Gisbert Fanselow

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Gisbert Fanselow (born June 20, 1959 in Landshut ) is a German linguist .

Life

Gisbert Fanselow studied political science and linguistics at the University of Regensburg from 1977 to 1980 , then theoretical linguistics as well as German and English linguistics at the University of Konstanz until his master's degree in 1983 . From 1983 to 1993 he worked at the University of Passau , where he received his doctorate in 1985 and habilitation in 1989. In 1992 he represented Hubert Haider as visiting professor at the University of Stuttgart . Since 1993 he has been a full professor of grammar theory ( syntax and morphology ) at the University of Potsdam , founded in 1991 , whose institute for linguistics he set up together with Gisa Rauh and headed from 1993 to 1994. From 1994 to 1999 he was the spokesman for the innovation college “Formal Models of Cognitive Complexity” and from 1999 to 2003 he was the spokesman for the DFG research group “Conflicting Rules”.

His linguistic theory , written in 1987 together with Sascha W. Felix and published in the UTB , was one of the most widely used textbooks introducing Noam Chomsky's grammatical theories together with Linguistic Knowledge by Günther Grewendorf , Fritz Hamm and Wolfgang Sternefeld (also published in 1987) at German universities .

Fanselow lives with his wife and 2 sons in Potsdam. In his free time he devotes himself to ornithology.

Fonts

  • On the syntax and semantics of the nominal composition. An attempt to apply Montague grammar to word formation in German . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1981. ISBN 3-484-30107-4
  • Configurationality. Studies on universal grammar using the example of German . Narr, Tübingen 1987. ISBN 3-87808-829-9
  • (with Sascha W. Felix) Language theory. An introduction to generative grammar . (2 volumes) Francke, Tübingen 1987. ISBN 3-7720-1731-2 (Volume 1: Basics and objectives), ISBN 3-7720-1732-0 (Volume 2: The theory of rule and attachment)
  • (Ed. with Sascha W. Felix) Structures and characteristics of syntactic categories . Narr, Tübingen 1991. ISBN 3-8233-4740-3
  • Minimal syntax . Groningen 1991 (habilitation thesis)
  • (Ed. with Susan Olsen ) "DET, COMP and INFL". On the syntax of functional categories and grammatical functions . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1991. ISBN 3-484-30263-1
  • (ed.) The Parametrization of Universal Grammar . Benjamin, Amsterdam 1993. ISBN 1-55619-226-6
  • (with Matthias Schlesewsky, Damir Ćavar, Reinhold Kliegl): Optimal parsing: Syntactic parsing preferences and Optimality Theory . Rutgers U. 1999 ROA 367 (PDF file; 113 kB)
  • (with Caroline Féry ) A short treatise of optimality theory . University of Potsdam 2002. ISBN 3-935024-54-1

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personal data
SURNAME Fanselow, Gisbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut