Ernst Pulgram

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Ernst Pulgram (born September 18, 1915 in Vienna ; † August 17, 2005 in Ireland ) was an American Indo-Europeanist, Romanist and linguist of Austrian origin.

life and work

Pulgram studied in Vienna. After the annexation of Austria , he fled to Switzerland and from there went to the United States. He did two years of military service, acquired US citizenship in 1943, studied at Harvard University and received his doctorate there in 1946 with the thesis The theory of proper names .

From 1948 to 1986 he taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor , first as Assistant Professor, from 1951 as Associate Professor, from 1956 as Full Professor and from 1979 as Hayward Keniston Distinguished Professor of Romance and Classical Linguistics. Together with Lawrence Bayard Kiddle , he expanded Romance studies and founded the first language laboratory in 1949.

In 1954 Pulgram received a Guggenheim grant . From 1978 to 1979 he was President of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS).

Pulgram was an honorary doctor from the University of Vienna .

Works

  • Applied linguistics in language teaching , Washington, DC 1954
  • (Ed.) Studies presented to Joshua Whatmough [1897-1964] on his sixtieth birthday , Den Haag 1957
  • The Tongues of Italy. Prehistory and History , Cambridge, Mass. 1958, New York 1969
  • Introduction to the spectrography of speech , Den Haag 1959, 1964
  • Syllable, word, nexus, cursus , The Hague 1970
  • Latin-Romance phonology. Prosodics and metrics , Munich 1975
  • Italic, Latin, Italian 600 BC to AD 1260. Texts and commentaries , Heidelberg 1978
  • (Ed.) Romanitas. Studies in romance linguistics , Ann Arbor (Mich.) 1984
  • Practicing linguist. Essays on language and languages ​​1950-1985 , 2 vols., Heidelberg 1986-1988

literature

  • Italic and Romance linguistic studies in honor of Ernst Pulgram , ed. by Herbert J. Izzo, Amsterdam 1980
  • Utz Maas : Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933-1945. Entry on Ernst Pulgram (accessed: April 15, 2018)

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personal data
SURNAME Pulgram, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Austrian Indo-Europeanist, Romance scholar and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 2005
Place of death Ireland