Guido Seiler

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Guido Seiler (2007)

Guido Seiler (born June 20, 1971 in Zurich ) is a Swiss linguist and professor of Germanic philology at the University of Zurich .

Life

Guido Seiler studied German and Slavic studies at the University of Zurich from 1991 to 1998 . As a research assistant at the Swiss Idioticon , he also came into contact with dialectology during this time . After completing his studies, he was a research assistant at Elvira Glaser's chair . He did his doctorate in 2003 at the University of Zurich on the subject of prepositional dative marking in Upper German with Elvira Glaser and Georg Bossong . In 2007, his dissertation was awarded the Johann Andreas Schmeller Prize of the Johann Andreas Schmeller Society.

After research stays at Stanford University (with Joan Bresnan ) and at the University of Konstanz (with Aditi Lahiri ), he completed his habilitation in 2008 at the University of Zurich. He received the UBS habilitation award for his habilitation, which is composed of several writings on the subject of variation and change from a grammatical-theoretical perspective . In 2008 he became Lecturer for German Linguistics at the University of Manchester - a chair which Rudolf Ernst Keller had already held in Switzerland - and in October 2009 Professor for German Philology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . From October 2014 to September 2019 he was Professor of German Linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since August 2019 he has held the Chair of German Philology at the University of Zurich.

Seiler's sister is the politician Priska Seiler Graf .

research

Guido Seiler's research aims to empirically capture grammatical phenomena and embed them in a theoretical framework. From 2000 he worked on a research project on the dialect syntax of Swiss German at the University of Zurich (financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation ), where he continued the work that had begun with his dissertation on linking dialectology with language typology, language change theories and grammar theory in a broad-based project. Based on William G. Moulton , he describes non-standardized languages ​​as a suitable «laboratory» for examining linguistic structures, checking hypotheses and further developing grammar theory.

Fonts (selection)

Editorships

  • The Dialect Laboratory. Dialects as a Testing Ground for Theories of Language Change. Ed., Together with Gunther de Vogelaer. Benjamin, Philadelphia 2012.
  • Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar. Ed., Together with Andreas Dufter and Jürg Fleischer . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009 (= Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 204).
  • Dialectal morphology, dialectal syntax. Ed., Together with Franz Patocka. Praesens, Vienna 2008.

monograph

  • Prepositional dative marking in Upper German. Steiner, Stuttgart 2003 (= Journal for Dialectology and Linguistics, Supplement 124). [Diss. University of Zurich 2001.]

Essays

  • Syllabic Lengthening in German and its relation to the syllable vs. word language typology. Add. with Kathrin Würth. In: Javier Caro Reina, Renata Szczepaniak: Phonological Typology of Syllable and Word Languages ​​in Theory and Practice. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2014 (= Linguae et litterae 40), pp. 140–159.
  • Words and sentences. Add. with Peter Öhl. In: Peter Auer (Ed.): Linguistics: Grammar - Interaction - Cognition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2013, pp. 137-185.
  • Simplification, complexification, and microvariation. Towards a quantification of inflectional complexity in closely related varieties. Add. with Raffaela Baechler. In: Angela Ralli, Geert Booij, Sergio Scalise, Athanasios Karasimos (eds.): Morphology and the Architecture of Grammar. On-line Proceedings of the Eighth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM8). Cagliari, Italy, 14-17 September 2011. 2012, pp 23-41.
  • Variation as the exception or the rule? Swiss relatives, revisited. Add. with Martin Salzmann. In: Sprachwissenschaft 35, 2010, pp. 79–117.
  • Sound change or analogy? Monosyllabic lengthening in German and some of its consequences. In: Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 12, 2009, pp. 229-272.
  • Non-Concatenative Morphology: A Research Assignment for Dialectology. In: Franz Patocka, Guido Seiler (Hrsg.): Dialektale Morphologie, dialektale Syntax. Praesens, Vienna 2008, pp. 181–197.
  • Microvariation in LFG and OT. In: Annie Zaenen u. a. (Ed.): Architectures, Rules, and Preferences. Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan. CSLI, Stanford 2007, pp. 529-547.
  • The role of functional factors in language change. An evolutionary approach. In: Ole Nedergaard Thomsen (Ed.): Competing Models of Linguistic Change. Evolution and beyond. Benjamin, Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2006, pp. 163-182 (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 279).
  • How do syntactic isoglosses work, and what consequences can be drawn from them? In: Eckhard Eggers u. a. (Ed.): Modern dialects - new dialectology. Files of the 1st Congress of the International Society for Dialectology of German (IGDD). Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 313–341 (= Journal for Dialectology and Linguistics, Supplement 130).
  • On three types of dialect variation, and their implications for linguistic theory. Evidence from verb clusters in Swiss German dialects. In: Bernd Kortmann (Ed.): Dialectology meets Typology. Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004, pp. 367-399 (= Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 153).
  • If dialects are languages, then dialect contact is language contact: to the Amish “Shwitzer” in Adams County (Indiana, USA). In: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 84, 2017, pp. 202–231.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Before Guido Seiler, Ludwig Tobler , Albert Bachmann , Wilhelm Wiget , Rudolf Hotzenköcherle , Stefan Sonderegger and Elvira Glaser held this chair.
  2. ↑ A strong voice for Bern. In: Klotener Anzeiger, December 2, 2016.
  3. ^ William G. Moulton: Dialect geography and the concept of phonological space. In: Word 18, 1962, 22-32.
  4. ↑ "Is there any laboratory in which we can test them [...]? I believe that such a laboratory exists in the material of a linguistic atlas. " Moulton (1962: 25, quoted in Seiler 2003: 253).
personal data
SURNAME Seiler, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss linguist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich