sprachwissenschaft 28 (2003), pp. 1–27.]
  • (together Gabriela Bart, Robert Weibel and Pius Sibler :) Analysis of Swiss German syntactic variants using spatial statistics. In: Xosé Afonso Álvarez Pérex, Ernestina Carrilho, Catarina Magro (Eds.): Current Approaches to Limits in Dialectology. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2013, pp. 143-169.
  • Change and variation in Swiss-German syntax. In: Taal en Tongval 66, 2014, pp. 21-64, doi : 10.5117 / TET2014.1.GLAS .

literature

  • Linguist's Handbook. Biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present. Edited by Wilfried Kürschner. Narr, Tübingen 1994. ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 . Vol. 2, p. 275 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dialect syntax of Swiss German.
  2. ↑ SAND. A syntactic atlas van de Nederlandse dialecten.
  3. ↑ Modeling of morphosyntactic space formation in Swiss German (SynMod).
  4. ↑ Constructions of ‹krijgen› in Dutch and its neighboring Germanic languages. Archived from the original on May 16, 2019 ; accessed on May 16, 2019 .
  5. ^ Abbreviations in Old High German.
personal data
SURNAME Glaser, Elvira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Edesheim , Palatinate