Göran Hammarström

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Ulf Göran Emil Hammarström (born April 9, 1922 in Landskrona ; † December 15, 2019 in Melbourne ) was a Swedish linguist and Romance scholar .

life and work

Hammarström studied from 1940 at Uppsala University with Johan Melander and Paul Falk and received his doctorate in 1953 with the dissertation Etude de phonétique auditive sur les parlers de l'Algarve (Uppsala 1953). From 1953 to 1965 he was a lecturer in Romance linguistics and from 1955 to 1965 lecturer and professor of phonetics at Uppsala University. From 1965 to 1987 he held the first Australian linguistics chair at Monash University in Melbourne . From 1994 to 1998 he held the chair for Romance Linguistics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Works

  • French phonetics . Stockholm 1960.
    • (German adaptation by Uwe Petersen) French phonetics . Narr, Tübingen 1972. 3rd edition 1998.
  • Linguistic units in the context of modern linguistics . Springer, Berlin 1966.
    • (Spanish) Las unidades linguísticas en el marco de la linguística moderna . Gredos, Madrid 1974.
  • Linguistic units and items . Springer, Berlin 1976.
  • Dos estudios dialectológicos . Mexico City 1975.
  • Australian English. Its origin and status . Buske, Hamburg 1980.
  • (Ed. With Hermann Bluhme) Descriptio linguistica. Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Descriptive and Structural Linguistics, Antwerp September 9-10, 1985 . Narr, Tübingen 1987.
  • Linguistic units and items II . Hector, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • Fundamentals of synchronic linguistics . LINCOM Europe, Munich 2008.
  • Fundamentals of language production and apperception . LINCOM Munich 2016.

literature

  • Göran Hammarström: Memories of a linguist 1940-2010 . LINCOM Europe, Munich 2012.
  • Barbara Wehr : “Description of yourself as a Romanist”. In: Klaus-Dieter Ertler (Hrsg.): Romance studies as a passion. Great moments in recent specialist history IV . LIT, Münster 2015, pp. 396–397.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vale Emeritus Professor Goran Hammarstrom. Monash University, January 9, 2020, accessed January 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hammarström, Göran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hammarstrom, Goran; Hammarström, Ulf Göran Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish Romance studies and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Landskrona
DATE OF DEATH 15th December 2019
Place of death Melbourne